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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 417 Collections and/or Records:

It Looks Like Snow / Charlip, Remy., 1957

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Identifier: CC-19153-19532
Scope and Contents

The pages contain citations at the bottom for the proposed images of this "picture book" sans images. Since the dedication of this work reads "for John Cage," the metaphor may signify the musical silences in the composer's avant garde musical scores. This copy might be much less than 750 copies. The completed book was published in 1962 but is out of print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957

It Looks Like Snow (Expurgated Version) / Charlip, Remy ; Cage J., 1957

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Identifier: CC-19154-19533
Scope and Contents

All pages are blank in this version of the booklet with its title perhaps further alluding to the minimalist musical scores of John Cage. This copy may be unique. However, the completed book was published in 1962 but is out of print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957

Italian Lesson No.7: The Addresses of Nora Barnacle & James Joyce in Trieste 1905-1915 / Van Horn, Erica; Joyce J., 1992

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Identifier: CC-00793-812
Scope and Contents

Card lists the seven addresses where Joyce stayed in Trieste. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Je M'En Lave Les Mains / Broodthaers, Marcel., 1982

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Identifier: CC-21014-21423
Scope and Contents

Text dates from 1962-1963. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1988

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Identifier: CC-16341-16691
Scope and Contents

Depicts reproductions of this work, four drawings to each page arranged in a grid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Knowledge Never Knew, 1983

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Identifier: CC-38631-40540
Scope and Contents

The pages of this book are laid out with a date or brief, useless news item at the top and a seemingly unrelated aphorism at the bottom with blank space in between. The aphorisms (which McCaffery calls condensed ruins) "audaciously assert, assiduously penetrate and generally cast thought around key terms of book, writing, philosophy and living." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

La Valse des Voyelles / Devaux, Frederique., 1988

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Identifier: CC-15258-15580
Scope and Contents

The text relates to description of paintings without visual information. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Landscape: Project and Concept / Janovskij, Jaroslav, editor ; Korol M., 1996

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Identifier: CC-33069-34694
Scope and Contents

Text and image are integrated and related to the Ukranian landscape and people. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

landscapes I / Valoch, Jiri., 1972

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Identifier: CC-57301-63408
Scope and Contents

Each card isdivided in half horizontally. The top half is consistently "Blue" adn the bottom varies to reflect the different colors of the earth - green. yellow, blue etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci edited by Craig Dworkin / Acconci, Vito ; Dworkin C ; Goldsmith K., 2006

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Identifier: CC-46350-49075
Scope and Contents

This collection of Acconci's poems is edited by Craig Dworkin who contributed an introduction titled "Delay in Verse." He writes that reframing text from the New York Times and the New York City weather report respectively, Goldsmith's books 'Day' and 'The Weather' were written with complete lack of knowledge of Acconci's own newspaper and weather forecast poems from thirty-five years earlier, despite the striking and uncanny resemblance of those subsequent precedents. The books by Goldsmith are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

[Late Last Night...] / Curnoe, Greg., 1966

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Identifier: CC-18872-19250
Scope and Contents

Page from Curnoe's diary in which he mentions that his Isuprel (aerosol spray for asthma) ran out. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Le Poipoidrome Ambulant OO / Filliou, Robert ; Pfeufer, Joachim., 1975

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Identifier: CC-11298-11514
Scope and Contents

This work deals with the idea of constructing an environment based upon the ritual of the African Dogon-Tribe called "PoiPoi". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975