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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2489 Collections and/or Records:

I Spent the Summer in Paris / King, Susan., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-31456-32946
Scope and Contents

This edition was reprinted by Visual Studies Workshop in 1991. The bonding was adapted from design by Hedi Kyle. The story compares life in Paris, Kentucky to Paris, France. The former is printed as a normal font, the latter as an smaller, italic font printed between the lines of the former. -- 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: Books (unprocessed)

i tarocchi / gli arcani maggori / Caruso, Luciano., 1992 - 1993

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Identifier: CC-28572-29859
Scope and Contents

This suite of drawings depict Tarot card images in visual poetic terms. Two of the drawings provide brief handwritten explanations for each of the images. The remaining 22 drawings depict the individual cards. All drawings have white thick paint background on paper. They were framed and matted by Caruso and housed in a wooden box that has been painted and collaged on three of its sides. Photographic reproductions of the drawings are found in "Le Brache di Gutenberg: cronica n.s. 30, 1994," a periodical also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992 - 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(unprocessed)

I Wrap Sara Kali In The Sky / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1984

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Identifier: CC-46347-49072
Scope and Contents Hirschman's book is a homage to Sarah Kali accompanied by Gypsy glifs. According to Wikipedia, Saint Sarah is a patron saint venerated by the Roma (Gypsy) people. She is also known as Sara-la-Kali (Sara the black). The center of her cult is Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, a place of pilgrimage for Roma in the Camargue, in southern France, where legend identifies her as the servant of the two saints Mary commemorated in the town. An alternative legend has her as a pagan of noble birth and being converted to the faith of Abraham. In the traditional account, Saint Sarah was a native of Upper Egypt; after the Crucifixion of Jesus, Mary Salome, Mary Jacobe, and Mary Magdalene were cast adrift in a boat that arrived off the coast of what is now France "a sort of fortress named Oppdium-Ra", and the location was known as Notre-Dam-de-Ratis (Ra becoming Ratis, or boat); the name being changed to Notre-Dame-del-la-Mer, and then Le Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in 1838. Some say that the boat arrived in...
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: Books (unprocessed)

Ich Du, 1968

 Item — Box 170: [Barcode: 31858072458320]
Identifier: CC-22072-22488
Scope and Contents

The pages are rendered with highly innovative typographic lay-out designs. One fold-out page unfolds from its two folds to form a square shaped print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
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

[Ich Finde], 1987

 Item — Box 180: [Barcode: 31858072459500]
Identifier: CC-57621-57276
Scope and Contents

There are pseudo-German baroque texts running througout the book that spawn figures or heads from the letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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 (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS / Sandra Jackman

Iconomics 2.74: Infallible Counterfeit Detector / DeCoster, Miles., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-15059-15376
Scope and Contents

Tipped-in counterfeit money bills with documentation about them in English, Spanish, and made-up language. -- 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)

Icons, Imperial and Post-Revolutionary Russian Art / Christie's ; Malevich K ; Rozanova O ; Burliuk D ; Burliuk V ; Larionov M ; Goncharova N ; Lissitzky E ; Zdanevich I ; Zdanevich K ; Kruchenykh A ; Rodchenko A., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-18812-19189
Scope and Contents

Auction catalogue. This auction featured several rarely seen books from group 41 degrees. -- 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: Catalogs (unprocessed)

Idaho Biblio Treasures, 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-42438-44448
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: Catalogs (unprocessed)

Idaho Center for the Book Newsletter. No.2/Oct., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-31962-33490
Scope and Contents

The shape of this issue is a t-shirt as announced on the cover, "because people do read t-shirts." -- 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: Periodicals(unprocessed)

Ideas Are Linked - Tour Catalogue / Olbrich, Jurgen ; Stake C ; Banana A ; Blurr B ; Fish P ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA ; Pittore-Eurifico C., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-60356-52657
Scope and Contents

This book documents Olbrich's North American tour during 1985 including a visit to the Sackners house on Miami Beach from March 26 to April 1. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985
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)

ideogramme Universale, L' / Agnetti V ; Alloatti A ; Bendino D ; Chiari G ; Chopin H ; D'Albisola T ; Darboven H ; Denes A ; Diamantini C ; Dias-Pino W ; Klophaus A ; Kolar J ; Kostelanetz R ; LaRocca K ; Marinetti FT ; Mesciulam P ; Mussio M ; Opalka R ; Ori L ; Osti M ; Pike J ; Radin B ; Regina ; Sandri G ; Schendel M ; Spatola A ; Torelli A ; Vigo EA ; Bentivoglio M., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-28199-29365
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: Exhibit Catalogs(unprocessed)

If You Sleep on Your Other Side It Will Go Away / Hastings, Pattie Belle., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-09596-9787
Scope and Contents

Theme of this book is dreaming. -- 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: Books (unprocessed)

Ignorabitis / Eriksson, Leif., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-14056-14361
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: Booklets (unprocessed)

II / Andryczuk, Hartmut ; Konstriktor B ; Garnier P ; Andryczuk H ; Hitler A., 1996

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Identifier: CC-36786-38611
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: Catalogs (unprocessed)

Ikoe Ole / Fedulov, Alexander., 1985 - 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-35515-37255
Scope and Contents

There are 26 drawings in black and red inks that are framed by a row of newsprint; each of 13 pages has two drawings. In addition, there are three drawings in black and red inks that are not framed by a row of newsprint. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985 - 1998
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)

Il Cerchia dell Evocazione Demoniaco / Caruso, Luciano., 1977 - 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-19441-19824
Scope and Contents

The title translated into English means, The Circle of Demoniacal Recollections. The book has an appearance of an ancient one owing to the vellum binding with leather thongs. Caruso has used white paint for the written text making its reading difficult. There is a round perforation through all the pages, 7 cm in diameter, that exposes a crystal stone collaged onto the inside back cover. Several styles of calligraphy on the pages have been employed by Caruso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977 - 1978
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)

Il Cristo Cancellatore / Isgro, Emilio ; Restany P., 1968

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Identifier: CC-36706-38522
Scope and Contents

The folded pamphlet includes an introductory essay by Pierre Restany and a manifesto by Isgro. The religious text in the books is cancelled with wide, black markings, so that no words, or very few words, remain visible on the page. The cancellations are typical of Isgro's visual poetic style. The four volumes are titled 1 to 4 Puntata. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968
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)

Il Disconto / Caruso, Luciano., 1980 - 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-19134-19513
Scope and Contents

The content of this book is almost wholly calligraphic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980 - 1982
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)

Il Libro a Quadretti / Pavanello, Giancarlo., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-04563-4650
Scope and Contents

The book also has 16 blank pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977
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)

Il Mio Pensiero / Caruso, Luciano., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-19138-19517
Scope and Contents

The book is written in a free, experimental, calligraphic style. -- 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)

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