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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3452 Collections and/or Records:

The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions / Abbott, Edwin ; Stewart, Ian., 2002

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Identifier: CC-53186-74338
Scope and Contents This copy is the first edition, first printing.Amazon.com Review: The product of an agreeably dotty cleric named Edwin Abbott Abbott and first published in 1884, Flatland distills all that the Victorian era knew of higher mathematics--and then some--into a witty, complex novel of ideas.Ian Stewart, the author of the equally witty sequel, Flatterland--which adds to Abbott's store of science the key discoveries made since--does a superb job of explaining the original book's enigmas, allusions, ironies, implausibilities, and what Douglas Hofstadter would call "metamagical themas." Among other things, Stewart comments on Abbott's comments on such things as the nature/nurture controversy, the fourth dimension and beyond, the role of multidimensional spaces in economic systems, infinite series and perfect squares, celestial mechanics, and other matters close to the hearts of cosmologists and science buffs alike. Stewart's notes make an entertaining and learned addition to an already...
Dates: 2002
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)

The Art of Making the Book / Rea, Nicholas., 1991

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Identifier: CC-03388-3443
Scope and Contents

The text indicates that Nicholas Rea was inspired with the idea of creating an artist's book after a visit to the Sackner Archive in 1989. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991
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)

The Art Strike Papers and Neoist Manifestos / Home, Stewart., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09367-9553
Scope and Contents Discusses Art Strike of 1990-1993 and reproduces Neoist manifestos. tewart Home (born 1962, London) is an English artist, filmmaker, writer, pamphleteer, art historian, and activist. He is best known for his novels such as the non-narrative 69 Things To Do With A Dead Princess (2002), his re-imagining of the 1960s in Tainted Love (2005), and earlier parodistic pulp fictions Pure Mania, Red London, No Pity, Cunt, and Defiant Pose that pastiche the work of 1970s British skinhead pulp novel writer Richard Allen and combine it with pornography, political agit-prop, and historical references to punk rock and avant-garde art.Wikipedia: "From 1982 to 1984, Home operated as a one-person-movement "Generation Positive", and having already founded a punk band called White Colours (named after an experimental novel by R. D. Reeve) in 1980, he started a new group with the same name in 1982. He also published an art fanzine SMILE, the name of which was a play on the Mail Art zines FILE and VILE...
Dates: 1991
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)

The Badge Show, 1980

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Identifier: CC-21789-22200
Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963 / Miles, Barry ; Ginsberg A ; Burroughs WS ; Corso G ; Orlovsky P ; Kerouac J ; Gysin B ; Chopin H ; Heidsieck B ; Lebel JJ ; Norse H., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35585-37329
Scope and Contents

The Beat Hotel on 9 rue Git-le-Coeur in Paris, was the residence of the Beat writers during the years 1957 to 1963. It was here that Ginsberg wrote Kaddish, Gysin discovered the cut-up method and Dream Machine, Burroughs completed and published Naked Lunch, and Corso wrote the Bomb. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Books (unprocessed)

The Beauty In Breathing (Installation) / Sackner, Marvin, editor., 1992

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Identifier: CC-02484-2525
Scope and Contents

The material consists of documentation of the exhibition installation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
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)

The Beauty In Breathing (Negatives) / Sackner, Marvin, editor., 1992

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Identifier: CC-02485-2526
Scope and Contents

These are the photographic negatives for the catalog illustrations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
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)

The Beauty In Breathing (Photographs) / Sackner, Marvin, editor., 1992

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Identifier: CC-02483-2524
Scope and Contents

The material consists of photographs used to illustrate the catalog for this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
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)

The Bicentennial Proposal: The French War: The War of the Letter / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Peter Day ; Day P., 1989

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Identifier: CC-10729-10938
Scope and Contents

Exhibition was curated by Peter Day. Excellent discussion and documentation behind the French government's decision to withdraw Finlay's commission on the Right Of Man for the city of Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Exhibit Catalogs(unprocessed)

The Big Works / Ramshaw, Wendy., 2004

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Identifier: CC-44571-46724
Scope and Contents

Ruth Sackner holds a broach made by Ramshaw. This book deals mainly with architectural commissions of Ramshaw. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004
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)

The Blues & Jives of Dr. Hepcat / Govenar, Alan., 1994

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Identifier: CC-32192-33743
Scope and Contents

Thi leaflet announces a book on Lavada Durst, Dr. Hepcat, who was probably the first African American deejay in the USA. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets (unprocessed)

The Body and the Object: 1984-1996 / Hamilton, Ann., 1996

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Identifier: CC-30328-31739
Dates: 1996
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)

The Book and Bird Art of Joyce Cutler-Shaw and Sarah Perry / Cutler-Shaw, Joyce., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47272-50015
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: Exhibit Catalogs(unprocessed)

The Book Maker's Desire / Spector, Buzz ; Borges J ; Roth D ; Mallarme S ; Barthes R ; Kiefer A ; Duchamp M ; Broodthaers M ; Phillpot C ; Wharton M ; Baldessari J ; Hamady W ; Hamilton A., 1995

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Identifier: CC-28894-30219
Scope and Contents

This book consists of a collection of previously published essays on artist books, installations, and book objects. -- 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: Books (unprocessed)

The Book of First Books, 1978

 Item — Box 314: [Barcode: 31858072490802]
Identifier: CC-27154-27629
Scope and Contents

Second edition listing of first books by 2000 American and British writers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978
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

The Brothers Nichol / Bowering, George., 2011

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Identifier: CC-58013-10001269
Scope and Contents

This critical text on bp Nichol's 'Captain Poetry'was dropped from 'The Captain Poetry Poems Complete' by bp Nichol at the insistance of jw curry. It is issued now as Moments Cafe number seven and is stored in bp Nichol box. -- 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: Booklets (unprocessed)

The Burroughs File , 1984

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Identifier: CC-30497-31925
Scope and Contents

This is the first edition. It includes reproductions of "Pages from Cut-Up Scrapbooks" in which Burroughs' pasted remnants from "Moroccan streets, weird news items, St. Louis memorabilia, ruminations on sex and death, old photographs, notes from narcs, and other essential exotica - an incredible montage of telescoped existence on the main line, source material and matrix of his books." There are also sections of Burroughs' The White Subway, The Old Movies, The Cobble Stone Gardens, and The Retreat Diaries, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984
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

& the Cleveland Mimeograph Revolution / d.a. levy; E Sanders; R Salamon; TL Kryss; Dr Wagner; K Taylor; I Swanberg; G Fitzpatrick; rjs., 2005

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Identifier: CC-45476-47671
Scope and Contents

One DVD deals with an interview of Ed Sanders recollections of his contacts with da levy, the other a levyfest held at Cleveland State University of poetry readings and reminiscences of da levy by his friends. -- 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: Audiovisual Materials (unprocessed)

& the Cleveland Mimeograph Revolution / d.a. levy; E Sanders; R Salamon; TL Kryss; Dr Wagner; K Taylor; I Swanberg; G Fitzpatrick; rjs., 2005

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Identifier: CC-45476-47671
Scope and Contents

One DVD deals with an interview of Ed Sanders recollections of his contacts with da levy, the other a levyfest held at Cleveland State University of poetry readings and reminiscences of da levy by his friends. -- 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: Audiovisual Materials (unprocessed)

The Collage Handbook / Digby, John ; Digby, Joan ; Barron S ; Benes BL ; Groh K ; Cleveland B ; Oisteanu V ; Goodnough R ; Goodnough E ; Granovsky N ; Kolar J ; Lissitzky E ; Marinetti FT ; Presser E ; Staeck K ; Zeller L ; Petrovsky W ; Eller E ; Meckseper F ; Johnson R., 1985

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Identifier: CC-15364-15688
Scope and Contents

Artists mentioned win this book with multiple works in the Sackner Archive include Susan Barron, Cavallini, Buster Cleveland, Jiri Kolar, El Lissitzky, and Elena Presser among others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985
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)

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