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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3307 Collections and/or Records:

RA (The Royal Academy Magazine). No.23/Sum / Phillips T., 1989

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Identifier: CC-03469-3525
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Article on Phillips' globes entitled "Heaven and Earth" mentions globe in Sackner Archive. Phillips also reviews Wendy Beckett's book, "Contemporary Women Artists." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

RA (The Royal Academy Magazine). No.33/Win / Phillips T., 1991

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Identifier: CC-03490-3547
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This issue is mainly devoted to Andrea Mantegna and his exhibition at the Royal Academy. Tom Phillips contributed an essay titled "The Glory That Was Rome." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Rabbit Remix / Kac, Eduardo., 2004

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Identifier: CC-59840-10002891
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This catalogue was presented by the gallery for the XXVI Bienal de San Paulo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media, 1991

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Identifier: CC-04787-4878
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Perloff demonstrates that contempory experimental poetry is highly influenced by the media of television, sound bytes and billboards. Taking an historical approach, she notes that the speech base is no longer the common speech of Yeats and Eliot but the personal utterance of the poet. She cites Charles Olsen in his manifesto "Projective Verse" (1950) who stated that "breath allows all the speech-force of language back in (speech is the solid of verse, is the secret of a poem's energy) p.34. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Radierungen, Collagen, Radiercollagen: Arbeiten von 1984 - 1988 / Klug-Berninger, Irmtraud., 1989

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Identifier: CC-07742-7893
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The works reproduced in the catalogue were made from 1984 to 1989. Sackner Archive holds two bookworks in which selected pages are reproduced, "Winterreise" and Weiner nicht." The enclosed color etching is an abstract work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Rampike: Aboriginal Perspectives. No.2 / Karl Jirgens, editor., 2000

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Identifier: CC-36229-38016
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This issue features works of native indigenous writers and artists from Canada, the United States, Hawaii, and New Zealand. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Random Notes On Painting / Paintings / Williams, Guy ; Johns J ; Seurat G ; Reinhart A ; Pollock J ; Hofman H ; Albers J., 1971

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Identifier: CC-50938-72016
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The typings to simulate artworks of well known artists has also been used by Jiri Kolar in several works held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Raoul Hausmann, 1994

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Identifier: CC-29936-31327
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This catalogue doocuments the first major retrospective of Hausmann's work for the exhibition that was shown in the three countries in which Hausmann lived, France, Germany and Spain (Ibiza). Several scholary essays are included in the catalogue tracing his early years as a Dadaist, collages and photomontages, the photographic works, sound poetry, abstract paintings and later Dada works. Chistopher Phillips essay, "In the Chaotic Cave of the Mouth," describes Hausmann's sound poems, which are considered "among the most difficult and perplexing" of this "recondite genre." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Raoul Hausmann, Dadasoph / Erlhoff, Michael ; Hausmann R., 1982

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Identifier: CC-13776-14081
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Reproduces a copy of the patent application by Daniel Broido and Raoul Hausmann for the Optophon (1934-1936) a primative mechanical computer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Rare Bookman / Safford, Ray ; Mark D. Tomasko, curator., 2011

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Identifier: CC-54980-990387
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This catalogue deals with the exhibition of the books and Archival material collected by Ray Safford who was a in charge of retail operations Scribner's bookshop and publishing company in the late 19th and early 20th century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

Rational Geomancy: The Kids of the Book Machine, 1992

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Identifier: CC-32918-34534
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Steve McCaffery edited and wrote the introductory essay for this book that consists of the collected research reports of the Toronto Research Group (TRG) 1973-1992. There is a discussion of the experimental fiction of Steve Katz, Raymond Federman, Madeline Gins, Scott Symons, and B.S. Johnson on pages 79-88. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Rational Structures / De Vries, Herman., 1969

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Identifier: CC-15322-15646
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Also designated Panel 13 Information No.3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

(Ray Johnson) / Johnson, Ray., 1997

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Identifier: CC-32974-34594
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This is designated Dossiers 4. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Raymond Pettibon: A Reader / Pettibon, Raymond ; Borges J ; Mallarme S ; Beckett S ; Temkin A ; Blake W ; Sterne L ; Baudelaire C ; Wittgenstein L., 1998

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Identifier: CC-32077-33612
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This book consists of 72 essays or partial essays of established writers, poets and philosphers. Also included are five texts relating to perspectives of Pettibon by contemporary writers and critics. Pettibon's drawings that are dispersed throughout the texts, are described as "disjunctive, and all inclusive...His initial style relied on the carefully acquired tricks and conventions of cartoon illustration...Pettibon's genius rests on the mysterious alchemy of image and text that his drawings effect. His is a poetry that defies verbal of visual categories, but relies on effacing th boundaries of each." Walter Benjamin contributed an essay, "Unpacking My Library; A Talk about Book Collecting." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

RBM. No.1., 2001

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Identifier: CC-36296-38086
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Kenneth W. Rendell contributes an essay, "The Future of the Manuscript and Rare Book Business" that includes bookselling through private dealers, auction and the internet. Eric Holzenberg presents an in-depth description of "Second-hand and Antiquarian Books on the Internet." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

RBM. No.1 / Traister D., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34455-36152
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Werner Gundersheimer contributed an essay, "Against the Grain," in which he discussed the changing role of the research library. He indicated that electronic surrogates should serve "students not as the end source but, rather, as first exposure....the new media also provide efficient means for introducing students to different formats - maps, manuscripts, painting and sculpture, letters, diaries, account books." Daniel Traister contributed a polemic essay, "Is There a Future for Special Collections? And should there Be?" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000