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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 473 Collections and/or Records:

Fug You / Sanders, Edward ; levy da., 2011

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Identifier: CC-54965-990377
Scope and Contents From the dust jacket cover: "An informal history of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side."Amazon.com: Fug You traces the flowering years of New York's downtown bohemia in the sixties, starting with the marketing problems presented by publishing Fuck You / A Magazine of the Arts, as it faced the aboveground's scrutiny, and leading to Sanders's arrest after a raid on his Peace Eye Bookstore. The memoir also traces the career of the Fugs--formed in 1964 by Sanders and his neighbor, the legendary Tuli Kupferberg (called "the world's oldest living hippie" by Allen Ginsberg)--as Sanders strives to find a home for this famous postmodern, innovative anarcho-folk-rock band in the world of record labelsPrague Post: "This inspiring, enlightening book is a compendium of 1960s American culture enlivened by hilarious stories, unbelievable adventures and, surprisingly, more than a tab of humility"¦It is rare that a memoir of the 1960s...
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

Futurismo-Oggi. No.3-4/Mar-Apr / Morpurgo N ; Seuphor M., 1975

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Identifier: CC-12205-12429
Scope and Contents

Edited by Enzo Benedetto. Includes a brief biographic note on several lesser known Futurists. -- 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

Futurist Art and Theory 1909-1915 / Martin, Marianne W. ; Marinetti FT ; Boccioni U ; Balla G ; Carra C ; Severini G ; Russolo L ; Soffici A ; Sant'Elia A., 1978

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Identifier: CC-53664-291367
Scope and Contents

This book mainly deals with the origins of Futurist theory and visual art and the first generation of Futurist artists. Scant attention is directed to Parole in Liberta. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 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

Gabriel Pomerand / Letailleur, Francois., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42282-44292
Scope and Contents

Pomerand was born in 1925 and committed suicide in 1972. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Gazette of the Grolier Club. No.61., 2010

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Identifier: CC-53143-74295
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: Periodicals

Georges Perec A Life in Words, 1993

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Identifier: CC-27488-28536
Scope and Contents This biography of Georges Perec (1936-1982), novelist, poet, verbal gamesman, and master puzzler, whom Italo Calvino called, 'so singular a literary personality that he bears absolutely no resemblance to anyone else,' is very lucidly presented. The biographer, David Bellos, also the English translator of Perec's books, has written such an interesting book that it almost reads like a fictional account of Perec's life. It is extremely well researched and documented. Examples of Perec's typewriter art, which he did mostly while working as a technician in a Neurophysiology Laboratory in Paris are printed on pages 260 and 690. Alexander Laurence wrote the following book review printed on the Internet 1999.We're all familiar with the term "slacker" and characteristics of the twenty-nothings who populate Douglas Coupland's novel Generation X. These are all attempts to capture a vibrant youth culture that adds to the present time. But what if I were to tell you that the French writer,...
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 / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

Gottfried Benn und Else Lasker-schuler / Sanders-Brahms, Helma., 1998

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Identifier: CC-58995-10002188
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: Books

Graphic, Objective and Other Poems / Chopin, Henri ; Hanson S ; Burroughs WS., 1974

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Identifier: CC-17059-17416
Scope and Contents

Sten Hanson's essay on "Henri Chopin, the Sound Poet" traces his career and analyzes his work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974
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

Great Bear Pamphlet, A: Autobiography. No.13 / David Antin., 1967

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Identifier: CC-10199-10400
Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Gronk: Rose Way in the East. No.7 / Andrew Sukanski ; bissett b., 1969

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Identifier: CC-30108-31506
Scope and Contents

Issues of Gronk were usually published in tirage of 400 copies. The poems are combinations of handwritten Haikus and ideograms. Their layout and style were influenced by bill bissett as acknowledged by Suknaski . -- 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: Periodicals

Guillaume Apollinaire / Little, Roger., 1976

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Identifier: CC-06954-7077
Dates: 1976
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Guy De Cointet edited by Marie de Brugerolle, 2011

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Identifier: CC-53176-74328
Scope and Contents

Guy de Cointet was born in Paris in 1934 and died in Los Angeles in 1983. Note that the drawing (1978) on page 64 is in the same style and dimensions as the Sackner Archive held drawing, Ut To Be Realized (1977). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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

Guy Debord by Anselm Jappe / Debord, Guy ; Donald Nicholson-Smith, translator ; Adorno T ; Beckett S ; Breton A ; Isou I ; Jorn A ; Malevich K ; Mallarme S ; Marcus G ; McLuhan M ; Curtay JP., 1999

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Identifier: CC-38634-40543
Scope and Contents

This book is considered "the first serious intellectual biography of Guy Debord, prime mover of the Situationist International (1957-1972) and the author of 'The Society of the Spectacle,' perhaps the seminal book of May 1968 in France...Jappe's book offers a lively account of the theory and practice of this 'last avant garde' on its way from radical bohemianism to revolutionary theory. It also deals with Debord's post-Situationist work and with his films, which are at present largely inaccessible" -- 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: Books

Hannah Weiner / Bernstein, Charles., 2000

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Identifier: CC-47833-68853
Scope and Contents

Stored with Hannah Weiner material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000
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

Havel: A Life, 2014

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Identifier: CC-60331-10003317
Scope and Contents Stored in Havel box. Pages 74 and 75 depict examples of Havel's typed political slogans.James Kirchick WSJ review: The life of Vaclav Havel had all the makings of a fairy tale. The son of a wealthy property owner dispossessed of his holdings by the Czechoslovak communist regime, Havel (1936-2011) was denied higher education on account of his bourgeois upbringing. Not to be discouraged, he found his place in Prague's mushrooming bohemian theater scene, where he made friends with long-haired poets, rebellious rock musicians and other outcasts from the country's official cultural institutions. Penning subversive plays and essays, he soon emerged as the government's most articulate and fearless critic"”a role that earned him multiple prison stints under pitiless conditions that nearly killed him. With the Iron Curtain collapsing behind him, he hesitantly stepped out onto the political stage to lead a revolution so peaceful it was called velvet. He then became president by acclamation...
Dates: 2014
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Hear The Art (Earth Heart) / Tipping, Richard Kelly., 1997

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Identifier: CC-27698-28787
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive is listed as holding works by Tipping. -- 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: Exhibit Catalogs

Heartbeat Babe / Sloy., 2006

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Identifier: CC-46046-48754
Dates: 2006
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Henry E. Huntington's Library of Libraries / Dickenson, Donald C.., 1994

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Identifier: CC-16198-16541
Scope and Contents

Definitive biography of Henry Huntington, the greatest American book collector of the 20th century. -- 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

Henry Edwards Huntington: His Life and His Collections / Spurgeon, Selena A.., 1992

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Identifier: CC-02547-2589
Scope and Contents

The book provides a biography of Huntington, one of the greatest book collectors of the 20th century. -- 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: Books

I Remember: In Praise of Julian M. Sobin / Franci, Paolo., 2002

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Identifier: CC-48816-69851
Dates: 2002
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

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