Scope and Contents Peter H Barnett: Time Trap (Assembling Press, 1980) is composed of twelve 8 1/2" by 12" sheets folded and stapled in booklet form. A loop of thread connects the midpoint of each page. The work explores various dimensions of the book form through four series of diagrams accompanied by texts and instructions. These graphic-textual progressions migrate over the outer margin of adjacent pages, through the gutter on the inside of a folded sheet, through the gutter on the outside of a folded sheet, or across the gutter from one page to the next. Three of the graphic progressions are v-forms which narrow and elongate as they migrate. The fourth is a string of numbers 1-12. The texts associated with each progression express attitudes of waiting, disorientation and entrapment. The four progressions are all there at once, but never meet: only one progression can be pursued by the interactive reader at a time, hence the title. The accompanying introduction, "Open Structure for a...

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Peter H Barnett: Can you tell me how what you are doing now is to do something philosophical? (Assembling Press, 1980) consists of handwritten philosophical questions arranged four to a page. Each page has a rectangular cutout of a quarter, a horizontal half page or a vertical half-page, allowing the questions to be seen in continually changing groups and associations. The title expresses the theme: what would it mean to act philosophically, or to take a philosophical initiative? -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Photograph relates to S. Barron and John Cage's limited edition publication "Another Song," a copy of which is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.