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Theme deals with the rise and fall of the automobile in American culture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Interspersed with the same abstract image in varied colors, the text reads, "When does a tree die?" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text, one word or a letter on a page that is interspersed between the repetitive abstract images on the other pages reads, "When will a tree die?" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Internet: Suzanne Moore is a printmaker, painter and lettering artist whose eclectic interests fuse in the diversity of her artists' books. Born to a family of gifted inventor-engineers and raised in post-Sputnik middle-America, her aptitudes in math and science channeled her into those areas at an early age. She made her way into the world of art at 20-something, and earned a BFA in Printmaking and Drawing in Wisconsin. Suzanne melds word and painted image with form, content and structure into spaces which invite the reader to engage, examine and inquire. Her books blend distinctive design, color use and surface treatments with textual content and contemporary lettering to create work that obscures the line between word and image, legibility and abstraction.The physical, sensual and architectural aspects of books and the musical/rhythmic, sequential, unfolding narratives of bookworks are a multi-dimensional parallel to the way imagery and letterforms move across surfaces. Moore...

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The book is based upon Phillips' collaged portraits of classmates attending his primary school, which was exhibited in London at the National Portrait Gallery in 1988. Phillips sent copies of 31 images to the American Seattle poet, Heather McHugh, who composed a poem for each portrait. Phillips then interpreted the poems in the style of "A Humument." His new text sometimes reaffirms and other times contradicts the poet's intrerpretation of the pictures. The collage, conventional poem and visual poem were printed by Minsky on the same page using Richard de Bas paper, a computer, and a Canon BJ-130 inkjet printer. This copy is the only one that contains the 31 images and poems handcolored by Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exhibition was curated by Anne Anninger and text was contributed by Joan Lyon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the first maquette for a manuscript of collages made from colored photographs that curry continues to edit. curry noted in a letter to the Sackners that many of the pieces in this copy will not be included in the final version. Some of the pic have been published but many have not. This copy was made for David UU who wanted to see the entire series. The book is dedicated to Frank Zappa & the images and their captions have music relationships. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This trade edition book of Blake's poetry has all the calligraphic and visual devices that Lalou utilizes in his unique books. The collaged elements on several pages are pieces of gold paper that are incorporated into his calligraphy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This deluxe edition book of Blake's poetry has all the calligraphic and visual devices that Lalou utilizes in his unique books. The collaged elements on several pages are pieces of gold paper that are incorporated into his calligraphy. It differs from the trade edition, also held by the Sackner Archive, in that the text is printed on velin d'Arches paper 160 g. The trade edition is printed on Cyclus ligher weight paper stock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The square-shaped perforation on the card signifies the window element of the title and the shirt button sewn on the card, the wind..mill of the title which is printed as a label on the box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The plexiglas box and the pages have the shape of a carrier pigeon's wing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The plexiglas box and the pages have the shape of a carrier pigeon's wing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Marvin Sackner is cited for his contribution of "Chicken Soup" to Postcards V 1987. The Sackner Archive is listed as holding Purgatory Pie Press works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Thomas Rose created a visual poetic tribute and memory to his father and mother upon their deaths, The presentation is introspective and dream-like, and these characteristics are matched in the physical presentation of the book with text that floats on the page, transparent papers with heavenly clouds, clinical typography for autopsy texts, and handwriting for personal thoughts and musings. The original graphic print seems to be an abstracted drawing of an urn of ashes. The brochure is a prospectus for the book.One of Rose's reminiscences reads as follows, "still the labor of your breathing is - heavy in the room - your breath - in a cloud of vapor as it left - your lips into the cold light of the room... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue features feminist, political literature. It lists Arion Press' "Shaped Poetry" held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The booklet serves as a New Years greeting and a means to document the history of the gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.