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Documentation

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3474 Collections and/or Records:

The Self as a Stranger / Lewty, Simon ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 2008

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Identifier: CC-47962-68985
Scope and Contents

Most of the images depicted in this catalogue are examples of Language Art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

The Spectacle of the Mall: Letter Sent to Society Pages Magazine / curry, jw., 1991

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Identifier: CC-20313-20710
Scope and Contents

The content relates to the art of the spectacle and the magazine dealt with Frank Zappa. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Spirit Is Breathing: Documentation / Furnival, John., 1991

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Identifier: CC-10838-11048
Scope and Contents

This is the background material of the many languages used by Furnival for his standing screen, "The Spirit is Breathing." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Spirit of Mercury Speaking in Tongues / Walker, Reginald., 1985

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Identifier: CC-32139-33680
Scope and Contents According to Reginald Walker, his oeuvre is concerned with mythological books. Mythological or Spirit books are ritual talismanic books and book objects symbolic of astrological, numerological, Kabbalic and prophetic divination. These shamanistic objects d'art are also based on esoteric alchemical for-mularies, sacred and obscure high words, as well as magical encantations and amulets. Aesthetically, these works represent the ancient Egyptian and Ethiopian Coptic Codex functioning as a somewhat Iconic art object; created as metamorphosic ethnic fantasies, these mythic codices are fusions of Egyptian Ethiopian, Nubian, Byzantine, Islamic, and Celtic fetish-art.Developmental materials include papyrus, vellum, parchment, alum-tawed skins, native-dyed goatskins, iron, silver, gold, bronze, copper, brass, bone, feathers, acrylics, tempera, various indigenous woods/textiles, linen, and various handmade papers.Mythological books reflect ancient, contemporary, occult, and supernatural...
Dates: 1985

The State of the Arts: A Networking Questionnaire, 1999

 Item — Box 327: [Barcode: 31858072490943]
Identifier: CC-33974-35646
Scope and Contents

Baroni publishes the response to questions posed to correspondence artists concerning avant garde art and artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

The Story of the Last Book of the Rich Alphabetical Hours of the Chopins / Chopin, Henri., 1984

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Identifier: CC-17072-17429
Scope and Contents

Chopin describes how he produced a typewriter poem for every day of the year 1981. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Stratheclyde Times [Friday, June 17, 1983] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1983

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Identifier: CC-57801-10001053
Scope and Contents

This newspaper is a political spoof with regard to the region's efforts to tax Finlay's garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

The Supreme Indecision of the Writer: The 1994 Lectures in Turkey / Federman, Raymond ; Abish W ; Gins M ; Gass W ; Sukenick R ; Burroughs WS ; Beckett S., 1995

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Identifier: CC-27877-29016
Scope and Contents

The titles of these lectures include "The last Stand of Literature," The Real Begins When the Spectacle Ends," "Federman on Federman: Lie Or Die," and "the Supreme Indecision of Postmodernism." The clarity of the essays and the analysis of how Federman sees himself in relation to the political and cultural world reinforces his importance and influence in 20th century literature and thought. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

The Sweetmeat Saga: The Epic Story of the Sixties / gravenson, g f., 1971

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Identifier: CC-42782-44821
Scope and Contents

This is a fictionalized account of a famous Sweetmeat twins Rock Concert in May 1966 held at Big Sur, California. The book is presented as a typewritten document. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

The Telephone Book / Friedman, Ed., 1979

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Identifier: CC-29842-31223
Scope and Contents

The book consists printing of taped and transcribed telephone conversations with the author in New York and Los Angeles in 1977 and 1978. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

The Temptation of Saint Antony 1987-1990 / Rollins, Tim + K.O.S., 1990

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Identifier: CC-03357-3410
Scope and Contents

This catalogue prints interviews with Tim Rollins (an art teacher) and KOS of the background behind the subject which began with the reading of a book on Grunewald in Rollins collection in 1982 by Carlos Rivera, a 12 year student with learning disability, who was asked to reproduce his favorite painting in the book. Rivera selected The Temptation of Saint Antony, did an impressive drawing of the work which was enjoyed by the rest of Rollins' class to the point where other artists' versions were shown. The latter included Schongauer, Brueghel, Bosch, Callot, Redon, Ensor, and Ernst. The influence of these images and the text on Rollins group over the years led them to do their own interpretations of the work as watercolor studies, paintings and finally prints at Crown Point press. The catalogue includes several reproductions including an etchings from "The Temptation of Saint Antony" series, a work held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Thing, No. 10: Starlee Kine - Crying Instructions, 2008

 Item — Box 274: [Barcode: 31858072460607]
Identifier: CC-50951-72029
Scope and Contents

The text of the pamphlet deals with a bad movie entitiled "Garden State." The text laser etched into the wood block deals with the purchase and cutting of an onion. Kine states in the pamphlet that her object is a cutting board and recommends that the more the board is used, the less the text can be read, and if all goes as planned, "the quieter the ghosts of meals past will become." She also recommends that you first slice an onion on the board that will cause you to cry for as a mental cathartic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

The Tom Phillips Website Recent Updates / Phillips, Tom; Sackner SE., 2004

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Identifier: CC-43224-45283
Scope and Contents

This photoessay by Sara Sackner published on the Phillips web site for the first time, documents the work at Tom's studio in London during the production of the fine press book Dante's Inferno in 1980. This is vol. 6, no. 1 of recent website updates. John Pull, webmaster, writes, " I first saw Sara's photos while visiting the Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry (sic) in Miami Beach. I loved the image I saw of Tom and NIck Tite reviewing the plate and was floored by the cache of prints Sara loaned me for this special exhibition, 57 in '80. Fond appreciation to Sara for her generosity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

The Tour / Sackner, Sara; Sackner MA; Sackner RK., 2002

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Identifier: CC-42394-44404
Scope and Contents

This book was assembled by Sara Sackner on the occasion of Marvin Sackner's 70th birthday. It contains clips from the film "Concrete" that Sara produced about the Archive. Her dedication reads, " Oh Clips!/ Speak to me/ LONG and short/ Tell me / Where you want to go!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

The Tree of Sephiroth (DAATH) / Laffoley, Paul., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33307-34941
Scope and Contents

One of 11 drawings in the series is illustrated. The subject is "the ten globes of absolute light of the tree of the Sephiroth and the false eleventh Sephirah named Daath (or knowledge) which spans the Abyss of Transition." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

The Trees of Unknowing / Morrissey, Stephen ; Dudek L., 1978

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Identifier: CC-38262-40158
Scope and Contents

The haiku in this book are presented as amorphously shaped, fragmented, repetitive texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978