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For this book, each artist was asked to contribute one page of autobiography and one page about anything beginning with the same initial as his surname. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry was founded in 1979 in Miami Beach, Florida. With over 75,000 items including books, periodicals, typewritings, drawings, letters, print portfolios, ephemera, artists’ books, and manuscripts, the Archive is believed to be the largest collection of its kind in the world. The majority of the collection was donated to the University of Iowa Libraries beginning in 2019 as a gift of Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.Processing of the Sackner Archive is ongoing. Those manuscripts, art works, and ephemeral items that have been fully processed may be found here in ArchivesSpace. Books, journals, and other publications that have been processed may be searched in the Libraries’ Infohawk+ database (https://search.lib.uiowa.edu/primo-explore/search?vid=01IOWA). (Searches may be limited to items in the Sackner Archive by using the pulldown “Collections” menu on the left of the screen.)In most...

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Ockerse documents television programs by tracing lines directly from the TV screen. Words were selected from the programs by listening. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Tom Ockerse writes in his preface to this summer workshop report that "the occurrence of this study in a school of the visual arts is significant in that it deals with a kind of activity which is most often, traditionally, associated with literature. It affirms the view that the word is no longer limited to literary 'domain' and that the visual artist , perhaps through his conventionally less restricted view, can make a most important contribution to the development and understanding of human language."Mention is made of the Jean Brown Archive. A mention is made of the Jean Brown Archive, now in the Getty collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.