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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

Biblio. No.1/Jan / Basbanes N., 1997

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Identifier: CC-29405-30770
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Peter Beal descibes the story of the false document that sent Alfred Dreyfus to prison. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Biblio. No.2/Feb / Basbanes N., 1999

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Identifier: CC-31715-33227
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Includes essays on Tom Wolfe and Arthur Szyk. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Biblio. No.4/Apr / Basbanes N., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32006-33537
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Alice Tufel contributes an essay, "Dealing in Eternity," that describes the New York Public Library's Berg Collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Biblio. No.5/May / Basbanes N ; Sackner MA ; Carey B ; Freeman B ; Drucker J., 1998

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Identifier: CC-29802-31181
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Rye Armstrong contributed an illustrated essay, "Blessed Be the Book," concerning the work of Brainard Carey (aka Brian Salzsberg). Carey, a book artist whose work is held by the Sackner Archive, is described as a neo-monk who has recreated the Book of Job, transcribing, illustrating and binding it by hand. Carole Grossman discusses the difference between livre d'artiste and artists' books in her essay '"Books at the Limit." She writes that artists' books "are very much an international twentieth century phenomenon...and frequently question the meaning and role of the book as an art form. Often the artists hark back to the original idea of a clandestine private press and use their artistic abilities to underscore their own political or social ideas. As a general rule one can expect private-press or fine-press books and livres d'artistes to be more in the classical tradition of book design than artists' books." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Biblio. No.6/Jun / Basbanes N., 1997

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Identifier: CC-29424-30789
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Sidney Berger contributes an essay on Book Format: Part Two - Octavo, Duodecimo, and Sextodecimo -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Biblio. No.7/Jul / Basbanes N., 1997

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Identifier: CC-29410-30775
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Sidney Berger contributes an essay, "Book Format. Part One: Broadsides, Folios, and Quartos." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Biblio. No.8/Aug / Basbanes N ; Beckett S., 1998

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Identifier: CC-30593-32031
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Daniel Lindlley writes in his essay, "The Unnamable Samuel Beckett," that Beckett wrote his play "Breath" in 1970 as a contribution to Kenneth Tynan's show "Oh! Calcutta." It consisted of a few lighting effects, cries, and the sound of breathing. The Sackner Archive holds a hand-knit sweater by Astrid Furnival that depicts the full text of this play. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Biblio. No.9/Sep / Basbanes N ; Hoyem A., 1997

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Identifier: CC-29427-30792
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Contains an essay by Carol Grossman, "Arion Press: A Legacy of Literary Artistry" describing the founding of the press by publisher Andrew Hoyem. The Sackner Archive holds the AP's " Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" and "Flatland" both described in the essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997