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Scope and Contents This tour de force of bookmaking, printing and neo-dada texts has different covers for each book in the run of 125 copies. Different old maps are collaged onto the covers and some books have a spine image printed on the book spine (not the Sackner copy). The media description of the pages is taken directly from Hamady's description that is printed on a leaflet of an accompanying advertisement for the book. The book includes a letter picture that incorporates varied ornaments and devices around the number '7' as well as several other pages depicting other typographic ornamaments and devices. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001.Reprints dada-like modifications of notes on typography and bookmaking from other sources in a wide variety of typefaces and sizes. For example, one page reprints "Outline Of Divisions: 174, 'Front Matter'...1. Just about all books start out from an idea. 2. Everything in the world is waiting to become a book. 3....

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The theme of the exhibition was "The Fly." It was curated by Kestutis Grigalinus. It includes several essays that illustrate and trace the international artist book movement. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work is a concrete poetic adoptation of Kurt Schwitters' Dada poem, Zigazrren. The box was appropriated from "Biddies," a brand of Dutch cigarettes. The work is inscribed to Constantine Post, the dealer from whom the Sackners purchased this piece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.