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The abstract lithographed markings resemble partial letter forms. They are over painted in rose colored watercolor and outlined with a graphite border. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue depicts several sculptural installations composed of stacked, opened, rolled, or inter-woven books. Their visual appearance is related to a theme from a page of these books that is reproduced in the catalog. One of the pages depicting the mouse's tail is taken from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the catalogue of a major stamp art exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the biography of John Quinn, the greatest American collector of art and experimental literature of the early 20th century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Ross: Amazon.com: The book is beautifully produced on excellent stock, binding and gorgeous reproductions; the artists use maps as a "medium for expressing their observations, passions and anxieties about the contemporary world." There are 360 maps made from all sorts of media, traditional painting, modified globes, tree branches, butterfly wings, spider webs and more. Unusual examples include: Kim Baranowski's map of alien-abduction sites, which is part of the "Mappa Mundi" series: "information that would give schoolchildren nightmares; areas of the world not yet hit by asteroids, potential U.S. nuclear targets ... or "show-and-tell for the paranoid." Vik Muniz created a world map using junk from garbage dumps, assembled with the help of youngsters from the shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro. Corriette Schoenaerts, 'Europe,' 2005, is a construction of countries and continents made out of clothing. In 2002, China's Long March Project embarked upon a `Walking Visual Display' along the...

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Depicts a diorama. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The title is reflected in the eight open-faced, pop-up, heart shaped pages. Andrew Binder found the metal lower half of the box container which suggested a half of a heart. The book pages are designed to be opened and viewed from the back forward, like a Hebrew book. Each collaged page is intricately engineered and lushly illustrated with drawings of men and women, various flora, hearts marked with Russian text, hands, rib cage, insects, a 3D spiral, sea creatures, and a fish. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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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.