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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 438 Collections and/or Records:

Mediterranean Alphabets/Les Alphabets Mediterraneens / Bernard Vuarnesson., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-27170-27645
Scope and Contents

This wooden puzzle shows the five alphabets that originated in the Mediterranean basin and are still in use: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Arabic. The six side of the block is composed of Cuneiform characters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985
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

Mercato Del Sale: alfabeti. No.17/Sep / Pino Tovaglia., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-37766-39645
Scope and Contents

The same print in this folder is also printed with large white borders and signed in an addition of 100 copies; the latter is held by the Sackner Archive and catalogued under the artist's name. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975
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)

Mes Enluminures / Messager, Annette., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-06645-6764
Scope and Contents

Each page has a letter of the alphabet drawn with a visual reference and forms a letter of the word it represents. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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 (unprocessed)

Midrash / Avadenka, Lynne., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-25699-26159
Scope and Contents

The poems and prints that are affixed to facing pages deal with each Hebrew letter making up the word, "Midrash,' which is the early Hebrew commentary on the bible. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Books (unprocessed)

Motorcycle Dream, 1983

 Item — Folder 73: [Barcode: 31858072538089]
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 (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Mysteries of the Alphabet / Ouaknin, Marc-Alain ; Josephine Bacon, translator ; Lalou F ; Massoudy H., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-32538-34117
Scope and Contents The subtitle of the book is "The Origins of writing." Part one consists of "Origin & Development;" part two "The Alphabet;" in which each letter is separately traced from the Proto-Sinaitic down to the modern alphabets; part three"the Archeographic Revolution." The book is dedicated to the Proto-Sinaitic or Proto-Semitic alphabet discovered during excavations in the Sinai desert, that was used for writing a Semitic language by the Hebrew slaves in Egypt. Proto-Sinaitic consisted of pictograms. It is the alphabet from which the Canaanite, Phoenician, Aramaic, paleo-Hebrew, Hebrew, Greek, and Arabic scripts were derived, continuing down to the modern European alphabets, via Etruscan and Latin. Reproductions of stylized Hebrew calligraphy by Frank Lalou (pages 73-75, 245, 259, 269, 331) and a shaped poem in Arabic (page 59) by Massoudy are included in the book. Oukaknin describes the birth of a letter and the alphabet. The first stage is pictographic, i.e., images or drawings that...
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: Books (unprocessed)

Nailsworth Series: A is for Artist... / Furnival, John., 1994

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-13186-13487
Scope and Contents

This is part of the Nailsworth series of prints and consists of a listing of phrases beginning with the letter "A." In a letter to the Sackners, Furnival indicates that he intends to do the entire alphabet in this format. The print is stored in the Locative and Vocative Case. -- 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 (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / John Furnival

Nailsworth Series: E Is for Eyes...

 Item — Folder 60: [Barcode: 31858072537941]
Dates: -
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Nailsworth Series: I Is for Improvement... , 1996

 Item — Folder 60: [Barcode: 31858072537941]
Identifier: CC-13192-13493
Scope and Contents

This print is completely textural and relates to the British poet, William Davies, who lived in the town of Nailsworth. Each line of text begins with the letter I, e.g. I is for Implements In May, I am the Poet Davies, William In Neath Valley, etc. This is stored in The Locative and Vocative Case. -- 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 (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Nailsworth Series: X is for Expecting... , 1995

 Item — Folder 60: [Barcode: 31858072537941]
Identifier: CC-13187-13488
Scope and Contents

Stored in The Locative and Vocative Case. -- 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 (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Nailsworth Series: Z is for Zany... , 1995

 Item — Folder 60: [Barcode: 31858072537941]
Identifier: CC-13188-13489
Scope and Contents

Stored in The Locative and Vocative Case. -- 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 (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Neo Poems / Colombo, John Robert., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-18330-18702
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: Books (unprocessed)

Neues U, B, C und Lesse=Buch / Haussius, Carl Gottlob., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-36402-38194
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint of a German lesson book on reading first published in 1795 in Leipzig. The typeface is based upon an old style German alphabet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969
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)

Neues U,B,C und Lefe = Buch / Haulius, Carl Gottlob., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-09577-9768
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint of a book published in 1795. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969
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)

[New York Antiquarian Book Fair] / Noret, Michele ; Ray M ; Arman ; Mayakovsky V ; Dotremont C ; Desnos R ; Eluard P ; Ben ; Filliou R ; Roth D ; Hoch H ; Lebedev V ; VanDerLeck B ; Lissitzky E ; Malevich K ; Popova L ; Schwitters K ; Steinitz K ; VanDoesburg T ; Annenkoff G ; Warhol A ; Werkman HN., 2010

 Item
Identifier: CC-50956-72034
Scope and Contents

The majority of the books in this catalogue are children's books. -- 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: Catalogs (unprocessed)

nine leaves from nicholodeon; a book of lowerglyphs / Wershler-Henry, Darren; Nichol bp; Apollinaire G., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-37592-39449
Scope and Contents

Darrin S. Wershler-Henry aka manitoba alphabet cult. The pieces in this suite are reprintings of bp Nichol on the commemoration of dedication of bp nichol lane at the toronto small press book fair in 1994. -- 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: Various Formats(unprocessed)

No. 63: Recent Acquisitions / Veatchs Arts of the Book, The ; Ely T ; Baskin L ; Baker N ; Moser B ; Zapf H ; Archetype Press., 2009

 Item
Identifier: CC-50074-71134
Scope and Contents

Includes a listing for "The Next Millennium" printed by Archtype Press in Pasadena, California. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs (unprocessed)

No.5: Supplement / Basilisk Press ; Hudson M ; King R ; Fisher R ; Crombie J ; King S ; Hamady W ; Schnabel B ; Taylor T ; Allix S., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-22539-22964
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: Catalogs (unprocessed)

No.8 / Noret, Michele ; Apollinaire G ; Borges J ; Cendrars B ; Chwast S ; Desnos R ; Goncharova N ; Larionov M ; Hoch H ; Hoffmeister A ; Lavater W ; Lissitzky E ; Munari B ; Rodchenko A ; Popova L ; Prevert J ; Steinitz K ; Werkman HN., 2009

 Item
Identifier: CC-50879-71957
Dates: 2009
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs (unprocessed)

No.34/Oct / Librairie Nicaise ; Dorny B ; Picabia F ; Soupault P ; Stein G ; Warhol A ; Zadkine O ; Alberola JM ; Alechinsky P ; Coron B ; Crombie J ; Delaunay S ; Dupont A ; Erte ; Flocon A ; Higgins D ; King R ; Lalou F ; Lambert JC ; Lemant A ; Ray M ; Mesens E ; Nezval V ; Perec G ; Dado ; Perus N ; Queneau R ; Russell B ; Satie A ; Scanreigh JM ; Topor R ; Xenakis C ; Zumthor P ; Chopin H., 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-44353-46502
Scope and Contents

This catalogue featured alphabetical texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs (unprocessed)

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