This is an advertising promotion that includes an essay on Herman Melville's Moby Dick. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the first issue of the periodical previously designated Calligraphy Review. Includes an illustrated article on contemporary German gravestones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is the first issue of the periodical previously designated Calligraphy Review. Includes an illustrated article on contemporary German gravestones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This publication was formerly called Calligraphy Review. The feature article is an interview of Marvin Sackner by editor Karen Gilman on calligraphy by artists in the Sackner Archive. The history of the Archive is discussed and many calligraphic works are illustrated. Leila Arvin contributes an essay on the calligraphic work of Malla Carl. An interview with calligrapher/typographer Jovica Veljovic is titled "The Breathing in Writing." The cover utilized a drawing by Tim Ely. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Adele Spindler Roatcap contributed an illustrated essay "Sonia Delaunay: Color Rhythm Simultaneity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Formerly Calligraphy Review. This issue includes an index for Vol.11. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The author analyzes each letter of the Roman alphabet in detail, tracing its origin evolution, and form, as well as discussing its important abbreviations, symbols, and associated meanings. Arranged in alphabetical order, twenty-six entries offer a wealth of facts about each letter, establishing correspondences between letters and elements borrowed from a variety of different fields of study ranging from traditioal paleography, phonetics, and graphic arts to the more arcane areas of musicology, esotericism, and even Eastern philosophy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

DeCampos responds to a classification system proposed by Houedard by pointing out "visual organization of words, with an overemphasis on relations of proximity and resemblance between them, leads ineluctably to an equivalent overemphasis on sound, implying a dynamical use of paronomasia and alliteration that explains why Brazilian young musicians have been so much interested in many of our seeming eyepoems, and in the making of oral presentations for them." He states he wrote to Hugh Kennerabout Ezra Pound and received a sympathetic response. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this document, Lemaitre expresses unhappiness with Chopin's chapter in the exhibition catalogue of University of Iowa's exhibition on Lettrism. This is stored with Curtay's materials. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Discusses sound poetry and body music. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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.

This is a catalog of a project done in 1982, "Lettere al Mitante." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In one copy, there is a letter enclosed from Scott Helmes to the Sackners mentioning that he didn't get to see much of the show because the gallery didn't open on time. There is also a newspaper clipping of a review by Alan Artner, the art critic of the Chicago Tribune. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a letter to the editor of Afterimage as a rebuttal to an essay by David Trend on Lettrisme. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Sackner Archive holds one of the typewriter drawings from this series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This catalogue written by M.Ugar Derman descibes and illustrates the history of Turkish/Ottoman calligraphy from the tenth century including its tools and materials, decoration and uses; the training of calligraphers is also documented. The collection which was seen by the Sackners is the property of a Turkish collector. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.