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This is a photograph of the black outlines of the four title numbers on a gold background that were made with cliche-verre. The numbers are arranged in the shape of a human figure. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Professor. Miroslav Klivar (14 January 1932 , Kosice ) is a Czechoslovakian influential art critic, painter, graphic designer, glass artist, photographer, member of several art societies and recipient of numerous art awards. He graduated from Charles University in Prague. His art work is very extensive. Since 1949, he has written poetry and is a member of the International Union of writers and publicists. For his work has won numerous awards and recognition (such as prize for applied and industrial art design in 1969, the Czech-Bavarian Prize Art League, Grand Prix at the First European Festival videoumění Award, Frantisek Kupka, the Prize of Salvador Dali, Karel Hynek Macha Award). Since 1955 he taught at art schools - the Academy of Fine Arts, the University of Applied Arts in Prague Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava and the Secondary School of Applied Arts in Prague 3 It is now a professor at the World University of Brussels. --...

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This photograph depicts a patch of grass and flowers with large white letters 'G', 'EB', 'S', and 'R9S' placed upon its surface. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a photograph of the black outlines of MR11 on a gold background that were made with cliche-verre. The letters are arranged in the shape of a human figure. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a photograph of the gold outlines of stylized BIY on a black background that were made with cliche-verre. The letters are arranged in the shape of a human figure. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The print depicts a facsimile of a fragment of a Kafka manuscript written in gold ink and line drawings of three highly stylized human figures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem is typed in the shape of an erect penis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The photographs in this book provide examples of Klivar's photographic work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Some of Sorf's surrealistic paintings include handwriting and micrography superimposed on portraits or still lifes. Miroslav Klivar contributed the introduction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a photograph of the black outlines of the three title letters on a gold background that were made with cliche-verre. The latter is a combination of art and photography. In brief, it is a method of either etching, painting or drawing on a transparent surface, such as glass, thin paper or film and printing the resulting image on a light sensitive paper in a photographic darkroom. It is a process first practiced by a number of French painters during the early 19th century. Cliché is a printing term: a printing plate cast from movable type; while verre means glass. Cliché Verre was one of the earliest forms of reproducing images before the advent of the camera. As a precursor to photography, Cliché Verre could accurately represent the original scene without the tonal variations available in modern day photography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This photograph depicts a close-up view of a creek with a large white letter 'E' placed upon a rock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The print depicts gold outlines of an undecipherable, disintegrating, rubberstamped text on a dark purple background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This photograph depicts two men and a woman dining in a home with one large and one small lower case white letter e's partially obscuring the view. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a grainy photograph of a woman on a TV screen with a large lower case white letter 'n' under her chin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The printed pages provide minimal descriptions of the photographs, e.g., Girl 5 - 5555 depicts a girl on a videoscreen with four large 5's in white superimposed over her shoulders. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.