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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 673 Collections and/or Records:

Surface / Fencott, P.C.., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-12825-13112
Scope and Contents

The word "surface" is densely overprinted in red and blue ink giving a leaf-like frottage appearance to the print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Tarif Bleu Nuit / de Charmoy, Cozette., 1995

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Identifier: CC-16201-16544
Scope and Contents

This print was made from repetitive rubber stampings utilizing the title, "Price of the Blue Night" and the numbers 19 + 81. This imagery presumably was adapted from a film or drama ticket. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Technical Report / Russ, Andrew ; levy da., 2008

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Identifier: CC-50115-71177
Scope and Contents

This work is also designated as Card 31 from "Stories from the Flats." It is also entitled technical report in the manner of d.a. levy. Andrew Russ is also known as Izen, endwar, stuart pid, annie one, a.r. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Texte: Auswahl 1962 - 1977 und Neue Texte, 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-27270-27826
Scope and Contents

There is heavy emphasis on poems that involve solely numbers' manipulations in this book. The poems utilizing words are minimalistic in nature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Texte und Kommentare , 1968

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Identifier: CC-23509-23954
Scope and Contents

Includes extensive commentary by Bremer on his concrete and shaped poems. It includes photographs of the shaped poems are held by the Sackner Archive. Claus Bremer was born in 1924 and died in 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Texte und Kommentare, 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-33602-35255
Scope and Contents

Includes extensive commentary by Bremer on his concrete and shaped poems. Photographs of the shaped poems are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Texte/1965 / Nannucci, Maurizio., 1965

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Identifier: CC-57599-10000874
Scope and Contents

There are 16 blocks of over-printed words in this piece. Nannucci's name and address are rubberstamped on the verso.The title and 1965 are written in graphite. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Texte/1966 / Nannucci, Maurizio., 1966

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Identifier: CC-57598-53855
Scope and Contents

There are 16 columns of over-printed words in this piece. Nannucci's name and address are rubberstamped on the verso.The title and 1966 are written in graphite. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Thank You Thank You Thank You / Kight, Leila., 1997

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Identifier: CC-29111-30456
Scope and Contents

An inspired thank-you note from Leila Kight to the Sackners after her tour of the Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

The Cardboard Junco / curry, jw., 1991

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Identifier: CC-19663-20049
Scope and Contents

The front cover has a printed concrete poem consisting of a tautologic representation in a text over text style of the title of this book. The inside back cover has a cellophane bag filled with strips of printed text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

[The City...], 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-28163-29326
Scope and Contents

The is a photograph of a collage done by Zellen that incorporates an image of the Galleria in Milan, Italy with textural statements placed in the spaces of this structure about city life as interpreted by the artist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996