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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3474 Collections and/or Records:

The Conservation of Globes - Old and Relatively New / Sumira, Sylvia ; Phillips T., 1990

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Identifier: CC-02143-2181
Scope and Contents

Includes description of Tom Phillips' "Humument Globes". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Crisis of Western Education / Bell, Nikki; Langlands, Ben., 1983

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Identifier: CC-21239-21649
Scope and Contents

This an instruction from artists on proper way to display "The Crisis of Western Civilization," which is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

The Dik-dik's Solitude: New & Selected Works / Tardos, Anne ; MacLow J., 2005

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Identifier: CC-43588-45666
Scope and Contents Publisher's Weekly review: "Excerpting from poetic, video and photographic work from over 12 years, this largish, elegantly designed book is a virtual encyclopedia of artistic techniques mostly operating within the traditions of Dada and collage (Kurt Schwitters looms heavily), Fluxus and early digital art (much of it created with Ataris), right through Language poetry, but creating a gendered, polylingual, image-enhanced reality all its own. In the epistolary dialogue with Lyn Hejinian that prefaces the book, Tardos explains her approach as being one of uncertainty: "Maybe it's a question of creating a condition of not knowing what one is about to do. Or should I say it takes enormous discipline and control to surrender control." Reflecting her nomadic European roots, Tardos also conveys a more poignant concern that her operations between media, not settling on one genre such as "poetry," may strand her in a "liminal" zone between art forms, though not outside of "art." Yet the...
Dates: 2005

The E-Mail Interview with Guy Bleus / Janssen, Ruud., 1998

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Identifier: CC-32919-34535
Scope and Contents

Bleus states, "In netland a lot of artists can find a constructional and satisfying alternative for the morbid situation of the contemporary arts-industry. Mail-art has no real manifestos, restrictions or rules. Yet, the strict indications to organize a project, (no fee, no jury, no returns, and a catalogue to every participant), must be respected. Only the implementation of these basic rules will maintain the everlasting network during the new millennium. Mail-art is an alliance of marginal networkers. They know that netland is not utopia, but it is a good place to live." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

The Editor, 2008

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-51074-72155
Scope and Contents

The text for this work is taken by beaulieu from "The Bat" by Mary Roberts Rinehart & Avery Hopwood (1920) and was assembled by Laliberte using Batman comics of the 1970s & 80s. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

The Eighth Day: The Transgenic Art of Euardo Kac / Kac, Eduardo ; Machado A ; Lucie-Smith E., 2003

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Identifier: CC-45754-47963
Scope and Contents

These texts describe Kac's studies on the relationships between art and science. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

The Eye 13 Interview / Bowen, Robert ; Edelman, Richard ; Straus, David Levi., 1985

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Identifier: CC-22620-23048
Scope and Contents

Relates to publication of the book object periodical, "Eye No.13," which is held by Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

The Fire Gap: A Poem with Two Tails / Harrison, Tony; Caine, Michael Christopher., 1983

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Identifier: CC-48404-69430
Scope and Contents

The free verse is in the shape of two snakes and recounts Harrison's encounter with a rattle snake. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

The Flip Side of Language / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Joyce J; Finlay IH; Roth D; Cobbing B; Chopin H; Heidsieck B; Jandl E; levy da; Bayer K; Morgan E; Berge C; Jochims R; Mayer HJ; Bense M; Rawlinson A; Szuter T., 1966

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Identifier: CC-57853-10001104
Scope and Contents

Charles Cameron writes that these pages are "numbered by hand, with many dsh correx + typesetter's markups for 'the flip side of language' -- looks like it might be dsh's entry for the issue of the Oxford mag ISIS on concrete poetry which I edited, but I don't have a copy for comparison & it's hard to say..." This essay appeared in ISIS No.1507, 1966, a periodical hels by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966