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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 673 Collections and/or Records:

The Computer's First Translation / Morgan, Edwin, editor; Cobbing B; Furnival J; Parfitt W; Finch P; Morgan E., 1979

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Identifier: CC-32393-33964
Scope and Contents

The card depict unreadable poems that might have been produced, according to Morgan's imagination, by bugs in computers' first programs on making translations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

The Crisis of Western Civilization / Nikki Bell; Ben Langlands., 1983

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Identifier: CC-21780-22191
Scope and Contents

The overall wall sculpture consists of cardboard, red painted, false bricks to form alters; this object has shelves to hold book objects. The center altar has a doll which appears to be an angel. The title of this work was taken from a trade edition book that constitutes an element of the sculpture. The pages of the latter are collaged with text that has been cut-up and rearranged, sometines upside down, so that it is reminiscent of a language that once might have been interpretable but can no longer now be deciphered. The book objects placed on the shelf reference this imagined civilization. One of the book objects depicts a colored collaged photographic print of the 1970's American television character, Molly Goldberg, with arms outstretched as if posing a question, enclosed within a frame dated in hand lettering as 1949. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

The Elimination Considerati, 1984

 Item — Box 316: [Barcode: 31858072490810]
Identifier: CC-27157-27632
Scope and Contents

Text has been enlarged several times its orignal size by repeated passages through Xerox machine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Gospel of Jesus Christ According to John and Romans / Leftwich, Jim., 1998

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Identifier: CC-33047-34672
Scope and Contents

Leftwich overlayed colored, handwritten markings and colored, rubberstamped abstract shapes on each page of a previously published, double column, Biblical textbook. He placed loose sheets between each page and made abstract writings down the vertical center of the sheet. The inside and outside of the front and back covers have also been covered with abstract writings and rubberstampings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

the inverse order of alienation / Random, Steve., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47311-50054
Scope and Contents

Each print consists of a text based poem manipulated in a photocopier machine. Reed Altemus is the publisher of Live Matter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

the inverse order of alienation / Random, Steve., 2007

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Identifier: CC-48962-70000
Scope and Contents

Each print consists of a text based poem manipulated in a photocopier machine. Reed Altemus is the publisher of Live Matter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

The Last Cigaret: Smokeender's Haiku / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1989

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Identifier: CC-09157-9338
Scope and Contents

The work is intended as an admonition to smokers in the form of a work of art. The haiku is repeated for both sexes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

The Mechanism of Meaning / Evans, Dennis., 1994

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Identifier: CC-14301-14609
Scope and Contents

The text in the painting is from Wittenstein. The multilevel, subtle painting of the interrupted phrases and singular letters provokes the viewer to find personal meanings. Letters, words and sentences are rendered beautifully in this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

The Nonconformist's Memorial / Howe, Susan., 1992

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Identifier: CC-60578-10003472
Scope and Contents

These pages were an advertisement for an edition illustrated by Robert Mangold. The card depicts one of the images and documents the limited editions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

The Portal - for Marvin & Ruth Sackner / Topel, Andrew., 2011

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Identifier: CC-53352-100051
Scope and Contents

A smaller version with a colored figure is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

The Sound in My Life / Phillips, Tom., 1986

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Identifier: CC-46254-48975
Scope and Contents

This is a beatufully attractive concrete poetic/language art print as a classic Phillikps stecilled work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

The Visualised Page / Dellafiora, David, editor ; Bennett JM ; Burgaud C ; Collins P ; Dammann M ; Dellafiora D ; Gomez A ; Hess H ; Lenoir P ; Mizzi D ; Nakamura K ; Padin C ; Smith G ; spence p ; Ricart J ; Vermeulen G ; Vleeskens C., 2001

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Identifier: CC-38020-39906
Scope and Contents

David Dellafiora contributed an exceptionally powerful print to commemorate the September 11, 2001 destruction of the World Trade Center Towers in NYC. The print is depicted in the accompanying image with this record. Although the image is simple, it offers multiple interpretations of its meanings. A larger laser print of the same image in 11 copies is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

thought / Hill, Crag., 1989

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Identifier: CC-60804-10003658
Scope and Contents

Taken from pete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Tippfehler / Mattes, Rudolph., 1984

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Identifier: CC-47713-68732
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a small rectangle of typed random letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984