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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1072 Collections and/or Records:

Art In Vain / Baroni, Vittore., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51884-72985
Scope and Contents

The label on the envelope reads, "this image will disappear if exposed to light." Ths images of the photograms appear to be abstract objects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Artist Tract: Fandango. No.4 / Laura Murowski., 1994

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Identifier: CC-32120-33660
Scope and Contents

Designed by Esther K. Smith and printed by Dikko Faust. The image of this card expresses the dance of the Fandango in its letter construction and choreographic dance diagrams.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Artists' Books Exhibition / d'Arbeloff N ; Bloom B ; Broodthaers M ; Chalker-Tennant N ; Day L ; Cutts S ; Finlay IH ; Fulton R ; Lyssiotis P ; McCarney S ; Neaderland L ; Phillips T ; Tot E ; Ruscha E ; Voss J ; Williams E ; Holzer J., 1991

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Identifier: CC-26317-26784
Scope and Contents

The prints were made by Australian artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

[Artwork for Ciaran Carson's Opera et Cetera: a rain of rice when wrong boys finger the yellow sand] / Phillips, Tom., 1996

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Identifier: CC-28331-29510
Scope and Contents

This is a gouache drawing that was intended for Ciaran Carson's book of poems, Opera et Cetera, Wake Forest Press, 1996, but not utilized in the printed edition. The text is from Carson's poetry. Carson's book is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

[Artwork for Ciaran Carson's Opera et Cetera: into the aluminium blimp basket] / Phillips, Tom., 1996

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Identifier: CC-28328-29507
Scope and Contents

This is a colored drawing that was intended for Ciaran Carson's book of poems, Opera et Cetera, Wake Forest Press, 1996, but not utilized in the printed edition. The printed page is Carson's poetry. Carson's book is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

[Artwork for Ciaran Carson's Opera et Cetera: these are night's Northern wars] / Phillips, Tom., 1996

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Identifier: CC-28330-29509
Scope and Contents

This is a gouache drawing that was intended for Ciaran Carson's book of poems, Opera et Cetera, Wake Forest Press, 1996, but not utilized in the printed edition. The text is from Carson's poetry. Carson's book is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

as i was saying / Cobbing, Bob ; Upton, Lawrence., 1996

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Identifier: CC-44980-47155
Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Asemia / Gaze,Tim ; Leftwich, Jim ; Tourney, Louise ; Maneri, Joe ; Diarra, Abdourahamane., 2003

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Identifier: CC-42020-44017
Scope and Contents Basinski reviewed this book on the WEB: "A form or branch of verbo-visual poetry, Asemic writing is an original progression within this genre. Thank the Gods (and Pixies) some poets are getting beyond the 1960s and into something other than simulations of Finlay or Cobbing, although, thank the Gods if these had a proto-generator it might be Cobbing. But, nevertheless, Asemia strikes out boldly into a form of writing that locates itself in primitive emotive states, pre-aural, pre-intellectual, when the sound of emotions took forms like these. Carefully rendered glyphs of proto or other writing the works ask the reader to fully engage them via what senses might be strongest in their particular reading field. They are not puzzles. Not riddles waiting to be solved but works that form a state of being that might be or should be the imaginative state. Like keyholes into the substructure of the spiritual life of letters and words enter and enjoy. Maneri writes a sequence of 24 spirit...
Dates: 2003
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

au Blockhaus DY 10 / Blaine, Julien ; Pignatari D., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47132-49872
Scope and Contents

This book represents a performance score for a single day's reading in Nantes, France. This book is also designated Collection Echos No.4. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

[Au Bout Du Petit Matin...] / Strugalla, Johannes; Strugalla, Francois; Strugalla, Francoise; Strugalla, Mirjam; Strugalla, Ethel., 1991

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Identifier: CC-02187-2227
Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Auguri! 1993-1994 / Ori, Luciano., 1993

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Identifier: CC-05339-5442
Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Ausstellungen 1977-1982 / Storms, Walter, curator; Gastini M; Dadamaino; Gappmayr H; Nannucci M; Dias A; Opalka R; Allen R; Girke R; Griffa G; Uecker G., 1982

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Identifier: CC-53851-66054
Scope and Contents

Biographies of the artists are printed on the verso of the prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Automatic Writing / Helmes, Scott., 1980

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Identifier: CC-39097-41036
Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Autumn / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Duncalf, Stephen., 1993

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Identifier: CC-11067-11282
Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

a/z does it / Riddell, John., 1988

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Identifier: CC-47302-50045
Scope and Contents This is an excerpt from the book that features wordplay: "we abandon we abbreviate we aberrate we abet we abhor we abide we abolish we abort we abridge we absolve we absorb we abstain we abstract we abuse we accentuate we accept we acclaim we acclimatize we accommodate we accompany we accomplish we accredit we accumulate we accuse we ache we achieve we acknowledge we acquiesce we acquire we acquit we activate we actualize we add we address we adduce we adjourn we adjudicate we adjust we administer we admire we admit we admonish we adopt we adore we adorn we adulate we adulterate we advance we advertise we advise we advocate we affiliate we affirm we affix we age we aggravate we agree we aid we ail we aim we air we alarm we alibi we alienate we allege we allegorize we alleviate we alliterate we allocate we allot we allow we alphabetize we alter we amalgamate we amaze we amend we amuse we anaesthetize we analogize we analyze we anchor we angle we animate we annex we annihilate we...
Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Bad / curry, jw ; Laba, Mark., 1984

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Identifier: CC-19708-20095
Scope and Contents

This is the first draft of the final design for Bad, Coma Goats #40, 1984. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

Bad / curry, jw ; Laba, Mark., 1984

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Identifier: CC-19709-20096
Scope and Contents

This is the facsimile of the final design for the cover of Bad, Coma Goats #40, 1984, from which the stencil was made. The poem on the page has larger type than the final version. The back cover depicts a failed design for the front cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

Bad / curry, jw; Laba, Mark., 1984

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Identifier: CC-19705-20092
Scope and Contents

This is the stencil for the cover of Bad, Coma Goats #40, 1984. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Bad / curry, jw; Laba, Mark., 1984

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Identifier: CC-19706-20093
Scope and Contents

This consists of a few images including the preliminary drawing for the cover of Bad, Coma Goats #40, 1984. A letter picture of "A" is also present. On the verso is a flawed rubberstamped printing of Randall Brock's "deep," from Heads & H&Z, 1985. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Bad / curry, jw; Laba, Mark., 1984

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Identifier: CC-19707-20094
Scope and Contents

This is an expanded version of the drawing for the cover of Bad, Coma Goats #40, 1984. On the verso is a flawed printed cover of Curvd H&Z No.284, 1984. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

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