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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 438 Collections and/or Records:

AAAABBCDDD / Nikonova, Rea., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-60299-10003299
Scope and Contents

This work was included in pete spence's archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995
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(unprocessed)

AbaB / Campbell, Ken., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-19118-19497
Scope and Contents

Campbell's comments on this book can be found in his exhibition catalogue at the Yale Center for British Art (held by the Sackner Archive). He mentions that he just wanted to make a leporello [accordion book]... and a propostion for a sculpture. This book was printed byh Jim Birnie. -- 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 (unprocessed)

Abacus: Pattern Poems. No.125/Oct / Barbara Hocker., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33234-34864
Scope and Contents

The initial 26 poems comprising, "Alpha Lace," consist of highly abstracted images of each letter of the alphabet formed by repetitively entwining each letter with another in varied fonts to achieve lace-like presentations. In other concrete poems, Hocker utilizes printed and mixtures of printed and handwritten words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

ABC = Buchlein / Enke, Werner., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-14108-14413
Scope and Contents

A typographically designed page for each letter of the alphabet is alternated with a page of text and image incorporating words using that particular letter of the alphabet. The end papers have letters of varying typefaces embedded in the paper. The black leather front cover has an uppercase A and the back cover an uppercase Z. This copy is from the deluxe edition that is printed on handmade paper and is a masterpiece of inventive, letterpress printing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

ABC in a Maze / Crombie, John., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-17972-18342
Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets (unprocessed)

ABC in Sound / Cobbing, Bob., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-20534-20931
Scope and Contents

This is the 5th edition of a book, entitled originally "Sound Poems" first printed in 1965. Cobbing comments that in this edition an error was corrected, thus making it the definitive edition. -- 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: Books (unprocessed)

ABC / McKay, Sally., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-06789-6908
Scope and Contents

Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a commercial product, viz., food, detergent, candy, starting with the same letter -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Booklets (unprocessed)

ABC - Quotarium, 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-21335-21746
Dates: 1970
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

ABC... / Stetser, Carol., 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-47589-68598
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: Booklets (unprocessed)

abcd... / Grogerova, Bohumila., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-10355-10558
Scope and Contents

The poem depicts the silouetted profiles of a man and a woman conversing as represented by a string of the letters of the alphabet passing from one to the other. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
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(unprocessed)

ABCDEFG... / Steven Clay., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-52615-73751
Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

ABCDEFG... / Steven Clay., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-52615-73751
Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

ABCDEFGHI ! / Satin, Claire Jeanine., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-48415-69441
Dates: 2008
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets (unprocessed)

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz (Alphabet Poem), 1963

 Item — Box 298: [Barcode: 31858072460870]
Identifier: CC-48358-69384
Scope and Contents This poem was included in several Fluxus boxes. There is no reference to Emmett Williams as an author of the scroll. AbeBooks: Printed scroll of 3 conjoined sheets of buff-colored laid stock, rolled as issued. 2217 x 58 mm. (ca. 87 1/4 x 2 3/8 inches). A fine copy. "A Fluxus printing of "abcedfghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz,' also called "Alphabet Poem,' was usually included in "Fluxus 1" and "Fluxkit.' This work was first published by Verlag Kalender, the publishing house of Bernd Ebeling and Hansjoachim Dietrich, Wuppertal, West Germany, ca. 1961. They also published "Kalender Rolle,' a survey of avant-garde art in 1961 and again in 1962. Printed on a long scroll, their form influenced several Fluxus publications, such as "Fluxus Preview Review'" (Jon Hendricks, in Fluxus Codex). Williams' "An Opera' was issued in the same format, and distributed in the same way. Only the alphabet poem itself appears on the scroll; there is no credit to Williams, nor any publication information. -- Source...
Dates: 1963
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

Abcdiario / Knistoff, Fredy Flores., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-08054-8214
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: Books (unprocessed)

abece / Calle, Johanna., 2011

 Item
Identifier: CC-54844-990273
Dates: 2011
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Abecedarium: An Exhibit of Alphabet Books / Pisano M ; Satin CJ ; Metz B ; Glaister D ; Moore S ; Sampson M ; Leavitt N., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-32071-33606
Scope and Contents

The catalogue is shaped like alphabetical file cards with each artist's name printed on the tabs. The exhibition was curated by Barbara Lazarus Metz and the catalogue was designed by Bill Drendel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998
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(unprocessed)

Abecedarium / Nieblich, Wolfgang., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-44112-46234
Scope and Contents

Each letter of the alphabet has a composition on a single page in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

ABFHILNOUVXYZ / Cremer, Sigfrid; Cladders J., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-19828-20215
Scope and Contents

The images of the letters listed as the title are designed in a positive/negative mode, one letter to a print, reminiscent of the print, "Negative," by Ann Noel, also held in the Sackner Archive. The original portfolio was discarded owing to water damage in an accident; some of the prints have signs of water damage at their bottoms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966
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(unprocessed)

ABOLEM / Padin, Clemente., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-60503-10003417
Scope and Contents

This leaflet was taken from the Archive of O!!Zone 1997. Stored in Padin box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets (unprocessed)

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