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The theme is based upon the teachngs of El Lissitzky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The poem is printed in red with folded paper shaped like an arrow. It was printed on the Second Anniversary of the First Battle of Little Sparta and its slogan relates to Finlay's dispute with the local tax collectors. Wikipedia: Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (July 28, 1804 "“ September 13, 1872) was a German philosopher and anthropologist best known for his book The Essence of Christianity, which provided a critique of Christianity which strongly influenced generations of later thinkers, including both Karl Marx and Frederich Engels. Feuerbach was the fourth son of the eminent jurist Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, brother of mathematician Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach and uncle of painter Anselm Feuerbach. An associate of Left Hegelian circles, Feuerbach advocated for liberalism, atheism and materialism. Many of his philosophical writings offered a critical analysis of religion. His thought was influential in the development of dialectical materialism, where he is often...

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The page is divided into six different spaces with varying typed poetic forms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Cards shaped in the form of a filtered tip cigarette are printed in 43 languages (one to each card) with the message "No Smoking." The box has the shape of a cigarette box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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These photographs by a high school senior were taken in a fun house mirror. The text is handwritten on the top of each photograph. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Phrases in this print include: red as a tomato, stubborn as a mule, mad as a hatter, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The black toothbrush is printed "Keep smiling (Ben)" in the artist's characteristic, white calligraphy. The box also adds "embrasse moi (Ben)." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The texts printed here are reproductions of original drawings for the inscriptions on stone sarcophagi in the exhibition. The book is also part of a videotape presentation with the same title, the combination also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This admonishment in Italian by the Saint-Just Vigilantes means in English, "Abandon every hope to you that enter!" It refers to the Strathclyde tax collectors with whom Finlay had a major dispute. This print appeared in two versions, printed in red and in black; this version is printed in black; the other version in red is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This admonishment in Italian by the Saint-Just Vigilantes means in English, "Abandon every hope to you that enter!" It refers to the Strathclyde tax collectors with whom Finlay had a major dispute. This print appeared in two versions, printed in red and in black; this version is printed in red; the other version in black is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book was first published in 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Beatrix Ruf writes that "the language of the LUSTMORD texts is as direct as the images of the daily media reporting on war, horrors, crimes, and murder...LUSTMORD produces feelings, perceptions intuitions of the danger which lurks in the tangle if act, participation, sympathy, helplessness and disgust." Holzer's texts were displayed on LED screens, carved benches, as tattoos, bones, labels. The exhibition took place at the former Carthusian Monastery at Ittengen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Joyce Kaiser reprinted lines from the first poem of "Measures" by Nadya Aisenberg, reflecting on life's meaning. The lines of the poem are individually printed and placed randomly on all sides and top and bottom of the poem object. A chestnut is placed on the front of the base and resembles an Oriental rock. The book, published by salmonpoetry, consists of Aisenberg's poetry. The sculpture was made for and presented to Marvin Sackner on the occasion of his 70th birthday. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The poem object is a black egg placed in the bottom center of an acrylic jar. The title, Kaddish, is the Jewish prayer of mourning. At the base of the egg, a line of poetry by Walt Whitman is set in a spiral line. It reads,"All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier." The box is printed with the quote from an unidentified person, "...when she put out all her eyes from grief, they did not turn to fire but fell to earth as eggs..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The slogan relates to Finlay's dispute with the local tax collectors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The drawing is dominated by the listing of four silkscreened words listed from top to bottom, viz., Norther, Easter, Wester and Souther. Wide colored lines in a meandering fashion like unwound, tangled tape from a casette cross, encircle and go under the four directional words. The caption below these words reads, Regional News: one line the shortest distance between two points bing the prettiest. On the right side, Furnival draws in graphite, Paris c'est beauborg n'est pastiche. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Book is designed with orange colored blank pages interspersed with tan colored pages onto which three to four line poems have been rubberstamped with blue ink. For example, one poem reads, "Ode: - The Society - of Design-Bookbinders - hide-bound." One poem in a larger font is stamped in light blue ink across two pages and reads, "We hardly see the moon anymore." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.