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The pages contain rubberstamped autographs of famous artists, such as Picasso, Miro, Chagall as well as the author himself. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book and its pages are shaped in a semi-circle. The narrative deals with the people and plans for a mythical utopia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Mentions purchase of "book of nails" by Marvin Sackner. The artist's notes and correspondence are typed and printed as photonegatives. The pages are not numbered. Internet: Drucker's work, which includes sculptural objects, installations, photography, video, painting, and artists' books, has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the Mazzocchi Gallery, Parma, Italy; Libera Academia di Belle Arti, Brescia, Italy; Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, Austria; Kennedy Gallery, Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece; Bouzianis Gallery, Athens, Greece; Art Centre of Hasselt, Belgium; Gallery SIDAC, Leiden, Holland; Biblioteca Rionale Affori, Milan, Italy; Center for Book Arts, New York; 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica; Space Gallery, Los Angeles; Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica; Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles; Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Rutgers University Gallery, Camden, New Jersey; Gallery 10, Washington, D.C.; and...

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This is a review of Ruth Laxson's book, "[Ho+Go]2=It. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Three Chinese printed papers are tipped onto two pages; they represent papers for spiritual burning ceremonies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The egg is engraved with the title, perfect imprint, embellished with an original engraving enclosed with a text by Michael Gluck. This book object was delivered with rolled, uncrumpled pages within the shell. Their removal caused them to crumpled. The texts are egg shaped and printed on Tibetian paper with one raised, ink and gold leaf illuminated letter per page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Shareen LaPlantz writes that " the term book arts refers to all types of handcrafted books, including blank books, rebinds, albums, journals, and artists' books. Artists' books are those that combine structure (or technique), format, visual images, and presentation. Text is optional - some artists' books are strictly visual." The artists books are well illustrated in this volume and detailed instructions and diagrams demonstrate how to construct the various bindings. The works are organized by types of bindings, i.e. pamphlet stitch, codex, stitches, stab bindings, fold books, combination books and unusual bindings. Suppliers and sources are listed as well as book arts centers and a bibliographic listing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text appears to be an autobiographical account of the artist's youth. All leather work, including tanning, was done by the artist. Aminah Robinson (1940-2015) has also signed some of the books in this production with her given name, Brenda Lynn Robinson. Robinson, who received a MacArthur prize, had a major retrospective exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum 2006. This piece was in the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The theme of this book deals with a new law in San Francisco making it a criminal offense to write graffiti. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Exhibition was curated by Judy Hoffberg and installed by Steven Cortright. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Of the books cited in this catalogue, the Sackner Archive holds "Franz Kafka, Der Prozess" with calligraphy by Hans Peter Willberg and "ABC" by Gunnar Kaldewey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The title of the book is a nuclear equation. The first 16 pages are visual/verbal representations of an explosion and the remainder of the pages are blank - a void. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The exhibition celebrates 30 years of collecting works on paper and artists books in the Miami-Dade Library and was curated by Barbara Young, Margarita Cano and Helen Kohen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book consists of notes and sketches for Curriculum Vitae paintings. This book with blank pages bound by Richard Minsky was given to Phillips on his 50th birthday by Minsky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is designed to be read from either side with its ending in the middle. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The book is based upon two unique manuscripts shown to curry by bp Nichol c.1966. Some of the pages are folded into the shape of a sails. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.