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The Sackner Archive holds the following books displayed in this exhibition, viz., 1967 reprint of Apianus' "Astronomicum," Andy Warhol's Index Book, Art/Life, Poemobiles by De Campos, The Sense Books by Carothers and The Slant Book by Newell. The curator of this exhibition, Gay Walker, also includes her classification scheme for Eccentric Books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Twenty copies of the examples de tete were bound by Knoderer - the Sackner Archive copy is one of these copies. The illustrations by Pageris are semi-realistic, line drawings with a background of black watercolored abstract markings. The bookbinding has sample strips of tooled and painted leather laid into a bimorphic shape whose silhouette has features resembling the side of the human face. The binding is much larger than the booklet which is conventionally shaped. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The initial part of this book consists of the printed reproduction of the handwritten manuscript. Mounted photographs follow, two to a page, of a man walking on train tracks through a tunnel and into a park near these tracks. The photographs apppear to have been reproduced from video images. An original page from the manuscript is enclosed within a sleeve page near the end of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Yu Hiral works primarily in photography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The sculpture represents the nipple and part of a woman's breast. The book depicts graphite representational and abstract drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The title translates to "Cunt of Fairies." Topor painted faces onto color photographs of women with their legs spread apart to expose their genitalia. These were then rephotographed for the edition. Wilkipedia: Roland Topor (January 7, 1938 -- April 16, 1997), was a French illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker, known for the surreal nature of his work. He was of Polish Jewish origin and spent the early years of his life in Savoy where his family hid him from the Nazi peril. Topor published several books of drawings, including Dessins panique (1965) Quatre roses pour Lucienne (1967) and Toporland (1975). Selections from Quatre roses pour Lucienne were reprinted in the English language collection Stories and Drawings (1967). His carefully detailed, realistic style, with elaborate crosshatching, emphasises the fantastic and macabre subject matter of the images. Roland Topor wrote the novel The Tenant (Le Locataire chimerique, 1964), which was adapted to film by Roman Polanski...

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The 40 images in this book are graphite frottages from walls of buildings or pavements. The drawing is an original frottage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Color polaroid photographs depict Pazos as a transvestite Flamenco dancer. The bookbinding was designed by Freddie De Vree. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Reproduces images of restored films from the Hungarian writer, Oskar Serti, who developed color blindness in adulthood and was treated with a special shoe with spikes on the inner sole that could produce severe pain associated flashes of different colors. The metal case is for reels of film. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The original ink drawing is present on page 13. Internet: "Marker or pen in hand, Benoit Plateus captures the small events of his everyday life or sudden ideas which could become works. Benoit Plateus (born in 1972, Chenee, lives and works in Brussels), winner of the "Young Belgian Painting' in 2003, is one of the most important Belgian artists of his generation. His work doesn't neglect any medium -- photography, video, drawing or sculpture -- in order to search for ambiguities in the most mundane field of visibility. Restless observer, precise, discrete and malicious, Benoit Plateus introduces a distance between objects and their perception in order to shift them to the other side, in a space with variable dimensions and multiple interpretations." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A simulated firecracker is placed adjacent to the interior spine and its fuse winds around the exterior spine. The illustrations for the text are collages, drawings or photocopies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A blue ink drawing at the beginning of the scroll depicts the flame of a candle. The text and silhouetted inages on the remainder of the scroll are executed in black ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The foredge of the book has a drawing which resembles the printed image on the pages. Ketterer Kunst: Jan Voss was born in Hamburg on 9 October 1936. He studied at the Munich Art Academy from 1956 to 1960. In 1966/67 Voss was a guest lecturer at the Hamburg Art Academy. He was a professor at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris between 1987 and 1992. Work by Voss was shown at the Kunsthalle in Kiel in 1997 and at the Stadtische Galerie Villa Zanders in Bergisch Gladbach in 2002. That same year he had a one-man show at Art Cologne to great critical acclaim. The theme informing Jan Voss's work is 'creating order' in the midst of the perpetually moving chaos of a complex situation. Voss experiments with various different techniques and materials; there are powerfully vibrant works on canvas in saturated colour as well as quiet, narrative works that are more linear than painterly. They contrast sharply with paper reliefs made up collage-like of torn watercolours. What...

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Cover of book depicts the mathematical symbol for infinity. The box is colllaged inside and outside wiith a map. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The binding by Devaux consists of two mirrors with a leather spine; the title of the book is painted onto the mirror with a vertical format twice, one of the titles is a reversed image, i.e., mirror writing. The introductory essay was written by Michel Amarger. The collages in this book consist of fragments of black & white photographs with hand drawn letters, calligraphic markings and hieroglyphics. One of them uses the Hebrew letter 'aleph' as the dominant letter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Wikipedia: hanna Horwitz (nee Channa Helene Shapiro, May 21, 1932 -- April 29, 2013) was a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles, United States.[1] She is recognized for the logically-derived compositions created over her five decade career. Her visually complex, systematic works are generally structured around linear progressions using the number eight.n 1968, Horwitz (then Channa Davis) submitted a proposal to the seminal Art and Technology Program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The proposed sculpture consisted of eight beams moving vertically out of sculptural bases over ten minutes of time, corresponding to a choreography of colored lights. Although the sculpture was never fabricated, Horwitz's proposal was included in the 1970 program catalogue, whose cover prominently displayed the faces of the white male artists whose works appeared in the culminating exhibition at the Museum. Art and Technology's glaring omission of women"”specifically the fact that Horwitz was...

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One word is printed in silver ink on each page which is bordered by a hand drawn black rectangular shape. The words read: impasto, seven, display, actual, sparkles,action, accurate. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.