Each rubberstamp has one aphorism, e.g., "Words Tend To Be Inadequate." Stephen Bury in "Artist's Multiples," list the title as "Untitled," 1991. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Jenny Holzer, a conceptual artist who represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 1990, is known for her utilization of language as art. The opening piece in this book reads "It's a safe game to play with your nose, shutting off the air and letting it flow again. Then you can escalate and see how long you can last until you pass out, your hand relaxes and you breathe normally again." This is her first book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Jenny Holzer, a conceptual artist who represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 1990, is known for her utilization of language as art. The opening piece in this book reads "It's a safe game to play with your nose, shutting off the air and letting it flow again. Then you can escalate and see how long you can last until you pass out, your hand relaxes and you breathe normally again." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The texts printed here are reproductions of original drawings for the inscriptions on stone sarcophagi in the exhibition. The book is also part of a videotape presentation with the same title, the combination also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book was first published in 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Beatrix Ruf writes that "the language of the LUSTMORD texts is as direct as the images of the daily media reporting on war, horrors, crimes, and murder...LUSTMORD produces feelings, perceptions intuitions of the danger which lurks in the tangle if act, participation, sympathy, helplessness and disgust." Holzer's texts were displayed on LED screens, carved benches, as tattoos, bones, labels. The exhibition took place at the former Carthusian Monastery at Ittengen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This commissioned exhibition catalogue was sent to selected librairies and collectors to celebrate the ARLIS meetings in Williamstown in 1984. It itself is an artist book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This catalogue includes a critical essay by Joan Simon and an interview with Bruce Ferguson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Two of each of the pencils are stamped on the side panels with the following: YOU ARE TRAPPED ON THE EARTH SO YOU WILL EXPLODE; WHAT URGE WILL SAVE US NOW THAT SEX WON'T?; PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT; MEN DON'T PROTECT YOU ANYMORE; THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR WILL BE SECRET; THE FUTURE IS STUPID. This series predates the edition published by the Albright-Knox Gallery Buffalo in 1991 in which the stampings were done in black ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book lists of Holzer's aphorisms in bold and colored typography translated from English to other languages. Most have a political slant. The print lists the aphorisms in alphabetical order. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.