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Barron, Susan, 1947-

 Person

Nationality

American

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Another Song , 1981

 Item — Box 323: [Barcode: 31858072490893]
Identifier: CC-22471-22896
Scope and Contents

Photograph relates to S. Barron and John Cage's limited edition publication "Another Song," a copy of which is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Beyond Collage, 1983

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-22266-22688
Scope and Contents

Rushes of table of contents page and section of No.91 issue of this periodical devoted to reproductions of S. Barron's photo-collages made between 1979 and 1982. Includes Barron's handwritten comments on quality of reproductions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Cat Tales , 1980

 Item — Box 322: [Barcode: 31858072490885]
Identifier: CC-22424-22848

Delivre II Printers Sample, 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-24205-24657
Scope and Contents

Print was reproduced from a unique collage commissioned by the Sackner Archive. Barron writes specific instructions to the printers on both margins of the proof. This is the second proof run by the printers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Delivre II Proof , 1988

 Item — Folder 80: [Barcode: 31858072538394]
Identifier: CC-24204-24656
Scope and Contents

Prints were reproduced from a unique collage held by the Sackner Archive. This proof, according to the artist, is the penultimate proof run "before the real thing." Includes specific instructions for changes to the printer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

[From Dust to Dust], 1997

 Item — Box 201: [Barcode: 31858072459716]
Identifier: CC-27772-28900
Scope and Contents

The paper tape is hand-printed with the phrase "From Dust to Dust." A small paper with an inscription is tied to a human rib bone found by Barron in Turkey. The painted and folded pamphlet is collaged with the saying "The Truth is in the Details" and has the artist's name painted in Hebrew along with two skeletons. A torn "fragile" label is also included in the flip-top box.*Web 1998: [Email]dbarron501@aol.com The "bone" is a human rib-bone, oh pulmonary specialist--and one of adam's, most likely. "love, adarn" should be "love, adam". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Kidnapped by Books, 1997

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-30594-32032
Scope and Contents

Susan Barron is pictured showing pages ron "Labyrinth of Time." She spoke at the History of the Book Seminar in Special Collections aat the Van Pelt Library. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

[Micrographic Drawings], 2010

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: A-Ba: [Barcode: 31858072491164]
Identifier: CC-51340-72429
Scope and Contents

The loose sheets are reproductions of drawings that Susan Baron made for her exhibition in Chicago. On the envelope she has written the following message to the Sackners: "a few not great xeroxes of micrography from Chicago show coming up - charcoal & carbon pencil on paper mostly - lots of black birds = Kafka show = The Writing on the Wall. PLZ DO NOT BEND" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

No One Goes Crazy Alone, 1991

 Item — Box 268: [Barcode: 31858072460599]
Identifier: CC-23205-23644
Scope and Contents

The poem was made by linking headlines from the New York Times which are pasted onto a white ribbon to form a scroll. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Twisting Silence , 1991

 Item — Box 322: [Barcode: 31858072490885]
Identifier: CC-23541-23986
Scope and Contents

This book commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition was created utilizing a trade edition book as a support structure. Barron composed poems and utilized poems from other poets along with found text. She placed them in the layers of the book, e.g.,"Twisting silence into words, my shrouded shadow sucked deep of a breath of emptiness, to shriek into its own ear," (S.B.) "what have you done to the garden that was entrusted to you?" (A. Machado) and "Breathe in a mouthful of dust..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

[Untitled: Wo man Bucher Verbrennt] / Barron, Susan., 2010

 Item
Identifier: CC-51128-72213
Scope and Contents

The artist writes, "It is the final drawing (7th) precipitating and thus 'illustrating' the prose piece 'Jamaica Mistake,' the 1994 accounting of the actual events of the seven days of Creation as previously misrepresented and whitewashed in the book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible." The collaged German text in the lower left corner, from "Almansor" by Heinrich Heine reads "Wo man Bucher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen." Colloquially translated by Baron in her correspondence: " Where one burns books, one will eventually incinerate people." The drawing of an open faced book in left upper corner is written in Hebrew micrography. This print was exhibited in an exhibition of Barron's drawings at Printworks Gallery in Chicago from May 21 to July 3, 2010. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010