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The introductory essay was written by Jeffrey Abt. The catalogue was designed by Buzz Spector. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a review of the exhibition at the New York Public Library "French Book Arts / Livres d'Artistes: Artists and Poets in Dialogue." The show originates from the collection of the Biblioteque Litteraire Jacques Doucet in Paris along with many items from the NYPL special collections. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Ruth Sackner contributed an essay to this issue titled "the Avant-Garde Book: Precursor of Concrete and Visual Poetry and the Artist's Book." Writing about Tom Phillips' A Humument, she stated "The blending of literature, poetry, and visual art is extremely successful in the work of Tom Phillips. In the main, his work derives from personal intellectual explorations, mythological languages, historic paintings, postcard images, and classical literature and poetry. These are presented in an amazing variety of artistic formats. Tom Phillips has used the book in particular to span the distinction between word and image, for as he says, "in a sense, because A Humument is less than what it started with, it is a paradoxical embodiment of Mallarme's idea that everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book."" "Ending as a book" may very well be the credo of contemporary book artists who knowingly continue the ideas of the avant-garde and the concrete and vis-ual poets into our...

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This catalogue depicts images of each one of the works offered for sale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was curated by Roberto Antolini for the Trento Biblioteca Comunale and the Bolzano Museum. He contributed one essay "Il Nuovo Libro Futurista" and with Melania Gazzotti a second one titled "Le Sperimentazioni delle Neoavanguardie Nella Seconda Meta del Novecento." A section of the catalogue contains illustrations of artists' books mainly from the 1970's. the last part of the catalogue consists of correspondence between Fedele Azari and Fortunato Depero. Most of the works depicted in this catalogue were donated to the museum by Paolo Della Grazia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book consists of an long essay on the history of word-image works begining with Mallarme's "Un Coup de Des..." to Concrete Poetry by A. Schug. The folding of the book is similar to Cendrars and Delauney's "Transsiberian Railway." The latter is reproduced in color as a facsimile in the same dimensions when this catalogue is fully opened. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.