Biography

Books of Survival: The Art of John Eric Broaddus / John-Eric Broaddus; MA Sackner; RK Sackner., 2000

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Identifier: CC-54584-990030

Dates: 2000

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Audiovisual Materials

Books: Turning over the Pages / Pavel Buchler, curator ; Carrion U ; Darboven H ; Kocman JH ; Latham J ; Roth D ; Weiner L ; Finlay IH ; Boltanski C ; Hamilton R ; Kawara O ; Kiefer A ; Messager A ; Penck A ; Schmidt-Heins B ; Schmidt-Heins G ; Buchler P ; Sterne L., 1986

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Identifier: CC-21681-22092

Scope and Contents

This exhibition was curated by Pavel Buchler who also wrote a seminal essay on Artist Books. It deals with books and book objects. Finlay contributed a pamphlet on blue stock paper bound into the book that consisted of the following text printed on facing pages. "greeness, leaf or bark - greeness, leaf or barque." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Borges: The Time Machine / Borges, Jorge Luis., 2001

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Identifier: CC-36137-37916

Scope and Contents

The exhibition comprised Borges' works from the collection of Jorge Helft. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Brief von Jean Tinguely an Maja Sacher / Hahnloser, Margit, editor., 1992

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Identifier: CC-31831-33349

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Jean Tinguely sent his patron, Maja Sacher, letters (incorporating drawings, prints, and collages) over a period of twenty years. These collages are reproduced and described in this book along with a personal biography and photographs of the artist with Paul and Maja Sacher who were heirs to Hoffamnn-La Roche Pharmaceuticals. Paul Sacher was also an important colector of music scores and a conductor as well. A signed suite of prints of these letters is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Brief von Jean Tinguely an Paul Sacher; Letters from Jean Tinguely to Paul Sacher and Common Friends / Hahnloser, Margit, editor ; Arp H ; Klee P ; Ernst M., 1996

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Identifier: CC-31939-33464

Scope and Contents Jean Tinguely sent letters that incorporated drawings, prints, and collages to his patron, Paul Sacher, beginning in 1973. These collages are reproduced and described in this book along with a personal biography and photographs of the artist with Paul and Maja Sacher who were heirs to Hoffamnn-La Roche Pharmaceuticals. Paul Sacher became Chairman of the pharmaceutical firm while still conducting music at a serious level. This biography also describes the couples art collecting experiences. Paul Sacher was also an important collector of music scores and a symphonic conductor. A letter by Tinguely is reproduced as a colored photolithograph along with an analysis of its contents. The analysis is sometimes accompanied by the reply from Sacher.In addition to the letters to Sacher, the book includes letters to Pierre Boulez, the composer and Fritz Gerber, Chairman of the Board of Hoffman-La Roche. A section of the book includes colored photolithograph letter drawings to Paul Sacher from...

Dates: 1996

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

British Poetry Conference - June 1977 / Evans, Paul, editor ; Finch P ; Morgan E ; Mottram E ; Fisher A ; Creeley R ; Olson C ; Griffiths B ; Nuttall J., 1977

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Identifier: CC-13833-14138

Dates: 1977

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

Buchwerke: Original-Bucher 1972 bis 1976 / Schmidt-Heins, Barbara ; Schmidt-Heins, Gabriele ; Kern H., 1976

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Identifier: CC-34004-35680

Scope and Contents

This book consists of pages fom unique books, mainly visual in content, made by this sister team of artists. Herman Kern provided an introductory essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Burliuk by Katherine S. Dreier / Burliuk, David ; Duchamp M., 1944

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Identifier: CC-21876-22288

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Reproductions were selected by Marcel Duchamp and Katherine Dreir. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1944

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Call Me Burroughs, 2013

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Identifier: CC-61191-10003922

Scope and Contents New York Times book review: William S. Burroughs "didn't say anything for shock value," his student Sam Kashner once observed. "His life had shock value." Born to a prominent St. Louis family in 1914, Burroughs linked his lineage at every point to the fatal plotlines of American hubris and power. His mother's family had been slave owners in the antebellum South; his paternal grandfather invented the adding machine, a building block in the embryonic military-Âindustrial-media complex. His uncle Ivy Lee, a pioneer of public relations, counted Hitler's regime among his preferred clients. Burroughs himself spent time in Vienna in the 1930s and learned a lesson he never forgot: Everything Hitler did was legal. Laws could spur, not deter, the blackest of crimes. To top it off, young Bill had also attended the Los Alamos Ranch School in New Mexico, which in 1943 would be co-opted for the Manhattan Project. "The sick soul, sick unto death, of the atomic age" became his great...

Dates: 2013

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS

Cancellature / Isgro, Emilio., 2011

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Identifier: CC-51906-73007

Dates: 2011

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Castle, The: Barnard News & Views / Bob Cobbing, editor., 2000

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Identifier: CC-45121-47301

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This magazine deals with Cobbing's family tree. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Catalogo Generale Della Opera Di Eugenio Miccini 1st Volume dal 1962 al 2003 / Miccini, Eugenio ; Carlo Palli, curator., 2005

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Identifier: CC-53285-100007

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The first section of 62 pages consists of critical texts and b&w photographs documenting the exhibitions, periodicals of poesia visiva and Miccini's involvement in chronologic orderyear by year beginning from 1959 and ending in 2004. The photographs in the first section depict Miccini and the European visual poets of the day. The subsequent section depicts 256 reproductions of Miccini's concrete (the first two in 1962) and visual poems through 2003. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs