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Barbara A. MacAdam contributes an essay "The Micro Wave" that describes the work of artists inspired by textiles, computer chips, prayers and obsessions, creating works that are almost impossible to decipher. These works of micrography were done by Jacob El Hanani, Shirazeh Houshiary, Stefana McClure, Gary Gissler, and Simon Frost. Elisa Turner reviews "Dreams and Disillusion," the exhibition of Czech graphic designer Karel Teige at the Wolfsonian, Miami Beach. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Moss describes his quest to create a model institution to learn about and experience Judaism. This print is a visual representation of six questions that envision the model for this project: What is behind me? What surrounds me? What is within me? What is above me? Whom do I face? What is ahead of me?"Moss has also created a three dimensional model as a structure for a future project. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue was designed by the first three authors and the exhibition was curated by the last two. Ron Glowin contributed an essay on the art of making art in boxes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is an unpublished manuscript. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is a personal cult-like guide to life with new ways ot "react, behave and respond" to the new sins. These sins include Charity, Sense of Humor, Beauty, Thrift, Ambition, etc. The fold-out page depicts a rendition after Dante's "Divine Comedy." Each sin is illustrated with a colored photograph. On the signature page, Byrne added several abstract marks in ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The author writes penetrating, witty, descriptions of President Richard Nixon. The book is illustrated by John Gerbino. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Amazon.com: 'The New North Georgia Gazette is an annotated transcription of the 1821 newspaper, The North Georgia Gazette. The newspaper was written aboard an English ship trapped in the Arctic. The ship s captain had the sailors produce the newspaper in order to ward off scurvy. Caroline Picard, Director of the Green Lantern, describes The Gazette as an incredible existential metaphor, where, a group of people, stranded in the dark, are forced to make their own meaning in order to survive the harsh conditions. The Gazette comes at a time of enormous environmental change, and it seeks to point out the importance of the relationships between humans and their surrounding environment. In addition to the entire 1821 newspaper, the book includes excerpts from the Captain s journal, original annotations by transcriber/poet Lily Robert-Foley, an introduction by St. John s (MD) Professor Dr. Michael Comenetz, an essay about optimism and humilty by contemporary Arctic expeditionist John...

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A beautifully rendered drawing of a rain storm seen through a double window. The view is probably from the Furnivals' English house. Part of a series of eight prints in collaboration with Jonathan Williams, "St Swithin's Swivet." This print is depicted on page 44 of Furnival's book "The Locative-Vocative Cases" (2012). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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According to Kettner, "First (and only) edition. Average press run for Bomb Shelter: 300-500 copies. From brief author's introduction 'In these writings and collages some "other," the "rawspirit," does the speaking. For that reason any attempt to understand this in a linear or logical context will be difficult or impossible. I see pandemonium as a break from the strictures of codified behavior into a liberated existence.'" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In the text printed on the dust jacket by William Wilson, Ray Johnson is described as living "a life that is a continuous revelation of pure and radiant design, the image of that life is art. Since the life itself is designed of coincidences, like a walk taking a line, the aesthetic reciprocal of that life is a Ray Johnson collage. Ray Johnson is not neo-dada or abstract or extract: he is an artist representing the reality of his life; it happens that his life is a collage." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The works are mainly dense, pencil drawings on aluminum foil that relate to micrography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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All the images in this book were based upon a postcard from the collection of Rita Donagh (Richard Hamilton's wife). A postcard that it similar but with slight differences was used by Tom Phillips in hia book "The Postcard Century" to open the 1974 section. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.