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Studley writes in his introduction that Wittgenstein 1899-1951 published only one philosophical work in his lifetime, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, written while a Prisoner of War in 1918. The text for this book was written during the last 18 month of his life. The student designer selected a remark or fragment of a remark to interpret as a typographic composition within the constraints of the type collection of the press. This book was selected by The American Institute of Graphic Arts as one of the 50 best designed books of 1995 (Rethinking Design No.3). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The first 88 pages consist of a Homage to Heidsieck and the remaining pages to book reviews. Page 44 depicts an image of Canal Street No.42, a collage held by the Sackner Archive but attributed with a mis-spelling to Fackner rather than Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this essay, Bok points out that crysallography, which denotes scientific study of crystals, literally means 'lucid writing.' He analyzes writings by Wittgenstein, Escher, Gallois, Deleuze, etc. in this context. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A page depicts handwritten "H's" evolving to a handwritten "I's." This is the final number of this series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Various paper stocks were used for the prints, viz., Centurian, Ferndown, Fibrex, Flexicover, Kendal and Soho cover boards, All British Cartridge, Astralux cast coated boards, and clear Acetate. According to Diane Kirpatrick (Eduardo Paolozzi, New York Graphic Society, 1969), the work was conceived as a giant file of text and image collages from the artist's voluminous collection. Each viewer is invited to 'edit' the book by experimenting with various arrangements of the sheets in the box. Paolozzi was concerned in this book between the relationship of Kitsch to technology. The color combinations of the inks are elegant with prodigious use of gold, silver, and copper metal inks. The moulded plexiglas box has a Dayglo pink color (other copies had this color or bright yellow or bright green). The images include movie stills and strips, There are several prints that include scientific, industrial, weather, and news photography. Images include graphs, advertisements, art...

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This issue of Point d'Ironie juxtaposes two recent images by Parreno: "The Boy from Mars/Hybrid Muscle" with the collaboration of Francois Roche and "Welcome to Reality Park" a gateway to an amusement park. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The pages consist of terse, philosphical messages after Wittgenstein. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This object was formed from by photocopied hand lettered text in the style Phillips uses for his text based sculptures, where each letter is physically linked to adjacent ones. The photocopied sentence of the title, glued onto the cube is repeated twice on each of its surfaces. The Sackner Archive also holds the hand-drawn maquette for this work. The text is by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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For this maquette, Tom Phillips hand lettered the text in the style he used for his text based wall sculptures. He marked design changes in small, red symbols. Each letter is linked to adjacent ones. The sentence of the title is repeated twice on each surface of the cube and hand-drawn on each surface of the wooden cube. The maquette is slightly smaller than the finished work that is also held by the Sackner Archive. The text is by the philospher Ludwig Wittgenstein. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Crombie has adapted the concluding dictum of Wittgenstein's "Tractacus Logico-Philosophica" (1991) aim to stretch the logic of the inability to speak into this artist book of language art printed on various colored paper stocks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.