Letter to Marvin Sackner deals with his commissioned piece for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition, and information on new projects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This collage has the shape of a leaf. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. Consists of a grid of 7 x 6 packets of normal and abnormal collaged chest roentgenograms fixed to a canvas stretcher support. Each row has one letter in each column which in the horizontal spells "breath." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This exhibition was dedicated to the 200 year memory of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg who was born in 1742 and died in 1799. He attended High School in Darmstadt and studied mathematics and natural sciences in Goettingen from 1763-1766. In 1770, he became an extraordinary professor of experimental physics. Lichtenberg was known for his spirit-rich aphorisms and scientific papers. These aphorisms include among others. 1) A half new invention with a completely new name. 2) Exceptions are not always confirmation of the old rule; they can be also the harbingers of a new rule. 3) It is strange that only extraordinary humans make the discoveries, which seem after so easy and simple; this presupposes that for the simplest project, conditions of the things to notice require very deep knowledge. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Five drawings were made by Cepl and 4 drawings and a collage by Broel. All of the works are unique in this edition of 30. Broel's drawings were superimposed on sheets of found handwriting by others while Cepl's are in his own calligraphy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This brochure served as an announcement for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition to be held at the American Lung Association meeting in 1992 in Miami Beach and also as product information for Non-Invasive Monitoring Systems, a medical device company of which Sackner is CEO. Each brochure reproduced a work of the artist included in the exhibition and also a biographical sketch. The brochure is stored with the material, The Beauty In Breathing (photographs). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Broel displayed the title of the book as a repetitive element by rolling 120 pages such that the page header with the title faced the viewer, tied the rolls with alternate black and white strings, and placed them in three columns of 40 rolled texts each. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book provides a list of contributors and their addresses along with personal works and prices for purchase. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Although the artists were not part of the New Realism group, the iconography of the decollages is in the spirit of that movement. The edition size is 30 but the individual works themselves are unique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.