This piece is a book sculpture opened on one side to a box containing 22 treated pages and on the other side to a collaged surface. The sculpture sets on a metal stand. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

At the end of this unsigned book, the author writes "...disclaims any knowledge of music." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The embossings signify ancient tributories of the Thames river which have disappeared underground. The artist has written their names adjacent to the specific embossings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is an account of a complex visual/verbal painting, The Man of Sorrows (by Coleman after Bosch), that is his revelation of the hidden truths about Jesus Christ based upon Apocrypha, stories about Christ striken from New Testament because they clashed with view of Jesus that the church wished to perpetuate as well as Pagan and Jewish anti-Christian writings available soon after Jesus' death. Tipped full- color fragments of the painting are explained by Coleman in a printed calligraphic text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The pages of the book are tabbed with the alphabet as in an address book. The text is printed on tan paper that gives an antique appearance. The images on the pages consist of photographs of an apartment building on the upper left and lower right of the facing pages and a walking man wearing a raincoat. The typographically varing text describes the building and the man. A text printed vertically on the verso of the alphabetical tabs reads, "The views afforded by evenly spaced windows, now indiscrete, may seem a film, and the street, its tireless projector." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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.