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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 417 Collections and/or Records:

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

Appear-Disappear / Immoos, Franz., 1978

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Identifier: CC-62498-47651
Scope and Contents

The words of the title were blind stamped using letterpress on a pile of papers so that that top page has a deep impression and the last page a faint impression. The pages were arranged so that the first page of the book depicts the faint impression of "appear" that progresses to the deep impression of "appear." This is followed by the deep impression of "disappear" that progresses to the faint impression of "disappear." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Argumentstellen / De Vries, Herman., 2003

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Identifier: CC-55021-998878
Scope and Contents Internet: Argumentstellen was conceived just one year after Wit weiss (a new version of the White book) and Permutierbarer text (but was published in 2003). It is a direct result of his recent reading of Tractatus. This large format book wherein a minuscule black dot always appears in a different location on the vast blank space of the page, does not treat language as such, but the way in which situation in the space (which is an attribute of all existing things, natural or human) implies a unique point of view each time, a never identical relation to the connection between the things that make up the world. indirectly, however, language is involved to the extent that it is powerless to say that which is never the same. This book visually translates (and illustrates) one of Wittgenstein's propositions (2.0131), quoted on the last page: "a spatial object must be situated in infinite space. (a spatial point is an argument-place)." It foreshadows the series of works on the experience...
Dates: 2003

Art as Thought Process / Michael Compton, curator ; Phillips T ; Lichtenstein R ; Willats S ; Burgin V ; Atkinson T., 1974

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Identifier: CC-28759-30066
Scope and Contents

The loose sheet announces the replacement of Tom Phillips' Terminal Grey Arrangement 1974/5 with Terminal Greys IV-VII 1971/3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Barnesbook / Mac Low, Jackson., 1996

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Identifier: CC-31189-32657
Scope and Contents

Mc Low composed four poems with a computer program derived from four sentences by Djuna Barnes, the author. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Battlefield List / de Charmoy, Cozette., 1970

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Identifier: CC-16311-16661
Scope and Contents

This work dealing with a rubberstamped list of objects that might be found on a battlefield was later made as a print (1995) that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Between / Jurgen O. Olbrich., 1989

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Identifier: CC-05400-5503
Scope and Contents

The text reads, 'It is exactly between what I think and what you see.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

bibliomania 2000/2001 / Morris, Simon, editor ; Sacoor, Helen, editor ; Ault J ; Burgin V ; Higgs M ; Jackson D ; Kosuth J ; Millar J ; Morris S ; Smith C ; Worthington G ; Dion M., 1999

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Identifier: CC-49407-70452
Scope and Contents

This book consists of self-selected personal books from two bookstores by international curators currently in printor those publications no longer available highlighting the transitory nature of knowledge. This book reproduces the bibliographies of the exhibitions held at Waterstones book shops in Leeds and in London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Bilyi virsh (Blank verse) / Miroshnychenko, Mykola., 1976

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Identifier: CC-31739-33251
Scope and Contents

The poem is dated 10.12.1976. The page has the typed title, followed by a large blank space (signifying blank verse!), followed by the typed date and the city where it was written. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976