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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 417 Collections and/or Records:

Twelve Field Us(E)ages / Evans-Waugh, Dennis., 1980

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Identifier: CC-14292-14600
Scope and Contents

Dennis Evans-Waugh aka Dennis Evans. This catalog documents an installation with performance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Twenty Words / Turnbull, Gael., 1966

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Identifier: CC-01701-1737
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A word for each day was picked by a random method from Nov.17 to Dec.6, 1963 and 20 poems were composed around the word. Migrant Press, owned by Gael Turnbull, also published Ian Hamilton Finlay's 1960 "The Dancers Inherit the Party." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Two Oxford Reading Rooms / Kosuth, Joseph., 1994

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Identifier: CC-08133-8294
Scope and Contents

The titles of the books placed back to back (dos-a-dos) are 'Say: I do not Know' (Divinity School Bodleian Library Oxford University & 'The (Ethical) Space Of Cabinets 7&8' Volaire Room Taylor Institution Oxford University. The text ideas come from the classics. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

ubersetzung translation traduction ein polyglotter zyklus / Ulrichs, Timm., 1968 - 1974

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Identifier: CC-52381-73504
Scope and Contents

This is a publication of a text, written by Ulrichs, that has sent to another individual for translation from German to English, then to another individual from English to French, and so on through 25 languages. The final translation from Hindi back to German. As would be obvious to most playing a comparable speaking game called "rumors," alteration almost always occurs from the intial to final participant. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968 - 1974

Understand. This is only temporary. / Hompson, Davi Det., 1977

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Identifier: CC-32596-34177
Scope and Contents

Each page consists of a single sentence in quotation marks that appears to have been printed as a photocopier enlargement of a typing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

[Untitled], 1967

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Identifier: CC-20894-21303
Scope and Contents

The envelope is addressed to John Furnival. The messages are printed rather than calligraphed as in Ben's later works. The cards may have been published in 1963, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[Untitled] / Fisher, Joel., 1970

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Identifier: CC-30456-31877
Scope and Contents

Seventy pages of this book are devoted to conceptual texts photocopied one on each page from typed text. The pages are ordered alphabetically by title. An appendix contains copies of letters requesting the recipients to save their unopened mail for one week, place it in a box and send it to Fisher to be exhibited. None of the recipients agreed to participate. Marcia Tucker, associate curator at the Whitney Museum, wrote that she has "kept your entire letter and have added it to my files under the heading 'Unclassifiable Curious Documents.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

vecer akustickch kresb / Valoch, Jiri ; Grygara M ; Grygar M., 1968

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Identifier: CC-57283-63397
Scope and Contents

the material of this poem was chosen from the english-czech vocabulary by means of the index of random numbers and with help of the dicc -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

was/man/macht / Olbrich, Jurgen O.., 1991

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Identifier: CC-05107-5206
Scope and Contents

The poems deal with actions that can be carried out over a concrete sidewalk. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991