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Seller: William Allen Word & Image, London, United KingdomWilliam Allen Word & Image

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Teksty wizualne Visual Texts, Galeria Dom Sìrodowisk Twoìrczych, odzi, 1978. 250 x 175mm. 20 pp. Hardback with printed wraps, pages in different papers including printed translucent pages and all images tipped-in on stiff pages. Unpaginated. Introduction text in Polish and English. The poets with illustrated works are Josef Honys, Robin Crozier, Aaron Marcus, Klaus Burkhardt, Horst Tress, John Furnival, Michael Wulff, Ferdinand Kriwet, Andrzei Partum, Luciano Ori, Seiichi Niikuni. The final page lists numerous other international contributors to the exhibition. The introduction states, It is the aim of the exhibition "Visual Texts" to demonstrate all forms of artistic actualization of visualizing a verbal or a quasiverbal text as we have met them during the last ten or fifteen years. The director of the exhibition, Jozef Robakowski, writes on the inside cover I invited an outstanding expert and animator of visual poetry Jirí Valoch from Czechoslovakia. It was his role to prepare the great international exhibition "Visual Texts" in Lublin. The authority of the artist assured a high standard of the exhibition and gave beginning to the collection of works of [sic.] made by authors all over the world. It was the first, planned on a wide scale, exposition/collection of an artistic activity that was demonstrated to people from the socialist countries. The exposition presented in the gallery of ód House of Creative Circles gave a real satisfaction to the society. The book itself makes for an interesting construction with industrial card boards and various paper stocks. There is some toning to the dust jacket and the first translucent page. An attractive and rare catalogue. Condition: overall, Very Good +.…

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Bibliographic details

Title
Teksty wizualne Visual Texts
Author
Jozef Robakowski, Josef Honys, Robin Crozier, Aaron Marcus, Klaus Burkhardt, Horst Tress, John Furnival, Michael Wulff, Ferdinand Kriwet, Andrzei Partum, Luciano Ori, Seiichi Niikuni, et al.
Publisher
Galeria Dom Sìrodowisk Twoìrczych, odzi
Publication year
1978
Condition
Very good +

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