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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3308 Collections and/or Records:

Contemporary Art in Czechoslovakia / Kolar J ; Novak L., 1988

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Identifier: CC-16469-16822
Scope and Contents

The exhibition at Cornell University consisted of selections from the Jan amd Meda Mladek Collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Contemporary Classics; The Illustrated Book Redefined / Ely T ; Roth D ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA ; Fahrner B ; Gallo P ; VanVliet C ; Drescher H., 1993

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Identifier: CC-20377-20774
Scope and Contents

This exhibition was curated by Betty Bright. Pages of Timothy Ely's unique book, "The Open Hand Discovers," which was lent to the exhibition by the Sackner Archive are reproduced. Henrik Drescher's book, "Too Much Bliss," a work also held by the Sackner Archive was depicted on the cover of the catalog. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Contemporary Polish Book Art / Rypson P ; Czerwinska J ; Werbachowska A., 1997

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Identifier: CC-29928-31319
Scope and Contents

In the introduction, Rypson traces the history of Polish artists books from the 1960's to the 1990's, particularly in the way in which Polish politics influenced the creation and distribution of the works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Contemporary Polish Book Art / Rypson P ; Czerwinska J ; Werbachowska A ; Tarasin J ; Rogala D., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27489-28537
Scope and Contents

The exhibition catalogue is divided into three parts, viz., Artist Books, Children's Book Illustration, and Book Illustrations. Piotr Rypson provided an introductory essay to this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Contemporary Portuguese Poetry: an Anthology in English / Macedo, Helder, editor ; De Melo e Castro, E.M., editor ; Tavares S ; O'Neill A ; Hatherly A ; deMelo e Castro EM., 1978

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Identifier: CC-47666-68684
Scope and Contents From the dust jacket: 'Until very recently, Portugal tended to be dismissed as England's oldest ally or simply to be added to the list of tourist paradises as "Europe's best-kept secret". This cosy image was shattered in April 1974 when a group of young army officers overthrew a dictatorship which had survived for forty-eight years in a bloodless coup which came to be called the Revolution of the Flowers, with the red carnation as its symbol.'In the Introduction to this first major anthology of contemporary Portuguese poetry to be published in England, Helder Macedo, Professor of Portuguese at the University of London, relates the poetry of the last forty years to Portugal's political development and describes the variety and challenge of a tradition which has been touched again and again by history. The work of thirty eight poets is featured-poets both from Portugal itself and from some of the African colonies. Much of the verse is overtly or covertly political. But not all. There...
Dates: 1978

Contexto: Natal Lanca Publicacao Internacional de Vanguarda. No.3/Jan / Dantas CH ; Silva F., 1978

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Identifier: CC-29622-30995
Scope and Contents

This issue was printed as a special supplement to the newspaper, "A Republica." The first page describes an exhibition of visual and semiotic poetry, "Projecto - Documento 4/5." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Corona Palimpsest Video/book installation by Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese / Drucker, Johanna ; Ligorano N ; Reese M., 1995

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Identifier: CC-40445-42416
Scope and Contents

This is a critique of Ligorano and Reese's "Corona Palimpsest." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995