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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3308 Collections and/or Records:

d.a. levy's " destructive writing" and the Instant of Communication, 1998

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Identifier: CC-29886-31273
Scope and Contents

Swanberg (aka Markhardt) analyzes levy's poem, "Selected Writings" of 1967, "in which no images appear and in which the words and lines bleed with a superabundance of black mimeo ink ringed by a faint aura of oil...The poem's destructive writing is a putting to death of words. Its realm is without mastery, without time. It is the instant of a complete spending, in which words are sacrificed and the poem IS." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Dada & Surrealist Word - Image, The / Duchamp M ; Schwitters K ; Hugnet G ; Hausmann R ; Magritte R ; Apollinaire G ; DeZayas M ; Picabia F ; Duchamp S ; Crotti J ; Breton A ; Kruger B ; Ruscha E ; Ben ; Ernst M ; Rognoni A ; Marinetti FT ; Desnos R ; Aschieri B., 1989

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Identifier: CC-14742-15055
Scope and Contents

Curated by Judi Freedman with special essay by John C. Welchman, the book gives an over-view of the artists from 1915 through 1940 who "included words, letters and numbers in their works and in so doing altered perceptions of what a painting or an art object could and should be." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Dada / Verkauf, Willy, editor ; Janco, Marcel, editor ; Bolliger, Hans, editor ; Hausmann R ; Picabia F ; Ball H ; Arp H ; Grosz G ; VanDoesburg T ; Duchamp M ; Tzara T ; Schwitters K., 1965

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Identifier: CC-00861-880
Scope and Contents

This 1965 reprint of the book first published in 1958 includes a Dada lexicon and chronology from 1914 to 1925 of events, artists and publications. Willy Verkauf aka Andre Verlon -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Dada's Untrustworthy Words / Kimmelman, Michael., 1989

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Identifier: CC-07707-7857
Scope and Contents

Filed with Kimmelman's book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Dal Great Complotto a Luther Blissett / Ciani, Piermario, editor ; Baroni V ; Held Jjr., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35855-37616
Scope and Contents

Various authors contributed chapters on the following subjects: early optical and abstract paintings; AAA editions; verbal-visual reflections; early experiments with computer graphics; punk-new wave photo-documents; creative alterations; strange correspondences; female photo-portraits; stickerman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Dalla Nuovo Scittura al Teatro Elementare / Pavanello, Giancarlo., 1978

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Identifier: CC-04575-4662
Scope and Contents

Edited by Giancarlo Pavanello and designated numero uno in series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Dall'infinito per l'infinito / Merante, Angelo ; Bertozzi GA., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33830-35499
Scope and Contents

Gabriele-Aldo Bertozzi contributed an essay for this catalogue. The Sackner Archive holds "Inito" (1999), a painting depicted in this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Damaged Nature, Auto-Destructive Art, 1995

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Identifier: CC-31586-33083
Scope and Contents

Clive Phillpot provides a chronologic biography of Metzger. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Dance in Dante (770423 & 7704something) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Dante., 1977

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Identifier: CC-57856-10001107
Scope and Contents

Cameron writes that this work consists of "1 page letter in red & black type accompaning 20 pp dsh's carbon copy of his notes on Dante." The text of this manuscript is not linear. Houedard draws the idea of dance in the cantos of Purgatorio and Paradiso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Dancers on a Plane / Cage, John ; Cunningham, Merce ; Johns, Jasper., 1989

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Identifier: CC-16684-17039
Scope and Contents

The music score, "Concert for Piano and Orchestra" by John Cage, which is reproduced in this catalogue is held by the Sackner Archive. Cage comments "A score which is beautiful to look at usually sounds better than one which is not." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Danses Tracees / Brown T ; Cunningham M ; Cage J., 1991

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Identifier: CC-14761-15074
Scope and Contents

Exhibition consisted of historic and experimental dance and music scores. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991