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The image is a slightly reclining chair and the edge of a wine glass, both symbols of the Passover Sedar. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Words become images of three main figures and three shadowy figures placed in a textual landscape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Sandra Jackman writes to the Sackners that this piece was inspired by her Hungarian grandmother who always told her, "To read is to want to know." She hid candy and books in the second drawer of her bureau, where Jackman would forage. "I was grown before I realized that I had been seduced into becoming a reader. In Europe, the rabbis would drip honey on scripture written on slate for the young students to lick off after they repeated the lesson...This early freedom to investigate any form of reading material, to appease my curiosity is the inspiration for Adults Only, a book within a book. My grandmother's bureau is transformed into a dollhouse cupboard and collaged with scraps of printed matter. Its shelves are filled with treasures. This is the centerpiece for a triptych (a style usually reserved for religious images). The front left wing refers to a myth. The fellow with the flute to his lips is from a painting by Perugino. Marsyas the Satyr is showing off his talent to the God...

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Jackman senT two variant photographs of her book that is being exhibited in the Library at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover drawing depicts three characters (presumably after Piradello's play of the same name) & the fourth character is a stick collage figure atached by a thread to the hand of on of the characters in the drawing. The drawing on the inside back cover depicts the place as a negative image where the stick collage figure originated on an abstract background with collaged phrases such as "The poet's soul was with me at the time, Breaking the silence," etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Painted and found collages are arranged with found text that reads, "From time to time - the mountain - tints - scattered from the clouds - perform - melodies - too slow to tell." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The front cover is a collage with glue and drawn additions. Jackman inquires about the Pyramid Atlanta event that honored the Sackners and discusses her vacation in Venice Italy -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The card consists of several small drawings of people encountered during the Sandra Jackman's visit to the Prado Musem in Madrid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The title is a pun on "his;" feminine form; truth elusive. Clio, the muse of history, is the shadow-like figure in the collages. The book containing the collages is supported on the hanger structure. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Sandra Jackman writes about her participation at an exhibition at the Getty Foundation and the sale of a fourth book to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Library. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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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.

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

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Sandra Jackman writes, "As always there are not enough hours in a day to accomplish eveything I want to do. But I did manage to do a few cards this year." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.