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Each of six badges has a different text and image created from A Humument images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This advertisement includes text for Curvd H&Z, th wrrecking ballzark, pomez a penny, and sticky lights. The found poetry was taken from comic strip captions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The found text in the collage refers to a visit by the artist to the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The theme of this exhibition was inspired by the 100th anniversary of Mallarme's Un coup de des jamais n'abolira le hasard. Combining music and poetry and preceding the Dadists and Futurists, Mallarme constituted a line that passed to Apollinaire, Michaux, Klee, Max Ernst and Fluxus. This catalogue demonstrates the writing and artistic expression emerging in the century after Mallarme's birth. The works in this catalogue are mainly oriented to calligraphic expressions. The book has extensive illustrations of the latter that are printed in color. The Sackner Archive holds artist books similar in imagery to pages of Hubaut's book reproduced in color in this catalogue. Nanni Balestrini contributed 13 panels of an alphabetical visual poetry piece that are reproduced in color in this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The theme of this exhibition was inspired by the 100th anniversary of Mallarme's Un coup de des jamais n'abolira le hasard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Miles states that "The circle is the sun, moon, earth, sea urchin, my eye. It is not symbolic: it exists. The circle is the camera lens, it has no beginning, no end. It is universal. Statement, restatement; thesis, antithesis; the circle is round." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The drawings are taken from newspaper articles, medical literature, books of Robert Fludd, Gray's "Anatomy" and botanical renderings. The latter employs a double entendre, wort signifying "word" in German and plant in Anglo-Saxon. This was exhibited in "Contemporary Screens" curated by Virginia Fabbri Butera. She wrote "Filled with hundreds of sentences, Cogito Ergo Sum is a standing book that impels us, with Cartesian urgency, to read and to think to confirm our existence."Wkipedia: Cogito ergo sum (French: "Je pense donc je suis"; English: "I think, therefore I am") is a philosophical Latin statement proposed by René Descartes. The simple meaning of the phrase is that someone wondering whether or not he or she exists is, in and of itself, proof that something, an "I", exists to do the thinking. However, this "I" is not the more or less permanent person we call "I". It may be that the something that thinks is purely momentary, and not the same as the something which has a...

Scope and Contents The drawings are taken from newspaper articles, medical literature, books of Robert Fludd, Gray's "Anatomy" and botanical renderings. The latter employs a double entendre, wort signifying "word" in German and plant in Anglo-Saxon. This was exhibited in "Contemporary Screens" curated by Virginia Fabbri Butera. She wrote "Filled with hundreds of sentences, Cogito Ergo Sum is a standing book that impels us, with Cartesian urgency, to read and to think to confirm our existence."Wkipedia: Cogito ergo sum (French: "Je pense donc je suis"; English: "I think, therefore I am") is a philosophical Latin statement proposed by René Descartes. The simple meaning of the phrase is that someone wondering whether or not he or she exists is, in and of itself, proof that something, an "I", exists to do the thinking. However, this "I" is not the more or less permanent person we call "I". It may be that the something that thinks is purely momentary, and not the same as the something which has a...

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This partially completed, archival, flip-lid box collaged with product labels on inside and outside sufaces is among the first of Furnival's visual poetic labeled collaged boxes. It contains a certification and an astronomy map of a star named after Marvin Sackner that was a birthday gift from Majorie Weber on his 70th birthday, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.