ArchivesSpace at the University of Iowa

This work was commissioned by Marvin Sackner to deal with commemoration of his therapeutic medical invention, the AT-101. Nadau approached the idea in a playful, droll manner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This article decribes the history and the musical inventions of Colon Nancarrow and his scores for his mechanical piano. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The cover drawings were composed by Jean-Pierre Nadau and four ink on paper drawings are illustrated in the catalogue. The descriptive text states that Nadau also draws in ink on large rolls of paper. His compositions, saturated with fantastic architectures, of inscriptions and of people, may reach six metesr in length. The Sackner Archive holds one such drawing titled "Paris Big Bang.' This work is stored in a box with other Nadau material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The Sackner Archive is mentioned on the Jean-Pierre Nadau page in this catalogue as having his work "Paris Big Bang." NadaU states that this piece is the masterpiece of this celebrated collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each page depicts a grid of Mayan-like glyphs. Exuvie means layers of skin or cuticle shed by animals during ecdysis - from the Latin: something stripped off the body. This copy is from the trade edition; 88 copies were accompanied with an original pictogram. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The first section, Gastonomie is subtitled "Extracts of a greenish guide 2263 - a selection of the best tables for greedy mandibles." It consists of six illustrations of constructivistic multi-colored designs and three pages of descriptive lists. the second section, Fertilite, consists of grids of 25 colored, fantastic creatures with made-up titles below each crature in the grid boxes. Nadau writes on the back cover "Twenty-third century: The humane vermin is positively auto destructive. Unnamable unknown plants send forth on toxic lemon and fertile humus putrifying ossuaries. Doped by the moist chemicals and radioactivity, the insects become very intelligent, taking (?) the relay, and by consequence constructing gastronomique restaurants." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The fold-out pages depict a Jean-Pierre Nadau drawing whose actual size is 10 meters in length. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The title of this book in English with the final word read right to left is "The Temple of Chantilly." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.