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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3307 Collections and/or Records:

On Innovative Musicians / Kostelanetz, Richard ; Cage J., 1989

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Identifier: CC-08140-8301
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: Books (unprocessed)

On Libraries / Phillips, Tom., 1986

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Identifier: CC-39168-41112
Scope and Contents

This essay was originally written for the Art Librarians Journal v.11 no.3, 1986. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986
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)

On Paper:The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History / Basbanes, Nicholas A.., 2013

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Identifier: CC-58950-10002144
Scope and Contents DAVID WALTON Review on interent: Nicholas Basbanes is an especially congenial writer, a quality he displayed memorably in A Gentle Madness, his 1999 history of book collecting and collectors. He does it again most pleasurably in On Paper, a wide-ranging investigation into the "everything" of that ubiquitous and indispensable construction of cellulose fibers whose history paralleled "” and made possible "” the rise of civilization.On Paper, true to its double-duty title, isn't a history of papermaking, though Basbanes tracks the process from its discovery in China a century or two B.C., east into Japan and Korea, west in the eighth century to Arabia, where the Koran had been recited from memory for a hundred years, to Spain in the 11th century, to Italy in the 13th, where it spurred the Renaissance, then to North America in 1690 "” and now, everywhere.As a prism into history, the role of paper offers a unique and often defining perspective. For example, at the start of the Civil...
Dates: 2013
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)

On Stefan Themerson / Wadley, Nicholas ; Themerson S., 1990

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Identifier: CC-00361-369
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Includes fragments from Themerson's unpublished, uncompleted autobiography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990
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)

On Tibor Kalman and Graphic Design: Seeing, Disbelieving / Muschamp, Herbert; Kalman T., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34688-36391
Dates: 2000
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)

Onder Experimenteel Vuur, 1968

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Identifier: CC-32905-34521
Dates: 1968
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

One of a Kind Artists' Books / Horvitz SR ; Raman AS ; Hoffberg J ; Beube D ; Carothers M ; Colby S ; Cutler-Shaw J ; Helfgott G ; Jackman S ; Korf K ; Kyle H ; Lerner S ; McCarney S ; Zagar I., 1995

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Identifier: CC-27717-28819
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The exhibition was curated by Suzanne Reese Horvitz and Anne Stengel Raman. Judith Hoffberg's essay is titled "Full of Elegance and Wit, Timeless yet Familiar: Unique Bookworks" from the writing of Robert Lax. She claims that artists books are not containers of ideas, but a consummate experience that challenge the reader and actively shape the reading experience. "The experience of viewing and reading a unique artist book is an interactive experience in which the viewer completes the work, creating and changing emotional reactions to the artist's own." -- 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: Exhibit Catalogs(unprocessed)

Op Kinkon & Eyear / Fricker, Frank, editor ; Herbert G ; Carroll L ; Mallarme S ; Gomringer E ; Houedard DS ; Bevan A ; Sampson J ; DeCampos A ; Garnier P ; Roth D ; Finlay IH ; Cobbing B ; Apollinaire G., 1966

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Identifier: CC-11130-11345
Scope and Contents

Frank Fricker provides an historical introduction of concrete poetry, optical, kinetic and phonic poetry. -- 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: Books (unprocessed)

Op Papier 2008 - 2010 / Werbachowska, Alicja ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 2011

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Identifier: CC-54952-990365
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The Sackner Archive is listed as containing Alicja Werbachowska's work. The letter accompanying the catalogue from Galeria Wit was written in appreciation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs(unprocessed)

Open Hearing, 1969

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Identifier: CC-24879-25332
Dates: 1969
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

Open House / Weiner, Hannah ; Durgin PF ; MacLow J ; Watten B ; Bernstein C., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47828-68848
Scope and Contents This antholgy of Weiner's works was edited by Patrick F. Durgen who also wrote the introduction. Hannah Weiner's Early and Clairvoyant Journals by Patrick Durgin is also on http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/m504/index.html. "Typing to you a thoug[h]t is seen cartridge script machine." Hannah Weiner, letter to Bernadette Mayer, April 19, 1975. It is an extremely rare thing in any field to invent a new form. Invention, as such, momentarily collapses the frontier between theory and practice. This is why it not only invariably widens the scope of that field's potential acheivements, but it appears to us, in hindsight, as an event, a phenomenon, a content through which to bring the overall form of that field into historical relief. Although largely unknown and practically unread, Hannah Weiner accomplished such an invention. She called it "large-sheet poetry" - I call it "avant-garde journalism." With the publication of Weiner's major works of the 1970s, we come a long way toward filling...
Dates: 2007
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)

Open Letter: Convergences, Collaborative Expression. No.1/Fall / Beatriz Hausner, Karl Jirgens, editors ; Wald S ; Zeller L ; Betts G ; Barwin G ; Beaulieu D ; bissett b ; Ondaatje M ; Dudek L ; Bok C ; Acorn M ; Damon M., 2012

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Identifier: CC-55311-9999061
Scope and Contents

The cover design was taken from a drawing by Susana Wald and Ludwig Zeller. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Periodicals(unprocessed)

Open Letter: De:Scribing Albertas (Part 2). No.3/Sum / Janet Williamson, Ellen Quigley, editors ; Kroetsch R., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31155-32623
Dates: 1998
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)

Open Letter: George Bowering Bridges to Elsewhere. No.4/Fall / Ian Rae, editor ; Bowering G ; Birney E., 2010

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Identifier: CC-52216-73338
Scope and Contents

Karis Shearer contributed an essay dealing with Imago, a small press magazine edited by Bowering and its influence on the Canadian long poem. The Sackner Archive holds five of the 20 issues of this periodical. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010
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)

Open Letter: Kenneth Goldsmith and Conceptual Poetics. No.7/Fall / Andrews B ; Beaulieu D ; Bok C ; Cole B ; Daniels D ; Drucker J ; Dworkin C ; Emerson L ; Fitterman R ; Goldsmith K ; Morris S ; Perloff M ; Peters C ; Schwartzburg M ; Werschler-Henry D ; Young G ; Williams E ; MacLow J ; Weiner L ; Perec G., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44471-46621
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There is mention of A.G. Rosen, a Goldsmith collector, who owns the lead copy of "Steal This Book." The Sackner Archive holds the plywood copy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005
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)

Open Letter: Kootenay School of Writing. No.3/Sum / Gregory Betts, Robert David Stacy, editors ; Mancini D ; Robertson L ; Wah F., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51311-72400
Dates: 2010
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)

Open Letter: Language Graphic. No.7/Spr / Caruso B ; Tostevin L ; VanDoesburg T ; Jirgens K ; bissett b ; Curnoe G ; Davey F ; Larionov M ; Goncharova N ; Delaunay S ; Dutton P ; Cobbing B ; Evason G ; Smith S ; Shikatani G ; Upton L ; Havel V., 2003

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Identifier: CC-43653-45738
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Paul Dutton provides a vivid description of Bob Cobbing's apartment on Petherton Avenue in London in 2002 that was visited by the Sackners several times. Dutton also describes the innovative ways that Cobbing utilized his photocopy machine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003
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)

[open letter] / levy, d.a.; sigmund, rj. (aka rjs)., 1966

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Identifier: CC-45383-47573
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)

Open Letter: Lisa Robertson. No.5/Spr / Angela Carr, Heather Milne, editors ; Robertson L ; Pound E., 2010

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Identifier: CC-52411-73536
Scope and Contents Lisa Robertson (born on July 22, 1961 in Toronto) is a Canadian poet who is best known for a collection a poem entitled The Weather, which was inspired by the shipping forecasts announced on BBC radio. She currently lives in Oakland, California. In 1979, she moved to British Columbia, where she remained for twenty-three years. During her time there, she was a member of The Kootenay School of Writing, which is a non-profit society that offers an alternative to the mainstream pedagogy of most Canadian universities. She has been integrally involved in Vancouver's art scene and is an honorary board member of Artspeak Gallery. She has written on and reviewed exhibitions and pieces by Kelly Wood, Robert Garcet, Liz Magor, Allyson Clay, Kathy Slade, and Hadley+Maxwell, among others. She has also written on architecture and sites in British Columbia. Robertson contributed the "Beneath the Pavilions" column to Mix from 1997-1999. She co-edited the poetry journal Raddle Moon with Susan Clark...
Dates: 2010
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)

Open Letter: Millennial 'Pataphysics. No.7/Win / Christian Bok, Darren Weshler-Henry, editors ; McCaffery S ; lopes d ; deCharmoy C ; Jarry A ; Werschler-Henry D ; Bok C ; Ronell A ; Jirgens K ; Borges J ; Kristeva J ; Learn B., 1997

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Identifier: CC-27657-28740
Scope and Contents This issue deals with Pataphysica as expoused by Jarry and current interpretations by Canadian writers. The introductory essay by the Editors, Christian Bok and Darren Werschler-Henry, indicates that " 'Pataphysics (a neologism fraught with polysemy) makes its debut at the turn of the century when Ubu, the nihilist scaramouche, describes himself as a "Professor of 'pataphysics, a branch of science which we have invented and for which a crying need is generally experienced." Jarry precedes the orthography of the French word 'pataphysique with an apostrophe in order to avoid a "simple pun", but ironically enough, such a diacritical mark only signals, as present by proxy, what is absent by edict, so that the word invokes apostrophically the homophonic phrases that it revokes catastrophically. Ubu, for example is a slapstick comedian (pataud physique ) of unhealthy obesity (pateax physique), whose bodily language (patois physique) foments an astounded physics (epatee physique) that is...
Dates: 1997
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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