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Aphorism

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

Physical Language Laboratory, No. 3: Specimen/Kaddish, 1997

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CC-28027-29181
Scope and Contents

The poem object is a black egg placed in the bottom center of an acrylic jar. The title, Kaddish, is the Jewish prayer of mourning. At the base of the egg, a line of poetry by Walt Whitman is set in a spiral line. It reads,"All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier." The box is printed with the quote from an unidentified person, "...when she put out all her eyes from grief, they did not turn to fire but fell to earth as eggs..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Project for a Monument to Ludwig Feuerbach / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1986

 Item — Folder 36: [Barcode: 31858072459963]
Identifier: CC-58280-10001513
Scope and Contents

The slogan relates to Finlay's dispute with the local tax collectors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Regional News, 1978

 Item — Folder 78: [Barcode: 31858072538378]
Identifier: CC-13262-13563
Scope and Contents

The drawing is dominated by the listing of four silkscreened words listed from top to bottom, viz., Norther, Easter, Wester and Souther. Wide colored lines in a meandering fashion like unwound, tangled tape from a casette cross, encircle and go under the four directional words. The caption below these words reads, Regional News: one line the shortest distance between two points bing the prettiest. On the right side, Furnival draws in graphite, Paris c'est beauborg n'est pastiche. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

RSMPS2: the rubber stamp mini-printer series 1, 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-27515-28570
Scope and Contents

Book is designed with orange colored blank pages interspersed with tan colored pages onto which three to four line poems have been rubberstamped with blue ink. For example, one poem reads, "Ode: - The Society - of Design-Bookbinders - hide-bound." One poem in a larger font is stamped in light blue ink across two pages and reads, "We hardly see the moon anymore." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Signs, 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-36646-38457
Scope and Contents

This catalogue includes a critical essay by Joan Simon and an interview with Bruce Ferguson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Silence Silenzio ( et conversations avec Beethoven), 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-34562-36261
Scope and Contents

This is the seventh book of the collection Contre Vers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

The Invention of Mankind, 1976

 Item — Folder 54: [Barcode: 31858072537883]
Identifier: CC-13082-13377
Scope and Contents

Words are painted in capital letters in red, black and white colors over a blue-green painted background resembling a landscape. The sign has been appropriated from an electical contractor (identified as Ray White on verso). The painting was included the Philadelphia Art Alliance in 1984 as indicated by a paper label affixed to the verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

The Shapes and S.P.A.C.I.N.G of the Letters, 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-08143-8304
Scope and Contents

This book consists of a collection of illustrated essays on the following topics, Short-Prose, Verbo-Visuals, Travel-Log, Agit-Prop, Colonial-English, Calendar-Art, Cut-Paste and Laughing-Stock. Includes a particularly good exposition of Picture or Emblem Poetry. Most of the writing is tongue-in-cheek. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

The Worst Moment Is When You Realize That You Can't Change the Course of Art History, 2009

 Item — Box 327: [Barcode: 31858072490943]
Identifier: CC-49782-70836
Scope and Contents

The collaged card depicts a photograph of Vittore and an unknown man seated and reading books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Truisms and Essays, 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-29934-31325
Scope and Contents

This book lists of Holzer's aphorisms in bold and colored typography translated from English to other languages. Most have a political slant. The print lists the aphorisms in alphabetical order. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983