TAU/MA (complete series).

7 issues (all published) each consisting of several publications preserved in cardboard boxes (303x215 mm). 

I (Reggio Emilia, November 1975): Mario Diacono, Hypercalipsis (1973); Claudio Parmiggiani, Heraclitus (1973); Gian Pio Torricelli, Stechiotrono (1964); Gian Pio Torricelli, Eubasé o follia (1964-1974); Bernard Bauhus, Libro di un solo verso (1617). Print run: 500 unnumbered copies and 100 copies for the editors, numbered I-L and signed them.

II (Reggio Emilia, June 1976): Vito Acconci, Plot (1974); Luigi Ballerini, The book of the last of the Mohegans (1975); Julien Blaine, Autopsies (1975/1967/1976); Heinz Gappmayr, Aspekte (1975/1976); Giovan Battista Della Porta, Steganografie (1602), M. Diacono, ed.; Jirì Kolár, Gersaints Aushängeschild (1966). Print run: 500 unnumbered copies and 50 numbered copies for the editors. 

III (Reggio Emilia, March 1977): Haroldo de Campos, Il M ago dell'Om ega (1955-1956) together with Regina Silveira, Labirinti (1971); Emilio Villa, Alphabetum coeleste (1976); Agnes Denes, Paradox and essence (1976); Raimondo di Sangro, Parole Maestre (1750). Print run: 500 unnumbered copies and 50 numbered copies for the editors. 

IV (Reggio Emilia, September 1977): Joan Jonas, Mirage 1976; JCT, Thothality (1973/1974); Adalgisa Lugli, Teatro delle misure e dei prodigy (1977); Ladislav Novak, Testi (1976); Emilio Prini, Zwei Texte; Adriano Spatola, Cantico delle creature; Aleksej Krucenych, Semivivo (1913). Print run: 500 unnumbered copies and 50 numbered copies for the editors. 

V (Reggio Emilia, January 1978): Luciano Caruso, Piccola teoria della citazione (1974); Jochen Gerz, Paul M. (1969-70); Madeline Gins, Intend (1973); Giulia Niccolai, Facsimile (1976); Richard Nonas, What do you know? (1977); Michelangelo Pistoletto, Le stanze (Ottobre 1975 Settembre 1976). Lacking Francesco Cangiullo, Caffeconcerto/Alfabeto a sorpresa (manoscritto). Print run: 500 unnumbered copies and 50 numbered copies for the editors. 

VI (Reggio Emilia, December 1979): Luciano Bartolini, Kubla Khan; JCT, Maza (1975-76); Adriano Malavasi, Storie vere ed extravere (1972); Edoardo & Federico Sanguineti, Papiro (1978); Carlo Severi, Anticatarsi (1975-1979); Patrizia Vicinelli, Apotheosys of schizoid woman (1969/1970); El Lissitzkij, Di 2 quadrati (1922). Lacking Baldassarre Bonifacio, Musarum liber XXV/Urania. Print run: 500 unnumbered copies and 50 numbered copies for the editors. 

VII (Reggio Emilia-Bologna, October 1981): Chlebnikov inedito; TAU/MA 7. Copy 188 of 1100. 

The journal, presented by the editors as a "post-review devoted to creativity in all its forms", is basically a collection of "original works that allude to the book, but transcend the book in the mainstream and common sense of its use"; these works are united by a common "tension towards the visualization of discourse." All of the texts published by Tau/Ma therefore turn out to be "artist's books," "no matter whether they are a simple documentation of a performance [...] or installation [...], whether they constitute original texts of visual writing [...] and verbal poetry [...], or whether, finally, they are presented as ideological-conceptual works [...], typographical concretions of sculpture [...] and of writing and image" (Tau/Ma, no. 5, 1978). Maffei-Peterlini, Riviste d'arte e d'avanguardia, pp. 144-145. 

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