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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 417 Collections and/or Records:

A New Seed / Cutts, Simon ; Fulton H ; Kitaj R ; Cutts S ; VanHorn E., 1989

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Identifier: CC-18071-18441
Scope and Contents

This catalog also is an artist book because of a conceptual text by Cutts which is included. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

A Simple Guide to Life / Hung, Berwyn., 1998

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Identifier: CC-37207-39051
Scope and Contents

The text reads "you are here" (with a large handwritten red X), "you will be here" (with a large handwritten silver X), and "you will get there" (with a large handwritten gray arrow). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

A Small Classical Dictionary / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1981

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Identifier: CC-11789-12008
Scope and Contents

Definitions of several words, e.g., arrow, bark, corot, etc. are printed one to a page but the definitions are contradictions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Abacus: Exposed Faces. No.4/Jul / Tina Darragh., 1984

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Identifier: CC-25786-26246
Scope and Contents

Edited by Peter Ganick. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Absolute Possesive Pronouns / Tot, Endre., 1972

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Identifier: CC-49470-70516
Scope and Contents

A single pronoun is printed on each card, e,g., mine, his, hers, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Accounting / Kostelanetz, Richard., 1973

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Identifier: CC-53077-74223
Scope and Contents

The pages depict orderly pyramids of numbers from 0 to 9. This booklet is also designated Poetry Newsletter Special Issue 14 (PNSI 14). One copy is stored in a Depew Box and another in a Kostelanetz box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

All Art Has Been Contemporary: 24 Hours of Celebration / Nannucci, Massimo; Marclay, Christian., 2011

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Identifier: CC-53096-74243
Scope and Contents

The cards were an invitation to the opening of the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art. Nannucci's card listed the 24 hour museum schedule that included Christian Marclay's video "The Clock" to be shown for 24 hours "starring watches, clock towers, sundials and countdowns - that sequences a century of past cinematic highlights to mark the passage of present time, minute by minute, in sync with the local time zone. The Sackners were invited to the opening by Daphne Farago, some of whose gifts of ceramics, jewelry and fabrics will be on exhibition. These cards are stored in the Nannucci box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

An Improved Classical Dictionary / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1981

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Identifier: CC-11776-11995
Scope and Contents

Includes a contradictory quotation from classical literature along with a definition of a single word to a page, e.g., honey, ripple, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

An Unknown Art History / Rickaby, Tony., 1975

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Identifier: CC-32091-33628
Scope and Contents

This book is divided into eighteen chapters that tell the story of two characters, A and C. The story is placed on the left hand page with three illustrations at the lower left corner of each page. One always illustrates the story in conventional drawings; the second always is the head of a man and the third always is a crowd scene. The text on the right hand pages consists of six quotations from varied sources printed in differing typefaces. The sources are listed in a bibliography .Drawings were done by Jasper Deane. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Andouille / Reutersward, Carl Fredrik., 1964

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Identifier: CC-30203-31605
Scope and Contents

The text of this book consists of seven pages of French names separated by variable spaces and without punctuation, e.g., Victor Isidore Desire Emile Robert Victor Isidore, etc. The line drawing of Reutersward's profile was made by connecting the numbered dots printed underneath the tipped-in translucent paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Anthology / Finlay, Alec, editor ; Finlay IH ; MacLow J ; Cutts S ; Waanders H ; Clark TA ; Buchler P ; Tuttle R ; Finlay A ; Weiner L., 1997

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Identifier: CC-30372-31787
Scope and Contents

The labels are printed poems in varied typefaces and colors that are referenced to the titles written on each page. The handwritten titles appear to be done by different people but their origins are not identified. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

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