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Suarez Londono's works on paper consist of engravings and mixed media. The series illustrated in the book are E.S.A.V., Retratos [Portraits], Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Degas, Yolovei, Eno, Paul Klee, Grabados [Engravings] and Wild Horses. Several of these works are artist notebooks. The book is also illustrated with 82 small pictures of historic and contemporary art works of importance to Suarez including a self-portrait of Tom Phillips painted on a page from A Humument, similar in imagery to a page held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The text consists of lists of products and numbers and lists of items that are struck through. Orderbuch lists the numbers of concentration camp prisoners and what has been extracted from them, eg.: "C A 36956 (J) / Motorol". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book juxtaposes the life of Rosa Luxemberg, the communist revolutionary of the early 20th century with the life of Alice Stevens, the artist's mother. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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There was also a 2nd edition printed in 1986. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Pages are black alternating with white and without text or image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Pages are black alternating with white and without text or image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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An unidentified text is cancelled with squiggly lines leaving a new poetic text much like Phillips' A Humument but without varied visual treatment. Photographs and drawing are also interspaced in the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Several of the pages in part one are Corris' typographical renditions of writings by Berthold Brecht. In parts two and three, Corris utilized concrete and visual poetic techniques to flesh out the politics of art. Composed and output by the author on Compugraphic Editwriter 7700, MCS 10 with Preview, MCS 20 with Power Page, and Compugraphic 8400. Funded in part by The National Endowment for the Arts. Part One, Typographic Samples: Excerpts from E.P. Thompson's "Letter to America," the Mask of Evil, This Babylonian Confusion, Ballad on Approving of the World, and other titles by Bertolt Brecht. Part Two, Typographic Pictures: "Logo for the Confused" and 15 other selections. Part Three, Typographic Polemics: Decomposition (after Alfred Barr), The Cultivated Hope (after Oscar Wilde), The Sucess and Failure of Stuart Davis, and The Sublime is Now (after Barnett Newman). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Sections of dictionary pages have been photocopied in varied magnifications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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After an introduction to the theme of this brochure, Gordon documents it with photographs by the placing of a completely black tattoo on the end of the index finger. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This second edition of the book is a complete work of art, offensive in every sense of the word, and as an artistic manifesto about violence in the twenty-first century, it couldn't be any more current, especially given movements like activist art. Pornografie was first published in 1971, and has subsequently become an outstanding and timeless document of political artwork. The Gerrman film-maker Klaus Staeck took news photographs and the advertisements as the basis of this hard-hitting anti-Vietnam War, anti-violence artist`s book.Seven Decaders Books: Klaus Staeck created this book in 1971 as a reaction to the Vietnam War and a protest of the values of the society which allowed the war to continue. Its content is entirely visual and consists largely of blown up press photos and grainy newsreel images as it devel-ops in chapters showing war and its aftermath, protest and its suppression, weaponry and other instruments of violence and con-trol, and finally a long series of...

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This book attempts to answer the "eternal question: is there life after death? If there is, author and illustrator Henrik Drescher hypothesizes that inhabitants of the afterworld might be able to receive letters, using earthly mailboxes as portals...If the letters are not returned, it its presumed that the mail was successfully delivered to its intended recipient. 'Postal Seance' records the results of this important experiment, reproducing each of the letters sent to such luminaries as James Joyce, Buchminster Fuller, Dolly the Sheep and 49 others with notes on their arrival and return status."Two pages of artist stamps by Drescsher are provided so the readers can conduct their own postal seance experiments. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.