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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3466 Collections and/or Records:

Associations Commentaries / Cage, John., 1992

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Identifier: CC-55661-9999264
Scope and Contents

This piece deals with body sounds Cage heard during a stay in Harvard University's anechoic chamber. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Asthetischer Prozess und Rationalisierung: Die "Quadratbucher" von Paul Heimbach / Sauerbier, S.D. ; Heimbach P., 1990

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Identifier: CC-02264-2304
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Sauerbier documents Paul Heimbach's working methods for his artist books. One of the latter, Aleator, a photograph of which is reproduced in this pamphlet, is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

At Home with Books / Ellis, Estelle ; Seebohm, Caroline ; Sykes, Christopher Simon ; Minsky R ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Wolfson Mjr ; Harris E ; Harris T ; Doner MO., 1995

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Identifier: CC-14317-14625
Scope and Contents

This is a sumptiously colored illustrated book on 40 book collectors and the way they live with and care for their books in their residences. The Sackners and Micky Wolfson collections are described in a section of the book entitled, "The Grand Passion." The collections of the Harris', Richard Minsky, and Michele Oka Doner are described in a section entitled, "Beautiful Bookscapes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

At the Field's Edge (4) / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1976

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Identifier: CC-11901-12123
Scope and Contents

The text is Finlay's instructions for the production of "At the Field's Edge." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

At the Victoria & Albert Museum: American Letterpress in London / Purgatory Pie Press ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 1991

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Identifier: CC-49978-71037
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The Sackner Archive is mentioned as containing the PPP works. Also Marvin Sackner's "Chicken Soup" postcard of 1987 is listed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Audience. No.1 / Christopher Carrell, editor ; Phillips T., 1973

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Identifier: CC-25318-25774
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Tom Phillips contributes an essay, "Notes on A Humument" which describes the creation of his seminal bookwork. Five pages from this book are depicted. This essay is a revision of the original that was published in London magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Aus Wortern eine Welt Zu Helmut Heissenbuttel / Heinrichs, Hans-Jurgen, editor ; Harig L ; Friedl F ; Jandl E ; Becker J ; Mayrocker F ; Pastior O ; Gomringer E ; Mon F ; Ruhm G ; Bense M ; Gerz J ; Ramm K ; Geerken H ; Kolar J ; Schuldt ; Heissenbuttel H ; Stein G ; Roussel R., 1981

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Identifier: CC-28019-29172
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The colophon states that the first 100 copies were numbered and signed by all the contributors. This copy is not in this first series and the incomplete list of signatures was obtained by the previous owner some time after the book was published. This book is a Festschrift in honor of Helmut Hessenbuttel; it is also designated Portrait 1 in a series by the publisher. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981