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Pages consist of fragments of pages from other Ecart books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive holds the following books displayed in this exhibition, viz., 1967 reprint of Apianus' "Astronomicum," Andy Warhol's Index Book, Art/Life, Poemobiles by De Campos, The Sense Books by Carothers and The Slant Book by Newell. The curator of this exhibition, Gay Walker, also includes her classification scheme for Eccentric Books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Twenty copies of the examples de tete were bound by Knoderer - the Sackner Archive copy is one of these copies. The illustrations by Pageris are semi-realistic, line drawings with a background of black watercolored abstract markings. The bookbinding has sample strips of tooled and painted leather laid into a bimorphic shape whose silhouette has features resembling the side of the human face. The binding is much larger than the booklet which is conventionally shaped. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The initial part of this book consists of the printed reproduction of the handwritten manuscript. Mounted photographs follow, two to a page, of a man walking on train tracks through a tunnel and into a park near these tracks. The photographs apppear to have been reproduced from video images. An original page from the manuscript is enclosed within a sleeve page near the end of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Yu Hiral works primarily in photography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The sculpture represents the nipple and part of a woman's breast. The book depicts graphite representational and abstract drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The title translates to "Cunt of Fairies." Topor painted faces onto color photographs of women with their legs spread apart to expose their genitalia. These were then rephotographed for the edition. Wilkipedia: Roland Topor (January 7, 1938 -- April 16, 1997), was a French illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker, known for the surreal nature of his work. He was of Polish Jewish origin and spent the early years of his life in Savoy where his family hid him from the Nazi peril. Topor published several books of drawings, including Dessins panique (1965) Quatre roses pour Lucienne (1967) and Toporland (1975). Selections from Quatre roses pour Lucienne were reprinted in the English language collection Stories and Drawings (1967). His carefully detailed, realistic style, with elaborate crosshatching, emphasises the fantastic and macabre subject matter of the images. Roland Topor wrote the novel The Tenant (Le Locataire chimerique, 1964), which was adapted to film by Roman Polanski...

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The 40 images in this book are graphite frottages from walls of buildings or pavements. The drawing is an original frottage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Color polaroid photographs depict Pazos as a transvestite Flamenco dancer. The bookbinding was designed by Freddie De Vree. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Reproduces images of restored films from the Hungarian writer, Oskar Serti, who developed color blindness in adulthood and was treated with a special shoe with spikes on the inner sole that could produce severe pain associated flashes of different colors. The metal case is for reels of film. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The original ink drawing is present on page 13. Internet: "Marker or pen in hand, Benoit Plateus captures the small events of his everyday life or sudden ideas which could become works. Benoit Plateus (born in 1972, Chenee, lives and works in Brussels), winner of the "Young Belgian Painting' in 2003, is one of the most important Belgian artists of his generation. His work doesn't neglect any medium -- photography, video, drawing or sculpture -- in order to search for ambiguities in the most mundane field of visibility. Restless observer, precise, discrete and malicious, Benoit Plateus introduces a distance between objects and their perception in order to shift them to the other side, in a space with variable dimensions and multiple interpretations." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Internet: Michel Francois, born in 1956 in Saint-Trond (Belgium) has participated in the Venice Biennial (1999), in Documenta 9, Kassel (1992) and has shown his work at many solo and group shows around the world. The Institut d'art contemporain presented Plans d'evasion, the first large monographic exhibition of Michel Francois' work produced jointly with the S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent. This collaboration between the S.M.A.K. and the IAC shows their common interest in monographic exhibitions, that is to say directly with the artist, providing him with the space, the time and the means to show work in all its complexity. It also allowed the publication of the first retrospective catalogue of the artist's work, an occasion to take full measure of what he has done since the 1980s. Symmetry is a fundamental element in the relation between Michel Francois and the two exhibition spaces. At the Institute, he uses this feature while readapting the presentation of...

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The colophon states that each book is different and contains original drawings. The pages mainly are recyled from other books published by the Boekie Wookie group in Amsterdam. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ben has written on one side of the mylar pages which have a mirror surface so that the opposite blank page gives a mirror, almost 3D appearance, to the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The back cover of the book is bound to the inside of the case such that the book and case are integrated. The style of the drawings is somewhat reminescent of that drawn by Roland Topor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each pair of eyeglasses is unique, an analogy to the ready-mades of Duchamp. The box that contains the book and objects has the appearance of an oversized wooden match box. Bloomberg News published a mostly negative review of Miami's private art collections and Art Basel Miami in general. However, Favre's work was mentioned in a positive light: "To be surprised, you had to venture into the smaller galleries and satellite fairs. Discoveries for me were Christopher Kurtz's wood sculptures, including "First Dark" (2010), an abstract amalgamation of ornament, bird and star; Valerie Favre's inventive, narrative ink drawings and collages exploring themes of performance and dream; and the quirky, mixed-media tree sculptures of Gonzalo Gonzalez." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A simulated firecracker is placed adjacent to the interior spine and its fuse winds around the exterior spine. The illustrations for the text are collages, drawings or photocopies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.