ArchivesSpace at the University of Iowa

Scope and Contents

The enclosed card lists Wood's website as "havent-gardeart." It lists the Sackner Archive as holding his work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

The book consists of blank pages with a circular hole cut out in their centers. A ball bearing that has been placed within the circular opening, is free to move. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

Each page of this book consists solely of the letter 'A' printed on one side in its center. The pages of this book are different colors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

Each page of this book consists solely of the letter 'a' printed on one side in its center. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

The book covers are silk fabric. Osowski writes that the work is a "treatise regarding Animal-Auto interaction." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The fingerprints dedication to Milan Grygar is appropriate since he used the tapping of his fingers in his performance pieces. Milan Grygar was born in Zvolen, Slovakia in 1926. After graduating from the College of Applied Arts, Prague (where he studied under Professor Emil Filla) he concentrated on still lifes which evolved into colour compositions devoid of subject matter. In 1964 he produced a series of 64 black-and-white drawings using the principle of a linear sequence. Working in a fast rhythm, he could "hear" the drawing he was creating. From there, it was only a step to a discovery that was to define his future artistic career and bring him recognition. Grygar began tape recording the acoustic process of drawing. In 1965 he started to pursue the relationship between drawing and sound, and in 1966 exhibited his first acoustic drawings with accompanying tape recordings. These New Drawings led him to the direction known as the New Music, and were followed by large drawings and...

Scope and Contents This work is a typographic tour de force in which the accordion folds are placed such that the text can be unfolded as a horizontal continuum. The type is printed in red, black, blue, and orange highly saturated colors. The poem is based upon a performance piece by Duke that completed in 1973. The poem describes Dada in Zurich in 1916, in the winter in Berlin in 1918-1919 during the hardships of WWI, as Dada slept from 1923-1945, and in Australia in contemporaneous times. The Sackner copy is one of 25 in a portfolio; No.1 was in a designer binding, No.26-29 were unbound, and 5 copies were hors commerce. Except for the title which is in the German language, the text is in English. The book was conceived and designed in a constructivist lay-out by Mike Hudson (who never met Duke according to a personal communication to the Sackners) and set in a wide range of lead and wood sans serif types by Jadwiga Jarvis. The portfolio has papercard inserts for two pamphlets on the inside front...

Scope and Contents

The title of this artist book Deter Gent is a neologism for detergent. Two of the leaflets were composed in the style of an anonymously assembled Victorian Scrapbook held by the Sackner Archive which in turn bears affinity to Tom Phillps' "A Humument." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

Book consists of entirely of the same green stock paper pages without text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

The letterto Marvin Sackner included in this book was written by Andrew Rippeon, its editor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

The match cover has been cut such that contains a single match. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

The cover consists of printed text and image on brown paper whereas the numbered copy is printed on white paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

The cover consists of printed text and image on white paper whereas the numbered copy is printed on brown paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.