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The exhibition was curated by Ruggero Maggi. The essays and art works in this book all relate to the chaos and fractal theory in mathematics, art and poetry. As Angelo Bertani writes in his essay, On Apparent Order and Chaos, "What seems to be extremely significant is the artist's need (now extremely widespread) to go out from protected, appointed places and instead, contend directly with existence, with the richess of material, with the spaces of life: in this sense, the creeping crisis of painting, the growing prevalence of installations and video-works are a sign, beyond the current fashion of the will to contend with change, accident and the relative: the other names for chaos. Moreover, in a world where technology prevails, perhaps only the ways of art can inser ta fragment of liberty into the oppressive mechanism of necessity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The festival was organized by Fernando Aguiar "to present, for the first time in Portugal, recent words by a group of the most significant international avant-garde poets..to provide a widened vision of...poetry with experimental features." Essays on Visual, Concrete and Performance Poetry and Mail Art were contributed by De Melo e Castro, Aguiar, Bory, Heidsieck, Arias-Misson, Ferrando, Hatherly, Higgins, Kac, Olbrich, de Kroon, Miccini, Pimenta & Zink. 177 small mags and documents related to the theme are listed in the final section of this catalogue. The pages of this book have become unbound from the spine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The catalogue of the 1st exhibition is also held by the Sackner Archive. The book includes a section devoted solely to Paper and Bookworks of Robin Ami Silverberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is a doctoral dissertation dealing with the work of Fernando Aguiar along with historic precedents in Portuguese concrete and visual poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The theme of this exhibition involving Fluxus artists and visual poets was a riff on Leonardi Da Vinci's work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This periodical was begun in 1971 and ran through June 1975. The second series, edited by Sarenco, began in 1982 and finished in 1984. The Sackner Archive holds a complete run of both series. In this exhibition, each of the 74 artists contibuted two or more collages or drawings with the header "Lotta Poetica" and the dimensions of the cover as a homage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition was curated by Enrico Mascelloni who wrote the introduction to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book records Aguiar's philosophy about concrete and performance poetry. -- 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...