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Phil Baines selected the texts and printed the pages in monotype Baskerville at Central St. Martin's College of Art & Design. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A.S.C. Rower is the grandson of the artist Alexander Calder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This finely printed book consists of a listing of aphorisms such as 1) Vengeance is an act of good faith, 2) Concrete poems were thought childish because they were seen but not heard, 3) Schemes for making a great deal of money usually cost a lot. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Thus a commentary about one of Finlay's inscriptions in the Garden Temple in Little Sparta. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A single capital letter in alphabetical order is printed on each page followed by a hate aphorism, e.g., W Why? WHY? would I want you back? -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text of this book is from the "Teachings of the Founder of Aikido" by Morihau Uashiba. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Examples of 55 typefaces are presented and the aphorism, "For literature is the greatest of all sources of refined pleasure, and one of the great uses of a liberal education is to enjoy a broad selection of the printed word." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Words are painted in capital letters in red, black and white colors over a blue-green painted background resembling a landscape. The sign has been appropriated from an electical contractor (identified as Ray White on verso). The painting was included the Philadelphia Art Alliance in 1984 as indicated by a paper label affixed to the verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive contains a version of this poem on a white plastic window shade. The book includes reproductions of collages by Steve Perkins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive holds a version of this poem on a white plastic window shade. The book includes reproductions of collages by Steve Perkins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This object was formed from by photocopied hand lettered text in the style Phillips uses for his text based sculptures, where each letter is physically linked to adjacent ones. The photocopied sentence of the title, glued onto the cube is repeated twice on each of its surfaces. The Sackner Archive also holds the hand-drawn maquette for this work. The text is by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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For this piece, Tom Phillips lettered the text in the style he used for his text based wall sculptures. Each letter is linked to adjacent ones. The sentence of the title is repeated twice on each surface of the cube. The text is by the philospher Ludwig Wittgenstein.Phillips writes, "The series of cubes began with a cage of wire made for The Globe Theatre's production of A Winter's Tale. A cage of wire words followed to exemplify Wittgenstein's proposition 'The Limits of My Language are the Limits of My World'. Printing this on an acrylic cube where the inside can be seen and, by an oddity of optics, experienced from the outside seemed to unite the reading of a statement with its perception as a metaphor. Reversing the text on the outside in a later version emphasised the trap of language that Wittgenstein describes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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For this maquette, Tom Phillips hand lettered the text in the style he used for his text based wall sculptures. He marked design changes in small, red symbols. Each letter is linked to adjacent ones. The sentence of the title is repeated twice on each surface of the cube and hand-drawn on each surface of the wooden cube. The maquette is slightly smaller than the finished work that is also held by the Sackner Archive. The text is by the philospher Ludwig Wittgenstein. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents X. J. Kennedy (b. 1929). Born Joseph Charles Kennedy in Dover, New Jersey, Kennedy published his own science fiction magazine, Terrifying Test-Tube Tales, at age 12. He honed his writing skills at Seton Hall University and earned an M. A. degree from Columbia in 1951. From 1951 to 1955, he served in the U. S. Navy, at one time publishing a daily news-sheet for the entertainment-starved crew of a destroyer at sea. Kennedy notes: "Nothing I have ever written since has been received so avidly." After further study, at the Sorbonne in Paris and the University of Michigan, Kennedy taught English at the University of North Carolina and moved to Tufts University in Massachusetts in 1963. His first poetry collection, Nude Descending a Staircase (1961), won the Lamont Award for that year. A freelance writer since 1979, Kennedy prefers writing within the constraints of rhyme and metrical patterns. He is the author of many collections of poetry for young people including Talking Like the...

Scope and Contents Phillips presented this paper to the Architecture forum in the Reynolds Room of the Royal Academy of Arts on October 28, 2002. This reading version is formated into nine parts and 157 statements describing ornament which Phillips states "...is high art hidden everywhere. Ornament is the stylistic signature of time and place and peoples." Statement 109: The use of calligraphy in ornament is as old as writing itself and the graffiti artists of the late 20th century in New York brought calligraphic expression to a new height comparable with the best of Islamic letter-based art or mediaeval illumination." 110: Ornament, however, including the calligraphic type, has its own mode of communication. In that it has meaning it bypasses the customary modes of literal or metaphorical and inhabits Dante's final category of signification, the anagological, wher form embodies truth directly, making as it were a spiritual equation." Stored in box with Phillips notebooks, -- Source of annotation:...