Letter picture, text on face overlaid on blank word puzzle titled "Fur Sie Ratsel-Turnier"

Documents prior issues of Teraz Mowie. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Collage includes folded exibition announcement to "V.B. Espone V.B." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The hand-made valentine by Baker is made of purple gauze with gold dots, stitched with green thread, and is filled with fragments of Indian text papers, sequins and beads -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The title "vile" is a double entendre, viz the object is a vial having sealed contents of an unnamed "vile" appearing fluid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Flyer for visual and sound poetry show. Held at the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center (BBAC) gallery

The titles of each book, each containing 32 prints with each print glued one to a page, are written on the covers by Cobbing. These books constitute a "scrapbook of Cobbing's published prints." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book was printed on the occasion of the International Conference on Visual poetry, Eye Rhymes, held in June 1997 in Edmonton, Canada. Marvin Sackner met Sokola there and also presented a paper on the creation of the Archive database. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The sculptural image is a stylized chicken with mostly illegible, fragmented, writings and rubberstamped phrases with dada and fluxus content on its surface. The name of the bird/birdlike chararcter is Loplop who is featured in prints, collages and paintings by Max Ernst. Lopllop was an alter ego which Ernst developed and functioned as a familiar animal. Loplop first appeared in Ernst's collage novels La Femme 100 Tetes and in Une Semaine de Bonte in the role of a narrator and commentator. The cardboard box base has illegible handwriting on its lid, rubberstamped words DADA and stylized chicken heads on its sides, and rubberstamped, stylized heads of chickens within the inside bottom of the box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Although the artists were not part of the New Realism group, the iconography of the decollages is in the spirit of that movement. The edition size is 30 but the individual works themselves are unique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Tom Ockerse writes in his preface to this summer workshop report that "the occurrence of this study in a school of the visual arts is significant in that it deals with a kind of activity which is most often, traditionally, associated with literature. It affirms the view that the word is no longer limited to literary 'domain' and that the visual artist , perhaps through his conventionally less restricted view, can make a most important contribution to the development and understanding of human language."Mention is made of the Jean Brown Archive. A mention is made of the Jean Brown Archive, now in the Getty collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.