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The Marxist Nudist Taxidermy Fonds

This sous fonds contains the four book items/art objects that were collected by library staff in 2012, after the Marxist Nudist Taxidermy Club had surreptitiously placed them on Ryerson library's shelves as part of "The MNT Books Project" According to the MNT website: "We recently took a trip to the various libraries around our fair city and were shocked to learn that a number of landmark texts were missing from their shelves. Where was My Erotic Life by Richard Nixon, for instance? Or The Art and Fundamentals of Competitive Defenestration by Edita Cernosek?...Why burden the under-funded, under-staffed library system with another problem when we could simply donate the needed volumes ourselves? And to make things even easier, why not prep the books in advance with all the required barcodes and classification numbers? Thus...an oath was made: the MNT Club would seed the libraries of Toronto with six great books on April 1st 2012.

Ryerson staff collected the 'planted' books associated with this hybrid April Fool's Joke/performance art piece, in the days following the initial discovery of the activities of the Marxist Nudist Taxidermy Club. The book items themselves are actually older books, which have been repurposed for this project with the absurdist dust jackets added

Book titles that were successfully collected by staff and added to this fonds include:

Puppies For Africa - How to Solve Poverty, AIDS and Genocide with Adorable Dog Babies!
My Erotic Life - Richard 'Dick" Nixon
Why Are Babies so Ugly - Oprah Winfrey
Circus of Desire - Penelope Brimshaw

Favourite Songs of Toddlers

33 rpm record, smaller in diameter than an LP, in a plastic sleeve and cardboard cover. Cover depicts drawings of children and birds in outdoor setting. One side has 7 songs; the other has 6. Biographical information about each of the songs' composers is on the back cover. It cost 90 kopecks.

USSR Ministry of Culture

V. Mayakovsky: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin LP record

33 rpm LP record in paper and exterior cardboard sleeves. Cover depicts woodcut of Lenin as well as titles text. Back is red and white and contains significant Russian text. Mikhail Astangov reads V. Mayakovsky's commemorative poem about Lenin. It was recorded in 1962 and copyrighted in 1976. It cost 2 rubles and 50 kopeks.

USSR Ministry of Culture

Meeting with Lenin

Double 33 rpm record album in plastic and external fold-out sleeve. Cover depicts sketch of Lenin and title. Centerfold is red and white with extensive Russian text, as well as photo and second sketch of Lenin. The title reads: Reading the Biographical Chronicle. Back is white with more Russian text. The recording is described as a documentational composition of chronicles of Lenin's biography. It cost 40 kopecks.

USSR Ministry of Culture

The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Double 33 rpm record album in plastic and external fold-out sleeve. Cover has large red letters that stand for Communist Party of the Soviet Union and a depiction of the USSR constitution document. Centerfold contains numerous historical photograph reproductions with captions. Back has track listings. The years 1971-1980 are included in this 15th edition. It was recorded in 1982 and copyrighted in 1983. It cost 60 kopeks.

USSR Ministry of Culture

Sacred War: Songs and Marches of War-Time

33 rpm LP records in plastic sleeves and exterior cardboard sleeves. Cover depicts formations of soldiers marching in Red Square. Large Russian title in red and other text in purple. Back is white with track titles in Russian and English. Each cost 2 rubles.

USSR Ministry of Culture

Canadian Centre for Architecture Exhibition Photos: "Cités de l'Archéologie Fictive : Oeuvres de Peter Eisenman, 1978-1988/ Cities of Artificial Excavation: The Works of Peter Eisenman 1978 - 1988"

Photographs of the exhibition installation as well as images of the architectural plans and finished buildings featured in the exhibition. This exhibition focused on Eisnman's drawings and models for four key works: submission to the International Design Seminar in Cannaregio Venice, Italy (1978); the submission to the South Friedrichstadt housing competition of the Intrernationale Bauausstellung, Berlin (1980-81); the project for the University Art Museum for California State University in Long Beach (1986); the submission Choral L. Works for the Parc de La Villette, Paris (1985-86).The exhibition was curated by Jean Francois Bédard and ran from March 2 - June 19, 1994.

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