{"value"=>"<p>The writings of Copy Berg include essays, poems, student writings, travel observations and autobiographical notes in a variety of formats, including notebooks, notepads, manuscripts and typescripts. The material is arranged in two subseries: Va. Miscellaneous (folders arranged alphabetically by the title of the work, subject or theme); and Vb. Notepads (folders arranged chronologically). Some folders in Subseries Va. contain correspondence, news clippings and printed materials gathered by Berg in the course of his research for the project concerned. A few items of juvenilia (Box 114, Folders 16 and 19) provide insight into the artist's upbringing and early education. Berg's evolving thoughts about his military career are documented in several batches of autobiographical notes (Box 114, Folders 3, 10 and 13). There are also important examples of Berg's writing on the topics of gay rights, AIDS and cultural politics (Box 114, Folders 2, 4, 7). Subseries Vb. consists of several dozen unbound notepads that provide an informal, diary-like account of the artist's daily life during the 1980s and 1990s. The notepad pages are thickly covered with epigrammatic remarks on current events, fragments of poetry, small drawings, telephone messages, shopping lists and other bits of quotidian information.</p>"}