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1956 Zinelli begins painting stylized human figures and animals. In 1965, he adds distinctive calligraphy to his images. The language of ithese works mostly consists of nonsenses words or rows of the same repeated letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Published on the occasion of an exhibition by Knowles at Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover drawings were composed by Jean-Pierre Nadau and four ink on paper drawings are illustrated in the catalogue. The descriptive text states that Nadau also draws in ink on large rolls of paper. His compositions, saturated with fantastic architectures, of inscriptions and of people, may reach six metesr in length. The Sackner Archive holds one such drawing titled "Paris Big Bang.' This work is stored in a box with other Nadau material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue consists of page size drawings, four of which are rough pictures of heads, skeletons or creatures and four are abstract geometric designs. It is not clear which artist created which set of drawings. The artists write, "This publication serves as a follow-up to our collaboration that centered around ideas of duality/affinity. Though our repective works are not of a similar style, we wanted to use the platform of point d'ironie to create a dialogue about these different narratives and abstractions within the work, while mapping out the contours of this parallel universe on paper." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes essay and illustrations of the work of Richard Saholt, who creates politicized collages refecting his mental trauma from WWII. The periodical is edited by John Maizels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Camille Clovis Trouille, was born on 24 October 1889, in La Fère, France. He worked as a restorer and decorator of department store mannequins, but is remembered as a Sunday painter who trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Amiens from 1905 to 1910. He died on 24 September 1975 in Paris. His service in World War I gave him a lifelong hatred of the military, expressed in his first major painting Remembrance (1931). The painting depicts a pair of wraith-like soldiers clutching white rabbits, an airborne female contortionist throwing a handful of medals, and the whole scene being blessed by a cross-dressing cardinal. This contempt for the Church as a corrupt institution provided Trouille with the inspiration for decades of pictorial blasphemies: Dialogue at the Carmel (1944) shows a skull wearing a crown of thorns being used as an ornament. The Mummy shows a mummified woman coming to life as a result of a shaft of light falling on a large bust of Andre Breton. The Magician (1944) has...