Scope and Contents According to Reginald Walker, his oeuvre is concerned with mythological books. Mythological or Spirit books are ritual talismanic books and book objects symbolic of astrological, numerological, Kabbalic and prophetic divination. These shamanistic objects d'art are also based on esoteric alchemical for-mularies, sacred and obscure high words, as well as magical encantations and amulets. Aesthetically, these works represent the ancient Egyptian and Ethiopian Coptic Codex functioning as a somewhat Iconic art object; created as metamorphosic ethnic fantasies, these mythic codices are fusions of Egyptian Ethiopian, Nubian, Byzantine, Islamic, and Celtic fetish-art.Developmental materials include papyrus, vellum, parchment, alum-tawed skins, native-dyed goatskins, iron, silver, gold, bronze, copper, brass, bone, feathers, acrylics, tempera, various indigenous woods/textiles, linen, and various handmade papers.Mythological books reflect ancient, contemporary, occult, and supernatural...

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Baroni publishes the response to questions posed to correspondence artists concerning avant garde art and artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Chopin describes how he produced a typewriter poem for every day of the year 1981. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This newspaper is a political spoof with regard to the region's efforts to tax Finlay's garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book depicts a photograph or a drawing of the corner of the house that mail artists use for their networking, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The titles of these lectures include "The last Stand of Literature," The Real Begins When the Spectacle Ends," "Federman on Federman: Lie Or Die," and "the Supreme Indecision of Postmodernism." The clarity of the essays and the analysis of how Federman sees himself in relation to the political and cultural world reinforces his importance and influence in 20th century literature and thought. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a fictionalized account of a famous Sweetmeat twins Rock Concert in May 1966 held at Big Sur, California. The book is presented as a typewritten document. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book consists printing of taped and transcribed telephone conversations with the author in New York and Los Angeles in 1977 and 1978. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue prints interviews with Tim Rollins (an art teacher) and KOS of the background behind the subject which began with the reading of a book on Grunewald in Rollins collection in 1982 by Carlos Rivera, a 12 year student with learning disability, who was asked to reproduce his favorite painting in the book. Rivera selected The Temptation of Saint Antony, did an impressive drawing of the work which was enjoyed by the rest of Rollins' class to the point where other artists' versions were shown. The latter included Schongauer, Brueghel, Bosch, Callot, Redon, Ensor, and Ernst. The influence of these images and the text on Rollins group over the years led them to do their own interpretations of the work as watercolor studies, paintings and finally prints at Crown Point press. The catalogue includes several reproductions including an etchings from "The Temptation of Saint Antony" series, a work held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This publication is edited by John Herschend and Will Rogan. Kota issue utilized the entire THING. It was our first issue in which the issue itself was the whole. Much of Kota's work has been about interpretation and modes of translation. And his contribution to THE THING was not an exception to this. His issue consisted of the standard THING box stamped in Cyrillic (Russian), a letter from the editor translated in to Mandarin, and a simple white cotton baseball cap with Arabic Text embroidered onto the front. Subscribers were only given a very small clue as to what the translation might be (a URL in English, buried in the Mandarin text). The result for many became a search for meaning and an interaction with a text that had symbolic feel but little relevance to their daily lives (unless they spoke the languages). Many subscribers took the letter to their local Chinese restaurant and asked for help, or they wore the hat around for days and weeks until someone told them what it...

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This publication is edited by John Herschend and Will Rogan. This issue is designated a back issue on the card accompanying this object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This publication is edited by John Herschend and Will Rogan. The glasses case is incised, "Chaldron Optica System." The side arms of the glasses are incribed as follows: "Will you know a chaldron when you see one?" and "With these glasses you will know a true one." A chaldron is described by Lethem in the looses sheet by 12 statements, a few of which are "A chaldron is an impossible object," A chaldron speaks of the possibility of another world," "A chaldron is like an opers pouring from a flea's mouth" and "It is better to have seen and lost a chaldron than never to have seen a chaldron at all." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text of the pamphlet deals with a bad movie entitiled "Garden State." The text laser etched into the wood block deals with the purchase and cutting of an onion. Kine states in the pamphlet that her object is a cutting board and recommends that the more the board is used, the less the text can be read, and if all goes as planned, "the quieter the ghosts of meals past will become." She also recommends that you first slice an onion on the board that will cause you to cry for as a mental cathartic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a homage to an art gallery director in San Francisco. Written at the bottom of the poster, "This is a toast to William Passarelli and the Vibrant Electical Energy of Good Thoughts and All to Our Extended Families Is." The cups are inscribed at the bottom "I WISH YOU WELL." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Thing Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. It's like a magazine, except that each issue is conceived of by a different contributor and then published as a useful object. David Korty (born 1971, California) makes work that explores the everyday objects, scenes, and terrain of his living environment. His distinct geometric visual language takes this quotidian subject matter and pushes it towards abstraction, flattening it into a complex depiction of commonplace geometry. Korty's paintings oscillate between these abstractions and their identifiable subjects. What results is a sophisticated dialogue between the nonobjective and the representational, a way of seeing the surrounding world and reinventing it. Korty earned his B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design and his M.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has exhibited widely throughout the United States and Europe. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This publication is edited by John Herschend and Will Rogan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This photoessay by Sara Sackner published on the Phillips web site for the first time, documents the work at Tom's studio in London during the production of the fine press book Dante's Inferno in 1980. This is vol. 6, no. 1 of recent website updates. John Pull, webmaster, writes, " I first saw Sara's photos while visiting the Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry (sic) in Miami Beach. I loved the image I saw of Tom and NIck Tite reviewing the plate and was floored by the cache of prints Sara loaned me for this special exhibition, 57 in '80. Fond appreciation to Sara for her generosity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was assembled by Sara Sackner on the occasion of Marvin Sackner's 70th birthday. It contains clips from the film "Concrete" that Sara produced about the Archive. Her dedication reads, " Oh Clips!/ Speak to me/ LONG and short/ Tell me / Where you want to go!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.