Described as a profoundly wounded book, Spector has torn the edge of each page with his characteristic technique of "leaving a shredded field of typographic characters" which can read as the pages are turned but not when visualized on opening its cover. This is not a found book, but a page of text written by Spector printed initially by Phillip Gallo, then reprinted on 181 pages by Brad Freeman, torn by Spector, and finally bound by Jill Levine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In her essay "The Myth and the Mythmaker," curator Kathleen Edwards wrote that Roth was influenced by Dadaism, Surrealism, Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism, Fluxus and Conceptual Art. Buzz Spector contributed an essay "The Artist as Archivist, The Book as Body: Dieter Roth's Gesammelte Werke." He defined an Archive as a "repository of texts and/or images organized around a given subject. It provides for a relation of general equivalence between its components, and for a means of sorting through their accumulation. Unlike dictionaries or encyclopedias, which define words or ideas in relation to general linguistic or cultural models, and whose cognitive "force" is directed centrifugally, toward the margins of a discursive terrain, the force of the archive is centipetal, drawing in traces of its concern that coalesce to form clearer - which is to say, denser, more focused - insights into the meaning of its subject." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The catalogue illustrates and describes 14 Idaho artists' and eccentric books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The installation and catalogue were a result of Spector's visit to Cranbrook Academy and his study of their archives. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Sackner Archive lent nine of the 45 works in this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This exhibition presents works from the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection as well as books made by students, staff and faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The catalogue contains three essays on artists' books and the exhibition titled "Twenty-six (plus ten) Years Later: Nothing Left But Gas?" by AnneDorothee Boehme, "Artists' Books: Forever Young, Still Emerging and Not Yet Defined" by Christine E. Humpl, and "Value, the Book and the Artists' Book: A Re-evaluation of Cultural Meaning" by Melissa Azzi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The introductory essay was written by Jeffrey Abt. The catalogue was designed by Buzz Spector. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The torn pages have one letter printed on a page that when flattened readS "An idea is not yet knowledge." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Exhibition was curated by Judy Hoffberg and installed by Steven Cortright. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This volume illustrates selections from the Swarthmore College Peace Collection exhibition in the List Art Gallery. It consists of 109 details of hands from 90 photographs in the collection arranged in sequence from the most tightly clenched fist to the most opened hand. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This volume illustrates selections from the Swarthmore College Peace Collection exhibition in the List Art Gallery. It consists of 109 details of hands from 90 photographs in the collection arranged in sequence from the most tightly clenched fist to the most opened hand. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Includes an inciteful essay about mail art by Buzz Spector. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This four color, offset print was designed by Buzz Spector and printed by Lori Spencer in the Borowsky Print Center within a one week residency as Von Hess Visiting Artist. The images are details of photographs of authors, showing ears, taken from dust jackets of their books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Buzz Spector interviews the collector Ira Wool who describes how Dieter Roth influenced him in acquiring artists' books. A chronology of publications from 1961 to 1982 about artists' books is presented by Barbara Tannenbaum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this homage to Cornell, Buzz Spector "has created a romantic world behind the book by collaging the inside of the box with vintage post cards. Although the homage was published as an edition, each collage is unique and offers subtle commentary on the contents of the book. The post cards of far away places pay tribute to Cornell as an 'Enchanted Wanderer' while the blue plexi-glass covering the collage gives this work the deep blue tone that pervades many of Cornell's boxes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This catalogue features Hamady's assemblages. Toby Olson and Buzz Spector contribute critical essays on Hamady's work. Olson wrItes about his art pieces in the essay "One Night at the Farm" and Spector describes Hamady's work in an essay, "Biblioselfconsciousness: Walter Hamady's Gabberjabbs." The Sackner Archive is mentioned as holding Hamady's works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Buzz Spector contributes essay on Mail Art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.