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This critical text focuses on three themes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: 1) the relation of experimental typography used by the artistic avant garde to linguistic theories, 2) the divergence of experimental typography from visual images, and 3) the work of four influential practitioners of experimental typography and their debt to advertising copy, viz., Marinetti, Apollinaire, Tzara, and Zdanevich. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Molly Schwartzburg contributed an essay, "Tracing Traces: Variations on the Theme of the Palimsest in Tom Phillips' A Humument. She concludes that "the palimsestic elements of this book suggest that what we construct is not a stable object. Instead, texts as we read them can only function as parts of a shifting set of relationships determined by the fact of reading." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition featured Bentivoglio's stone book objects. It also included collages, prints, and poem objects. A portfolio, "Monument" and a poem object, Pagina/finestra, that are also held by the Sackner Archive were depicted in this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this article, Vos states that he is a follower of the linguistic theories of Nelson Goodman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A forward was written by Michael Bell traces the life and work of Rosenblatt. Bell writes, "The drawings range in style from the simplest, almost whimsical scratches on the paper, expecially some of the latest observations on the shoreline of Vancouver Island, to highly compendia of signs and symbols, richly worked in obsessive surface patterns." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue depicts the Fuck paintings but does not include any of the more recent rubberstamped paintings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Richard Morris reported a survey of 65 poet-editors of different schools of poetry and who were asked "the best poets currently writing in the English language." The results included among others Antin, Ashbery, Beckett, Berrigan, Blaser, Bukowski, Bunting, Cage, Codrescu, Coolidge, Corman, Corso, Davey, Dorn, Elmslie, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Giorno, Hirschman, Hollo, Houedard, Ronald Johnson, David Jones, Kryss, Lifshin, McClure, Mac Low, Meltzer, Merrill, Merwin, Meyer, Perchik, Plymell, Raworth, Rothenberg, Simic, Snodgrass, Charles Stein, Swenson, Tarn, Keith Waldrop, Emmet Williams, Jonathan Williams, Zulovsky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is an anthology of poems from a contemporary Argentine magazine of poetry. Its name is based upon the Argentine artist, Xul Solar. Concrete poems by Roberto Ferro, Gustavo Roesler, Jorge Lepore, Fabio Doctorovich, and Roberto Cignoni are reprinted in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The title of the book is Theme and Variations on Psalm 23. Frank Lalou contributed illustrations of texts of several translations from early Bibles to 20th century ones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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George Herms was an important artist is the California assemblage movement of the 1960's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Part of the series Interpretations in Art, this book is subtitled "Visual Art and the Critical Tradition." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is an anthology of Situationist writings that coincides with the exhibition "Situationists, Art, Politics, urbanism at the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, curated by Libero Androtti and Xavier Costa. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Geof Huth has contributed a forward titled "onewordworld" in which he writes, "To make a poem within the limits of a single word. That is the project. That is the entire project of pwoermds. To eschew grammar. To isolate words from the running water of sentence, To focus attention. To be a wordist more than a writer, To be a wreader more than a reader." pwoermd is definned "n. A single word presented as a poem adn unadorned with a title." [poem + word (w the letters rom each word alternated to produce the neologism)]"This book is dedicated for Bob Grumman (1941-2015). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Amazon.com: "This landmark collection brings together poetry, performance pieces, "traditional" verse, prose poems, and other poetical texts from Jackson Mac Low's lifetime in art. The works span the years from 1937, beginning with "Thing of Beauty," his first poem, until his death in 2004 and demonstrate his extraordinary range as well as his unquenchable enthusiasm. Mac Low is widely acknowledged as one of the major figures in twentieth-century American poetry, with much of his work ranging into the spheres of music, dance, theater, performance, and the visual arts. Comparable in stature to such giants as Robert Creeley, John Ashbery, and Allen Ginsberg, Mac Low is often associated with composer John Cage, with whom he shared a delight in work derived from "chance operations." This volume, edited by Anne Tardos, his wife and frequent collaborator, offers a balanced arrangement of early, middle, and late work, designed to convey not just the range but also the progressions and...

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Finlay defines concrete poetry as follows, "There is a difference between a poem which is 'about' a thing and a poem which IS a thing - its own thing, but not necessarily without reference to something else." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Gerald Stern contributed a critical introductory essay. Amazon.com review: Joshua Beckman, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, is one of those poets whose work you mustn't miss. His talent shines in his ability to make disparate events become part of a whole. "Purple Heart Highway" constructs loss as imminent danger ("where a train might mistakenly come") or as the pendulum between routine and chaos ("a gray grinning calmness / from which you can get nothing to wake") or as a sudden realization that threads far back into one's past ("I woke up to a plate full of no options / echoing through the cupped ear of my life / spinning the wheels that wouldn't, / for anything, take me away").In "Winter's Horizon" the theme of loss seeks--and finds--its own sensibilities. A boy writes a story about a father who rides off into the sunset on his riding lawnmower. The boy feels his story is full of meaning, his mother hates it, and his teacher gives it an A+. Yet the lines between...

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This catalogue documents an exhibition of artist books (multiples) by Hutchins. The check list of books are printed four to a card that is slipped into woven page strips also with book listings. The cards illustrate three book installations. The Sackner Archive is listed as holding work by Hutchins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Kostelanetz writes that "this book differs from most other writing about Cage in emphasizing his professional adventurousness, acknowledging not only his music but his theater, writing, radio, visual art, political philosophy, and much else, all reflecting a career based upon artistic (and thus artists') freedom...In its variety and its departures from expository conventions thirty Years is probably a more Cagean book than a measured continuous exposition." The design of this book utilizes page numbering through overlaying each page of text with a large gray number. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is Cobbing's introduction to " A Gala Exhibition" which took place at Royal Festival Hall in 1969. It included examples of contemporary British poetry and International concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.