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The first page of the A book depicts 25, nearly identical, stick figures draw in ink in the style of A.R. Penck with collaged, round, red paper stickers for the heads. The heads have facial features drawn in ink. The verso has one red paper stick collaged onto the page. Each subsequent page has one less stick figure and one additional sticker on the verso. The final page of the book has one stick figure and 25 stickers collaged onto the verso. In Book B, red and green, round paper stickers are collaged onto most pages with ink, horizontal lines to emulate music scores. On other pages, surrealistic animal-like shapes, cut from music scores, are collaged onto the pages with music-like scores. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book was done as a homage to Miles Davis, a well known jazz trumpet player. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This booklet was one of six published as a supplement to Incidences No.2 that commemorated exhibitions sponsored by ARTCI-BLE in Montpellier, France 1994-1995. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This booklet was one of six published as a supplement to Incidences No.2 that commemorated exhibitions sponsored by ARTCI-BLE in Montpellier, France 1994-1995. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In a letter to the Sackners of September, 1989, Hirschman remarked, "Gutbucket is of course 30's sound for an earthy kind of jazz sound....[Mess Mezzrow] was a Russian Jewish musician. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue has sections of artist books from over the world, e.g., Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Czechoslovakia, France, England, Scotland, Holland, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Yugoslavia, Canada, Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Hungary, and United States. There are brief introductory essays to each country's books often by one of the participants. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Vamp & Tramp: An artist book in three parts, subtitled "Chance Chants," "Timing," and "Logic." In this layered study of language and consciousness, Laxson explores the spoken and printed (or written) aspects of alphabetic cultures and an eventual diminishment of image-making because it diluted the potency of words. The book moves in a nonlinear fashion (even through the more linear sections ). To greatly oversimplify: Laxson begins in prehistory symbolizing the beginning of language as an extension of image-making by a combination rebus/word map. As a concept of numerical ordering develops out of the collective chaos—"We're here in the land of scheming"— the individual (ego) takes the stage. Ultimately, an inherent richness and diversity of awareness is abandoned for one that can be explained in words—"She: We all lost our capacity for awe and wonder . . when we started writing about it. He: But writing glorified monotheism, individualism. It invented money, prose, drama,...

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Andryczuk used found, antique sheet music as a the surface for his visual poetic, surrealistic drawings and collages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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At the end of this unsigned book, the author writes "...disclaims any knowledge of music." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.