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Box 150

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Contains 8 Results:

Les Oeuvres Libres, 1988

 Item — Box: 150
Scope and Contents

Les Oeuvres Libres has been cut into six squares, bound by rope, open to page 304 of unpublished novel "Cortêge dans la lumière" by Ossit (Madeleine Deslandes) and page 143 of unpublished novel "Le prince Nikita" by Maurice Duplay.

Dates: 1988

Libro-Libro, 1983

 Item — Box: 150
Identifier: CC-19480-19863
Scope and Contents

This totally white book which is opened to facing pages has lines of calligraphic markings made by linear carving into the soft paper (carta scolpita). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Giving Fear a Proper Name: Detroit, 1984

 Item — Box: 150
Identifier: CC-09937-10134
Scope and Contents

The artist produced this book from a diary she kept about dreams, recollections, and fears on relocating to Detroit in 1979. Facing pages, one of poems and the other of photocollages depict such experiences. The photographs were reprinted from "Portrait of an Artist and Her Mother."The experiences described among others include "kainophobia": fear of change, "eremiphobia": fear of solitude. Grant has produced an outstanding, powerful presentation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Deus Ex Skatola: Entwicklungsroman, 1975

 Item — Box: 150
Identifier: CC-39602-41561
Scope and Contents

This object consists of a box tightly packed with scrolls printed with one sentence of a novel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Lotterie Romane 1, Second edition, revised and enlarged. Original published in 1964.

Dates: 1975

Box of Growth, 1999

 Item — Box: 150
Identifier: CC-34487-36184
Scope and Contents

Esther K Smith was the art director and Dikko Faust did the letterpress and typography for this bookwork by Happersett. The colophon states that "This series of mathematical drawings is based on growth and decay patterns of twigs and the Fibonacci sequence," The books are entitled, "Twig," "Leaf," "Conch," "Bloeman" and "Sprout." Each page of the books is made with additional calligraphic strokes using a progressive Fibonacci sequence page by page to connote the natural history of growth of the plants mentioned in the titles.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999