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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2625 Collections and/or Records:

Pitiless Pieta / Jack A. Hirschman., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-09032-9209
Scope and Contents

Deals with the issue of the "atrocity reports of the Iraqis...to the exclusion of all the people we had destroyed..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Place Names of Oxfordshire / Claire, Paula ; Spencer, Isabelle., 1981 - 1991

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Identifier: CC-17475-17841
Scope and Contents

The poem is by Claire (composed in 1981) and the calligraphy by Spencer. Isabelle Spencer (1924-2011) was a teacher in the British school system and a calligrapher. The other copy of this book is owned by Paula Claire. The poem is in the poetic style of naming ships by Ian Hamilton Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981 - 1991

planaxol chromatographic edge book / Kocman, J.H.., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-59387-56760
Scope and Contents

This booklet in concept resembles booklets made by Wally Depew. It was probably made by dipping the blank pages of this booklet into diluted planaxol. planaxol is a special resin glue for manual perfect binding of most paper grades as well as for many other adhesives work with paper, cardboard, textiles, etc. The booklet is rubberstamped 241 on the back cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

planaxol continueted dripping book / Kocman, J.H.., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-59388-10002464
Scope and Contents

This booklet in concept resembles booklets made by Wally Depew. It was probably made by dripping planaxol onto a blank page of the unassembed booklet. Planaxol is a special redin glue for manual perfect binding of most paper grades as well as for many other adhesives work with paper, cardboard, textiles, etc. It is rubberstamped 157 on the back cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

[Please make our birthdays better than last year] / Leftwich, Jim., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-36966-38799
Scope and Contents

This book is a combination of visual poems, philosophical musings, abstract drawings and found poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Pleute glotz Euch an restlos - Dada; Ubi DADA, ibi bene / Bergius, Hanne, editor ; Reese, Harry ; Arp H ; Baader J ; Ball H ; Ernst M ; Grosz G ; Hausmann R ; Huelsenbeck R ; Mehring W ; Ray M ; Schwitters K ; Tzara T., 1992

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Identifier: CC-23933-24381
Scope and Contents

This is designated No.25 in the series, Werkzeichnis. It contains prints with dada texts reinterpreted with contemporary typography by the press. There are three abstract expressionistic paintings on paper included in this work which were done by Harry Reese (Turkey Press, Santa Barbara, California). The soft cover book by Hanne Bergius, subtitled "Yes to the gigantic world-nonsence," is an essay on the definition of Dada. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Plexiglas-Objekt Nr.3 / Rudolf Englert., 1978

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Identifier: CC-14375-14684
Scope and Contents

Reproduced in Rudolph Englert's exhibition catalogue, "Bilder, Zeichnungen Objekte 1941-1979, a book held by the Sackner Archive. Englert was born in 1921 and died in 1989. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Plexiglas-Objekt Nr.3 / Rudolf Englert., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-14375-14684
Scope and Contents

Reproduced in Rudolph Englert's exhibition catalogue, "Bilder, Zeichnungen Objekte 1941-1979, a book held by the Sackner Archive. Englert was born in 1921 and died in 1989. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Plum Bananas / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09161-9342
Scope and Contents

The title of this book is a double entendre. It is a love poem superimposed on a background of King Solomon's alphabet. The poem closes with "Plum Bananas Over You." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Pocket Poems / Danon, Betty., 1980

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Identifier: CC-15906-16239
Scope and Contents

Several of the cards have been altered with a rainbow, others are original with a rainbow theme. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Poem with 3 Stripes / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1964

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Identifier: CC-12576-12808
Scope and Contents

The pages are black colored stock with a single printed word collaged on the page. The typeface of the words progressively increases in dimension with each page. The words are fug. chug. glug. tug. This book was in the collection of Grant U. Roman who was negotiating with Finlay to publish the book. It is not cited in the Finlay bibliographies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Poemes Negres / Poynder, Macha ; Dachy M ; Tzara T., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-32758-34349
Scope and Contents

The sound poems, that are adapted from Tzara's Dada work, are printed on the recto of a single page with 20 folds. The verso consists of 20 ideographic images on newsprint divided by the 20 folds. The newsprint is Chinese text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Poemes (Zehn) Visibles / Helmes, Scott., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-30811-32257
Scope and Contents

Each of the ten poems consists of reproductions of cut up, fragmented illustrations from magazines arranged in an unstructured grid. The letter states that this book is a gift for Ruth and Marvin's birthdays. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998