The pages were made from pulped rea paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Ths booklet is similar in concept to those mae by Wally Depew who also made pin holes in some of his bookets and relied on chance staining of the pages with paint and ink. The back cover is rubberstamped '126.' Wikipedia: Vaclav Boštík (November 6, 1913 - May 7, 2005) was a Czech painter, graphic artist and illustrator. In 1937 he joined the Academy in Prague and from 1942, he was a member of the Umělecka berseda (Art Forum). In 1960 he became one of the founding members of the UB 12 Group. His early work is much influenced by painters Corot and Cezanne and realism. However, by the late 1950s, he had begun painting abstract art. Later he participated in the restoration of Renaissance artistic work on the facade of Litomyšl castle.Shortly before his death, in 2004 he received an award from the Minister of Culture and in the same year Medal of Merit from the President of the Czech Republic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The exhibition is titled "The Best Contemporary Czechoslovakian Design Bookbinders." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Kocman pulped the book "Videvdat" and used the paper pulp to create new thicker pages of handmade paper. The title refers to Zoroastrianism, an ancient religion. The VidÄ“vdāt, or Vendidad ("Law Rejecting the Daevas"), consists of two introductory sections recounting how the law was given to man, followed by 18 sections of rules.... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The paper was made with notations, writings, and pictures from Johann Strauss' "Netopyr." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The first Sackner catalogue photocopied from typed paper sheets (1980), according to Kocman as typed on the colophon "was torn in to small fragments and threse were crushed by grinding in water on mixer. From this pulp handmade paper sheets were made and from these sheets a new book was bound. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Kocman made a diagonal cut across all the pages of a physics laboratory calalogue distributed by W. Hruby in 1913 (as on the cover). This book bears a relation to Buzz Spector's book object, "The Outline of Art" (1982) who tore each page at progrssively closer edges to the right hand border. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Kocman made a diagonal cut across all the pages of a physics laboratory calalogue distributed by W. Hruby in 1913 (as on the cover). This book bears a relation to Buzz Spector's book object, "The Outline of Art" (1982) who tore each page at progrssively closer edges to the right hand border. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Kocman requested the Sackners to send him five paperback copies of Kafka's novel "The Metamorphosis" and that he would return a surprise to them. The novel describes the tribulations of Gregor Samsa who as he "awoke one morning from uneasy dreams found himself transformed into a gigantic insect..." Kocman took the books that the Sackners had sent him, pulped the pages and formed handmade paper pages bound them into a book literally metamorphosizing "The Metamorphosis." This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This booklet in concept resembles booklets made by Wally Depew. It was probably made by dipping the blank pages of this booklet into diluted planaxol. planaxol is a special resin glue for manual perfect binding of most paper grades as well as for many other adhesives work with paper, cardboard, textiles, etc. The booklet is rubberstamped 241 on the back cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This booklet in concept resembles booklets made by Wally Depew. It was probably made by dripping planaxol onto a blank page of the unassembed booklet. Planaxol is a special redin glue for manual perfect binding of most paper grades as well as for many other adhesives work with paper, cardboard, textiles, etc. It is rubberstamped 157 on the back cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Designated JHK/Book No. 099. Kocman states that he has utilized 18 strophes of the poem, each represented as one page in the book by blindstamping "Nevermore" on each page of black-gray handmade paper. A Strope is any separate section or extended movement in a poem, distinguished from the stanza in that it does not follow a regularly repeated pattern. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Designated JHK/Book No. 099. Kocman states that he has utilized 18 strophes of the poem, each represented as one page in the book by blindstamping "Nevermore" on each page of black-gray handmade paper. A Strope is any separate section or extended movement in a poem, distinguished from the stanza in that it does not follow a regularly repeated pattern. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This exhibition was curated by John Deumans. Anne Moeglin-Delcroix contributed an essay on contemporary artist-collectors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.