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The musician, artist, and thinker presents an enigmatic, enchanting collection of mental maps. An eclectic blend of faux science, automatic writing, self-analysis, and satire, A journey through irrational logic - the application of scientific rigor and form to basically irrational premises, proceeding from careful monsense to unexpected sense. Whateaver you imagine can come to pass. There is absolutely no reason to discount anything, anywhere. Straight from the sketchbook, smudges and all, plus a four-foot foldout guide. David Byrne explains his 85 diagramatic graphite drawings in the pamphlet that is bound into the back cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The verso of the card is Steen's offset poem "the poem begins here." The message from Steen to Williams deals with the time of arrival in New York from a Copenhagen flight. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book constitutes a recording of the Dante's Inferno layout, the paper to be used for the printed text, a listing of subscribers, and initial comments on the iconography for each canto. The lists of subscribers to the publication and financial payments are charted for each canto as the galleys were completed. A description of the illustrations for each canto and Justification de Tirage are written in two versions. In July 1982, in his prelude to this text, Phillips recalled finding a lavish, red, gilded edition of Dante's Inferno illustrated by Gustave Dore while collecting books for pulping for the World War II effort. It was one of the grandest books he had ever seen and stayed in his house for a while before it was taken to the depot. Phillips writes, "I learned how early one's destiny can be sealed or at least signposted...Actually before I knew this [story] I had already from reprints recycled many of Dore's illustrations in quite another way." Enclosed between several...

Scope and Contents Shelley traces the poetic, musical, theatrical, and artistic history of "downtown NYC" over the 20th Century. On the recto of this print, several artists and poets provide short narratives on what it was like to live "downtown in NYC during the 1970's and early 1980's. On Shelley's WEB site, he comments: Downtown Body is a portrait of New York's avant garde cultural landscape. I choose to use the word portrait because I think it conveys a kind of subjective selectivity that my work brings to any subject I work with. I entered into this project with a raucous enthusiasm, but I am exiting the room on tip toes. Downtown-ness touches on the lives of nearly everyone I know and care about. Everyone's sense of who they are is wrapped up in what Downtown means. And what should Downtown mean? Downtown is the success story of New York's art world, both critical and commercial. It's valuable, so it's hyped. It's Downtown Story: the Movie. It's a nostalgic myth, but it is a self-fulfilling...

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This exhibition was curated by Robert Hobbs. Mark Lombardi's drawings create visual narratives of the way money flows in our post-imperial, transnational economy: from corporations to political organizations, from individuals to various ad hoc groups, most of them acting outside of and transcending national boundaries. Using graphite and colored pencil, and information culled from newspaper accounts, TV, and other sources in the public domain, Lombardi maps the economic underpinnings of our global society. One of the drawings depicted in the catalogue is entitled Meyer Lansky's Financial Network 1960-78. Lansky was a patient of Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Since the 1970's, Isaiah Zagar has covered more than 50,000 square feet of Philadelphia with stunning mosaic murals. In A Dream is a documentary feature film that chronicles his work and his tumultuous relationship with his wife, Julia. It follows the Zagars as their marriage implodes and a harrowing new chapter in their life unfolds. The metal figurine and poster were designed by Isaiah Zagar. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes handwritten poems by Tom Edmonds and ink drawings by Charles Verey and Neil Mills. Although this mock-up appears to be camera-ready copy, according to Bob Cobbing it was never published as a periodical. Contains a performance poem by Neil Mills, "Breathe" in which a group of participants congregate in a closed space, breathe in and out with everything else to remain silent so that they can appreciate the music of their breathing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Drawing deals with Hubaut's ideas of multimedia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The diagram depicts the layout for the drawing -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This document was reprinted from Magazine Humanitarian Fond, Moscow by Geza Perneczky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The stamp, made of rigid photopolymer, is a drawing of a heart surrounded with the words Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry designating various parts of the heart. The strip of labels contain the same aphorism on different colored stock from Corbett's publication, Tensetendoned. This item is stored in the box with Tensetendoned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The stamp, made of rigid photopolymer, is a drawing of a heart surrounded with the words Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry designating various parts of the heart. The strip of labels contain the same aphorism on different colored stock from Corbett's publication, Tensetendoned. This item is stored in the box with Tensetendoned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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One of 11 drawings in the series is illustrated. The subject is "the ten globes of absolute light of the tree of the Sephiroth and the false eleventh Sephirah named Daath (or knowledge) which spans the Abyss of Transition." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.