Backer (1925-2003) was the editor of Neue Texte. Adam Lerner contributed a forward to the catalog in which he described Backer as a "life artist" because he devoted the entire body of his life's work to an enterprise that comprised a movement toward a single goal - dedicating his career as a photographer, sculpture, poet and editor to" coming to terms with his teenage involvement in the Hitler Youth and the Nazi Party." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The title translates in English to "Knitting was a reserved occupation" and Finlay has done another print with the same layout as this one in English. It is a reference to a quotation made in 1794 in the French revolution. Finlay then directs it at the editorial board of the Art Press who contributed to the refusal of his Parisian commission. He equates "occupation" to a hostile force "occupying" a country and in turn addresses them as "knitters." He also did a picture poem card on "knitters." The image of this print in Finlay's book Prints 1963-1997 is depicted in black whereas this version is printed in red. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This brochure, reprinted from Sculpture magazine, was sent to the Sackners by Kim Foster Gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book consists of newsprint pages with like covers. Includes reproduced newspaper clippings, found art, advertisements, collages. Poems accompany and embellish select clippings. Cover is photo of VP Nelson Rockefeller giving someone the finger. Another news photo is Virginia police frisking a couple Hari Krishna's posing as Santas. Stored in Yeah magazine box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Discusses recent immigration bill in Great Britain. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In this letter, Inman strikes a conciliatory tone with lwvy and tries to help build up his confidence. Stored with levy material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

rjs requests bill wyatt for a contribution to the d.a. levey anthology. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The finely handwritten text can only be read in a few phrases, where the lines are not densely layered. They include diary passages that read, "ready to join the union. Last week he was arrested on 146th street...He plans to learn a trade in prison - to compete with eight million unemployed...Sunday, July 6, 1941." this piece was lent to the Jewish museum in Berlin in 2003. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Jean Vilar was the director of the Theatre national populaire who in 1949 declared, "The pimpa, the whores, sailors, workers, students, concierges, bus drivers, tramps, neighborhood shopkeepers, the pretty young girls on the street, all mixed inside the theater are better for our dramatic literature than the Saint-Sulpicien, the orthodox Marxist, or the committed literi and the ex-prince of the black market." (Walesman; The heroic City: Paris 1945-1958). This polemic with text structured like a telegram from the Lettristes is critical of Villar's current direction (1952) that is taking for the TNP. The peice is not depicted in Acquaviva's Bientot les Lettristes (1946-1977). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The black & white photograph on this card depicts wax drippings from the stolen candlesticks, TERROR and VIRTUE. Accompanying documentation, la liberte ou la mort in the center of the scene, is a study of the rhetoric of the Revolution by the French poet, Roche. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

tored in Robert Rehfeldt box. These are the paintings reduced to stamp size. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Edited by Reinhold Aman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Edited by Reinhold Aman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.