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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 247 Collections and/or Records:

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
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)

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

Gazzetta Ufficiale di Luca Patella: 3 as salti Quel Gatto Di Luca dal 1675 - 3 tails/tales of Luca's (A) Cat from 1675. No.5 / Luca Patella., 1975

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Identifier: CC-31483-32975
Dates: 1975
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)

Gazzetta Ufficiale di Luca Patella: Red Azioni di Luca!. No.6 / Luca Patella., 1975

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Identifier: CC-31485-32977
Dates: 1975
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)

Gazzetta Ufficiale di Luca Patella: Semaanticamente. No.7 / Luca Patella., 1976

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Identifier: CC-31486-32978
Dates: 1976
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)

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
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)

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
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)

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
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)

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
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)

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
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)

Hoje-Hoja-hoy: El Silencio-Grito. No.5/Mar-Apry / Hilda Paz, editor., 1986

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Identifier: CC-58225-10001479
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: Periodicals(unprocessed)

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
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)

[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
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)

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
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)

Intervention. No.8 / Fischer H., 1980

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Identifier: CC-30086-31484
Dates: 1980
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)

Kibbutz In The Sky Book II / levy, d.a.., 1967

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Identifier: CC-60428-56591
Scope and Contents

This prose poem deals with levy resigned to turning himself in to serve his sentence for the obscenity charge. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
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)

Knitting was a Reserved Occupation 1794 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12304-12529
Scope and Contents

This is the English version of the "Le tricot etait..." another print made by Finlay. The image of this print in Finlay's book Prints 1963-1997 is depicted in black whereas this version is printed in red. -- 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)

Labor History. No.1/Win / Huth G., 1991

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Identifier: CC-46609-49339
Scope and Contents

Geof Huth contributed an essay, "Labor Archives in the University at Albany, State University of New York." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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)

Landmark Art Collaborative / Cutler-Shaw, Joyce., 1983

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Identifier: CC-18918-19296
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)

Landscape M / Backer, Heimrad ; Patrick Greaney., 2013

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Identifier: CC-58493-10001712
Scope and Contents

Backer (1925-2003) was the editor of Neue Texte. Adam Lerner contributed a forward to the catalog in which he described Backer as a "life artist" because he devoted the entire body of his life's work to an enterprise that comprised a movement toward a single goal - dedicating his career as a photographer, sculpture, poet and editor to" coming to terms with his teenage involvement in the Hitler Youth and the Nazi Party." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2013
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs(unprocessed)

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