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Part 1 is subtitled "Innocence, Elegance, Riches & Rags" and traces historical events from 1903 (Wilbur and Orville Wright fly an airplane at Kitty Hawk) to the 50's. Part 2 is subtlitled "Wars, rights & ego-echo." Part III is "Cyber Self & the Ether/Other." Brad Freeman was responsible for the digital prepress and offset printing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Laxson's work combines the visual and the verbal poetically, sensitively and intellectually. She works in the book and print format, and although the pieces are generally small in scale, the power and beauty of the text, line, typography and message combine to create strong, meaningful work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Papers of prominent mail artist David Cole. Includes mail art, handmade rubber stamps, artists correspondence, zines, artists books, and cassettes.

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This book is Laxson's view of the impact of a nuclear explosion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Catherine Foc exhibition review at MOCA GA: Over the course of her long, fecund career, Ruth Laxson has honed a unique language rooted in her fascination with forms of communication. Letters, words, hieroglyphics, mathematical symbols, equations, Braille, computer acronyms, typefaces, handwriting, pictures: the Atlanta artist uses these elements as abstract shapes, allusive imagery "” and content. Text is as important as image, be it straightforward sentences and phrases or wordplay: the puns, anagrams and lists through which she gets at more elusive meanings than linear language allows.The parameters of her subject matter and worldview are, you might say, microcosmic.* Laxson's take on enduring themes "” love, sex, power and their manifestation in relationships, feminism, war, politics and philosophy "” all are nested in perception of matter, space and time shaped by the teachings of Georgia Tech physics professor David Finkelstein and her own ruminations about God. Her works are...

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This book consists of three booklets and a leaflet mounted within the hard covers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The object is shaped like an envelope with a Laxson "postage stamp in the right upper corner. The printed message on the envelope reads, "Dear Sirs: I recently received your MULTI-Measuring Device. It arrived in good condition, but it does not allow for the/the image slippage factor! Do you have a new model? Sincerely yours... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Laxson writes that the "Letters to the Ether Other" first existed as one-of-a-kind bas relief wall pieces... This small edition is a spin off of that work printed while the hand-set type was still in tack on various papers found around the studio." Each page is presented as a combination folded letter with a black printed envelope waiting to be mailed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Higgins reviews Ruth Laxson's book "Measure-Cut-Stitch," held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book "plots the logarithms of social measurement against stimulus values in decibels. It finds the sensation magnitude to be a constant that depends on interaction." Laxson uses scientific statements in a poetic mixture with social perceptions and feelings. These pages are printed in her typical arrangement of mixing different fonts and font dimensions. She also includes five pages of naive line drawings of a leader, a visionary, traffic, a friend, and a muse/guardian that contrast in style and content to the scientific, sophisticated typographic pages. Both inside covers have been collaged from edge to edge with letterpressed printed text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ruth Laxson combines worldly, sophisticated statements of truth and wisdom with lively typographic, hand drawn and written designs. The book is divided into three sections: Theory, Figments and Other. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Vamp & Tramp: An artist book in three parts, subtitled "Chance Chants," "Timing," and "Logic." In this layered study of language and consciousness, Laxson explores the spoken and printed (or written) aspects of alphabetic cultures and an eventual diminishment of image-making because it diluted the potency of words. The book moves in a nonlinear fashion (even through the more linear sections ). To greatly oversimplify: Laxson begins in prehistory symbolizing the beginning of language as an extension of image-making by a combination rebus/word map. As a concept of numerical ordering develops out of the collective chaos—"We're here in the land of scheming"— the individual (ego) takes the stage. Ultimately, an inherent richness and diversity of awareness is abandoned for one that can be explained in words—"She: We all lost our capacity for awe and wonder . . when we started writing about it. He: But writing glorified monotheism, individualism. It invented money, prose, drama,...

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Laxson writes that the "title is inspired by D.H. Lawrence who said - Don't trust the artist. Trust the tale." And the tale is written by Laxson in brilliant twists, turns, shapes of typography and drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Theme deals with the rise and fall of the automobile in American culture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.