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Miniature Obscure: Dialog. No.4 / Gerhild Ebel, Cornelia Ahnert, editors ; Ahnert C ; Andryczuk H ; Dencker KP ; Ebel G ; Sorgel H ; Corpa ; Gomez A ; Gappmayr H ; Garnier P ; Gunther T ; Huber J ; Janz A ; Olbrich JO ; Kowalski J ; Tarlatt U ; Scherstjanoi V ; Warnke U ; Vallias A ; Zielke O ; Ketelhodt IV ; Franzobel ; Garnier I ; Huber C ; Huckauf P ; Janz A ; Schwarz C., 1994

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Identifier: CC-06683-6802

Scope and Contents

The cards and booklets which measure approximately 11 x 11 cm have been placed in two open, red, cardboard boxes which in turn are placed within a larger rectangular, printed blue box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Miniature Obscure, No. 2: Substitute, 1993

Item — Box 125: [Barcode: 31858072458239]

Identifier: CC-06422-6540

Scope and Contents

The round cardboard case measuring 6.7" in diameter is made from handmade pulp such that bits of fragmented texts appear on its surface. Its lid is perforated in the center. The names of the contributors are printed on two concertinas made from red paper. One of the works has a background of the same word repetively printed in tight grid with two large empty letters, e.g., ER, superimposed = Ersatz (substitute). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Miniature Obscure, No. 3: Animal, 1993

Item — Box 154: [Barcode: 31858072459328]

Identifier: CC-06423-6541

Dates: 1993

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Miniature Obscure, No. 6: Between, 1996

Item — Box 125: [Barcode: 31858072458239]

Identifier: CC-27358-28394

Scope and Contents

Cards and objects of the same dimensions are stacked between two square, thick wooden plywood boards that are held together by two long screws with flanged nuts. The word "between" is printed on the cover board and blind embossed on the dividing handmade thick paper sheets. Most of the artwork relates directly to the theme of this assembling, e.g., 'zwischen' in German, 'between' in English. This theme is expressed in both verbal and visual images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Miniature Obscure, No. 7: Culinary, 1997

Item — Box 125: [Barcode: 31858072458239]

Identifier: CC-28812-30127

Scope and Contents

Cards and objects of the same dimensions are stacked into a pyramid shaped, brightly printed, colored box. The artists and poets contributed one or several pieces to this assembling. The ceramic object made by Axel Fabry is a replica of a sunny-side up egg. The booklet is made like a sandwich. All other sheets relate to the theme of food. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry