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The original ink drawing is present on page 13. Internet: "Marker or pen in hand, Benoit Plateus captures the small events of his everyday life or sudden ideas which could become works. Benoit Plateus (born in 1972, Chenee, lives and works in Brussels), winner of the "Young Belgian Painting' in 2003, is one of the most important Belgian artists of his generation. His work doesn't neglect any medium -- photography, video, drawing or sculpture -- in order to search for ambiguities in the most mundane field of visibility. Restless observer, precise, discrete and malicious, Benoit Plateus introduces a distance between objects and their perception in order to shift them to the other side, in a space with variable dimensions and multiple interpretations." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Stored with My Own Mag. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The drawing added to this book depicts a red rabbit reading a book with hieroglyphics in the speech bubble. The comic strip format consists of colored photographs with and without speech bubbles documenting Hubaut's monochrome performance events. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Pelieu appropriated a hard cover comic strip book and collaged other cut-up comic strips and advertisements onto each page. The order of these collage additions into this book was probably random, an analogy to the cut-up technique popularized by Gyson and Burroughs for literature and poetry. Although unsigned and undated, the spine is collaged with the header of the London Sunday Times August 27 1972.This work was once in the possession of William Burroughs according to Richard Aaron of Am Here Books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a reprint of a limited edition artist book published in 1973 that was distributed on the occasion of an exhibition of Joe Brainard's artwork. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was first published in Sweden and was translated from the Danish edition. It is a graphic approach to the subjugation of Africans and the dominance of capitalism as seen from the far left over the past 500 years. The polemics carry over to the Vietnam war and the Cuban revolution under Castro. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Wikipedia: Matt Mullican (born September 18, 1951 in Santa Monica, California) is an American artist and son of artists Lee Mullican and Luchita Hurtado. Mullican received his BFA from CalArts in 1974, and rose to prominence as a member of the "Pictures Generation" along with such artists as Troy Brauntuch, Jack Goldstein, David Salle, James Welling, Sherrie Levine, Cindy Sherman, Louise Lawler, Richard Prince and Robert Longo. His work is concerned with systems of knowledge, meaning, language, and signification. Mullican also works with the relationship between perception and reality, between the ability to see something and the ability to represent it.Mullican's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally since the early 1970s at venues including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany, the National Galerie, Berlin, Germany, the Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Netherlands, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, and The Museum of...