The images in this issue are presented in the style of Barbara Kruger with reference to the first Iraq Gulf War. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The images in this issue depict the military leaders in the first Gulf War. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The verso is printed in the style of Jenny Holzer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The images in this issue are presented in the style of Barbara Kruger with reference to the first Iraq Gulf War. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The card lists the names of Finlay's artistic critical antagonists in the form of a menu. They include Danton, Hebert, Clootz, Meulenkamp, and Headley. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The labels consist of short messages, e.g., Private Property Created Crime. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is an exhibition review of the work of Glen Ligon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The book includes two line drawings by Gerald Burns. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This card depicts a line drawing of a mid section of a sail boat labeled in black except for the word "carling" that is labeled in red. This word means a short fore-and-aft beam running beside a hatchway, mast hole or other deck opening to support the inner ends of the partial deck beams in way of the opening. The card is dated Christmas 1996 from Little Sparta and the significance of this word poem might relate request support of Finlay's fight against The Stathclyde Region taxation board. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Print depicts a photograph of a bust of a feminine head in a basket that is captioned by the title of this print. Millet was the editor of Art Press Paris who was responsible in part for the city of Paris' rejection of Finlay's sculptural proposal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Each print has a large abstract shape onto which a Swedish text has been printed in a conventional layout. The colors of the predominant shape differ among the prints, viz., green, brown, orange and yellow. A 4 x 10 grid of the same word is repeated on each of the four prints, e.g., pluttsang, pluttsalong, pluttang, and pluttsarong. There are a few English phrases in the poem such as man in rain, grotto with pleasure, irridescent light, and Strategic Air Command. Each print depicts a coloured, imaginitive map, with text on each map. The first print also contains "Rules of the game". This is explained to be a project or an alternative for a "Game-painting": "Dr. Schweitzer s last mission". A kind of linguistic-political game for four players. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This work consists of two, sepia-toned, photographs from WWII Germany and an ideographic drawing by thalia superimposed on each photograph. The ideograms read 'Knowledge of History' and 'Mirrors of Blindness.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Steven Heller in the NY Times Book Review writes that the "book's design, a complex melange of typographic hierarchies...a remarkable display of deconstructive, post-structural, post-modern experimentation - or words that explode across the page... Miss America owes a distinct debt to Apollinaire's Il Pleut, Marinetti's Zang Tumb Tumb and McLuhan's Medium... Unfortunately, Miss A. really doesn't go as far...while the design screams and shouts...actually pretty timid." It is profusely illustrated. This a first edition, first printing. Chip Kidd designed this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Includes diagramatic interpretations of illustrations of torture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.