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The exhibition was curated by Suzanne Reese Horvitz and Anne Stengel Raman. Judith Hoffberg's essay is titled "Full of Elegance and Wit, Timeless yet Familiar: Unique Bookworks" from the writing of Robert Lax. She claims that artists books are not containers of ideas, but a consummate experience that challenge the reader and actively shape the reading experience. "The experience of viewing and reading a unique artist book is an interactive experience in which the viewer completes the work, creating and changing emotional reactions to the artist's own." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Each page has been treated by routing out all the text horizontally with a rotating tool such that the cancellation process takes place word by word. This process is imperfect so that some of letters and fragments of words still remain. The spine of the book has been deliberately cracked to allow the book to be displayed in its opened state. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001.In a letter (2001) to the Sackners, Beube made the following comments. In Segregation, a metamorphosis occurs, transforming the printed text to empty space, and the black ink to dust. Although entire words have become illegible, the remnants of broken letters and vowels can be seen and felt on the crater-like surfaces of the pages.Portions of the book's text have been removed by drilling out each word one page at a time, a process that fragments the book's content. Multiple pages become translucent white veils beneath which a number of underlying pages may be...

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This exhibition was curated by David McFadden who also wrote the introductory essay that provides a capsule review of each artist's work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This article describes a Maine library that commissions artist to create books from unwanted volumes which ten get a second life as works of lendable, readable art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In the forward to the catalogue, Harriet Bart writes that this exhibition "presents the book and the printed page as palimpsest: de-constructed, re-examined, re-marked, re-considered, re-constructed, re-imagined, re-invented, re-purposed." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.