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The poem object by Ennio Pouchard entitled, "Leggere Parole" that is photographically reproduced in this catalogue is held by the Sackner Archive. Mirella Bentivoglio conducted an interview of the four participating artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Most of the works in this exhibition date from the seventies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was curated by Giancarlo Pavanello. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This catalogue is described on the back cover as follows: "Artists' books have emerged over the last twenty-five years as one of the most engaging contemporary art forms, addressing subjects from poetry to politics, incorporating a full spectrum of artistic media and bookmaking methods, and taking every conceivable form. Female painters, sculptors, calligraphers, and printmakers have played a primary role in developing this new mode of artistic expression. The Book as Art presents more than one hundred of the finest artists' books culled from the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. These exquisitely crafted objects are certain to provoke unexpected and surprising conclusions about what constitutes a book." In her essay, "The Brightest Heaven of Invention" curator Krystyna Wasserman writes, "Among private collections, The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Achives of Concrete and Visual Poetry in Miami, Florida, has been a source of continual revelation and several...

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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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Publication includes reproductions of A. Dupont's "Nathalie et Justine" and "L'Art en Ciel," and I. Isou and A. Dupont's "Concerto pour Oeil et Oreille" which are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The introduction to the book was written by Francis Pohl. The theme is the letter "E" which has been a favorite icon of the artist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition dealt with the genesis of artist books and periodicals as oriented to the book object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Mirella Bentivoglio comments that the works of Di Sarro (1941-1979), who was a doctor, should be considered as precursors to art as writing, a tendency which developed in Rome in the sixties in the work of Emilio Villa, Marco Balzarro, and Luciano Cattania. She adds that this was followed by the well known Roman tendency of sign-abstraction, "impersonated" by Capagrossi, Novelli, and Twombly. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition dealing with the visual appearances of bicycles was curated by Giancarlo Pavanello who also wrote a lengthy introductory essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The artist books depicted in this catalogue consist both unique and limited editions. The first section of the book includes an excellent desciptive section on the character of artist books. Further, there are several examples of books held by the Sackner Archive depicted in this catalogue including Dautricourt's 'Black Books,' Gut's 'Libro-Seme,' and Ulrichs' 'Concrete Poetry.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The early work of Giambarresi consists of representational drawings combined with structured typographic additions. In the 1970's, the typographic elements become dominant. Mirella Bentivoglio organized this catalogue of works from 1963 to 1998 and contributed an introductory essay in which she describes Giambarrese's style as "alphabetical icongraphy." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.