Stored in Chopin box. Amazon.com: Since the 1960s, conceptual artists Henri Chopin (Pairs-London), Guy de Cointet (Paris-Los Angeles) and Channa Horwitz (Los Angeles) have dedicated themselves to analyzing system deducing the rules and consolidating them into visible structures. This book accompanied the parallel where drawings by these three respected artists generate new meaning as the aesthetic-visual translation of early post-structuralist thought. A Void, taken from George Perec's experimental novel, which famously did not include the letter 'e' as a nod to language epistemological constraints. Riffing on this idea, the artists' works seem clearly embroiled in such systems of meaning-making. Horwitz's on the boundary of symbol and performance, while Chopin explored the line between chaos and order. de Cointet left behind an oeuvre characterized by codes and puzzles for future generations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text has the appearance of a novel but none of the words are intelligible. On the last page, there are two lines of calligraphic markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Guy de Cointet was born in Paris in 1934 and died in Los Angeles in 1983. Note that the drawing (1978) on page 64 is in the same style and dimensions as the Sackner Archive held drawing, Ut To Be Realized (1977). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The author signed and dedicated the book in mirror writing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The drawing consists of a grid of letter-like forms in the artist's personal language. De Cointet produced experimental performances in which signs of this language often mixed with English letters and numbers were utilized. De Cointet died young in the early 1980's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.