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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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Each print of the edition was handcolored in a slightly different way. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents John Maizels is the editor of Outsider Magazine and a practicing artist whose themes feature untranslatable hieroglyphics and assemblages incorporating surrealistic, whimsical creatures. Examples of these works are held by the Sackner Archive. In the introduction to this book by Roger Cardinal, Jean Dubuffet is prominently mentioned as bringing the importance of Outsider Art to the contempory art public. This profusely illustrated book depicts several examples of Outsider Art that have great affinities to works done by non-outsiders held by the Sackner Archive. Thus, drawings of squat, human-like figures done by Don Sylvester Houedard in the 1950's are similar to those done by Cesar Lombroso in 1864 (p.12). Gary Goldstein's "Molieres Ausgewahlte Werke" of 1989, an artist book in which painted abstract and primative human portraits are superimposed over the pages of the text of this printed German book recall a book done by Marcel Reja in 1907 (p.12). Genevieve Seille's contemporary...

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Seven human figure-like forms surround a tablet codex from Maizal's imaginary culture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The layout of this print is in newspaper format but made-up hieroglyphics are substituted for text and the images are surrealistic in content. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive holds the hand-colored prints of both covers by John Maizels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These prints represent working texts and images for utilization in Zombic News. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The drawing consists of made-up colored hieroglyphics. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The appearance of this work with an irregular, round border, is reminescent of the "Rosetta Stone." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each print of the edition was handcolored in a slightly different way. The image is wholly untranslatable hieroglyphics. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.