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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 417 Collections and/or Records:

Memo(random) Memo(ry) / Crozier, Robin; Sackner, Marvin., 1983

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Identifier: CC-19223-19606
Scope and Contents

Marvin Sackner was told to respond to the question "What do you remember about 23:10:83?" The page is blank. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Memo(random) Memo(ry) / Crozier, Robin; Sackner, Marvin; Zack, David., 1983

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Identifier: CC-59768-10002826
Scope and Contents

Marvin Sackner was told to respond to the question "What do you remember about 23:6:83?" He writes " It was the day before our wedding anniversary & I had to remind myself not to forget it! David Zack writes on the verso "Marvin Sackner as a name rings a bell but the memorysheds on light on who he is..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Merry Christmas All Year Long / Young, Karl., 1989

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Identifier: CC-00122-126
Dates: 1989
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)

Mnemosyne Atlas 2012 / Powell, Freya ; del Rivero E., 2012

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Identifier: CC-59941-10002994
Dates: 2012
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)

Morning Star Folio, A: Occupancy. No.3-4/Dec / Barry Lopez., 1992

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Identifier: CC-06701-6820
Scope and Contents

Edited and designed by Alex Finlay. Documents Lopez's clearing of land and building a home in the Pacific Northwest with text, list of animal and plant species observed, and an annotated map. -- 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: Periodicals(unprocessed)

Mouths of the Amazon / Holdstock, P.J.., 1995

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Identifier: CC-34495-36192
Scope and Contents

Text deals with description of women's bodies in terms of geographical locations from the Index to the Times Concise Atlas of the World. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995
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)

music, 1971

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Identifier: CC-57297-63406
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All five envelopes are typed with the work "music" in the lower left corner.The enclosed cards are typed with the words music, drops, sand, stone, fragments, sky, and lines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / SMALL BOOKS

My Corner & Your Corner / Tot, Endre., 1972

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Identifier: CC-49480-70526
Dates: 1972
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)

My Frankenstein / Corris, Michael ; Reinhardt A., 1992

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Identifier: CC-19677-20064
Scope and Contents

The text and images are printed as dark grays or blacks on black such that their reading is made difficult. -- 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 (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS MOVED TO CATALOGING QUEUE

My Life and Works (An Autobiography) / Jones, P.W.., 1966

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Identifier: CC-30218-31621
Scope and Contents

The pages of this conceptual text are completely blank except for page numbers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966
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)

Names & Poems / Mirra, Helen., 1999

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Identifier: CC-35697-37447
Scope and Contents

One page consists of reproduced typewritten names of persons who visited Mirra's sculptural installation and the facing page a typed minimalist poem in response to the name. -- 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 (unprocessed)

Neue Texte: Quadrat Studie. No.13 / Friedrich Achleitner., 1974

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Identifier: CC-38288-40184
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a single word in varied positions within a square. -- 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: Periodicals(unprocessed)

Nine Essays on Concrete Poems, 1974

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Identifier: CC-15117-15435
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Includes several reprinted dictionary definitions of the words, "Concrete, Essay, Poem, and Poets." The back cover depicts a portrait of Wally Depew in Ben Day dots. -- 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 (processed) / BOOKS

No! Says the Signified / Arakawa., 1973 - 1974

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Identifier: CC-25698-26158
Scope and Contents Arakawa, Whose Art Tried to Halt Aging, Dies at 73 (May 20, 2010 NYT) By FRED A. BERNSTEIN Arakawa, a Japanese-born conceptual artist and designer, who with his wife, Madeline Gins, explored ideas about mortality by creating buildings meant to stop aging and preclude death, died Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 73. He had been hospitalized for a week, said Ms. Gins, who declined to give the cause of death. "This mortality thing is bad news," Ms. Gins said by phone from her studio on Houston Street. She said she would redouble her efforts to prove that "aging can be outlawed." Arakawa, who was known professionally by his surname, and Ms. Gins explored their philosophy, which they called Reversible Destiny, in poems, books, paintings and, when they found clients, buildings. Their most recent work, a house on Long Island, had a steeply sloped floor that threatened to send visitors hurtling into its kitchen. Called Bioscleave House (Lifespan Extending Villa), it featured more than three...
Dates: 1973 - 1974
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)

No.11 / Art Metropole ; Weiner L ; Andre C ; Broodthaers M ; Carrion U ; Higgins D ; Holzer J ; Kruger B ; Roth D ; Ben ; Barry R ; Burroughs WS ; Curnoe G ; McFadden D ; Fulton H ; Nordman M ; Paik NJ ; Vostell W ; Tremlett D ; Fox T ; Gysin B ; Snow M ; Acconci V ; Agnetti V ; Armleder J ; Atkinson C ; Barry R ; Beuys J ; Boetti A ; Boehmler C ; Bohmler C ; Boyle M ; Brouwn S ; Byars JL ; Cage J ; Corner P ; Curso G ; Costley R ; Finlay IH ; Curnoe G ; Darboven H ; Debord G ; Denes A ; Diacono M ; Duchamp M ; Filliou R ; Fulton H ; Garnet E ; Gerz J ; Graham D ; Haacke H ; Grisi L ; Hausmann R ; Hiller S ; Huelsenbeck R ; Johnson R ; Kawara O ; Knowles A ; Knowles C ; Kosuth J ; Latham J ; Levine L ; LeWitt S ; Long R ; Maciunas G ; MacLennan T ; Martin H ; Brecht G ; McLean B ; Merz M ; Michaux H ; Mields R ; Nannucci M ; Nations O ; Ontani L ; Opalka R ; Oldenburg C ; Paik NJ ; Parmiggiani C ; Pezold F ; Piper A ; Rosler M ; Roth D ; Ruppersberg A ; Ruscha E ; Samaras L ; Siegelaub S ; Snow M ; Sondheim A ; Staeck K ; Stokes T ; Douglas H ; Vazan B ; Wiens R ; Willats S ; Wilson I ; Williams E ; Young L., 1985

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Identifier: CC-25004-25457
Scope and Contents

The covers and pages of this catalogue were designed by Lawrence Weiner. -- 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: Catalogs (unprocessed)

Nomad. No.6/Spr / Rutkovsky F., 1994

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Identifier: CC-05708-5815
Scope and Contents

Described as an "Interdisciplinary Journal of the Humanities, Arts, And Sciences," this issue features a cover by Fran Rutkovsky. Also illustrated is a work held by the Sackner Archive titled "Family Values." -- 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: Periodicals(unprocessed)

North: Arbejder/Works 1967-1987. No.16 / Henrik Have ; Weiner L., 1992

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Identifier: CC-43637-45722
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: Periodicals(unprocessed)

North. No.1 / brogger s., 1976

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Identifier: CC-32061-33596
Scope and Contents

This periodical is dedicated to news of Scandinavian art and artistic activities, with original contributions by Scandinavian artists, interviews, and informative articles on artistic theory and history of art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Periodicals(unprocessed)

North. No.2 / Have H ; Regild C ; Sellem J., 1976

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Identifier: CC-32062-33597
Scope and Contents

This periodical is dedicated to news of Scandinavian art and artistic activities with original contributions by Scandinavian artists, interviews and informative articles on artistic theory and history of art. Henrik Have contributed a conceptual performance piece. Carsten Regild contributed an illustrated essay on new letterforms in the style of Ultra. This was further demonstrated by a printed piece using these letter forms that appear almost like hieroglyphics. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Periodicals(unprocessed)

North. No.4., 1977

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Identifier: CC-32064-33599
Scope and Contents

This periodical is dedicated to news of Scandinavian art and artistic activities with original contributions by Scandinavian artists, interviews and informative articles on artistic theory and history of art. -- 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: Periodicals(unprocessed)

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