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Introduction by Jack Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exibition is a homage to the 13th century Spanish Kabbalist poet, Abraham Abilafia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Barry Moser illustrated the books with 96 original pen and wash drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Genesis P-Orridge contributed a critical essay on Spare. In his thinking and art, Spare was like a latter day William Blake. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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First published in 1960. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Stephen Balbach (Amazon webite): "Lanham has been a university professor for about 40-years, Yale-educated, English lit and rhetoric. He came of age pre-computer revolution, when writing meant manual type-writers and white-out and transcription. This series of connected essays are his ideas about what the digital revolution means for the future of books, universities and what he calls "the economics of attention" - how the world operates when information is plentiful and the scarce resource are "eyeballs" (attention). We are flooded with high-quality art, news, books, movies, data of every type - it is not an "information economy" because information is as plentiful as air - the scarce resource is peoples attention. In that environment, style (the wrapping paper, the ornamentation, packaging, literary style, etc..) becomes more important than substance - style is the substance (think for example all the crazy cultural things that come out of Japan - all style, no substance). He...

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This book features more than 40 essays from top experts and educators in typography today. These essays run from introducing the themes of type and typography to various complex and rare strategies for learning. Jared Ash contributed an essay "The Letter as Such: Aleksei Kyuchenykh as Closet Typographer" in which he describes Mikhail Tarkanov as a lesser known artist-designer of the 1920's and 1930's who was "considered more involved in typographic artistry than [his] more widely recognized colleagues." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also known as The Papyrus of Ani, the text was written and illustrated c.1250 B.C.E. by unknown artists and scribes. Chiefly concerned with the after life, the book is a guide to the next world and was part of a larger body of religious literature, a product of a polytheistic culture. Word, image and reality are united in Egyptian thought and "text and scene seemingly engage in constant conversation." The scroll was discovered in Egypt in 1888, cut and mounted on board and sent to The British Museum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Also known as The Papyrus of Ani, the text was written and illustrated c.1250 B.C.E. by unknown artists and scribes. Chiefly concerned with the after life, the book is a guide to the next world and was part of a larger body of religious literature, a product of a polytheistic culture. Word, image and reality are united in Egyptian thought and "text and scene seemingly engage in constant conversation." The scroll was discovered in Egypt in 1888, cut and mounted on board and sent to The British Museum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These texts describe Kac's studies on the relationships between art and science. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A second deluxe edition illustrated by Jiri Sindler was published in 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the third edition of Adler's philosophical texts that proceed alphabetically on the subjects of alphabet, book, colour, daydream element etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Emblems are the predecessors to contemporary picture poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This extensively illustrated book depicts artworks from the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This essay attempts to define and clarify the role of the artist in the Postmodern and electronic art world. The author writes that " the dialogue between artists will become essential to the task of identifying the evolving possibilities for art in the future...Quality in art can no longer be dismissed, and it can no longer be confused with privilege. It is a matter of a heightened sensory cognition...Being an artist today is to offer a purposeful and deeply intuitive resistance to the enormous influx of cultural programming that has become an assumed liability on the information superhighway." The translations are printed with two front covers and the texts are upside down, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The bookbinding was done by Jane Rollo. Each copy is virtually unique since collages were made adhering a limited number of the defective printed pages onto the pagea of the printed book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.