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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 254 Collections and/or Records:

Tout Est Perdu / Aubanel, Jean-Philippe ; Bakounine, Michel., 1989

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Identifier: CC-25334-25790
Scope and Contents

Reproduced from poster political texts published in Lyon, France in 1870. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

transcript / Backer, Heimrad ; Patrick Greaney, translator ; Vincent Kling, translator ; Achleitner F., 1990

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Identifier: CC-51033-72113
Scope and Contents This is the first of Heimrad Backer's books to appear in English, transcript is an experimental Austrian writer's literary confrontation with the Holocaust. transcript is a disturbing document. Using the techniques of concrete and visual poetry, Heimrad Backer presents quotations from the Holocaust's planners, perpetrators, and victims. The book offers a startling collection of documents that confront us with details from the bureaucratic world of the Nazis and the intimate worlds they destroyed. Backer's sources range from victims' letters and medical charts to train schedules and the telephone records of Auschwitz. His transcriptions and reworkings of these sources serve as a reminder that everything about the Shoah was spoken about in great detail, from the most banal to the most monstrous. transcript shows us that the Holocaust was not "unspeakable," but was an eminently describable and described act spoken about by thousands of people concerned with the precision and even the...
Dates: 1990

Turvey: A Picaresque Novel, 1958

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Identifier: CC-21485-21896
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This is a comic novel on Canadian military forces on WWII. It is the first British and American edition of the book first published in Canada in 1949. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958

Two Visions / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12303-12528
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Printed by Stellar Press, this is an attack on the adverse criticism of Finlay's Garden Temple for its architecture in the book, Follies, A National Trust Guide. In this print, Finlay reviews the etymology of the word "folly" and notes that it is derived from the latin word "follis" meaning a ball, balloon or bellows. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Tyrannus Nix / Ferlinghetti, Lawrence., 1969

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Identifier: CC-12920-13212
Scope and Contents

The title refers to Richard Nixon and the text printed from Ferlinghetti's handwriting is critical of Nixon's actions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Vague: Psychic Terrorism Annual: [The 20th Century and How to Leave It]. No.16-17., 1988

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Identifier: CC-00808-827
Scope and Contents

Includes a discussion of the Paris '68 revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

War (Words At Roar): Volume One: s/word/s / Riddell, John., 1981

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Identifier: CC-54744-507394
Scope and Contents

This is part one of a trilogy in regards to thhe way language is used as an atempt to resolve conflicts.he work is a mechanically reproduced collage of texts relating to war and peace. Laid in are a folded one-page statement about the piece and a folded sheet, printed on both sides, titled "A History of the Arms Race;" this is present in one copy but not in the other copy. Riddell writes in his statement: 'The literary format offered is unusual, in that it employs a strategy which shifts the responsibility for production- communication from the traditional power-locus of an exclusive Authority towards the 'reader-participant/s'." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Why I Got Busted & Other Nonsense, Part 1 / levy, d.a.., 1967

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Identifier: CC-49028-70066
Scope and Contents

This is a polemic against the Cleveland establishment. In this piece, levy mentions that he decided to commit suicide at age 17 years but changed his mind at the last minute and began reading everything and writing poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Yawn. No.1/Sep / Lloyd Dunn, editor., 1990

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Identifier: CC-52355-73478
Scope and Contents

The content of this issue deals with the Art Strike (1990-1993) and a manifesto. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Yawn. No.2/Sep / Lloyd Dunn, editor., 1990

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Identifier: CC-52356-73479
Scope and Contents

The content of this issue deals with the Art Strike (1990-1993) and a manifesto. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Yawn. No.3/Sep / Lloyd Dunn, editor., 1990

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Identifier: CC-52357-73480
Scope and Contents

The content of this issue deals with the Art Strike (1990-1993) and a manifesto. It also provides a section of 20 frequently asked questions about the Art Strike. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Yawn. No.8/Jan / Lloyd Dunn, editor., 1990

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Identifier: CC-52559-73692
Scope and Contents

The content of this issue deals with the Art Strike (1990-1993) and letters to the editor with comments. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Yawn. No.15/Jun / Lloyd Dunn., 1990

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Identifier: CC-00138-143
Scope and Contents

The content of this issue deals with the Art Strike (1990-1993) and an art horiscope. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990