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The following works held by the Sackner Archive are depicted in the catalogue: Accame's "Visioni del Partcolare [15 drawings]," Barsky's "Botschraft einer Toilettenpapierrolle," Mau's "Ein Stern erzahlt ge-Schichten," Partem's "alphabetique phonetique," and Schmidt's "gemau in anbetracht einer verschiebung." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book served as a catalogue for an exhibition entitled, "Visual Poetry International," held at gallery 'de doelen' Rotterdam and later at Centre 't Hoogt, Utrecht, The Netherlands in 1975. There is also a supplement to the book with the same title as well as an exhibition poster that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Archive of New Writing, as named by Carrega and supported by Della Grazia, opened October, 1989 and issued this catalogue. The Sackners are cited in Carrega's article "Why? Because?" (page 14); "I came to know Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins, Marvin and Ruth Sackner, the most important world collectors of the verbo-visual experience." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a major exhibition of concrete and visual poetry organized by Michael Glasmeier. Almost every classification of visual/verbal imagery was represented in this catalogue. This catalogue depicts 71 dom sylvester houedard, eight Ladislav Novak typewriter poems. This catalogue depicts images of works included in several Hansjorg Mayer portfolios of concrete poetry. It also depicts images from runs of periodicals such as Affiche, Futura, POTH, Rot, Revue Ou, Rhinozeros, etc. Most of the works in this exhibition are also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is one of the most extensive collection of word-image material with emphasis on concrete poems ever commercially published. The text is brief, e.g., a preface by Jean-Francois Bory and a postface by Isabelle Maunet-Salliet. Each image is printed one to a page. Although the emphasis is on French poets, there are images from poets all over the world. Significant omissions that are bound to occur in such a large undertaking include among others d.a. levy, Dick Higgins, Dom Silvester Houedard, Steve McCaffery, bill bissett, Edgardo-Antonio Vigo, Leon Ferrari, Mira Schendel, Ana Hatherly, Herman de Vries, Ernesto M. de Melo e Castro, Ben, Herman Damen, Enzo Miglietta, Carlfriedrich Claus, Alan Riddell, and Rachid Koriachi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the second edition of this extensive international anthology of concrete and visual poetry which was first printed by Munt Press in 1977. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This pamphlet served as a catalogue for an exhibition entitled, "Visual Poetry International," held at Centre 't Hoogt, Utrecht, The Netherlands in 1975. T -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was curated by Enrico Baj, Vincenzo Accame and Enuli Brunella. The Sackners saw this show in Milan and purchased works exhibited by Roberto Sanesi and Vincenzo Accame (pp125-126). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Carumuel emerges in this book as the strongest practitioner of pattern poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The extensive introductory essays include Artists' Books: Historical notes and cultural contexts and Classification criteria; Notes and comments. Another section deals with an alphabetical listing with tirage of 2928 artists' books with black & white illustrations on the bottom page borders. The final part of the book consists of artists' statements and illustrations. Many of the books listed in this anthology are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Dencker has compiled a tour de force of writings, references and examples of visible language from prehistory to the present. It is accompanied by extensive footnotes of documentation asnd references. Although the text is written in German, the images still guide the reader as to the cultural impact of his well-chosen examples. He has described the writings of the most important world-wide individuals in this field while featuring German speaking writers. Omissions of influential American poets/artists include d.a. levy, John Giorno, Barbara Kruger and Paul Laffoly. The index in this book lists the birth and death dates for several individuals. Several works held by the Sackner Archive are reproduced in the book. These include among others Charles Cameron's poem for rose-marie cahc (1965) depicted in Experiencias No.2 (1975); Eino Ruutsalo's story board for the film, "ABC," (1967) [different original story board for same film held by Sackner Archive]; Konrad Balder Schauffelin's...

Scope and Contents This catalogue features 53 essays on international aspects of visual poetry and individual poets. There are several poets cited in the essays whose works are not depicted in the exhibition. The essays deal with such topics as Mantova and visual poetry, political poetry dealing with war, visual poetry objects, futurism and Zaum, musical aspects of visual poetry, the periodical Lotto Poetica, Neoism, Oyvind Fahlstrom, constellations, Emilio Villa, Mario Diacono, Marcel Duchamp, calligraphic aspects of visual poetry, Quebec visual poetry, Carlo Belloli, Portuguese visual poetry, poema processo, Yugoslavian visual poetry, Carlfriedrich Claus, analysis of Brazilian concrete poetry, South American visual poetry, Gruppo 70, Joan Brossa, concrete and visual poetry in Japan, concrete poetry in England, Ezra Pound, e.e. cummings, Lettrisme, visual poetry in Spain, Francesco Conz, and collections of Paolo Berardelli, Francesco Conz, Adriano Parise, and Giuseppe Verzeletti. All of these essays...

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This catalogue consists of colored photographic reproductions of works on paper, one or at the most two to a page. The covers of the two volumes have identical images but Volume 1 is rendered in black and white while Volume 2 is printed in color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is one of the most outstanding, comprehensive, well illustrated, and documented exhibition catalogues in this genre. In addition to the description of the exhibition approched by movement or country, there are several interviews of the pioneers in the field. Excerpts are translated into French of manifestos and critical texts at pivotal historical points. Brief biographies of the poets/artists in the exhibition are provided. The Sackner lent several works to this exhibition. The Table of Contents includes the following: A. Coron : Avant Apollinaire, vingt siecles de poemes figures.- G. Lista : Entre dynamis et physis ou les mots en liberte du futurisme.- M. Decaudin : De l'espace figure a l'espace signifiant.- J.-P. Bobillot : Du visuel au litteral, quelques propositions.- M. Dachy : Dada, la langue comme utopie.- M. D. : L'Ursonate de Kurt Schwitters.- V. Markov : Les futuristes russes.- A. Schwarz : Les dix facettes d'une poetique libertaire.- M. Davidson : Le texte...

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This catalogue includes several essays regarding the history of visual poetry and its relation to concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue provides an anthology of Italian contemporary visual poetry along with statements by the contributing poets. Stored in Carrega box and reference shelf. -- 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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The chapters dealing with the world-wide concrete poetry movement include Experimental Poetry and Poetic Experiences, Technical Styles, Alphabets and Calligraphy, Silences of Movement, Constellation, Text/Surface, and Bibliography. This is the 2nd expanded edition of the original published in 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Internet: Two cities and four institutional venues have more than one thousand works from various foundations and collections, with a total of one hundred and fifty Italian and foreign artists selected: these features make Visual Poetry the most important initiative dedicated to Visual Poetry, on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Group 70 Florence, among the first and most effective propellers of this kind of art, who in 1964 coined the term, in fact, "Visual Poetry" in the climate of the turbulent bubbly and neo-avant-garde European Union. The Group was formed in '63 by Lamberto Pignotti and Eugenio Miccini, brought forward his artistic research in an interdisciplinary way, probing the possible relations between culture, language spoken, advertising and mass communication, between word and image, writing and painting, creating new meanings and complex systems, according to an idea of "‹"‹total art that characterized the research of various movements of the sixties...