The title is reflected in the eight open-faced, pop-up, heart shaped pages. Andrew Binder found the metal lower half of the box container which suggested a half of a heart. The book pages are designed to be opened and viewed from the back forward, like a Hebrew book. Each collaged page is intricately engineered and lushly illustrated with drawings of men and women, various flora, hearts marked with Russian text, hands, rib cage, insects, a 3D spiral, sea creatures, and a fish. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This documents Hilder's attempt to run a 4 minute mile by committing to an intensive training schedule for one year. Each page of this book records every day of the year 2006 that consists of a colored photograph of Hilder in the same standing pose dressed in red underwear along with his weight, training schedule, notes, sound track and, hourly food and drink intake. In a personal communication to Marvin Sackner, Hilder told him that he ran a mile in about 5 1/2 minutes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This catalogue was designed by the first three authors and the exhibition was curated by the last two. Ron Glowin contributed an essay on the art of making art in boxes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Hirschman contrasts the narrow demands of government with the freedom of making art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

All pages of this book are rubberstamped with different colored inks and the text consists of common expressions that would be expected from the title. The arrangement of the words is wildly frenetic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a biography of real and imagined events in the life of Brother Blue aka Dr. Hugh Morgan Hill, the "official storyteller of Boston, an ordained minister and raconteur who spins tales of struggle and hope on street corners and in prisons..." Text deals with Black struggles in White America. Primary type family for voice of Brother Blue is Matrix by Emigre. Over 24 other typefaces were utilized for the text; images and text were printed with scanner and desktop publishing software. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is a biography of the real and imagined events in the life of Charlie Lang. The story line deals with the manic-depressive illness of Lang who was a rock musician and an outsider artist. A section covers his institutilization and treatment with psychotropic drugs. The typeface for the voice of Charlie is Gill Sans and over 24 other typefaces are used as well. The images and text were created with scanner and desktop publishing software. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is a biography with both imagined and real events in the life of Claude Debs. The main typeface for the voice of Claude is Garamond designed by Claude Garamond. Over 24 other typefaces are used in the book which was designed by with scanner and desktop publishing software. The story line is heavily slanted to homo- and heterosexual experiences as are the images. Photographs reproduced in the book were done by Jim Frank and Lehrer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

According to Lehrer, "The composition of each book in The Portrait Series is shaped by the composition of a life...The monologues that make up this series are informed by the structure of supper talk, messages left on phone machines, ruminations of long walks, and reiminiscences evoked by photo albums and rainy Sundays...The first four books in The Portrait Series focus on men. Taken together, these books form a group portrait as reflective of the voices stirred within me as it is of the subjec -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Clamshell box was made by Sandra Reese. Colophon was written by Erenberg on the top of the inside cover of box in shape of record. Book consists of twelve, artistically altered, 78 rpm records in brown paper sleeves. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Book consists of Hirschman's translation of a poem by Pier Paolo Pasolini. The last lines of the poem are on the covers; the inside pages are intentionally illegiblized to reflect the trashing of the flag, part of the poem itself. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Letter to Marvin Sackner from Francis Deschamps is laid into book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.