Scope and Contents From Publishers Weekly: "Muniz's cockeyed account of his life and art, when it doesn't sidetrack into irritating displays of the artist's egotism, shines with an inventive charm. Chronicling his rise from poor Brazilian immigrant to highly successful New York artist, the volume is beautifully designed, with the pleasing heft of a high school textbook, and packed with illustrations. Since the early 1990s, Muniz has created densely referential photographs of his own drawings and collages. These generally involve some kind of conceptual trickiness about representations of representations; a copy of a Cezanne still life, for example, composed of tiny circles punched out of magazines, or a recreation in chocolate syrup of a famous photograph of Jackson Pollack. The book is also a mini-museum of the wide-ranging obsessions that fuel Muniz's work, with images drawn from art and science and quirky sidebar quotations from the likes of Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau and, yes, Vik...

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The painted drawing expressing "Happy 2000" on an abstract blue background is collaged to the inside cover of the commercial Hallmark card. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Several poems in this book are written like limericks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem sums up the seedier side of New York city. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem sums up the seedier side of New York city. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Several poems in this book are written like limericks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was published on the occasion of Hiller's exhibition at Gimpel-Fils gallery in London in March-April 1983. The text of this book was produced by the technique of "automatic writing" in May 1972 during the artist's stay in France. The artist states that "my hands made the marks that form the inscriptions, but not in my characteristic handwriting (i.e., personal style of mark-making) or voice (i.e., usual tone or mode of utterance)." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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According to Hirschman in a letter to the Sackners, the title is a combination of Soviet and Dissidents. The works are put together in the same book-box.These drawinngs are of the very essence of the influence of the artists of revolutionary Russia. The title is meant to be humorous as these pieces and the box were conceived in relation, or rather in synchronous time with the goodwill games in Moscow. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Hans Platschek made the three abstract expressionist black drawings included in this book. The poster is stored folded within the book. Two additional poster announcements for this book are stored in an unfolded state in a large looseleaf notebook. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Hans Platschek made the three abstract expressionist black drawings included in this book. The poster announcements for this book are stored in an unfolded state in a large looseleaf notebook. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each page reproduces a dense black, painted, expressionistic calligraphic drawing with the letter 'O' discernible on some of the pages. The last page is the only page with recognizable printed typography and reads "YOU/EAT/TO/DAY." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The abstract oil painting on brown paper that is collaged onto cover was done by d.a. levy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The English translation of the title is "own blood; the abstract image of this print has been done with de Vries' own blood. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.