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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 417 Collections and/or Records:

Blinds / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Sarkis ; Harding A., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-12557-12789
Scope and Contents

The text was written by Adrian Harding on the occasion of an exhibition by Sarkis and Finlay entitled "Little Sparta & Kriegsschatz." The essay by Harding is a poetic vision of his impressions of Finlay's and Sarkis' houses and gardens. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Blue Book 8, 1989

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Identifier: CC-18916-19294
Scope and Contents

This is a reproduction of an original manuscript printed entirely with rubberstamped letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Boat Ride, 1975

 Item — Box 199: [Barcode: 31858072459690]
Identifier: CC-19999-20387
Scope and Contents

The object is a small toy boat made of plaster and painted black. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Book 10: The Number Book 1 / Depew, Wally., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-53087-74233
Scope and Contents

The pages depict stencilled, large numbers from 1 to 0(10), printed one to a page as a progression, e.g., 1 (one page), 2 (two pages), 3 (three pages), 4 (four pages), etc. In this respect, the progession is analogous to Richard Kostelanetz's Accounting (1973) except that the progressions of all the numbers are printed on a single page rather than multiple pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Book 19: Number(ed) Book [collaged cover] / Depew, Wally., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-53082-74228
Scope and Contents

The printed numbers from the mechanical counter have a span of 19 digits. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Book 19: Number(ed) Book [rubberstamped cover] / Depew, Wally., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-53085-74231
Scope and Contents

The printed numbers from the mechanical counter have a span of 19 digits. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Book of Eros / Diacono, Mario., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-15382-15706
Scope and Contents

Consists of Italian titles centered on two of the pages, "White Vagina" (printed in black ink) that denotes two white, blank pages and "Inscribed Vagina" (printed in white ink) hat denotes two black, blank pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Book: Transference: Roget's Thesaurus / Acconci, Vito., 1968

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Identifier: CC-26620-27090
Scope and Contents

Composed from the first 35 pages of Roget's Thesaurus by printing the first one to two letters of the words on the right and left sided margins on either the right or left sided margin of this new book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Buster Keaton Enters into Paradise / Higgins, Dick ; Knowles A ; McHugh B., 1994

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Identifier: CC-09802-9996
Scope and Contents

Diagramatic texts are based on scrabble board games starting with the name Buster Keaton. Eleven performances derive from the list of words on each board and film clips of Keaton. Nine layouts of the Scrabble game are depicted that have a concrete poetic appearance owing to different choices of type face and weight. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Can You Tell Me How What You Are Doing Now Is To Do Something Philosophical? , 1980

 Item — Box 323: [Barcode: 31858072490893]
Identifier: CC-21054-21463
Scope and Contents

Peter H Barnett: Can you tell me how what you are doing now is to do something philosophical? (Assembling Press, 1980) consists of handwritten philosophical questions arranged four to a page. Each page has a rectangular cutout of a quarter, a horizontal half page or a vertical half-page, allowing the questions to be seen in continually changing groups and associations. The title expresses the theme: what would it mean to act philosophically, or to take a philosophical initiative? -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Carbon Copy / Immoos, Franz., 1978

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Identifier: CC-62497-47650
Scope and Contents

The expression "CARBON - COPY" appears on each page, progressively fainter as the number of copies increases. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Carrier-Citadel: HMS Illustrious-Citadel Gozo: A Study in Formal Affinity / England, Richard ; Finlay IH., 1973

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Identifier: CC-13742-14046
Scope and Contents

Inspired by the author's collaboration with Ian Hamilton Finlay, this book metaphorically and structurally realistically compares the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Illustrious with the fortress city Gozo in Malta. He accomplishes this comparison by captioned drawings and photographs throughout this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Cenizas: Subscribers' Issue. No.36/Spr., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-17871-18241
Scope and Contents

This issue was wrapped with No.37. It consisted of blank white pages except for the title page on which was printed "The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Collection." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Centro Tool: intim works. No.19/Nov-Dec / Angelo De Aquino., 1971

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Identifier: CC-14842-15155
Scope and Contents

This pamphlet also served as an exhibition caalogue. Stored with Tool Publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971