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Book review

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 377 Collections and/or Records:

Umbrella. No.2/May / Judith Hoffberg, editor ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA ; Johnson R ; Ginsberg A ; Rabascall J ; Hubert RR ; Lohr H ; Helfgott G ; Pfeiffer W ; Share S ; Silverberg RA ; Tipping R ; McLuhan M ; Laxson R ; King R ; King S ; Goldsmith K ; Lille C., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-27822-28955
Scope and Contents

In the section of exhibition catalogs, "Networking Artists and Poets: Assemblings from the Ruth and Marvin Archive of concrete and Visual Poetry" is reviewed. The exhibition, curated by Craig Saper at the University of Pennsylvania Library, focused on post-war collections that circumvented the gallery system with direct mailings, collected in folios, bound volumes, and boxes of original artists' prints, poems, texts pages, books and textual objects and were called assemblings. The designer Greg Baer was praised for his sensitivity to the materials and to the energy of the collectors themselves. Saper's text becomes an explanation for the captioned illustrations and also a rhapsody on these materials. The catalog has a checklist of the 53 items in the exhibition, "just the top of the iceberg of the thousands of items in the Sackner collection." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Upstate Quest for a Russian Soul / Sachs, Susan; Kuzminsky K; Satanovsky I; Magazinnik M., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-39182-41127
Scope and Contents

This illustrated report on the Russian emigre poet, Konstantin K. Kuzminsky who serves as a mentor to young Russian American poets, describes the magazines Magazinnik and Koja. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Visible Language. No.4/Fall., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-00801-820
Scope and Contents

James Hartley contributes an essay on the favorable effect that the use of a word processor program has on the writing skills of children. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Visuals / Heller, Steven; Drucker J; McVarish E., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-49829-70886
Scope and Contents

This section of the Review considers new publications relating to design in graphics, typography, travel literature, religious illumination, design history, British modernism and California "cool" in art, culture and film. "Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide by Johanna Drucker and Emily McVarish is reviewed. It is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Wish you were here / Callow, Simon; Phillips T., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35332-37066
Scope and Contents

This is a review of "The Postcard Century" by Tom Phillips in which the Callow writes, "It takes an extraordinary intelligence to fit the history of our century on a postcard." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Wish you were there? / Kustow, Michael; Phillips T., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35333-37067
Scope and Contents

This is a review of "The Postcard Century" by Tom Phillips. Kustow writes that "Phillips speculates on the characters and narratives of his vanished postcard-senders and the blurred bystanders in the pictures, while uncovering landscapes of wonder and networks of meaning in the ephemera of our age." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000