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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.

Scope and Contents The perforations in the book correspond to an aerial view of 120 floors of the twin towers of the World Trade Center with the final page the absence of other buidings in the surrounding ground following September 11, 2001.Lost Books: Both a book and a sculptural object, ABSENCE is a memorial to the twin towers of the World Trade Center. At almost two pounds, ABSENCE has a considerable physical presence, but it is in every way the ghost of a presence, and it is this ghostliness that gives it its particular emotional weight. A solid white block of thick stock cardboard pages, the book's "text" consists of one pinhole and two identical squares die-cut into each of its one-hundred-and-twenty pages -- one for each story of the towers including the antenna mast. These removed elements lead the reader floor by floor through the missing buildings towards the final page where the footprint of the entire site of the World Trade Center is die-cut into a delicate lattice of absent structures....

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The original photograph of the image on the first page is held by the Sackner Archive. The photographs on each page are printed with a grainy techique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The original photograph of the image on the first page is held by the Sackner Archive. The photographs on each page are printed with a grainy techique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The comments on the cover of this trade edition of a limited edition artist collaborative book project follow. " In a series of beautiful and jarring montages, the artists tell of the colonial conquest, cultural transformations, linguistic admixtures and economic interdependence that have formed the Americas...Rice's masterful typographic compositions orchestrate the many voices, weaving texts from Gomez-Pena's performances through and around the visual play of Chagoya's rhetorically sophisiticated collages, offering a critical analysis of border politics through a density of historical references and icons of popular culture."The book is bound like the ancient codex whose pages can be navigated as one continuous extended frieze. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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As described in the Nexus Press brochure 1995-1996, "The flags of 96 nations have been deconstructed and distilled into a playful book structure that invites reader manipulation. The physical movement of the folded accordion pleats produces staccato-like visual bites of color, while evoking a conceptual call for universal understanding and unity. The Flag Book intrigues by its outer simplicity: The glossy black colors...open to reveal an emphatic burst of bright visual connections between countries the world over."The paper structure for the book was done by Anna Wolf. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The author tells the story of the murder of a homosexual man by a heterosexual man, both of whom appeared on Jenny Jones' TV talk show with the gay person indicating that he was in love with the unsuspecting straight person. The murder was committed with a gunshot wound to the heart. Images of the heart, arteries and veins and portraits of the men are interspersed with various textural comments. This is a very powerful book on the misuse of power by the media. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book deals with a feminist take on media advertising as depicted in cartoon-like drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This second edition of the book is a complete work of art, offensive in every sense of the word, and as an artistic manifesto about violence in the twenty-first century, it couldn't be any more current, especially given movements like activist art. Pornografie was first published in 1971, and has subsequently become an outstanding and timeless document of political artwork. The Gerrman film-maker Klaus Staeck took news photographs and the advertisements as the basis of this hard-hitting anti-Vietnam War, anti-violence artist`s book.Seven Decaders Books: Klaus Staeck created this book in 1971 as a reaction to the Vietnam War and a protest of the values of the society which allowed the war to continue. Its content is entirely visual and consists largely of blown up press photos and grainy newsreel images as it devel-ops in chapters showing war and its aftermath, protest and its suppression, weaponry and other instruments of violence and con-trol, and finally a long series of...

Scope and Contents The Postcard Century tells the story of the last hundred years in its own words and images. Two thousand picture postcards and their messages provide a living account of the daily existence of people and a vivid glimpse of what mattered to them, pleased them, shocked or amused them via the cards they chose to send. Tom Phillips provides a commentary on the visual material, giving a perceptive and thoughtful context for the messages. This book gives a unique glimpse into the hearts and minds of the people who lived through the most turbulent century in our history. Phillips' introduces this book with a history and account of postcards and postcard collecting. Phillips indicates in the introduction that the book is arranged such that each annual section features a view of Picadilly Circus and another of the New York skyline, all posted in the that year. This choice relates to one of his artistic parallel streams of creativity, images changed by the passage of time. Further, this...

Scope and Contents The Postcard Century tells the story of the last hundred years in its own words and images. Two thousand picture postcards and their messages provide a living account of the daily existence of people and a vivid glimpse of what mattered to them, pleased them, shocked or amused them via the cards they chose to send. Tom Phillips provides a commentary on the visual material, giving a perceptive and thoughtful context for the messages. This book gives a unique glimpse into the hearts and minds of the people who lived through the most turbulent century in our history. Phillips' introduces this book with a history and account of postcards and postcard collecting. Phillips indicates in the introduction that the book is arranged such that each annual section features a view of Picadilly Circus and another of the New York skyline, all posted in the that year. This choice relates to one of his artistic parallel streams of creativity, images changed by the passage of time. Further, this...

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This book deals with the feelings that a woman might experience after her husband attempts to murder her. The presentation makes use of concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.