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Henri Chopin curated the exhibition and wrote an introductory essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a catalogue for the first major collection purchased by the Sackners in the formative stages of their Archive. Hoffberg was representing Richard Aaron, the bookdealer who owned this collection. Hoffberg had offered the collection to Jean Brown who did not buy it but referred the Sackners as potential buyers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Depicts six word and image columns that include the Statue of Liberty, a cowboy, numbered cubes and aphorisms. This print is depicted in Furnival's "Lost For Words" on pages 58-59. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The print depicts the Arc d'Triomphe as a shaped poem formed by collaged newsprint and calligraphic text. This Parisian structure is depicted facing the Avenue des Grandes Armees. The latter serves as a metaphor for part of an ejaculate from another of the print, viz., a penis shaped from collaged newsprint & calligraphic text that is a metaphor for the young revolutionaries in the May 1968 student led rebellion in France. Texts in the poem support the May 1968 action against the government. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an exhibition review of British Art from the Sackner Archive held at the Bass museum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The drawings are taken from newspaper articles, medical literature, books of Robert Fludd, Gray's "Anatomy" and botanical renderings. The latter employs a double entendre, wort signifying "word" in German and plant in Anglo-Saxon. This was exhibited in "Contemporary Screens" curated by Virginia Fabbri Butera. She wrote "Filled with hundreds of sentences, Cogito Ergo Sum is a standing book that impels us, with Cartesian urgency, to read and to think to confirm our existence."Wkipedia: Cogito ergo sum (French: "Je pense donc je suis"; English: "I think, therefore I am") is a philosophical Latin statement proposed by René Descartes. The simple meaning of the phrase is that someone wondering whether or not he or she exists is, in and of itself, proof that something, an "I", exists to do the thinking. However, this "I" is not the more or less permanent person we call "I". It may be that the something that thinks is purely momentary, and not the same as the something which has a...

Scope and Contents The drawings are taken from newspaper articles, medical literature, books of Robert Fludd, Gray's "Anatomy" and botanical renderings. The latter employs a double entendre, wort signifying "word" in German and plant in Anglo-Saxon. This was exhibited in "Contemporary Screens" curated by Virginia Fabbri Butera. She wrote "Filled with hundreds of sentences, Cogito Ergo Sum is a standing book that impels us, with Cartesian urgency, to read and to think to confirm our existence."Wkipedia: Cogito ergo sum (French: "Je pense donc je suis"; English: "I think, therefore I am") is a philosophical Latin statement proposed by René Descartes. The simple meaning of the phrase is that someone wondering whether or not he or she exists is, in and of itself, proof that something, an "I", exists to do the thinking. However, this "I" is not the more or less permanent person we call "I". It may be that the something that thinks is purely momentary, and not the same as the something which has a...

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This partially completed, archival, flip-lid box collaged with product labels on inside and outside sufaces is among the first of Furnival's visual poetic labeled collaged boxes. It contains a certification and an astronomy map of a star named after Marvin Sackner that was a birthday gift from Majorie Weber on his 70th birthday, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is the catalogue for the XV Sao Paulo Bienal. The title was also termed 'Cratylus.' The cover design was taken from a painting by Tom Phillips. In this catalogue, Hiouedard made the following comments: Dom Sylvester Houedard was born on the island of Guernsey. He studied at Jesus College Oxford and in 1949 joined the Benedictine Abbey at Prinknash in Gloucestershire; he was ordained as priest in 1959. He was a pioneer of British concrete poetry and regularly contributed to magazines and exhibitions from the early 1960s until his death. He became literary editor of the Jerusalem Bible in 1961, and founded the Gloucestershire Ode Construction Company in 1967. One copy is stored as a reference text, the other alphabetically on the shelf. "During 1945 I realised the typewriter's control of verticals and horizontals, balancing its mechanism for release from its own imposed grid, (and) offered possibilities that suggested (I was in India at the time) the grading of Islamic...

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Curate is a British term for the assistant to a vicar of the Church of England. The egg shell has been divided into 16 segments, each with a different style of line-drawn hatchings. A lower case letter appears in negative relief on ten of the segments which spells, "excellent." This is a spoof on the British religious tradition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The layout and implications of this poem are similar to Arc d'Triomphe May 1968. Here the Eiffel tower formed by calligraphic text substitutes for Arc d'Triomphe and receives ejaculate from a penis shaped with calligraphic text, newspaper headlines and a collaged Albert-Birot print (Paridis). Text of the poem is a sympathetic response to the student rebellion in France during May 1968. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This folder is a tribute to Erik Satie, along with an exhibition and concert on the 25th anniversary of his death. Tom Phillips and Ron King contributed the colored prints in addition to the black and white versions also in this folder. The Phillips print is a page of A Humument. There were 50 copies of a signed edtion with handcolored prints by Phillips and King and 30 artist proofs with handcolored prints by Phillips and King in this edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This folder is a tribute to Erik Satie, along with an exhibition and concert on the 25th anniversary of his death. This edition contains prints by Tom Phillips and Ron King in black and white. There were 50 copies of a signed edition with handcolored prints by Phillips and King and 30 artist proofs with handcolored prints by Phillips and King in this edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This print is one of two printed on papercard, the other is printed on translucent paper. The image is a pentagram with text, lines and semiotic symbols within it. The text deals with an announcer's comment on the performance of the horse, Fearless F in steeplechase racing. The lines suggest the route of the race. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This print is one of two printed on translucent paper, the other is printed on papercard. The image is a pentagram with text, lines and semiotic symbols within it. The text deals with an announcer's comment on the performance of the horse, Fearless F in steeplechase racing. The lines suggest the route of the race. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The larger format edition (tirage 20) that consists of prints by Chopin and Berini is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The larger format edition (tirage 20 copies) that consists of prints by Chopin and Berini is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Furnival reproduced lessons from 51 language grammers as drawings in that language and arranged them in vertical fashions. He also included such signs as cattle brands and petroglyphs reflecting the far West influence on him during a year's sabbatical in New Mexico where this screen was executed. He recounted to the Sackners on the number of hours spent on this work - 1250 hours! This screen is depicted in Furnival's "Lost For Words" (2011) pages 50-51. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.