This text describes the association of Thomson amd Stein in creating their opera "Four Saints in Three Acts," the first Modernist revolutionary work. The opera's success depended on a small group of Harvard graduates who shaped America's first museums of modern art and defined modern taste in the 1920's and 1930's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Subitiled "L'art vivant autour du musee de Lodz," the exhibition and catalogue was more than a panorama or a retrospective of the intellectual, artistique and spiritual center of art in Poland. It was a multi-discipline manifestation of a utopian community which started in the 1930's and gave a voice to the cultural and artistic collaboration between Poland and France. The Sackners attended this exhibition held at the Pompidou Centre. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Sackners saw this exhibition and were impressed with the consistant high quality of the work. They particularly enjoyed the droll work of Andrea Deszo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work was submitted by Ash for a degree of Master of Arts in Russian Studies at New York University. It examines Russian avant garde book design and focuses on the influence of primitivism on these books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Rick Poynor contributes an essay "Right Stuff" about ethical design. Martin Fox describes Print's environmental outlook in two early issues. A book review by Sumner Stone traces the publication U&lc edited by John D. Berry, Dan Nadel reviews "Steinberg at The New Yorker." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Richard Doubleday contributes an essay "Bird in Hand" about the designer Jan Tschichold. Rick Pynor writes on globalization of graphic design. Rudy VandeLans, cofounder of Emigre who is interviewed by Steven Heller indicates that he plans to cease publication of Emigre. Peter Bilak reviews "Willem Sandberg, Designer and Director of the Stedelijk." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Ellen Shapiro contirbuted an essay, "Posterity's Yiddishkeit," dealing with the Yiddish Book Center. In it, she mentions and reproduces the cover of a facsimile edition of El Lissitzky's "Yingle Tsingl Khvat." The Sackner Archive holds the second edition of this book published in Warsaw. It is a children's story in verse about a boy named Tsingl Dhvat who brought winter to his village. Juanita Dugdale writes about the English craft of lettercutting in stone and mentions the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay. This issue features a large section that reproduces computer screens on the Internet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This issue includes an illustrated essay by S.J. Ackerman on 19th century election ballots that featured calligraphic text with features of concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Steven Heller contributes an interview with Paul Budnitz, the founder of Kidrobot. Ellen Lupton writes bout Living Ornamenti" in the graphic design MFA program at the Maryland Insosttute College of Art. Julia Hoffamnn, a young colleague of Paula Scher, is reviewd as one of the new visual artists of 2006. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Includes the 2004 European Design Annual. Andrea Deszo designed the cover that consisted of an embroidered heart. She was also a participant in the Pricked exhibition 2007; the exhibition catalogue is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Felipe Taborda contributes an essay, "Parador Found" that describes the work of the Brazilian designer, Heloisa Faria. She created a whole new country, Parador, for the 1987 film, "Moon Over Parador," starring Richard Dreyfuss, Raul Julia, and Sonia Brage. This issue also includes several articles related to graphic design in India . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Bruce Wright writes about several designers who left Cranbrook Academy for new jobs in the West. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Ellen Lupton reviewed The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946. Steven Heller contributed an interview with Rick Poynor, design writer and editor of Eye Magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Rick Poyner contributes an essay "Cover Me" in which he writes that the current effusion of attention to book jackets confirms their allure as havens of graphic design. Steven Heller interviews social historian Stephen Duncombe and contributes a photo essay "Trash, Transferred." James Gaddy contributes an essay "Shadow Boxer" that describes the relation between James Harvey, a second generation abstract expressionist painter, who designed the Brillo Box and Andy Warhol who appropriated it for his first Pop Art exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Tom Phillips' The Birth of Art (1973), 10 etchings, is depicted on page 85; this work is not held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.