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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Alphabet Book I, 1979 - 1987

 Item — Box 194: [Barcode: 31858072459641]
Identifier: CC-05776-5885
Scope and Contents

The overlaid pages give a visual almost-surreal image. Four of the overlaid pages have been taken from the book for scanning and inclusion into the Sackners' "Art of Typewriting" book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979 - 1987

On Paper This is Fantastic Sculpture / Failing, Patricia; Miller B., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-10719-10928
Scope and Contents

Brenda Miller's Alphabet Series is reviewed in this essay. One of the series is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

[Overstamped Alphabet] / Miller, Brenda., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-06091-6205
Scope and Contents

The drawing consists of a rubberstamped grid of the alphabet laid out in 26 x 26 letter format in which Miller has overstamped with all the letters with the one preceding the left side of the row from top to bottom such that the density progressively inccreases from left to right and top to bottom. The greatest density of letters and ink is at the lower right hand corner of the drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Vertical Alphabet (14) SE, 1990

 Item — Box 194: [Barcode: 31858072459641]
Identifier: CC-33969-35641
Scope and Contents

Each page is typed with lines of lower case letters a to z and then z to a. Each successive page is over-typed with increasing density such that the additional letters create a moire effect. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990