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Pessin has defined his personal, imagined, "Archeologie Pessinoise," with a presentation of an abstract, hieroglyphic language, handwritten descriptions in French, artifacts, coins, photographs, signs, animals, and maps at the site of Des Charbinieres a Saint-Laurent-du-Pont. Several of Pessin's works were exhibited in Musee D'Art Naif Max Fourney Paris, that the Sackners visited in 1997 when they purchased this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The suite of 12 original printed typewriter poems by Chopin utilizes one letter each to represent the first letter of Ruth Ruth Marvin Marvin Sackner Sackner Concrete Concrete Visual Visual Poetry Poetry. Large letters in these poems appear to be sikscreen additions. In the book, there is a a usual Chopin typewriter poem reproduced for each letter, number, and signed on the keyboard. Paul Zumthor contributed a handwritten poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book is dedicated to "the memory of the uncountable codices burned by Friar Diego de Landa, in Mani, Yucatan in June 1562, as a part of a series of autos-da-fe carried out under his orders." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The folded sheet contains the program for three ballets. The book, printed on grey, unprimed paper, consists of constructively cut pages interspersed with pages of text that are progressively overprinted in a central block. The text changes and ultimately ends with two pages of quotations by Ludwig Wittenstein and Aldo Rossi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Italian word for money, Lire, appears as a single word on the page, first progressing from large to small type face and then the opposite. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Stored in box with other books having a title beginning with Livres. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The dvd is a film documenting a photograph taken by Freddy Alborta (Bolivian news photographer) of Che Guevara after he was captured and executed without a trial in Bolivia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The author tells the story of the murder of a homosexual man by a heterosexual man, both of whom appeared on Jenny Jones' TV talk show with the gay person indicating that he was in love with the unsuspecting straight person. The murder was committed with a gunshot wound to the heart. Images of the heart, arteries and veins and portraits of the men are interspersed with various textural comments. This is a very powerful book on the misuse of power by the media. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The title "M 40" refers to the Olivetti typewriter used to produce the pages of this book. Each page depicts a single letter or symbol from the keyboard that is separated by a half space. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The images are mostly photographs of portions of the human body joined by calligraphic, shaped texts. Some of the images are solely calligraphic shaped poems. This book was published on the occasion of an exhibition by Messager a l'Eglise Saint-Martin du Mejan in Arles, France. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The theme of this heavily illustrated book is savagery of the Cambodian war. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Artist's statement: WEB site: Pieter Laurens Mol's work manifests great conceptual complexity and holds multiple layers of perception, interpretation and meaning. Mol's oeuvre discourages classification; he does not favour a single style or medium. The artist often compares himself to an alchemist whose mysterious practices evolve into emotionally charged and visually stimulating experiments. In fact, his diverse oeuvre encompasses and frequently combines photography, film, painting, drawing, sculpture and installation. Fascination with the relativity of time, possibilities of manipulating space and scale, intense interest in the past, are all continuously present in Mol's creative universe as well as sensitivity to the importance of chance and accident in the artistic process, and inventiveness within limited visual parameters. A special emphasis on the Dutch heritage is another dominant feature. A sense of poetry and a fair measure of melancholy always underlie his work. Though...

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This book deals with a feminist take on media advertising as depicted in cartoon-like drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Fanzine Review Internet: "waaa unnnnce upon a t t t time th th th" The insistent pale day of pAge. The ashy, onamatopoeic gradations of Christine Wertheim's mUtter-bAbel!"”the post-hymen song's exposure to the first light that veers itself into an infant's eyes! The chaotic baby-babble pile-up of born and unborn betweenings of gender!"”of female or male presence?"”of what does our future hold? What is the cost of our network of Symbolic relations? What should readers make of this disheveled gash-environment of "s/he" noises persisting from behind a uterine curtain of crayonic impasto? Imperfect, our future? Hell yes! Imposters, future parents? Accusations will soar! (Like our world's inevitable drone-increase!) Wertheim's mUtter-bAbel is about our future. Our most current archaeology of knowledge as well as our TBD future-oriented archaeological endeavors.In No Future, Lee Edelman's concept of "reproductive futurism" acknowledges the Child as "the obligatory token of futurity"...

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The uncut 232 sleeve pages depict a black and white reproduction of a print on the inside of the right sided page. The pages are printed on gray colored stock and the text consists of white, black, green, blue, and red colored sentences. The remaining 135 pages are printed conventionally and consist of conventional printing of the poem (1897), annotations of the text and images by Jacques Sivan, an a section with brief comments by various critics including Jean Cocteau, Andre Gide, Marcel Proust, Andre Breton, Louis Aragon, Paul Eluard, Robert Desnos, Michel Leiris, and Tristan Tzara. The Sackner Archive holds an English translation of this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.