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The pages are composed of small portions cut from postcards along with their stamps. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The drawing depicts two stylized soldiers in its center part. There is a listing of words with the stem, bouc-, on the upper left side and the stem, ecu- on the upper right side. There is dense micrographic writing on the lower left and right corners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Maizels box assembling, Zombic Box I (1990), now held by the Sackner Archive was shown in this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This review of Personal Choice: Selections from Four Alumni Collections states that "the Sackner section, installed on the second floor of the ICA, is the most intellectually challenging part of the show." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Review of the ICA exhibition "Personal Choice: Selections from Four Penn Alumni Collections" at the University of Pennsylvania in which the Sackner Archive participated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents In these paintings, more vivid colors begin to appear in Seille's work. Roger Cardinal contributes a particularly sensitive essay about Seille's personality. On the WEB, Roger Cardinal's essay: If writing remains one of our most cherished modes of communication, then it is because we associate the effort of transcribing words onto paper with a genuine desire for clarity and contact. Often of course, a person's handwriting is ungainly or crabbed, yet we still attribute purpose to its markings. Messages matter to us, and we are seldom blase when we trip over a phrase in a loved one's postcard and struggle to disentangle the scrawl letter by letter. What we cannot decipher, we gawp at in bemusement. Such bemusement remains an essential ingredient in the artmaking of Geneviève Seille. As a child at school, she fell in love with the sensation of her nib scudding across the paper during handwriting classes. "It was a magical moment", she recalls, "the quiet only interrupted by the...

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This two vertical human-like figures in the center of this drawing are less obvious than the surrealistic creatures prominent in Seille's earlier works. The dense handwritten words and numbers are done is in varied styles that are typical of her ouevre. The background includes consists of collaged elements of other Seille's drawings and the work is varnished giving it a a brownish cast. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book is arranged in an alphabetical order and lists handwritten words in French, English, and Latin selected by Seille conforming to her own scheme of visual importance for that letter. The visual images largely consist of material gleened from periodicals of the popular press. Photocopied material from French dictionaries is used often to form a background for Seille's handwritten lists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Seille has called this work part of a short lived "doodle series." There are several grotesque profiles of faces and torsos in the drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Seille has called this work part of a short lived "Doodle Series." There are several grotesque profiles and torsos in the drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a transitional work in the artist's "Doodle Series." The collaged elements consist of photocopied fragments of calligraphic text recycled from previous works. The work depicts large handwritten letters and numbers scattered among a few grotesque profiles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.