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Consists of a collection of critical essays previously published in academic periodicals. Her chapter, "Edging and Hedging" analyzes concrete poems by Lora-Totino (Spazio), Ulrichs (Eros), Gomringer (Silenzio), and Finlay ( The Wartime Garden). Caws analyzes the varient works of concrete poetry by the Frenchmen Lionel Ray and Edmond Jabes that she designates optical poetry as related to reading of the poems not to their optical imagery as in the typings of Dom Sylvester Houedard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Amazon.com: "Öyvind Fahlstrom (1928-76), the Brazilian-born Swedish multi-artist, is one of the mid-twentieth century's most intriguing cultural figures. His work, as profoundly political as it is aesthetic, spans two tumultuous decades in the avant-garde world and comprises concrete poetry (his own innovation), manifestos, plays, multiple prints, installations, sound poems, sculpture, and even architecture. Initially poorly received in Sweden and little appreciated in the English-speaking world, Fahlstrom is now increasingly recognized as an important figure in the world of art, with his work"”especially his witty collages and interactive "games," his photomontages and mini-installations"”being shown around the globe. The first study to give this major twentieth-century artist his due, this book serves as both an informative and entertaining introduction to Öyvind Fahlstrom and a valuable critical analysis of some of his most important works. The five works Bessa focuses on are...

Scope and Contents This book was published to coincide with an exhibition at the Sackler Gallery. Library Journal: "At the culmination of his art career in China, Xu Bing (who now lives in the West) spent months inventing more than 1200 characters that mimic Chinese characters but have no known meaning. At once familiar and strange, they evoke confusion, wonderment, and even hostility in viewers. Xu Bing printed them in books with traditional formats, on wall posters, and on giant billowing sheets, which he installed in exhibition galleries to form a ceiling or sky. He cagily argues that any explanation of his art is superfluous because the books have no meaning. However, while the books themselves may be unreadable, they have a great deal to say about what their creator thought about Chinese art and culture after the Cultural Revolution. Issued in conjunction with his current exhibition at the Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian, this catalog describes the artist's early years in China and his...

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This book consists of essays published on the occasion of the International Conference on Art Periodicals and exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. It includes an excellent listing of 19th and 20th century art periodicals. The book is also designated Art Documents Number One. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of 12 critical texts about the life, art, and literary works by Gray as compiled and edited by Robert Crawford and Thom Nairn. The facing page of the title page depicts a self portrait drawing by Gray rendered in visual poet terms. Four paintings are also reproduced as plates in addition to small drawings scattered throughout the book. There is marginalia from the previous owner -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book of imaginative maps surveys a shared world of thoughts and emotions. The atlas is based on traditional cartography, but substitutes the names of cities, rivers and seas for concepts, feelings and everyday experiences. There are 21 maps with names such as secrets, knowledge, home, health, passion and chaos. The book was initially published in Dutch in 1999. According to the publisher, "while adhering to the conventions of cartography, this atlas invites the traveler to follow routes through familiar-looking topography into hitherto uncharted realms of imagination, ideas, feelings and experience. Cradled by the Ocean of Possibilities, the Sea of Plenty and Still Waters, this strangely familiar place has its capital Boom, its airports Escape and Freedom. It encompasses beautiful regions like the Peninsular of Pleasure as well as desolate wastes such as the Swamps of Boredom and the Bay of Melancholy. Then again there are the well-known Mountains of Work and the Safe Harbour...

Scope and Contents After introducing the theory and historical background of the avant-garde, this book examines the major figures and movements from Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and Italian Futurism, through Dada and surrealism, Mayakovsky, Russian Futurism and Brecht, to the post-modernist writers Burroughs, Robbe-Grillet, and Pynchon. This book also includes a section of political poetry such as "The Future of Socialism" by Helmut Heissenbuttel below.nobody exploitsnobody oppressesnobody is exploitednobody is oppressednobody wins anythingnobody loses anythingnobody is masternobody is slavenobody is superiornobody is subordinatenobody owes anything to younobody does anything to younobody owns nothingnobody exploits nobodynobody oppresses nobodynobody is exploited by nobodynobody is oppressed by nobodynobody wins nothingnobody loses nothingnobody is master of nobodynobody is slave of nobodynobody is superior to nobodynobody is subordinate to nobodynobody owes anything to nobodynobody does anything to...

Scope and Contents After introducing the theory and historical background of the avant-garde, this book examines the major figures and movements from Rimbaud, Apollinaire, and Italian Futurism, through Dada and surrealism, Mayakovsky, Russian Futurism and Brecht, to the post-modernist writers Burroughs, Robbe-Grillet, and Pynchon. This book also includes a section of political poetry such as "The Future of Socialism" by Helmut Heissenbuttel below.nobody exploitsnobody oppressesnobody is exploitednobody is oppressednobody wins anythingnobody loses anythingnobody is masternobody is slavenobody is superiornobody is subordinatenobody owes anything to younobody does anything to younobody owns nothingnobody exploits nobodynobody oppresses nobodynobody is exploited by nobodynobody is oppressed by nobodynobody wins nothingnobody loses nothingnobody is master of nobodynobody is slave of nobodynobody is superior to nobodynobody is subordinate to nobodynobody owes anything to nobodynobody does anything to...

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The complete issue of this periodical containing the reprints is also held by the Sackner Archive. The duplicate copy is unsigned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The complete issue of this periodical containing the reprints is also held by the Sackner Archive. The duplicate copy is unsigned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Paula Scher illustrates an article with the letters AOLTW made up of the brand names in the two merging companies. the article was written by Tom Rosenstiel and Bill Kovach. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Deals with interview of Ian Hamilton Finlay by Jackson regarding "Bicentenary Tricolour" produced to commemorate the French Revolution. The author explains the imagery in this commissioned work which was refused by the French government because of the incorporation of Nazi images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Stored in Cozette de Charmoy box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Beat Hotel on 9 rue Git-le-Coeur in Paris, was the residence of the Beat writers during the years 1957 to 1963. It was here that Ginsberg wrote Kaddish, Gysin discovered the cut-up method and Dream Machine, Burroughs completed and published Naked Lunch, and Corso wrote the Bomb. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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What began among a small circle of friends in New York and San Francisco during the late 1940's and early 1950's laid the groundwork for a literary explosion, and this striking anthology captures the storied era in all its incarnations - from the Benzedrine-fueled antics of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs to the painting sessions of Jay deFeo's disheveled studio, from the jazz hipsters to the beatnik chicks, from Chicago's College of Complexes to San Francisco's famed City Lights bookstore. Snapshots of lesser-known poets and writers sit alongside frank and compelling looks at the Beats' most recognizable faces. What emerges is a brilliant collage of - and tribute to - a generation, in a form and style that is as original as its subject. The text is by Harvey Pekar and others and the art is by Ed Piskor. Paul Buhle edited the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is the catalogue for the retrospective exhibition for Schippers in the Centraal Museum, Spring 1997. It includes documentary material of his Fluxus works, publications, radio shows and performances. Overlaping texts were printed in red (Flemish) and green (English) such that the opposite colored acetate sheet must be placed over the text in order for the selected language to be solely rendered visible. The envelope contains small paper reproductions of Schippers' works from the book. The presentation of text and images in this book that depend upon superimposition of colored acetate sheets is uncommon - this is the only book in the Archive so produced. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exhibition was curated by Peter Day. Excellent discussion and documentation behind the French government's decision to withdraw Finlay's commission on the Right Of Man for the city of Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.