Foreword by Anne Sexton. Illustrations by Paul Giovanopoulos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The wall text reads, "The road of Excess leads to the Palace of (Wisdom) Willesden. Arbeit Macht Frei!. Shed! Shed! Don't Vote." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This book is a biography of Bern Porter and his work as an avant garde artist and physicist. Porter worked on the atomic bomb project and quit his job when the bomb fell. The book describes his struggles of conscience and his attempt to find himself through his publishing venture and through research combining experimental scientific methods with artistic techniques. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Goswell writes in a letter to Marvin Sackner about her gift, "They are actually part of some books in progress. I thought you'd have some fun with them." The theme of the "Survival Manual" describes what you can do, including Watch Out, Build a Shelter, Duck and cover, Pack a Kit, and a post office cancelled stamp. The duct tape was placed owing to an advisory from the government as to what to do in protecting yourself from a terrorist airborne pollutant by enclosing your house with plastic sheeting and duct tape [a ridiculous suggestion for obvious scientific reasons]. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Steiner writes that her book "is an argument for the subjectivity of aesthetic response, an attempt to explain what it means to invest art with value and derive pleasure from it. It tries to demonstrate the utility of a liberal aesthetics in which art is...a virtual realm tied to the world by acts of interpretation." The author considers the controversial issues of censorship, political correctness, anti Semitism and academic scholarship. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

John Bennett contributed an introduction and Kryss writes a biographical statement. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This text of political and cultural theory spectacle was first published in Paris in 1967. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

In his essay, "Pushing the envelope: Mail Art and the Michaels," Simon Anderson writes that both "Thomson and Hernandez de Luna paresent a sophisticated twist on this variegated [mail art] history, combining the random markers of official passage with a deliberate manipulation of the aesthetic involved; their small scale prints, connected to tahe much denser history of printmaking, dovetail at various points - inclusing teamwork, political humor nad tricksterism - with the fragmentary origins of art-through-the-mail, as this brief survey hopes to indicate." The illustrations depict the fake stamps and the cancelled stamps on envelopes indicating that the stamps went through the mail. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This dvd documents an ice sculpture formed of the letters of the word "DEMOCRACY" which was placed in the garden of the gallery on the third anniversary of the Iraq war. Its collapse due to the heat of the day was a metaphor for the tragic fate of democracy during that time period. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This dvd documents an ice sculpture formed of the letters of the word "DEMOCRACY" which was placed in the garden of the gallery on the third anniversary of the Iraq war. Its collapse due to the heat of the day was a metaphor for the tragic fate of democracy during that time period. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A page from a periodical dealing with a political issue in Wales is cut jaggedly down the center. The printed black name, Wales, is repeated in its opening with progressive enlargement of the typeface dimensions. The uppermost "Wales" is printed in red, large capital letters. On the verso, the caption, "subscribe to Second Aeon" is printed in handwritten black letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Includes illustrations by Yuri Annenkov, which appeared in first edition published in Moscow in 1918. The original of this book is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Blok's symbolist poem "The Twelve" was written in Russia in January 1918, following the Russian Revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.