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This volume concentrates on Stein's experimental works many of which were previously unknown. The editor's textual scholarship "demonstrates Stein's constant questioning of the conventions of language, writing, and reading and her stunning subversion of the authority of language." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book reprints, in dazzling, different, typographical layouts, film scripts and criticisms by avant garde writers and poets of the 20th century. The book, which is designed with several different colored papers and typefaces, received a prize for Arts and Essays from the National Center of Cinematography in France. Typewriter poetry is present on the film scenario of Fortunato Depero and sound poetry in the script by Francois Dufrene. Picture poems are depicted in the Fluxus film scripts by Robert Filliou and George Brecht. Villegle's script includes his typical ideograms. Lawrence Weiner's script is uncharacteristically dense in content and more visual/verbal than his usual works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Bohn analyzes Apollinaire's exhibition catalog dealing with Leopold Survage and Irene Lagut using calligrams of prose as the vehicle for his critique. Bohn is especially intrigued with the rare handcolored edition of the catalog that he mentions is owned by the Columbia University rare book collection; it was the only copy he was able to find. Just after publication of his book, Bohn visited the Sackner Archive and learned of its handcolored edition - too late to include in the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The use of written language has been one of the most defining developments in visual art of the twentieth century. 'Art and Text' is a unique and timely survey of this most contemporary and relevant artistic tool, tracing the relationship between language and art, from early experiments with pictorial poetry, Futurist typography and Cubist collage, through Conceptual practices to the present day...'Art and Text' documents and contextualises the fascinating relationship between word and image, showcasing the many artists who continue to use text and expand its possibilities. The book contains an forward and three essays. In the first essay, The Schwitters Legacy: Language and Art in the Early Twentieth Century by Will Hill, the author uses the reproduction of the painting "Here We Exemplyfy" by Tom Phillips which is held by the Sackner Archive. Hill writes that Larry Rivers, Jim Dine and Jasper Johns use of stencilled letters "prefigured the finely articulated dialogue between word...

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Clive Phillpot contributed an essay, "Reading Artists' Books," in which he wrote that "Visual artists have explored and exploited the nature and structure of the book. both in former times and with renewed vigor more recently, with the result that the book has come to be appreciated widely as an extremely fruitful and subtle multidimensional means for the transmission of human experience. In addition, artists have come to demand of their readers that they develop their ability to utilize various forms of reading, whether retinal or tactile, whether linear, peripheral, oscillatory, or random, in order to be able to engage fully with the content embedded in each book." Books by Carothers, Ligorano, and Mabe were lent to this exhibition by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Tafte writes,"The principles of analytical design are universal - like mathematics, the laws of Nature, the deep structure of language - and are not tied to any particular language, culture, style , century, gender, or technology of informtion display. As a result, our examples are widely distributed in space and time: the illustrations come from 14 centuries, 16 countries, (Italy and France, especially) 3 planets, and the innumerable stars. From the illustrations, it is difficult to idnetify what place or time this book is from, which is the point."Ad Reinhardt's "How to Look at Modern Art in America" and Mark Lombardi's "Global Networks" depicted in part in this book are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Tiziano Santi contributed an essay "Between Word and Image" which traces the history of visual and concrete poetry through Dada, Futurism, calligrams, Cubism, Fluxus happenings and the contemporary Italian poets. Manfredo Massironi's essay describes the beginnings of classical calligraphy in Europe and the Middle East. This book also served as a caalogue for the Belle Lettre Award winners. The works were grouped into the following categories: traditional calligraphy, expressive calligraphy, words and images, words and abstract for, the word as image, and conceptual works. There are several reproductions of pages by Brody Neuenschwander for "The Pillow Book" by Peter Greenaway. Brody Neuenschwander was awarded the first prize Belle Lettere Award for "the Book of Silence;" Canto Five of Dante's Inferno by Ingmire is described in a separate chapter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a revision of a book published in 1977 which surveys 20th century art history with accentuation of works with visual/verbal imagery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This well illustrated book with 25 essays was published on the occasion of the of the exhibition "Text, Buch, Kunst" presented at the Frankfurt 2000 Book Fair. Rypson contributes a concise introduction that traces the artist book from Kahnewilers's publications of Picasso' Cubist engravings, to the Trans-Siberian Railway, Un Coup de Des by Mallarme, the Russian Avant-garde, the Futurists, Dada and Conceptionalism. Rypson describes six elements in structuring "word space." 1. visual poem 2. layout of a poem 3. cover design 4. typographic composition 5. illustrated book 6. artists' books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The editor states that the 17 essays in this book are concerned with poetry readings, the sound of poetry and the visual performance of poetry. They "offer original and wide-ranging elucidations of how twentieth-century poetry has been practiced as a performance art." Johanna Drucker contributed a chapter titled "Visual Performances of the Poetic Text" in which she describes and illustrates several poems of early 20th century visual poetry movements including an in depth analysis of "Poesie de mots inconnus" by Iliazd, a book that is held by the Sackner Archive. A listing of audio resources and a bibliography are included. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The first of what was to have been a two volume work; the author died before completing Volume Two. This first volume covers the classic age of collage, prior to WW II and contains some material on the 1950's and 1960's. The author, Dr. Herta Wescher, was the friend of many Bauhaus and other collage artists.Her writing embodies the enthusiasm, humor, affection, and personal comprehension of a participant in the lively and contentious circles she frequented. Assiduously she tracked down reminiscences and forgotten works from those tumultuous times, rescuing from oblivion much previously unpublished material. Thanks to her research, the reader may not only see the output of world-famous collagists, but also may meet the brilliant but often neglected Czech adherents of Futurist and later styles; the Russian Avant Garde; the loners from various parts of the world, all of whom helped make collage one of the most direct and unguarded forms of expression in the long history of art." --...

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This a critical text dealing with issues after the exhibition, "Between Poetry and Painting" at the ICA in London 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Soroka presents his biography and a reprint "Visual Poetry in Ukrainian Literature," from the Ukrainian Review, 1998, Vol.45, No.1. There are also examples from early Ukrainian and European visual poetry and the recent works of Soroka. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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According to text on the dust jacket, this book "examines some of the most interesting and experimental contemporary writers whose work forms a counterpoint to the mainstream writing of our time." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book is about how language deals with the non-verbal and about linguistic resposes to painting. Scobie writes that the unity in this book lies "in its relation to a central complex of ideas - the interaction between language and painting: the specific case of Cubism; the extension of Cubism into Concrete Poetry." Scobie provides an excellent background of Cubism's beginnings with emphasis on the roles of Apollinaire and Daniel Kahnwieler, the art dealer. He discusses the placing of fragmented words into Cubist paintings as word-play and puns.In his chapter on concrete poetry, Scobie "attempts to situate the international movement of the 1950's and 1960's within larger cultural tendencies, such as the transition from modernism to post modernism," and he reviews the collaboration between bp Nichol, the Canadian poet and Barbara Caruso, the Canadian artist. In the following chapter, Scobie deals with sound and visual poetry and concludes this section with an analyses of the...

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This companion catalogue to "Mallarme et les siens" includes several books that are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is a copy of Seaman's Ph.D dissertation thesis that was later revised and published in the Series "Studies in fine arts. The avant-garde" by UMI Research Press in 1981, a book that is also held by the Sackner Archive. On pages 150-156, Seaman analyzes Rimbaud's "Voyelles." Seaman devotes Chapter V, pages 179-251, to Mallarme with particular attention to Un Coup de Des. Seaman provides an English translation of Tzara's recipe for making a dadaist poem in Breton's manifestos of Surrealism. Here Is Tzara's recipe:To make a dadaist poemTake a newspaper.Take a pair of scissors.Choose an article as long as you are planning to make your poem.Cut out the article.Then cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them in a bag.Shake it gently.Then take out the scraps one after the other in the order in which they left the bag.Copy conscientiously.The poem will be like you.And here you are a writer, Infinitely original and endowed with a sensibility that is charming though...