Includes a reproduction of an object done by Peter Daniel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book reprints an in depth lecture delivered by Schmidt on the occasion of Peter Daniel's exhibition of Lab-Art. He states that Daniel's subject matter is located between literature and pictorial art. In reviewing Daniel's Ein Sof, a Kabbalistic book, and Lab-Art, Schmidt traces the development of the awareness of language since the nineteenth century, relating the influence of Ferdinand Saussure and his emphasis on phonetics, Walter Benjamin and Jaques Derrida and their theories of language. In relation to Daniel's use of collage, Schmidt quotes the Kabbalah concerning the origin of letters, "He [God] outlined them, dug them out, weighed them, combined and transposed them."The print, Lab-Art, An open manifesto, designed by Daniel, that is held by the Sackner Archive, is reproduced in the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.