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Press release (loose sheet) mentions that Friedman's work is held by the Sackners. The drawings were made for Higgins' "The Epickall Quest of the Brothers Dichtung and other Outrages." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive is mentioned as "the best collection of book arts in the world...an extrordinary melange of possibilities of future potential for the arts." Ackerman was a great friend of the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This manuscript was given to the Sackners with an attached card Compliments of Martin S. Ackerman - Ruth and Marvin: Would appreciate it if you would read this. I will call you when I get back from my trip. If you see andy typos or names misspelled, [please let me know. Marty." The Sackner Archive is mentioned as "the best collection of book arts in the world...an extrordinary melange of possibilities of future potential for the arts." Ackerman was a great friend of the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive lent "Cries of Poindexter Village" to this exhibition pictured as plate 90. In the catalogue, Robinson describes this work as "a two-volume book I made for my son, Syndey. One volume is 'Schoolyard,' and the other is 'Bethlehem Journey,' a hinged book with a large cloth painting inside. Both volumes are about the voices of the children coming up in Poindexter and the characters who lived there and some of their stories." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue depicts two works from the Sackner Archive that is also listed among the supporters of this publication. A drawing given to the 11 supporters of the publication of this book is depicted in another entry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue depicts two works from the Sackner Archive who is also listed among the supporters of this publication. The drawing was given to the 11 supporters of the publication of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue documents an exhibition of artist books (multiples) by Hutchins. The check list of books are printed four to a card that is slipped into woven page strips also with book listings. The cards illustrate three book installations. The Sackner Archive is listed as holding work by Hutchins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The 70 drawings contained in this publication designed and printed by the artist herself were selected from more than 600 drawings and notes. These drawings are preserved as a digitized collection on three CDs in important cultural archives... they are drawings notes for installations and sculptures, Some have been realized while others in an embryoinic state. They are notations that reflect the experimental and avant-garde character of the artist's work, as well as her choice of motifs and materials. They represent over three decades of the artist's thinking process related to space and volume. The works consist of drawings, projects, installations and sculptures from 1969 to 2004. Vater's work is listed as contained in "The Archives of Visual Poetry of Ruth and Marvin Sackner of Miami Beach, Florida - which is the biggest and most important collection of Visual Poetry in America." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was composed of the Goldberg Variations, lent by Elena Presser, and, the Anna Magdalena Bach Notebook, lent by the Sackner Archive. Critical essays were contributed by Elena Presser and Rosalyn Turek, the Bach scholar and musician. The director, Elsa Weiner Longhauser, describes the Sackner Archive as "a brilliant, comprehensive collection and Presser's work a rare tour de force." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition was curated by Craig Saper and Theo Lutz. The Sackner Archive lent 25 artists' books and 23 typewriter works to this exhibition. -- 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...