Scope and Contents The drawings are taken from newspaper articles, medical literature, books of Robert Fludd, Gray's "Anatomy" and botanical renderings. The latter employs a double entendre, wort signifying "word" in German and plant in Anglo-Saxon. This was exhibited in "Contemporary Screens" curated by Virginia Fabbri Butera. She wrote "Filled with hundreds of sentences, Cogito Ergo Sum is a standing book that impels us, with Cartesian urgency, to read and to think to confirm our existence."Wkipedia: Cogito ergo sum (French: "Je pense donc je suis"; English: "I think, therefore I am") is a philosophical Latin statement proposed by René Descartes. The simple meaning of the phrase is that someone wondering whether or not he or she exists is, in and of itself, proof that something, an "I", exists to do the thinking. However, this "I" is not the more or less permanent person we call "I". It may be that the something that thinks is purely momentary, and not the same as the something which has a...

Scope and Contents The drawings are taken from newspaper articles, medical literature, books of Robert Fludd, Gray's "Anatomy" and botanical renderings. The latter employs a double entendre, wort signifying "word" in German and plant in Anglo-Saxon. This was exhibited in "Contemporary Screens" curated by Virginia Fabbri Butera. She wrote "Filled with hundreds of sentences, Cogito Ergo Sum is a standing book that impels us, with Cartesian urgency, to read and to think to confirm our existence."Wkipedia: Cogito ergo sum (French: "Je pense donc je suis"; English: "I think, therefore I am") is a philosophical Latin statement proposed by René Descartes. The simple meaning of the phrase is that someone wondering whether or not he or she exists is, in and of itself, proof that something, an "I", exists to do the thinking. However, this "I" is not the more or less permanent person we call "I". It may be that the something that thinks is purely momentary, and not the same as the something which has a...

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John Risseeuw, the Curatorof the exhibition acknowledged loan from the Sackner Archive that included 27 of the 67 works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Stored in Furnival box. The cover is plakat 3, 1965 and the drawing was first published in Ou Dec 1964. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This partially completed, archival, flip-lid box collaged with product labels on inside and outside sufaces is among the first of Furnival's visual poetic labeled collaged boxes. It contains a certification and an astronomy map of a star named after Marvin Sackner that was a birthday gift from Majorie Weber on his 70th birthday, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The presses listed in this catalog publishing artists' books include Circle Press, Coracle Press, Editions Alecto, Hansjorg Mayer, Marlborough Graphics, Waddington Galleries, Will and Sebastian Carter, World's End Press and Tetrad Press. Several books described in the catalog are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This is the catalogue for the XV Sao Paulo Bienal. The title was also termed 'Cratylus.' The cover design was taken from a painting by Tom Phillips. In this catalogue, Hiouedard made the following comments: Dom Sylvester Houedard was born on the island of Guernsey. He studied at Jesus College Oxford and in 1949 joined the Benedictine Abbey at Prinknash in Gloucestershire; he was ordained as priest in 1959. He was a pioneer of British concrete poetry and regularly contributed to magazines and exhibitions from the early 1960s until his death. He became literary editor of the Jerusalem Bible in 1961, and founded the Gloucestershire Ode Construction Company in 1967. One copy is stored as a reference text, the other alphabetically on the shelf. "During 1945 I realised the typewriter's control of verticals and horizontals, balancing its mechanism for release from its own imposed grid, (and) offered possibilities that suggested (I was in India at the time) the grading of Islamic...

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On the left is half of a poem; the remainder of the page is a geometric drawing. Stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image is a realistically drawn row of trees and bushes in a field. The number of prints in this edition is unknown. The series of three prints is depicted on facing pages 50-51 in Furnival's book, "The Locative-Vocative Cases" but is misdated as '2004.' the title is translated to "Danger! A chestnut tree can hide another." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This twelth page from Dante Diary which is dated 15 November1979 contains many ink drawings of constructed brick-like forms. In one a young painted face emerges.Tom writes of his efforts to find backers for the Dante project. He is looking for a helper/factotum and John Furnival sent a girl called Debbie who seems promising.Tom writes that he "finished complete first boo kof 2nd draft. Did study for frontspiece for Stereo Headphones..Virgil drawing finished." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Two small stick figures with a video screen as their body say the words of the title in a cartoon bubble as a very large black painted circle is about to roll over them. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This letter to the Sackners is handwritten in a circle on the back of a round cardboard advertising French Camembert cheese. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This letter to the Sackners is handwritten in a circle on the back of a round cardboard advertising French Camembert cheese. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The complete text printed on black paper reads, "Death hold your breath, and I'll hold mine. Whoever breathes out last can call out: 'Time!'" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This print is depicted on page 41 of Furnival's book "Lost for Words" (2011). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Included in Indicatif II portfolio. The print in different typefaces and type dimensions has a pentagonal shape. It is meant to be spun from a spoke placed in its center so as to create a blurred image of the words. The duplicate copy has a center fold. This print is depicted in Furnival's "Lost for Words" (2011) page 20. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The letters which seem to be spilling into space in a haphazard way actually spell the word "disintegration." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the obiturary of Houedard, born February 16, 1924, died January 15, 1992. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.