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The text of this book appears to be done either as automatic writing or as an adaptation of a cut-up from another text in the style of William Burroughs. Typewritten poems in red color and Spanish poems in black letraset form this text. The stiff pages are taken fom line printers that have regular perforations on the edges. The tipped-in drawings in laminated plastic depict surrealistic figures and abstractions are placed on black stock paper; they appear to be cut-up fragments of larger drawings. A laminated drawing by Jan Voss is tipped-in to the final page. The covers are covered front and back with flame-like design papers. The inside front cover end paper is a psychedelic poster from the movie "Moby Dick." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The foredge of the book has a drawing which resembles the printed image on the pages. Ketterer Kunst: Jan Voss was born in Hamburg on 9 October 1936. He studied at the Munich Art Academy from 1956 to 1960. In 1966/67 Voss was a guest lecturer at the Hamburg Art Academy. He was a professor at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris between 1987 and 1992. Work by Voss was shown at the Kunsthalle in Kiel in 1997 and at the Stadtische Galerie Villa Zanders in Bergisch Gladbach in 2002. That same year he had a one-man show at Art Cologne to great critical acclaim. The theme informing Jan Voss's work is 'creating order' in the midst of the perpetually moving chaos of a complex situation. Voss experiments with various different techniques and materials; there are powerfully vibrant works on canvas in saturated colour as well as quiet, narrative works that are more linear than painterly. They contrast sharply with paper reliefs made up collage-like of torn watercolours. What...

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The Sackner Archive holds a complete run of these serialized artist books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Provides listing and current prices for the books in this series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This trade show was held in Buffalo, New York. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The bookshop was originally founded under the name, "Nova Zembla." This catalogue featured Dutch book artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This artist group prints catalogues of their own bookwork. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.