There are pseudo-German baroque texts running througout the book that spawn figures or heads from the letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book object and box have the shapes of pentagons. Each side is perforated to serve as a camera obscura so that the viewer can visualize an image from the book object or outside of it through the opposite side of the pentagon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The title is taken from a phrase in Samuel Beckett's play, Waiting for Godot. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The calligraphy in this book is varied from page to page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Merante utilized a printed trade editioned booklet as the means for this artist book by writing on top of the printed text. In the first section, he left intact word clusters that relate to the Inistic art movement to which he belongs, e.g. ini, ange -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book object is the first artwork of Jackman's that the Sackners purchased. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each drawing is affixed to the right hand side of the black paper page. Straus produces a dazzling display of drawings in the spirit of the American abstract expressionist/calligraphic painter, Mark Tobey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The theme of this work is the Iris flower and most pages depict drawn abstractions of the flower in gray-black colors. The latter is an unexplained contradiction to the purple colors of the flower. The folder enclosing the pamphlets, pages, and drawings is inserted into an enclosure in the rectangular shaped earthy, ceramic vase which has another round enclosure for an artificial Iris flower with its stem. A polaroid photograph depicts the process of how the drawing was made - by rubbing the flower over paper to form the word "Iris" from its pigments.Also designated No.2/Tome 11 in the series ARTCI-BLE Petits Dictionnaires Portatifs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A thank you presentation from Doner to the Sackners in the form of a wedge shaped book, tied and wrapped, containing examples of Doner's ideogramatic drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The collage depicts Hansen's typical image of Venus of Willendorf made with gold foil. The outline material is the basis of the collage on the final page. The two center pages are photographic colored portraits of Hansen, one of which is a double exposure showing Hansen within his studio. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The theme of this book is New Orleans jazz. Dencker plays the banjo and traveled to New Orleans where he found many of the collaged elements. Twelve of the pages have a square center perforation creating a framed effect for the subsequent collaged pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Text and imagery relates to John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Jasper Johns "Dancers on a Plane." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The text is written and drawn with colorful design elements. It reads, "Mange avec les doights. Bois avec le nez." The front cover is stamped with the words "nez" and includes a relief of a cardboard collaged nose. The rear cover is stamped with words "bouche" and contains a relief of cardboard collaged lips. The binding is by Knoderer and the drawings are by Pagiras. Book displayed in glass case and envelope in small objects box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispo, California an exhibition curated by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.