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This object was formed from by photocopied hand lettered text in the style Phillips uses for his text based sculptures, where each letter is physically linked to adjacent ones. The photocopied sentence of the title, glued onto the cube is repeated twice on each of its surfaces. The Sackner Archive also holds the hand-drawn maquette for this work. The text is by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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For this maquette, Tom Phillips hand lettered the text in the style he used for his text based wall sculptures. He marked design changes in small, red symbols. Each letter is linked to adjacent ones. The sentence of the title is repeated twice on each surface of the cube and hand-drawn on each surface of the wooden cube. The maquette is slightly smaller than the finished work that is also held by the Sackner Archive. The text is by the philospher Ludwig Wittgenstein. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image is identical to the print with the same title. The complete text is "Evening will come They will sew the blue sail." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The books in this assembling were made by Dellafiora's students at HUB Gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Depicts sundial with the caption "Too Many Laws Too Few Examples." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The medal depicts an automatic machine gun as a metaphor for a flute; commemorates first episode of an assult by the Strathclyde Region tax collectors on Finlay's home. The leaflet accompanyimg this medal commemorating the incident is a visual pun on Virgil's flute, with the vents in the barrel-sleeve as the finger-stops. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This sculpture is depicted on page 9 of exhibition catalogue, "Sculptures," Galerie Antoine Candau, 1987. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Bovine atlas (first cervical vertebra), Indian ink

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A folded sheet onto which is printed a critical text by Stephen Bann accompanies this medallion. The image is a metaphor for the World War II battle of Midway in the South Pacific which was fought with airpower rather that ship to ship sightings. The text accompanying this work is stored in a box of Finlay booklets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Image is an armored tank. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This object is a parody of Arman's assemblages of crushed paint tubes within a plexiglas tube container. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A thank you presentation from Doner to the Sackners in the form of a wedge shaped book, tied and wrapped, containing examples of Doner's ideogramatic drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Stephan Bann provides an explanation of the poem in the accompanying leaflet as follows. Thermidor was the month in the French Revolutionary calendar when the summer heat was its most intense, and the grain at its ripest. It was also the month, in 1794, when Robespierre and his followers met their deaths at the guillotine. In the image of this poem, the abrupt cleavage of the word, THER MIDOR, and of the figured sheaf of flowers, suggest the termination of the revolution in its Jacobian sense. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Merante has utilized diverse calligraphic styles in this miniature bookwork. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Merante utilized a printed trade editioned booklet as the means for this artist book by writing on top of the printed text. In the first section, he left intact word clusters that relate to the Inistic art movement to which he belongs, e.g. ini, ange -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents According to a WEB site, Merante has been a member of Inism since its foundation (1980), taking an active part both on a creative/productive level as well as on a theoretical one in promoting on an international scale the ideas contained in the first Inist manifesto. He has taken part in all the activities the movement has organised or promoted as well as organising and running two inist exhibitions himself which took place in January 1985 at the University of Poitiers (France). He is the cosignatory of the second Ini manifesto Apollinaria Signa (Sant'Apollinaire - Perugia, 1987) as well as of the manifesto La Videoinipoesia. Manifesto Inista (Rome - Sant'Apollinaire, 1990). As a convinced promotor, like all inists, of the need to abolish every boundary that exists between the operative sectors in art and constantly preoccupied in reaching and stimulating all the senses of the spectator through a superimposition of levels of expression to be perceived simultaneously, he composes...