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These photocopied prints were sent to the Sackners to provide choices for purchase of the originals. -- 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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This print has very dense calligraphic, letraset, and collaged printed texts that have the same style of many pages of the Artist Books made by Hubaut in the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The print depicts the letters 'MD,' standing for Marguerite Dennel, the last widow of Jean Baptiste Louvet (1760-1797), an enemy of Robespierre. Louvet lived as a fugitive in the forest of Jura and recalling the love for his separated family, "I engrave on the tender bark of the beech-tree the initials of my dear..." Finlay has recreated this drawing in the print with Michael Harvey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Introduction written by Axel Clark. Two of Brennan's previously unpublished works related in form to Mallarme's "Un Coup De Des" are reproduced in this volume. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The word "protest" is formed by small, colored beads. A disjointed text written with crude printed leters deals with political themes. -- 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"...

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"...

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This drawing is an exposition of Psalm One. Boshoff comments, "I once, in 1976, gave talks on the Psalms in an old age home, and at one time, in the early eighties, I thought it might be a good idea to write notes on all the psalms like the ones on Psalm One." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. The borders of the picture depict a stylized outline of the two lungs. Several smaller images of the lungs are placed within this outline. Dense, obsessive, calligraphy in Latin ranging from large size to micrographic lettering appears in most of the picture. The image deals the with anatomy and physiology of the lungs and heart and is transcribed from the book "Natural History" by Pliny. Seille also provides a list of French words related to breathing and lung disease. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The textural part of this drawing in Latin is taken from the writings about the lungs by Pliny, the Roman Naturalist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. In the lower half of the drawing, a human-like figure with stylized representation of the lungs and airways is present. On its right side, there are several smaller images of the lungs while on the left side and above it, dense Latin text taken from the writings of Pliny are written, e.g. "below the heart are situated the lungs, drawing in and sending back the breath, and consequently spongy in substance and perforated with empty tubes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. The main image of this picture is a human-like figure whose lungs are represented by circles and tubes. Smaller, more complex images of the lungs also appear as well as bimorphic organic forms. Obsessive calligraphy is transcribed from Latin writings of Pliny, e.g. at the lower center of the drawing, the large lettering reads: But especially good for those attacked by pulmonary tuberculosis (phthisis), is the root of the plant consiligo... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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There are three of Hapkemeyer's calligraphic poems reprinted in this issue of Delfin VIII. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.