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Scope and Contents Wolman invented "Scotch Art" and the Sackner Archive has one such example. It consisted of sticking Scotch tape onto printed matter such as posters, magazine pages, newspapers and pamphlets, and, placing them in water so that the cellulose support of the paper dissolved, leaving the image on the surface of the tape. This was then first repostioned on thin pieces of wood and later on a cavas support on a stretcher. The Sackners met Wolman in his apartment in Paris in 1982. Adrian Dannatt who wrote his obituary for the London newspaper, The Independent, characterizes his life well. Gil Joseph (Gil J. Wolman), film-maker, writer, political activist - born Paris 7 September 1929; died Paris 3 July 1995 "Those who live by obscurity die by it also, so the minimal response to the disappearance of Gil J. Wolman is hardly surprising. Wolman led a brave, ferociously independent existence at war with the forces of contemporary conformity, the celebrity machine of the mass media being high...

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Elisabeth Sussman, the editor, provided the introduction. Certain key texts selected by Greil Marcus have been translated and annotated by Thomas Levin. Debord, in his 1967 study "Society of the Spectacle" articulates his principal theses. Greil Marcus provides a critical essay on Debord's key publication "Memories". Key texts of Debord's are translated into English. An excellent chronology of the Situationist movement is provided. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.