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This book mostly depicts examples of early 20th century avant garde typographic from the major art movements in Europe. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Revised and enlarged edition. Edited, translated and with an introduction by J. Bowlt. Originally published in 1976. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue, the most extensively illustrated book dealing with Russian avant garde books, was published to coincide with the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Curated by Deborah Wye and Margit Rowell, the catalogue is organized into the following sections: Transform the World! 1916-33 and Building Socialism 1924-34. The first section includes Suprematism and the Non-objective Vision, Popular Revolutionalry Imagery, Books for Children, Constructivist Graphic Design and Photography and Photomontage. The second section includes Architecture and Industry, Photography in the Service of Propaganda, Non-official Publications. The collection af Russian Avant-Garde books was a gift from the Judith Rothschild Foundation and was conceived and organized by its trustee, Harvey Shipley Miller. An outstanding, detailed web-site of the books in the exhibition is available a www.moma.org/russian/. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a profusely illustrated catalogue with several critical essays documenting the Samizdat of Eastern Europe. This book depicts Transponance No.29 and No.32-33 opened to a page and the cover of The Pipe, works held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the true first edition of a superbly illustrated catalogue that encompasses ancient to contemporary international visual/verbal content. The cover was designed by Josua Reichert. A translucent page by Carlfriedrich Claus is titled "Vibrationstext" and consists of micrographic Hebrew texts printed recto-verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition catalogue dealt with published and unpublished examples of Parole In Liberta. One such poem by Jamar 14 (aka Piero Gigli), "Villa T.B.C.," had the theme of a stay in a Tuberculosis Sanatorium. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover of this catalogue was designed by Franco Verdi. This exhibition depicts a representative, international selection of concrete and visual poems that can be considered "classics" of the 20th century. This anthology of visual poems includes essays by Carlo Belloli, Kitasono Katue, Emilio Isgro, Franz Mon, Martino & Anno Oberto, Adriano Spatola, and Franco Verdi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackners met Christina Weiss at a conference in Saarbrucken, West Germany (1984) held in conjunction with the exhibition, Visuelle Poesie, organized by Klaus-Peter Dencker. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Padin presents an excellent exposition of semiotic poetry that is accompanied by illustrative examples. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Using Kitasono as a window on Japanese literature in the twentieth century, John Solt analyzes the relationship of Japanese writers to foreign literary movements and the influences of Japanese writers on world literature. He also provides a critical analysis of Kitasono's poetic working methods with several translations of poems written in Japanese to English. He mentions that in the late 1920s, Katue published "Collection of White Poems" that was translated by Solt. This is a constellation long before Gomringer declared this form, concrete poetry, e.g. white residence - white table - pink noblelady - white distant view - blue sky, etc. Solt records the following. "Other Western poets took notice of the VOU translations. High praise came from Hugh Gordon Porteus, who wrote in Criterion in 1939, "The most fruitful experiments with language are likely to continue to emerge from those who concern themselves with images and their relations, rather than with idle wordspinning. Nothing...

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Todorovic presents a history of signalism, examples, philosophy, scholarly papers about signalism, and manifestos. His text is in English. This book also includes texts in English about the Signalist movement by other writers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Elisabeth Sussman, the editor, provided the introduction. Certain key texts selected by Greil Marcus have been translated and annotated by Thomas Levin. Debord, in his 1967 study "Society of the Spectacle" articulates his principal theses. Greil Marcus provides a critical essay on Debord's key publication "Memories". Key texts of Debord's are translated into English. An excellent chronology of the Situationist movement is provided. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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One copy includes a pamphlet that serves as an index to the works reproduced in the catalogue; the pamphlet is not present in the duplicate copy. There are several reproductions of experimental music scores as well as examples of Japanese calligraphy in the catalogue.The individual images do not carry a caption of their authorship. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the "Italian version" of John Cage's book on experimental music scores entitled "Notations." It is international in scope but features works by Italian composers and is complementary to "Notations." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.