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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 254 Collections and/or Records:

Follies-A Little Sparta Guide To The National Trust / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12299-12524
Scope and Contents

This is an attack on The National Trust book, "Follies" which was adversely critical of Finlay's Garden Temple by painting a picture of the Trust with quotes lifted from the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Forever Worship the Second Coming, 1968

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490869]
Identifier: CC-23190-23628
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by Tom Kyyss. r.j.s. stands for Robert J. Sigmond, a poet who at age 19 years was incarcerated by the Cleveland authorities for six months because of using marijuana. d.a.levy's poem in this book, "Indictment of the City of Cleveland for Contributing to the Delinquency of Minors" describes that episode. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

[Four] Saint-Just Posters: Death to Strathclyde Region / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1983

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Identifier: CC-11908-12130
Scope and Contents

The texts reproduce statements by the French revolutionary, Louis-Antoine Saint-Just 1767-1794 and refer to Finlay's contemporaneous disagreement with his local tax collectors. Finlay's book on prints 1963-1997 depicts the prints in black on a grey background. The prints here are printed in red and black. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Four Zoas, The: Revolt of the Angels. No.6 / Lifshin L., 1981

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Identifier: CC-11408-11624
Scope and Contents

The seven cards are identical papercard covers for issues No.5 & 6. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Friendly Cannibals / Chagoya, Enrique ; Gomez-Pena, Guillermo., 1996

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Identifier: CC-32589-34170
Scope and Contents

The artist Chagoya presents "a fictional pre-columbian codex book." His images stem from ancient meso-America, comic book characters, Catholic iconography, ethnic stereotypes and the border patrol. Gomez-Pena describes a futurist United States in which the Chicano culture and Spanglish are mainstream. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Fuck You Publication: Roosevelt after Inauguration, 1964

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Identifier: CC-12048-12272
Scope and Contents

Front and back covers were drawn by Allen Ginsberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture / Coupland, Douglas., 1991

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Identifier: CC-20838-21246
Scope and Contents

Includes definitions and images relevent to Generation X in the margins of the pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

George (Son of My Own Mag): Gastic Issue. No.3 / Jeff Nuttall, editor., 1970

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Identifier: CC-30616-32056
Scope and Contents

Stored with My Own Mag. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

h2so4. No.3/Win-Spr / Jill Stauffer, editor., 1994

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Identifier: CC-09803-9997
Scope and Contents

Edited by Jill Stauffer who also designed the cover. A periodical also called H2SO4, was published in Tiblisi by the Russian Avant Garde in 1922. This magazine is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Hate for Hate / Pan Loaf Provincialism / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; MacDiarmid H; Mayakovsky V; Niedecker L., 1962

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Identifier: CC-31369-32846
Scope and Contents

This is a polemic against Finlay's critics of his books on the staff of the Glasgow Herald. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1962

Havel: A Life, 2014

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Identifier: CC-60331-10003317
Scope and Contents Stored in Havel box. Pages 74 and 75 depict examples of Havel's typed political slogans.James Kirchick WSJ review: The life of Vaclav Havel had all the makings of a fairy tale. The son of a wealthy property owner dispossessed of his holdings by the Czechoslovak communist regime, Havel (1936-2011) was denied higher education on account of his bourgeois upbringing. Not to be discouraged, he found his place in Prague's mushrooming bohemian theater scene, where he made friends with long-haired poets, rebellious rock musicians and other outcasts from the country's official cultural institutions. Penning subversive plays and essays, he soon emerged as the government's most articulate and fearless critic"”a role that earned him multiple prison stints under pitiless conditions that nearly killed him. With the Iron Curtain collapsing behind him, he hesitantly stepped out onto the political stage to lead a revolution so peaceful it was called velvet. He then became president by acclamation...
Dates: 2014

Holocaust / Palou, Joan., 1976

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Identifier: CC-30714-32158
Scope and Contents

All pages of this book are blank except one that reads in Catalan, "Avui, dia 28 d'Octubre he anat a sopar a les 23'15 de la nit." The significance of this date vis a vis the holocaust is unclear. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

[Indictment of Jim Lowell and d.a.levy] / levy, d.a.; Lowell J; levy da; Heilbrun S; Sigmund RJ., 1967

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Identifier: CC-07129-7269
Scope and Contents

Relates story of the arrest of d.a.levy, Jim Lowell and Robert Sigmund. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Inter. No.43/Spr / Lebel JJ ; Labelle-Rojoux A ; Bataille G ; Pittore-Eurifico C ; Durand G ; Higgins D ; Partum A ; Filko S., 1989

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Identifier: CC-30194-31595
Scope and Contents

Includes a translation into English of an article on the Polish gallery scene, correspondence art, performance and photography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989