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Aphorism

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 340 Collections and/or Records:

Follies-A Little Sparta Guide To The National Trust / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-12299-12524
Scope and Contents

This is an attack on The National Trust book, "Follies" which was adversely critical of Finlay's Garden Temple by painting a picture of the Trust with quotes lifted from the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

FOR AH (230864) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-56368-59674
Scope and Contents

The page is divided into six different spaces with varying typed poetic forms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

[Four] Detached Sentences on Revolution / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-11910-12132
Scope and Contents

The texts relate to Finlay's dispute with the tax collectors in his region. Finlay's book on prints 1963-1997 depicts the prints in black on a grey background. The prints here are printed in red and black. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

four minutes to midnight. No.1/Aug / Kevin Lo, John Stuart, editors ; Lo K ; Beckett S ; Gleason T., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-46750-49482
Scope and Contents

This is the PDF file of this issue that has also been downloaded from the web site and printed; the first edition is out of print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

[Four] Saint-Just Posters: Death to Strathclyde Region / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-11908-12130
Scope and Contents

The texts reproduce statements by the French revolutionary, Louis-Antoine Saint-Just 1767-1794 and refer to Finlay's contemporaneous disagreement with his local tax collectors. Finlay's book on prints 1963-1997 depicts the prints in black on a grey background. The prints here are printed in red and black. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

GAP: Expo '86. No.37/Sep / Norman Chadwick., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-10601-10807
Scope and Contents

Also designated one cent #166 that is also held by the Sackner Archive. The poem reads, "the bigger the spectacle - the bigger the boredom." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Gay Myths / Hutchins, Ed., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-09583-9774
Scope and Contents

Also designated Update #7. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Graffiti / Freeman, Richard ; Evershed T., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-31432-32921
Scope and Contents

This is a treasure-house of graffiti. It is a hilarious book, and a serious one; it is bawdy, and scholarly. From the origins and meanings of inscriptions on Stonehenge to the modern day muck we see in toilets.The book contains 24 pages of photographs and some 50 line-drawings by Tony Evershed sprinkled throughout the book. Graffito was defined by the Shorter Oxford Dictionary as: A drawing or writing scratched on a wall or other surface, as in Pompeii and Rome. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Guest Performace at Franklin Furnace / Holzer, Jenny., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-42502-44517
Scope and Contents

This card was printed on the occasion of Franklin Furnace's 20th anniversary. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Happy New Year! / Merks, Jane ; Bartl, Peter., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-33812-35478
Scope and Contents

The year '2000' is made up of a large printed '2', a watercolored '0', a lipstick printed '0' and a '0' burnt out from the paper. The aphorism reads, "Decide what's important and do it!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Hazardous To Your Health, 1985

 Item — Box 268: [Barcode: 31858072460599]
Identifier: CC-17395-17760
Scope and Contents

Cards shaped in the form of a filtered tip cigarette are printed in 43 languages (one to each card) with the message "No Smoking." The box has the shape of a cigarette box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil, 2002

 Item — Folder 4: [Barcode: 31858072459427]
Identifier: CC-38873-40799
Scope and Contents

These photographs by a high school senior were taken in a fun house mirror. The text is handwritten on the top of each photograph. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002