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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 247 Collections and/or Records:

The Piety of Terror: Ian Hamilton Finlay, the Modernist Fragment, and the Neo-classical Sublime / Scroggins, Mark; MacDiarmid H; Finlay IH., 2002

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Identifier: CC-39237-41183
Dates: 2002
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

The Road to Perdition / Chwast, Seymour; Rich, Frank., 2002

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Identifier: CC-39315-41265
Dates: 2002
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech / Ronell, Avital ; Eckersley R., 1989

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Identifier: CC-27865-29003
Scope and Contents This book was designed by Richard Eckersley and is one of the most outstanding examples of experimental book design for a non-fiction book of the 20th century. The main text is formatted in terms of indexing like the white pages of a telephone directory and the footnotes and index are printed on orange colored pages to simulate the yellow pages. The page layouts include mixing of fonts, fragmenting sentences, overprinting, sentences constructed like Parole in Liberta, and interspercing of diagrams.The first part of the text deals with the philosopher, Heidegger's Nazi leanings and how one of his subsequent excuses related to a telephoned request for action. The following sections continue to attack his philosophical theories as well, with themes of psychoanalysis and telephone calls, and the place of the telephone in American society. Alexander Graham Bell and his relationship with Helen Keller are described as well as his work with Thomas A. Watson. "Remember: when you're on the...
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

The Twofold Vibration, 1982

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Identifier: CC-11496-11712
Dates: 1982
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

The Voice in the Closet/La Voix dans le Cabinet de Debarras, 1979

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Identifier: CC-12854-13143
Scope and Contents

The main text is printed in English and then on the flip side of the book, in French. It seems to be a memoir of Federman's experience in anti-Semitic France before WWII. The center portion of the book is a text by Maurice Roche "Echos," which is written in run-on French with each page reprinted in mirror image on the verso side. The text is unpunctuated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

The Voice in the Closet/La Voix dans le Cabinet de Debarrase, 1979

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Identifier: CC-12853-13142
Scope and Contents

The main text is printed in English and then on the flip side of the book, in French. It seems to be a memoir of Federman's experience in anti-Semitic France before WWII. The center portion of the book is a text by Maurice Roche "Echos," which is written in run-on French with each page reprinted in mirror image on the verso side. The text is unpunctuated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

The Years Without Art 1990 - 1993 / Anonymous., 1989

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Identifier: CC-25851-26312
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

These Our Mothers Or: The Disintegrating Chapter / Brossard, Nicole ; Barbara Godard, translator., 1983

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Identifier: CC-21016-21425
Dates: 1983
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Third Anniversary of Strathclyde Region's Assault on the Garden Temple / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1986

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Identifier: CC-12998-13290
Scope and Contents

The recto text deals with Finlay's artworks stolen by the Strathclyde region's tax collectors. The verso quotes a text by Blunt on the Paintings of Poussin dealing with TERROR and VIRTUE in Arcadia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Three Gates: On the way to Little Sparta, 1996

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Identifier: CC-30158-31557
Scope and Contents

This Christmas presentation book subtitled "On the Way to Little Sparta" was conceived by Finlay and photographed by Robin Gillanders. It relates the closing of Finlay's famed garden by the Scottish government. The sign on the first gate into the garden reads, "Following the authority's action against the Garden Temple, Little Sparta is closed to the public." The second gate sign reads, "Strathclyde Region made war on Little Sparta - Strathclyde Region is no more." The third gate sign reads, "Closed with the support of The Scottish Arts Council." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

Ths Hills / Depew, Wally., 2003

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Identifier: CC-53189-74341
Dates: 2003
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Tierra de Malandras, 1994

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Identifier: CC-16159-16502
Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Turvey: A Picaresque Novel, 1958

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Identifier: CC-21485-21896
Scope and Contents

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

Two Visions / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12303-12528
Scope and Contents

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Vague: God Told Me To Do It. No.23., 1991

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Identifier: CC-00809-828
Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

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