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Critical text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3307 Collections and/or Records:

Gravity's Rainbow: A Critical Commentary / Pynchon, Thomas., 1976

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Identifier: CC-31994-33522
Scope and Contents

Jeffrey Helterman edited this guide to the style, symbolism, and plot of Pynchon's masterful novel. a work also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Gravity's Rainbow / Pynchon, Thomas., 1973

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Identifier: CC-32254-33814
Scope and Contents

This is a first edition of the book. The action takes place during the Battle of Britain during WWII. The writing is deeply symbolic and difficult to comprehend without aguidance. Helterman has written a guid book to the novel that is also held by the Sackner Archive. Pynchon deals with paranoia, tarot characters, experimental pyschology, Freudian theory, calculus, comic strip mythology, and eroticism, etc. in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Gravures - Esquisses - Collages / Meckseper, Friedrich., 1986

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Identifier: CC-38148-40042
Scope and Contents

The card is a notification of a new address for the gallery and the loose sheet is a price list. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Great Books / Denby, David., 1996

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Identifier: CC-30554-31987
Scope and Contents

The subtitle of the book is "My adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and other indestructible writers of the Western world." The author describes his mature reaction to the Great Books course at Columbia University thirty years after studying these literary masterpieces as a college student. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Great Utopia, The: The Russian and Soviet Avant Garde 1915-1932 / Douglas C ; Tupitsyn M ; Cooke C ; Compton S., 1992

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Identifier: CC-10382-10585
Scope and Contents

Perhaps the most inclusive exhibition of this period ever mounted. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Greater Perfections: The Practice of Garden Theory / Hunt, John Dixon ; Finlay IH., 2000

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Identifier: CC-43572-45649
Scope and Contents

The works of Ian Hamilton Finlay are featured in this book especially in the chapter entitled, "Word and Image in the Garden." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Greatest Hits: Drawings 1963-1987 / Anthony, Bill ; Rosenblum R., 1988

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Identifier: CC-26188-26651
Scope and Contents

Contains reproduction of a drawing (p.25), "Takka-Takka," which depicts two aerosol paint spray guns and the caption, "The exhausted artists, unheeded for five and six days at a time, always hungry for fame and glory, suffering from toxic vapor inhalation, kept painting!!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Grolier Club Creates: The: Book Arts by Club Members / John Bidwell, curator ; Anne Hoene Hoy, curator ; Coe J ; Dubansky M ; Godine D ; Koch J ; Zapf H ; Kelly J., 2009

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Identifier: CC-59244-10002343
Scope and Contents

This catalog celebrates the 125th anniversary of the Grolier Club with a display of work by members active in the field of printing, book design, bookbinding, print making, illustration, calligraphy, and the production of artist's books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Ground Works: Avant-Garde for Thee , 2002

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Identifier: CC-41495-43482
Scope and Contents

This book is a compendium of Canadian avant garde writing from 1965 to 1985. Margaret Atwood, who contributed an over-view essay of the work produced during those years, collaborated with Bok to organize the selections of experimental fiction by the authors. John Riddell contributed "Pope Leo: El Lope" from Criss-Cross. It is a lipogram using only the letters e, o, l and p. The contribution by bp Nichol is from "Still... a novel that depicts in minute detail the scenography for a potential, but postponed , story... his words provide a kind of textual terrain across which the eye pans like a camera." Steve McCaffery's "Panopticon" is an enigmatic whodunnit...The panopticon symbolizes the maze of words through which the reader must wander, playing the role of invisible spectator." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Had Gadya: The Only Kid (facsimile) / Lissitzky, El., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42414-44424
Scope and Contents

This book is a facsimile of the Passover song published in 1919. It also includes the wraparound cover and an introduction to the book's cultural and artistic contexts, descriptions of its imagery and polyglot vocabulary, an English translation of the song from Lissitzky's Yiddish and lyrics set to music. Resouces publishes primary materials held by the Getty Research Institute. the book is edited by Arnold J. Band and Nancy Perloff contributed an introductory essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Hallo Gen! Instant - aber sofort! / Bohmler, Claus., 2001

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Identifier: CC-52303-73425
Scope and Contents

The exhibition was curated by Rene Block who also contributed an introductory essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Hannah Weiner / Bernstein, Charles., 2000

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Identifier: CC-47833-68853
Scope and Contents

Stored with Hannah Weiner material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Hans-Christof Stenzel's POEtarium / Artmann, H.C.., 1991

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Identifier: CC-33460-35102
Scope and Contents

This book deals with the poems of Edgar Allen Poe. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991