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This is an unnumbered copy from a tirage calling for 100 copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is a catalogue raisonne of Pettibon's artists books produced between 1978 and 1998; it reprints over 100 of Pettibon's publications of original edition sizes ranging from 80 to 150 copies. The book includes a 71 page introductory essay by Roberto Ohrt who edited the book, first published in a hard cover edition by Walther Konig in Cologne, Germany. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The reflection on the water of a cropped photograph of a pool in this book looks like clouds - hence the title of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a drawing of an airplane on take-off or landing with its accompanying shadow. The completed card was unrealized. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The cover is a color photograph of Callender standing among his artifacts, brushes, sweeper, license plate, etc., that are laid out on the floor. The poem reads, "tidings." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this drawing, the Dark Lady by the Dark Tow(er) was placed in the center section. A portrait of the head of Shakespeare was placed at the upper right and that of Queen Elizabeth on the left. "An Index to the Alphabet of Manuall Significations" (sign language) is drawn on the lower left side. The content of this drawing and scale of the portraits gives a surrealistic-like sensibility. The Archive also holds another drawing relating to this work entitled, [Shakespeare, His Maze]. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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There is no such word as 'deomcratic;' perhaps this is a misspelling of democratic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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There is no such word as 'deomcratic;' perhaps this is a misspelling of democratic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this poem contrasts the styles of two architects, Voysey and Lutyens. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The image was the drawing for a sculpture to be made in slate. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The name Mao is typed using the symbol @ in the center grid.The title 'the east is red' is typed with dashes. The dsh and date are typed using dots.The paper is typed vertically and is read horizontally -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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A picture on the left depicts is a house on the distant horizon across three rolling fields and a blue background representing the sky. A matching picture on the right depicts a sailboat on the distant horizon beyond the same three rolling fields but with the blue background representing the sea. The caption reads as in a closing remark in a Children's book, "They returned home tired but happy." The End. The Sackner Archive also holds the 1st edition 1972. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes two images and a caption dealing with a return to home from a land trip and from a return from a sea voyage. The caption reads as in a closing remark in a Children's book, "They returned home tired but happy." The End. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The relation of the captions to the classical architectural images is obscure but is based upon Ovid's Metamorphoses. For example, both Echo and Narcissus are mentioned in two of Finlay's poems; the significance of "Echo to echo" and the arch is not apparent. However, the reflecting pool of the poem, for 'Narcissus' read 'Narcissus' follows the text of the poem as follows. According to a web site, relating to Narcissus and Echo Ovid's Metamorphoses, "Tiresias, the man recently blinded by Juno (known as Hera in Greek mythology, but this is the story of Ovid who wrote in Latin) and made a prophet by Jupiter (Zeus), quickly gained a reputation for being infallible in his answers about the future. Sometimes, however, the answers of Tiresias were as opaque as those of any other oracle. Liriope, a naiad, became pregnant with the child of the river god Cephisus. When their child was born, Liriope named him Narcissus. She asked the blind seer Tiresias if her son would live a long life and...

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This book is designed such that a printed caption precedes an image printed on translucent paper adapted from Kant's sketchbook. Some of these images involve mathematical equations adjacent to geometric shapes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This piece was done by Gomringer in 2002. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Depicts four identical photographs of a part of a sitting room with a different caption beneath each of the photographs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.