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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 343 Collections and/or Records:

And / Crombie, John ; Harig L., 1998

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Identifier: CC-46399-49124
Scope and Contents

This copy of the book was printed on Hahnemuhle. The Sackner Archive also holds the ordinary edition that was printed on art board. The words "Now All Is Always" were strung together by T.S. Eliot in "Four Quarters" and later by Ludwig Harig in "Sprechstudien." This book is also entitled "Four Wise Words." -- 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: Booklets

Another Almanac of Words at Play / Espy, Willard R. ; Smith WJ ; Burroughs WS ; Dante ; Ginsberg A ; Fisher E ; Kostelanetz R ; Updike J ; Wincor R ; Smith Sv ; Harlam S ; Morgenstern C., 1980

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Identifier: CC-14211-14517
Scope and Contents

The concrete poems that appeared in this anthology were composed by William Jay Smith, Richard Kostelanetz, Ed Fisher, Sam Harlan, Louis Phillips, and Richard Wincor. -- 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

Another Almanac of Words at Play / Espy, Willard R. ; Smith WJ ; Burroughs WS ; Dante ; Ginsberg A ; Fisher E ; Kostelanetz R ; Updike J ; Wincor R ; Smith Sv ; Harlam S ; Morgenstern C., 1980

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Identifier: CC-36209-37996
Scope and Contents

The concrete poems that appeared in this anthology were composed by William Jay Smith, Richard Kostelanetz, Ed Fisher, Sam Harlan, Louis Phillips, and Richard Wincor. -- 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

Anthropomorphiks / Fones, Robert., 1971

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Identifier: CC-11395-11611
Scope and Contents Described as "being a collection of poems, drawings photograms & Logos." Each page presents a human-like figure representing a commercial product, e.g., the Michelin tire man. 'Anthropomophiks' are creatures of a collective imagination. One would have to look to The Doctrine of Signatures through the eyes of an Ad Man to see them for what they are. This is definitely not Pop Poetry. According to a bookseller, the sensitivity that imbues each object comes directly from the mind/heart of a young seer engaged in the unpopular activity of revealing our selves to ourselves. Clearly in the tradition of the French Surrealists and Dadaists and the Russian and Italian Futurists, Fones' poems and kollages make up a vision of pure contemporaneity in which the figures in the landscape are real people possessed by the idea of mechanization in a world that disallows the personal. As a first book of poems this is an unguarded achievement, one which promises much for the future of both writing...
Dates: 1971
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Anthropomorphiks / Fones, Robert., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-44084-46202
Scope and Contents Described as "being a collection of poems, drawings photograms & Logos." Each page presents a human-like figure representing a commercial product, e.g., the Michelin tire man. 'Anthropomophiks' are creatures of a collective imagination. One would have to look to The Doctrine of Signatures through the eyes of an Ad Man to see them for what they are. This is definitely not Pop Poetry. According to a bookseller, the sensitivity that imbues each object comes directly from the mind/heart of a young seer engaged in the unpopular activity of revealing our selves to ourselves. Clearly in the tradition of the French Surrealists and Dadaists and the Russian and Italian Futurists, Fones' poems and kollages make up a vision of pure contemporaneity in which the figures in the landscape are real people possessed by the idea of mechanization in a world that disallows the personal. As a first book of poems this is an unguarded achievement, one which promises much for the future of both writing...
Dates: 1971
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Anticipations / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1982

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Identifier: CC-11782-12001
Scope and Contents

This booklet consists of philosophical quotations. -- 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: Booklets

Any Surplus Is Immoral, 1991

 Item — Box 132: [Barcode: 31858072457827]
Identifier: CC-09364-9550
Scope and Contents

Each rubberstamp has one aphorism, e.g., "Words Tend To Be Inadequate." Stephen Bury in "Artist's Multiples," list the title as "Untitled," 1991. -- 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 / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

Archetype Press: don't judge a book by its cover: A Typographic Collection of American Proverbs. No.41/Spr / Gloria Kondrup, editor., 2007

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Identifier: CC-48972-70010
Scope and Contents

The binding is by Alice Vaughn who left the vertical sides uncovered and used a partial slipcase to protect one vertical side. -- 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: Periodicals

Archetype Press: Social Impressions: A Portfolio of Quotations, Ornaments, & Printed Ephemera about Relevant Issues of the Day. No.2/Spr / Vance Studley, editor., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-51677-72777
Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Ars Longa x Vita Brevis / Branco, Joaquim., 1979

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Identifier: CC-21994-22406
Dates: 1979
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

ART = ART / Kozlowski, Jaroslaw., 1971

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Identifier: CC-37067-38908
Scope and Contents

The artist typed his name on the verso of this print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971
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

Art Is a Small Adjust-ment / Ian Hamilton Finlay., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-38162-40056
Scope and Contents

The title is machine stitched on the bottom of the brown, Scottish wool scarf. A corner of the scarf is folded and tacked down. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001
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

Art Is a Small Adjust-ment / Ian Hamilton Finlay., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-38162-40056
Scope and Contents

The title is machine stitched on the bottom of the brown, Scottish wool scarf. A corner of the scarf is folded and tacked down. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001
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

Art Now Is The Mirror Of Your Society / Rehfeldt, Robert., 1983

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Identifier: CC-62602-47764
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: Various Formats

Arte Postale!. No.70/Mar-Apr / Baroni V ; Olbrich JO., 1995

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Identifier: CC-26861-27332
Scope and Contents

Edited by Vittore Baroni, this issue is dedicated to the work of Jurgen Olbrich and coincides with an exhibition in Baroni's gallery, Il Soppalco. The covers have original colored photocopied prints by Olbrich. -- 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: Periodicals

Arte Postale!. No.70/Mar-Apr / Baroni V ; Olbrich JO., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-26863-27334
Scope and Contents

Edited by Vittore Baroni, this issue is dedicated to the work of Jurgen Olbrich and coincides with an exhibition in Baroni's gallery, Il Soppalco. The covers have original colored photocopied prints by Olbrich. -- 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: Periodicals

Arte Postale!. No.70/Mar-Apr / Baroni V ; Olbrich JO., 1995

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Identifier: CC-39358-41309
Scope and Contents

Edited by Vittore Baroni, this issue is dedicated to the work of Jurgen Olbrich and coincides with an exhibition in Baroni's gallery, Il Soppalco. The covers have original colored photocopied prints by Olbrich. -- 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: Periodicals

Arte Postale!. No.70/Mar-Apr / Olbrich JO ; Baroni V., 1995

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Identifier: CC-26846-27316
Scope and Contents

Edited by Vittore Baroni, this issue is dedicated to the work of Jurgen Olbrich and coincides with an exhibition in Baroni's gallery, Il Soppalco. The covers have original colored photocopied prints by Olbrich. -- 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: Periodicals

Article of Faith, Antithesis: leave. / Russ, Andrew., 1993

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Identifier: CC-03618-3683
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

ascii intervention: Fuck Off. No.1 / Anonymous., 1996

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Identifier: CC-37618-39475
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: Periodicals

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