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Thsi is the final copy of a photograph of Finlay's sandblasted glass sculpture with a nautical scene in the background. It includes all the corrections made on the proof copy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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On this proof copy of a card depicting a photograph of Finlay's sandblasted glass sculpture with a nautical scene in the background, Finlay wrote instructions to "add stand-shadow" to the bottom of the final copy. Finlay also wrote the name of Ed Wright on the verso and indicated that sand blasted should be one word. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a photograph of a sandblasted text, glass sculpture overlying a nautical scene. The photograph was made by J.W. Lucas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents As indicated in a 1985 exhibition catalogue sponsored by the British Arts Council, the idea for a new codex appears in the first notebook as part of the Central School teaching programme: like a Mexican codex in concertina form but 'applied to modern wrapping paper, one side only'. The notion lay dormant for many years but from 1972 its advances and vicissitudes are chronicled in the notebooks. Wright was working at that time on his article 'The Essential Book'. Peguy was the exemplary craftsman: for him 'a book meant a total commitment to social and spiritual truth. . . A book meant writing, editing, printing, proof correcting, publishing and even opening a bookshop in the Rue de la Sorbonne'- the making and the message were inseparable.In an article written in a 1991 issue of Eye magazine on Wright's work, the form of the codex is quite roughly made and free of grand summarising gestures. The chief subject is lunfardo, the slang of the vagrant people of Buenos Aires. This code...

Scope and Contents As indicated in a 1985 exhibition catalogue sponsored by the British Arts Council, the idea for a new codex appears in the first notebook as part of the Central School teaching programme: like a Mexican codex in concertina form but 'applied to modern wrapping paper, one side only'. The notion lay dormant for many years but from 1972 its advances and vicissitudes are chronicled in the notebooks. Wright was working at that time on his article 'The Essential Book'. Peguy was the exemplary craftsman: for him 'a book meant a total commitment to social and spiritual truth. . . . A book meant writing, editing, printing, proof correcting, publishing and even opening a bookshop in the Rue de la Sorbonne'- the making and the message were inseparable.In an article written in a 1991 issue of Eye magazine on Wright's work, the form of the codex - is quite roughly made and free of grand summarising gestures. The chief subject is lunfardo, the slang of the vagrant people of Buenos Aires. This...