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The poster depicts a stylized phallus formed from letters with a center channel ejecting the biblical phrase "In the beginning was the word..." The number 36 in the title refers to Furnival's 36th birthday -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Turquoise colored letters are overprinted in a cross-like manner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The vowels are printed in black, white, red, green and blue. They are arranged in a pyramid form on a gray background. The flag was part of an International show of artist flags. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The vowels are printed in black, white, red, green and blue. They are arranged in a pyramid form on a gray background. The flag was part of an International show of artist flags. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Images consist of language towers, number tower, the Statue of Liberty, a cowboy and Uncle Sam dipping an Englishman into a pot of tea. This print is depicted in Furnival's "Lost For Words" on pages 58-59. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Printed by John Furnival as a single or as two copies, probably trial proofs, and never realized as an edition. Ten prints comprise an identical grid of 64 different ampersands in different colors on different colored paper stock and weights. There are 2 copies of the title page. In 6 prints, a grid of 31 x 32 ampersands is manipulated from a rectangular to an overprinted optical image. Three grids of 64 ampersands are identical. The Sackner copy is the most complete copy of this work. In Ceolfrith 14, Furnival's exhibition catalogue 1971, the work is mentioned by Bann and interpeted by Furnival as an incomplete folder. Getty Research Institute, the only other collection with this work indicated that the prints consist of dense rows of ampersands in a variety of styles, printed and overprinted. Their copy is dated 1969 snd contains 6 prints.. A version called "Amber sands" was constructed in wood by Kenelm Cox for the Brighton Festival, 1967. Cf. Concrete poetry -- Source of...

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This print was reprinted in 1995 on different paper stock (Arches 88). This print is depicted in Furnival's "Lost for Words" (2011) page 34. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The card depicts black Omega letters overprinted in the shape of a square. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue in an edition of 100 consists of 75 copies with biographical information and 25 copies with biographical information plus photographic reproductions of the artists. Houedard provided autobiographical details and prices for his typewriter poems. Stored in Houedard box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The print depicts two images, one of small houses that each contain a vowel and a second that is a constructivist image with French for colors. The initials in the title signify Dom Sylvester Houedard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This includes an image that is similar to a print also held by the Sackner Archive entitled "36. In the Beginning." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Depicts orange overprinted letters, A and Omega in the shape of a regular cross. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Depicts purple overprinted letters, the A and Omega, in the shape of a regular cross. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Image consists of the sixty red number '60's' with varied dimensions placed in a vertical rectangular space with some of the numbers overlapping. It was done n celebration of Tom Phillips' 60th birthday. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a reprint on different paper (Arches 88) of the same print of the sixties. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This panel depicts a component of Furnival's tower works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.