Scope and Contents Wolman invented "Scotch Art" and the Sackner Archive has one such example. It consisted of sticking Scotch tape onto printed matter such as posters, magazine pages, newspapers and pamphlets, and, placing them in water so that the cellulose support of the paper dissolved, leaving the image on the surface of the tape. This was then first repostioned on thin pieces of wood and later on a cavas support on a stretcher. The Sackners met Wolman in his apartment in Paris in 1982. Adrian Dannatt who wrote his obituary for the London newspaper, The Independent, characterizes his life well. Gil Joseph (Gil J. Wolman), film-maker, writer, political activist - born Paris 7 September 1929; died Paris 3 July 1995 "Those who live by obscurity die by it also, so the minimal response to the disappearance of Gil J. Wolman is hardly surprising. Wolman led a brave, ferociously independent existence at war with the forces of contemporary conformity, the celebrity machine of the mass media being high...

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Scotch art, collages that Wolman made with Scotch tape beginning in 1964 are described beginning on page 84. The Sackner Archive holds one such work as well as a "dechet d'oeuvre" depicted on page 207. This book provides a orderly review, year by year from 1950 to 1981 of Wolman's works including artworks, polemics and political texts. Frederic Acquaviva, an expert on Wolman's work, indicated that far less than 100 copies of this piece were made. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.