The center of this book has been bored through with a drill. The hole is bored from cover to cover. The hole is located just below the portrait of Mao's chin printed at the frontpiece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This catalogue is a retrospective of Kocman's Artists' Books and Papers. Jiri Valoch contributed a critical essay that traced the interdisciplinary art movements of the 1970's, the European political and artistic community in which Kocman worked, and his studies in bookbinding and aesthetics. He describes Kocman's work as "a synthesis combining intellectual detachment informed by his conceptual experience with a remarkable sensibility and strong lyricism and with a continuous questioning of the nature of art." Several examples of Kocman's works are held by the Sackner Archive. For example, the catalogue depicts a reproduction of Poe's "The Raven," one of Kocman's paper re-making books that is held by the Sackner Archive. The catalogue lists "The Metamorphosis" by Kafka (1980) and Fragment of Videvdat and Other Fragments (1988), as well as several editioned books held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This might be a unique typed book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Mentions that works by Kocman are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each of the three pages in this booklet has a single typed word or letter - art, is, t - adding up to"artist." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

All the pages are blank and are cut in different configurations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.