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Each print depicts brown abstract markings appropriate to its title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The white cover and spine are embossed in Pessin's typical style of repeated abstract markings or hieroglyphics that are utilized as a personal alphabet. Similar markings are contained on the three folded pages embossed on white, brown and beige papers. The remaining pages contain reproduced, handwritten French text by Pessin that offers an explanation of his personal alphabet. A poetic text by Jean-Pierre Spilmont and a critical text by Michel Butor are included in this catalogue. A description of Pessin's work which was included in the exhibition, "Civilisations Imaginaires" follows. The distinctive trademark of Marc Pessin's prints is a sophisticated system of waffle printing producing pages where the signs appear in relief. Using the same technique, a series of books were made with drawings from self taught outsider artists like Pierre Pascaud, Alain Pauzie, lan Pyper, Patrick Guallino and Jean Paul Baudouin. Born in 1933 in Paris, in a family of fairground artists, Marc Pessin...

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The pages have an identical abstract shape tilted at different angles and laid out as horizontal words on a page. This layout provides an appearance tht suggests a story written by an unknown civilization. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Carla Bertola. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Carla Bertola. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Carla Bertola. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Carla Bertola. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Edited by Carla Bertola. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is Crombie's interpretation of Apollinaire's poem "Il Pleut" in which the calligramme is represented with abstract markings and the words as colored, linear, conventional and disintegrated text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This booklet is a trade edition reprinting of a 1835 novel with marginalia by Spoerri and an introductory essay by Claus Bremer. It is stored in the Bremer box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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As with other Depew books, the page count includes the blank side of the page, e.g., 24 leaves equals 48 pages. In this book, Depew has taken a single woodcut black square with a squiggley white tube piercing it and rubberstamped one letter of the title on right edge of each page. The cover depicts a green and red woodcut oolored abstract design on beige papercard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The booklet is constructed as a Dos a Dos book with two gum wrappers stapled inside the front and back covers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Simon Traston is the pseudonym of Gert Micha. This book is stored in the Dieter Wagner box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.