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This a trade edition of a book in which the artist has cancelled the text with a variety of calligraphic and abstract markings. It is impossible to identify the trade edition because of the cancellation process. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. Consists of four book objects bound together such that when spread apart, the shape of an "X" appears. The title indicates a Yoga expression meaning musical breathing. Body and breath move together with sound as a tool imparting a feeling of peace. The poem, excerpted from the Rig Veda X 129, is written in English on beads that turn inside metal containers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. Consists of four book objects bound together such that when spread apart, the shape of an "X" appears. The title indicates a Yoga expression meaning musical breathing. Body and breath move together with sound as a tool imparting a feeling of peace. The poem, excerpted from the Rig Veda X 129, is written in English on beads that turn inside metal containers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each one of four folded pages contains a unique silhouette representing the Health Goddess, Love Lord, Wall Street Divinities, and Jetset Lady. The background text humorously presents prayer-like incantations to relieve stressful situations. The metal disc with the fragmented text recto and verso must be spun to read the message "Shit Happens." Maledicta No.12 has a humorous listing by Reinhold Aman of "Shit Happens." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each one of four folded pages contains a unique silhouette representing the Health Goddess, Love Lord, Wall Street Divinities, and Jetset Lady. The background text humorously presents prayer-like incantations to relieve stressful situations. The metal disc with the fragmented text recto and verso must be spun to read the message "Shit Happens." Maledicta No.12 has a humorous listing by Reinhold Aman of "Shit Happens." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Poem relates to a man with whom Forster shared studio space and had a love-hate relationship. Includes six pages of photocopied colored prints with realistic and abstract images collaged to the page that illustrate the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Diane Crandall's book "Violent Crime," held by the Sackner Archive, is illustrated as a design award winner. Includes an essay by Juanita Dugdale on contemporary graphic design in religious art that utilized concrete and visual poetic themes. The computer generated brochures and books in this issue bear a close resemblence to artist books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The theme deals with cosmetic surgery of the face, breasts and buttocks in women. Lown writes that Procrustes was a Greek who offered a night's lodging to travellers. He had two beds, a small and a large one. Short lodgers were given the large bed and were racked to fit them. Taller ones were assigned the small bed and Procrustes sawed off the portion of their legs extending beyond its length. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover consists of a drawing for the artist's exhibition at the gallery collaged onto corrugated cardboard. Painted translucent paper depicting constructivistic imagery has been collaged onto the former to form a palimpset. The drawings in this book are numbered to form a grid, 7 x 3, that can be wall mounted as in the installation that took place in Galleria Milano. Sandro Martini was born in 1941 in Livorno and works in Milan and San Francisco. He makes painting installations for gallery exhibitions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Hirschman's response to political events in Eastern Europe and his defense of Albania. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The original book is an illustrated copy of Walt Disney's Pocahontas. Klassen and Olbrich collaged the pages with jigsaw puzzle pieces and found handwritten and typed library catalogue cards. Stored in Olbrich box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Brainard Carey was formerly known as Brian Salzberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This book uses a sufi text with repetitive images of rubberstamped hands. Rachael Romero left Australia as a teen, eventually choosing to live and work in NY. Since the 1970's Romero has worked with printmaking, public art, mass installation, performance, film, video, painting and drawing. Many of her posters are in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and the Cooper Hewitt Museum, NY, MOMA, NY; The Oakland Museum, among others. Artists books by Rachael Romero (Rabyaashki is Romero's sufi name) are hand-made, with found and fine papers and are mostly unique (some few are in small but not identical editions) and were made in the 1980's. While studying Sufi calligraphic texts in the late 80's and early 1990's, Romero made a number of books as a way to assimilate the material. Romero also made books using materials from her creative process and in response to nature. She has made a handful of books incorporating students' art, to give people a "voice"...