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This is a review of the circumstances of Johnson's death by drowning. His work was exhibited in Feigen Contemporary and a film about him, "How to Draw a Bunny," shown at the Film Forum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Henry Martin. "This Sentence is Weightless," a multiple held by the Sackner Archive is reproduced on page 60. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is primarily a photodocumentation of the Beat Poetry movement and also includes reproductions of Beat documents. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents New York Times book review: William S. Burroughs "didn't say anything for shock value," his student Sam Kashner once observed. "His life had shock value." Born to a prominent St. Louis family in 1914, Burroughs linked his lineage at every point to the fatal plotlines of American hubris and power. His mother's family had been slave owners in the antebellum South; his paternal grandfather invented the adding machine, a building block in the embryonic military-­industrial-media complex. His uncle Ivy Lee, a pioneer of public relations, counted Hitler's regime among his preferred clients. Burroughs himself spent time in Vienna in the 1930s and learned a lesson he never forgot: Everything Hitler did was legal. Laws could spur, not deter, the blackest of crimes. To top it off, young Bill had also attended the Los Alamos Ranch School in New Mexico, which in 1943 would be co-opted for the Manhattan Project. "The sick soul, sick unto death, of the atomic age" became his great...

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The letters reprinted in chronologic order with minimal annotations were selected and edited by Matie Molinari, Corinne McLuhan and William Toye. They provide a background to McLuhans's life and intellectual growth and reveal his staggering knowledge of the literature of the great writers and thinkers who inspired him to achieve his penetrating insights into the age of electronic communication and become its most renowned interpreter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A collector of contemporary art since the 1950's, Giuseppe Panza has been an influencial force in the art world for more than sixty years, introducing American phenomena such as Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Pop Art, and Conceptualism to the museums of Europe. In a brilliant response to everyone's primary question about modern art - 'What does it mean?' - Panza shares philosopical insights and personal reflections that bridge a half-century of discovering new artists and movements. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The prints are photographic reproductions of some of the works in this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Kostelanetz writes that "this book differs from most other writing about Cage in emphasizing his professional adventurousness, acknowledging not only his music but his theater, writing, radio, visual art, political philosophy, and much else, all reflecting a career based upon artistic (and thus artists') freedom...In its variety and its departures from expository conventions thirty Years is probably a more Cagean book than a measured continuous exposition." The design of this book utilizes page numbering through overlaying each page of text with a large gray number. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.