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This consists of the labels used for the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Review of Sackner collection of Russian Avant Garde art at the Lowe Museum, University of Miami. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In his introduction, Andryczuk discusses Sackner's The Beauty in Breathing exhibition (1992) along with the Glossary of Terms used in this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a very well illustrated catalogue of exhibition announcements and posters. Descriptions are often referenced to the Sackner Archive catalogue of 1984. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book is the sequel to the exhibition catalogue, "British Artist's Books since 1970." Simon Ford provides a section on Definitions of Artist Books that includes a statement by Marvin Sackner from "The Altered Page" catalogue. The major portion of this book is a listing and description of the books that include among others Phillips, Dante's Inferno, The Heart of A Humument, and Where are They Now by Tom Phillips as well as Langlands and Bell's The Crisis of Western Education. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ruth and Marvin Sackner served as jurors along with Jean Trebbi. The catalogue was edited and the exhibition curated by James A. Findlay, Librarian of Special Collections. The companion exhibition at the Fort Lauderdale Library was "Modern Rare Books II: Artists' Books from the Mata and Arthur Jaffe Collection." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue describes the bookmaking workshops related to the exhibition of pop-up books opening spring 2005, "Stand & Deliver: Engineering Sculpture into a Book Format" that is curated by Ed Hutchins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Barbora Toman Tylova who visited the Sackner Archive in 2011 contributed an illustrated essay dealing with her experience with the books held by the Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The photograph depicts Marvin Sackner in bubble bath of hotel bathtub in Stuttgart during summer 1980; 9.5 refers to quality of hotel bathtub on Sackner's rating scale of 1-10. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In the colophon, Gallo mentions that the production of this book was made possible in part due to a grant from the Sackner Archive. The binding was done by Daniel Kelm. Each page has a single poem that was printed letterpress or from plates generated thru Alphatype or Postscript applications. The Archive for this book is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is the PDF file of this issue that has also been downloaded from the web site and printed; the first edition is out of print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes Clive Phillpot's letter of thanks, wall listing, and two installation views of the exhibition "Artists Magazines" from the Sackner gift to the MoMA Library. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a feminist magazine oriented to information directed to women. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents In an introductory essay, Stephen Bann writes that "artists like Willem Boshoff and Frederic Bruly Bouabre clearly demonstrate the fertility of language-based investigations on African soil: Boshoff prepared for his work with dictionaries by lengthy exercises in concrete poetry." Okwui Enwezor contributes an essay "Where, What, Who, When: A Few Notes on "African" Conceptualism." Bann adds that "Willem Boshoff's conceptual practice is an elaborate effort dedicated to the study of ignorance, that is, pushing to the point of dissolution the idea that the world is knowable. Imprisoned by South African authorities for his refusal to serve in the military (the micrographic work, Kleinpen I, was produced in prison as a way to maintain mental equilibrium)... Boshoff finds in obscure and obsolete words a way to construct a map that denies sight but empowers knowledge...His study of linguistics and Wittgensteinian philosophy led him to explore other ways of rendering words into pulsating...

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The exhibition consisted of books, manuscripts and works on paper from the collection of Grolier Club members. "The Heart of A Humument" from the Sackner Archive was exhibited and illustrated in the catalogue. George Koppelman exhibited Charles Bukowski's "The Genius of the Crowd," Cleveland:7 Flowers Press, 1966 (hand printed and illustrated by da levy). He purchased it for less than $1.00 from Jim Lowell, Asphodel Book Shop at the time of publication. The colophon called for 103 copies but about 40 copies survived since the rest were destroyed by the Cleveland police. Current price (2007) on the internet from Virtuous Books is $14,500. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Hatherly's drawing "A Imagem da Mulher Invadida Pelo Tempo: Homenagem a Henry Moore," that is held by the Sackner Archive is depicted on page 10. The series of drawings entitled Pintura sobre Cartao are reminiscent of Brice Marden's images in his recent paintings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Hatherly's drawing "A Imagem da Mulher Invadida Pelo Tempo: Homenagem a Henry Moore," that is held by the Sackner Archive is depicted on page 10. The series of drawings entitled Pintura sobre Cartao are reminiscent of Brice Marden's images in his recent paintings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue features Hamady's assemblages. Toby Olson and Buzz Spector contribute critical essays on Hamady's work. Olson wrItes about his art pieces in the essay "One Night at the Farm" and Spector describes Hamady's work in an essay, "Biblioselfconsciousness: Walter Hamady's Gabberjabbs." The Sackner Archive is mentioned as holding Hamady's works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Marvin Sackner composed the poetry based on page 12 of "A Human Document" as a birthday tribute to Tom Phillips. He used a scanner, Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator as software tools. Fiona Maddox, Phillips' wife, sent blank pages to his friends and will bind them into a book. The text reads, "To TP it was meant to be, a good book for men and women, who experience so much mature observation of good life between the two, FM TP a picture complete, a true representation of life." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.