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The pages are printed with varied colored, written words and phrases which are arranged in horizontal grids. The book also contains comments by Klophaus about the relation of colors to words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Reproductions of representative pages of an artist book by Katz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Reproductions of representative pages of an artist book by Katz. Burnt Book is dedicated to the memory of the uncountable codices burned by Friar Diego de Landa, in Mani, Yucatán in June 1562, as part of a series of autos-da-fé carried out under his orders. In Account of the Affairs of Yucatán, a document written in part as a brief to defend himself before the Council of Indies, de Landa recounts: "These people [the Maya] also used certain glyphs or letters in which they wrote down their ancient history and sciences in their books; and by means of these letters and figures and by certain marks contained in them, they could read about their affairs and taught others to read about them too. We found a great number of these books in Indian characters and because they contained nothing but superstition and the Devil's falsehoods, we burned them all; and this they felt most bitterly and it caused them great grief." Burnt Book, made five hundred years after the first voyage of Columbus...

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The word Christmas is written in large, varied colored paint as overlays on brown paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The calligraphic painted sentences in this book by Bellaart are remeniscent of the callographic drawings of Bruce Nauman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The drawings consist of the same phrase appears with slightly different calligraphic styles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This pun is printed in green to suggest grass being mowed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text of the card is printed in large block letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Dave Nichols scored the verso of the cardboard frame with the title in large letters -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This work was presumably for a unique piece. The seven drawings were mounted on one sheet of paper and the two drawings on another sheet of paper. They consist of slightly different calligraphic styles for these two words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The card is folded twice to give three panels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This work is a masterpiece of poetic embroidery with varied styles for the lettering. The phrases read as follows: 1) lifedeath, 2) heebiejeebies, 3) snuffflick, 4) zigzag, 5) duckyducky, 6) deadend, 7) gangplank, 8) zebrazebra, 9) lushlush, 10) be all end all, 11) finiteinfinite, 12) cockeyed & cuckoo, 13) homesick 14) BAH HUMBUG, 15) fuckyfucky, 16) 2010, 17) mamapapbaba, 18) zerozero, 19) hooplahoopla, 20) toom tchoop poom, 21) i cant sell it, 22) perky & chirpy, 23) sporty & forty, 24) holdminehand, 25) hubbahubba, 26) doublewide, 27) eyeball, 28) ojo por ojo, 29) davey crockett ma kettle, 30) i stand corrected, 31) wow, 32) gee, 33) holy cow, 34) la la, 35) dirty dip, 36) dog paddle, 37) sawbuck, 38) juicehead, 39) gummer, 40) gibberish, 41) invisible ink, 42) hotrod, 43) snap hold kick, 44) 2 sides, 45) sing, 46) alfalfa, 47) rhododenron, 48) i, and 49) croak. Sloy wrote to the Sackners: it took a long time to make. 'lifedeath' was embroidered in 2000. 'croak' was...

Scope and Contents From Mishin's web site, the following was obtained. It is difficult, pathetic to write his biography, where we live in a time that the survival of the arts is under great doubts (we remind us of Hegel), and exhibitions such great artists of the 20th century such as Pierre Sulash and George Seagal in the Hermitage in half-empty halls implemented. I belong to the non-conformist artists of the spät-und post-Soviet period, have to Gaso-Newskij exhibitions in Leningrad and at the famous exhibition "From Gulag to Glasnost" in the United States participated, as well as the artist-symposia 1987 in Dresden, 1992 in Franz Maserel center. IIn connection with traditions of Max Ernst and George Seagal is what I call my "residual method realism" (residual realism) " Born in 1939 in Simferopol. Graduated at the Muchina Academy of Arts in Leningrad 1968. A member of the Artists Association of the Russian Federation since 1979. Was involved in numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad (over 300). ...

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The card is addressed to the Sackner Archive with each handwritten letter a different color. The verso of the card is blank. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.