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Each rubberstamp has one aphorism, e.g., "Words Tend To Be Inadequate." Stephen Bury in "Artist's Multiples," list the title as "Untitled," 1991. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Signs Ltd. of Bellenden Road have, after some adjustments I made to the prototype, produced, in laminated plastic with perspex slide, a handsome multiple of my favourite device. This comment about the work originates from Phillips' Works/Texts to 1974 (1974), p. 266. "A shop that I pass regularly on the way to the studio had a small red and white plastic sign saying C LOOPSEEND. Since the shop sold yams and sweet potatoes I assumed that this was the name of the proprietor; the double vowels suggested Dutch however and I was puzzled each time I passed it. Having seen this name for about a year and having thought it odd but probably liable to rational explanation, I suddenly came across its double in a second-hand shop in Ipswich in 1965. I was about to ask the shopkeeper whether he was any relative of his namesake in Camberwell when I noticed, in the back of the shop, many piles of similar nameplates, each bearing the inscription C LOOPSEEND. For some reason I made no enquiry in the...

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The book consists of typed phrases reminiscent of Jenny Holzer's approach to art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Each poem object consists of a box handmade by Biro into which has been placed a circular mirror on a cushioned bed with the following lines: 1) We Get On Well, 2) I Don't Look Anyone In The Eye, 3) I'm Obsessed With The Future, 4) It's Hard Not To Hate In A Situation Like This, 5) Often Feel Like Don Quixote and 6) Life Here Is Just Survival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The title of the work is derived rom the cities of Floro, Norway; Zenag, Papua New Guina and Sandusky, Ohio. The face of the watch is covered with 25, three letter airline abbreviations of worldwide cities. Langlands & Bell focus of urban centers "in an abstract constellation evoking the persistent transience of contemporary urban life." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Barbara Kruger's sets of matches are printed in black & white with messages as follows: "you are an experiment in TERROR, Your comfort is my silence, Surveillance is your busywork, We have received orders not to move, Your manias become science, Charisma is the perfume of your gods, and You construct intricate rictuals which allow you to touch the skin of other men." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This assembling was a student project supervised by Werner Pfeiffer. It was produced on the occasion of an exhibition Half a Century of Book Arts at Pratt. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Two of each of the pencils are stamped on the side panels with the following: YOU ARE TRAPPED ON THE EARTH SO YOU WILL EXPLODE; WHAT URGE WILL SAVE US NOW THAT SEX WON'T?; PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT; MEN DON'T PROTECT YOU ANYMORE; THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR WILL BE SECRET; THE FUTURE IS STUPID. This series predates the edition published by the Albright-Knox Gallery Buffalo in 1991 in which the stampings were done in black ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.