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Depicts three columns with camouflage markings. The caption deals with contemporary Architectural critical beliefs in constructing columns, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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One print is denoted "original" and the remainder "copy." The prints are further labeled No.13, 14, 16, and 17. The rubberstamped image on the lower portion of the title page depicts Karl Marx,Friedrich Engels, Valdimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Mao. These prints as well as others were puchased from Coutts-Smith's widow, Helen Wright, a friend of Emmett Williams. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover of the leaflet is printed on blue paper, the unbound page on rose colored paper. This references Picasso's Blue and Rose periods of painting around the turn of the century. The poem is taken from the French revolutionary J.L. David's Instructions for the Festival of the Supreme Being, 1794 in which he describes his vision, ...Mothers will hold bouquets of roses in their hands, and girls will carry baskets filled with flowers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Six artists transformed an apartment in a Toronto High rise building in a sequence of exhibitions. This catalogue documents the space. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The title is solely printed in red on the middle of each page; the pages are perforated at the left margin presumably to be torn out for a label. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The installation by Mark Coetzee and Karin Cronje, titled "Enshroud," is described as "the most effective individual installation in terms of semiotic effectiveness and economy...the photographic images...function forcefully in interaction with the text to convey the abuse of power." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The message on the left reads HOPE, (image of a flame): It's all over in an instant. On the right: (image of a whirlwind), Every action has an opposite and equal reaction, and PERFIDY. The work was received about 10 days prior to Hurricane Andrew, the most devastating natural disaster to the USA in the 20th century, that struck South Florida. The text and images are particularly relevant since the instantaneous destruction to dwellings was attributed in large part to shoddy construction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The loose sheet is from one of a series of works of an unlimited edition that are given away free (entitled, Helms Amendment 1987...) -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This card depicts a black and white photograph of a stationary, automatic cannon model made by Finlay. It was photographed by Heideken. The caption on the verso taken from Heraclitus provides a definition of the tuning of a lyre that is the title of this poem. By this, Finlay implies the tuning of a weapon of destruction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue of Point d'Ironie juxtaposes two recent images by Parreno: "The Boy from Mars/Hybrid Muscle" with the collaboration of Francois Roche and "Welcome to Reality Park" a gateway to an amusement park. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The first exhibition of this six part work was in the 1970's. The book is a reprinting of Kelly's conceptual feminist work that was typed in lowercase letters. According to Lucy Lippard, the general theme of the work is "removal, distancing, the weaning process that characterizes socialization and all relationships... and the subject's awareness of the ideologies that rule her experiences." As Kelly herself writes in 1973 in the opening statement, "In the Post-Partem Document, I am trying to show the reciprocity of the process of socialization in the first few years of life. It is not only the infant whose future personality is formed at this crucial moment, but also the mother whose 'feminine psychology' is sealed by the sexual division of labor in childcare."Rachek Warriner (internet); Kelly has made works that examine complicated social issues such as the ramifications of war, and the politics of how our identities are constructed. In Post Partum Document, she was engaging in a...

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Presentation of text is in the form of a questionaire that is illustrated with line drawings of Panzer tanks by Laurie Clark. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is one of a series of four medallions produced in 1975 with Ron Costley. An accompanying folded sheet on which is printed a critical text by Stephen Bann is stored in the booklet section of Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is one of a series of four medallions produced in 1975 with Ron Costley. An accompanying folded sheet on which is printed a critical text by Stephen Bann is stored in the booklet section of Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The curators of this exhibition, which was sponsored by the Gil and Lila Silverman Foundation, published the catalogue in the Grand Rapids Press newspaper as advertisements depicting each work in the show on five successive days. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.