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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 444 Collections and/or Records:

futura: Job Boj. No.6 / Bohumila Grogerova ; Josef Hirsal., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-27464-28512
Scope and Contents

The poem "Manifest" depicts the letters as arranged on a typewriter key board (with the y and z reversed!). The poem Abeceda z Odyssea, composed such that the last letter of the final word forms an alphabetical text, is triangularly shaped. Der Heizer (The Boilerman) consists of sound poetry, numbers, and patterns. Laska in czech language means Love and juxtaposes the the czech words, on, a , ona, and ono meaning he, and, she, himself/herself in different variations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Ganglia 5 Cent Mimeo Series: abcdE...(reprint). No.2 / Victor Coleman., 1998

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Identifier: CC-30943-32398
Scope and Contents

This is a facsimile of the 1965 first edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Ganglia 5 Cent Mimeo Series: Self-Contradiction. No.59 / bp Nichol., 1980

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Identifier: CC-36882-38715
Scope and Contents

This issue is part of Gronk Intermediate Series No.20 where it is stored. A separate copy is also stored in Ganglia 5 Cent Mimeo Series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Ghost / Blei, Norbert., 1987

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Identifier: CC-23204-23643
Scope and Contents

Is the original image for page 85 in Blei's "Paint Me a Picture Make Me a Poem," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Go Book: [Double Alphabet]. No.35 / Wally Depew., 1973

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Identifier: CC-54352-643240
Scope and Contents

As with other Depew books, the page count includes the blank side of the page, e.g., 24 leaves equals 48 pages. Each page depicts a letter of the alphabet in a large and small font in order until the letter 'K', e.g., AA, BB., CC, etx. Thereafter, the combinations depict JL, IM, HN, and GO. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Gone Wild: An Endangered Animal Alphabet / McLimans, David., 2006

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Identifier: CC-46012-48719
Scope and Contents

Marvin Sackner In a telephone conversation with David McLimans learned that McLimans had been active in the mail art network from the mid 1980's to the mid 1990's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Hadassah Magazine. No.1/Aug-Sep / Ardon M ; Castel M ; Avrin L ; Shahn B., 1989

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Identifier: CC-09020-9197
Scope and Contents

Leila Avrin's article "Arts and Letters" pp. 32-34 describes the creative Hebrew letter art of Ben Shahn Moshe Castel and Mordecai Ardon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Hlas 2nd ed / Valoch, Jiri., 1966

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Identifier: CC-37771-39650
Scope and Contents

Designated Writers Forum #18. This is the second edition published in June 1967 and does not appear to differ in content from the first edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Hlas / Valoch, Jiri., 1966

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Identifier: CC-37770-39649
Scope and Contents

Designated Writers Forum #18. This is the first edition published in February 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Hommage a / Deisler, Guillermo., 1989

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Identifier: CC-14433-14742
Scope and Contents

Guillermo Deisler was born in 1940 and died in 1995. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Horizons: The Alphabet Project. No.3 / Diane Samuels., 1995

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Identifier: CC-28945-30276
Scope and Contents

Samuels discusses how she made the Alphabet Project. A unique book with the same title and content is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Horizontal Surfaces , 2010

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Identifier: CC-58795-10002024
Scope and Contents

Also Department of Critical Thought No. 3 and first edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

How to Spell the Alphabet / Auerbach, Tauba., 2006

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Identifier: CC-46485-49214
Scope and Contents Amazon.com description: How arbitrary are the marks, analog and digital, used to express language, and where do they begin to muck it all up? This first book from Tauba Auerbach, Yes and Not Yes features over 20 new paintings and drawings that spring from those questions. They offer an excellent if roundabout answer: while letters are largely arbitrary, they are rich with abstract beauty and conceptual depth. In razor-sharp execution--which reveals her training as a sign painter--Auerbach's works on panel and paper update the abstract conceptual tradition, while retaining its intellectual rigor. Uppercase Insides and Numeral Insides recall Russian Suprematism, and, upon further contemplation, turn out to be just what their titles call them. Works based on signal flags and the Ugaritic Alphabet--an extinct language from Syria, 1300 B.C.--confirm that puzzlement is part of the desired effect here. Where direct exchange between sign and meaning is impossible, the beauty of the symbol...
Dates: 2006