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Daniel Traister was the curator of the Tom Phillips exhibition with works lent by the Sackner Archive held at the Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania, May 1993. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ruth Sackner delivered this lecture at the opening of Bob Cobbing's Exhibition "Make Perhaps this Out Sense Of Can You." It focused on the relation of Mathew Abess, the curator of the exhibition and the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue was published for the exhibition on the work of the British poet, Bob Cobbing. The exhibition was curated by Matthew Abess who was the scholar in residence at the Sackner Archive during the summer of 2006 between his sophomore and junior years at the University of Pennsylvania. He also wrote the catalogue essay and organized a symposium at the Kelly Writers House with Maggie O'Sullivan and cris cheek, compatriates of Bob Cobbing, participating in the event along with Charles Bernstein and Marvin Sackner. All the Cobbing material for the exhibition came from the Sackner Archive. The three copies in the Sackner Archive will be considered varient copies as the final few pages were poorly printed. Marvin Sackner advised the attendees to hold on to these copies as special before a more perfect version is reprinted. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue was published for the exhibition of works of Bob Cobbing selected from the Sackner Archive. The curator, Matthew Abess, SAS '08, was an intern in the Archive during the summer of 2006 when he researched the material for this exhibition. In addition to writing an in-depth catalogue essay, Matthew Abess organized recorded sound poetry readings on multiple head phones in the gallery, and planned a seminar with cris cheek and Maggie O'Sullivan at the Writers House. This is the second printing of the catalogue with the pages evenly printed throughout. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue was published for the exhibition of works of Bob Cobbing selected from the Sackner Archive. The curator, Matthew Abess, SAS '08, was an intern in the Archive during the summer of 2006 when he researched the material for this exhibition. In addition to writing an in-depth catalogue essay, Matthew Abess organized recorded sound poetry readings on multiple head phones in the gallery, and planned a seminar with cris cheek and Maggie O'Sullivan at the Writers House. Since the printing was faded in various parts of sentences on the last pages, Marvin Sackner pointed out that this should be considered a varient and was reminiscent of Cobbing's photoduplicator books. The catalogue was subsequently reprinted appropriately. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Werner Gundersheimer contributed an essay, "Against the Grain," in which he discussed the changing role of the research library. He indicated that electronic surrogates should serve "students not as the end source but, rather, as first exposure....the new media also provide efficient means for introducing students to different formats - maps, manuscripts, painting and sculpture, letters, diaries, account books." Daniel Traister contributed a polemic essay, "Is There a Future for Special Collections? And should there Be?" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Traister is the curator of the Rare Book Collection of the University of Pennsylvania Library. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This beautifully produced catalogue was published for the exhibition in the Olin Library at Washington University by the curator, scholar and Head of Special Collections, Kevin Ray. It coincided with the exhibition and symposium "The Dual Muse: The Artist as Writer and the Writer as Artist" organized by the Gallery of Art and the International Writers Center. The Sackner Archive lent nine handwritten and typed bound volumes of Phillips' Dante manuscripts, two silkscreen prints, eleven collages from the "Dante Diary," and a typewriter work on backing paper incorporating all the words of Phillips' first translation of the Inferno. Kevin Ray contributed an illuminating essay tracing the history of translations and illustrations of Dante, including the works of Botticelli, Gustave Dore, Blake and Rauschenberg. Ray writes that in the Tom Phillips' Inferno, the artist, incorporates "much of the method he developed in creating A Humument, 'treating' an existing text and making of it...

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In this essay, Traister justifies the need for rare book collections in public libraries. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.