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Most of this book is presented as an interview of Birney. The is one concrete poem example in this book dealing with autobiography and critical analysis of poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book includes an English translation of "Prose of the Trans-Siberian" by Blaise Cendrars, held by the Sackner Archive. "En Forme de Cheval" by Apollinaire in his deluxe exhibition catalog of Leopold Survage that is held by Rare Book Library Columbia University, is described as a horse that "has a pink wash of color over the head, neck, and left foreleg of the horse." The corresponding deluxe catalog from the Sackner Archive has the horse completely covered in pink wash. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the first edition & the second printing done in 1967. The reprinting of the second soft cover edition is also held by the Sackner Archive. It contains English translations of original Dada Documents. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of a reprinting of ten essays written for specific occasions that were published between 1981 and 1984. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Introduction by Jack Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exibition is a homage to the 13th century Spanish Kabbalist poet, Abraham Abilafia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Barry Moser illustrated the books with 96 original pen and wash drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Genesis P-Orridge contributed a critical essay on Spare. In his thinking and art, Spare was like a latter day William Blake. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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First published in 1960. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Stephen Balbach (Amazon webite): "Lanham has been a university professor for about 40-years, Yale-educated, English lit and rhetoric. He came of age pre-computer revolution, when writing meant manual type-writers and white-out and transcription. This series of connected essays are his ideas about what the digital revolution means for the future of books, universities and what he calls "the economics of attention" - how the world operates when information is plentiful and the scarce resource are "eyeballs" (attention). We are flooded with high-quality art, news, books, movies, data of every type - it is not an "information economy" because information is as plentiful as air - the scarce resource is peoples attention. In that environment, style (the wrapping paper, the ornamentation, packaging, literary style, etc..) becomes more important than substance - style is the substance (think for example all the crazy cultural things that come out of Japan - all style, no substance). He...

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This book features more than 40 essays from top experts and educators in typography today. These essays run from introducing the themes of type and typography to various complex and rare strategies for learning. Jared Ash contributed an essay "The Letter as Such: Aleksei Kyuchenykh as Closet Typographer" in which he describes Mikhail Tarkanov as a lesser known artist-designer of the 1920's and 1930's who was "considered more involved in typographic artistry than [his] more widely recognized colleagues." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also known as The Papyrus of Ani, the text was written and illustrated c.1250 B.C.E. by unknown artists and scribes. Chiefly concerned with the after life, the book is a guide to the next world and was part of a larger body of religious literature, a product of a polytheistic culture. Word, image and reality are united in Egyptian thought and "text and scene seemingly engage in constant conversation." The scroll was discovered in Egypt in 1888, cut and mounted on board and sent to The British Museum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also known as The Papyrus of Ani, the text was written and illustrated c.1250 B.C.E. by unknown artists and scribes. Chiefly concerned with the after life, the book is a guide to the next world and was part of a larger body of religious literature, a product of a polytheistic culture. Word, image and reality are united in Egyptian thought and "text and scene seemingly engage in constant conversation." The scroll was discovered in Egypt in 1888, cut and mounted on board and sent to The British Museum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These texts describe Kac's studies on the relationships between art and science. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A second deluxe edition illustrated by Jiri Sindler was published in 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the third edition of Adler's philosophical texts that proceed alphabetically on the subjects of alphabet, book, colour, daydream element etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.