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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 391 Collections and/or Records:

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Canto XV (Brunetto), 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 85: [Barcode: 31858072538428]
Identifier: CC-28340-29521
Scope and Contents This print is from the first version of the work which was mostly destroyed in a fire at Editions Alecto. Less than three copies of the prints from the first version survived. Tom Phillips annotated this print which he reproduced in the final version of Dante's Inferno. The calligraphic, Italian text of the poem on the bottom left corner of this Editions Alecto print was eliminated in the Talfourd Press version. Phillips' commentary in the Thames and Hudson edition of Dante's Inferno iconographical notes and commentary reads, "in a welter of fire Ser Brunetto [Dante's teacher Brunetto Latini] races away across the plain. The figure is from a watercolour that I made from one of Muybridge's indispensable photo sequences from 'The Human Figure in Motion.' Dante's teacher is here seen as if heading for the cloth of green mentioned at the end of the Canto as the prize in a foot-race (in which indeed the runners are naked). The green echoes the shape once again of the lawn of a 'Folly...
Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: [fully banished] , 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 86: [Barcode: 31858072538436]
Identifier: CC-36712-38529
Scope and Contents

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. This work was shown at the Sackner Archive during Art Basel Miami December 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: [I represent reason], 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 86: [Barcode: 31858072538436]
Identifier: CC-28372-29567
Scope and Contents

This print is from the first version of the work which was mostly destroyed in a fire at Editions Alecto. Less than three copies of the prints from the first version survived. Tom Phillips did not select this image for his final version of the Inferno. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Malebolge, 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 83: [Barcode: 31858072538402]
Identifier: CC-36721-38544
Scope and Contents

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. The print depicts concentric, colored semicircles on a gray background with A Humument text that reads, " ten pungent valleys - they smell the wolves' haunt and continue." This work was shown at the Sackner Archive during Art Basel Miami December 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Rain II, 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 84: [Barcode: 31858072538410]
Identifier: CC-36729-38552
Scope and Contents

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. The print depicts stylized raindrops and the accompanying Humument text reads, "down to position Three - pain, and this repeating wretched wretched rain - the wretched hours stretched and stretched intolerable. Each." This work was shown at the Sackner Archive during Art Basel Miami December 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Ulysses II, 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 85: [Barcode: 31858072538428]
Identifier: CC-61145-10003912
Scope and Contents

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. A Humument text of this image reads, "Already the dream of dreams he whispers - water blind imagination- speeding away piercing the dull - all came floating true men - o the very names - touch the sea -pouring past world to mountain -The green seen for a minute." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Delicatessenessless, 1975

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Baroni, Vittore: [Barcode: 31858072491123]
Identifier: CC-21631-22042

Demi-Siecle Lettriste, Le: 28 Peintres 50 Oeuvres., 1988

 Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-16422-16772
Scope and Contents

Printed in black on yellow paper, the poster depicts a central image of a line drawn nude woman covered with cursive and hieroglphic texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Der Geklonte Sammler, 2002

 Item — Box 152: [Barcode: 31858072459302]
Identifier: CC-39417-41369
Scope and Contents

Consists of portraits of 11 art and book arts collectors, including Marvin Sackner who is depicted as a flying airplane. The documentation sheet is attached inside the box top. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Dernieres Paroles De Louis XVI, 1989

 Item — Folder 13: [Barcode: 31858069877920]
Identifier: CC-25862-26323
Scope and Contents

Images depict side view portraits, composed of written words, of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Diamond-Studded Fishnet, 1982

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-13006-13298
Scope and Contents

This card also served as an invitation to a private viewing of "A Pittenweem Fancy" by Finlay at Kellie Lodging during the Royal Burgh of Pittenweem Arts Festival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Dictee, 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-50187-71251
Scope and Contents This book is a collection of biographical sketches of the author and her mother. Branch Amazon.com: "The autobiographical work of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, "Dictee," is both a challenging and unique experience to read. Her provocative blend of prose, poetry, narrative and historical pieces, among other genres, reveal a voice that purposely avoids a "typical" patriarchial discourse that is refreshing although disarming. Her words, contextually somewhat difficult for the (this) reader not previously aware of the complexities and truths of Korean history (both in Korea and America), are at once powerful and insightful...poetic, yet raw. Cha is able to use her gift to offer a glimpse into one woman's history and journey; one that ended much too soon on this planet for this talented artist."Wikipedia: Cha was raped and killed by security guard and serial rapist Joey Sanza in New York City, New York, just a week after the publication of Dictee. Sanza was convicted after three trials and...
Dates: 2001

Dornobber, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-00694-711
Scope and Contents

Calligraphic drawing by John M. Bennett. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

DOULAIN Refluxtion, 1994

 Item — Folder 23: [Barcode: 31858072459823]
Identifier: CC-16130-16473
Scope and Contents

Doulain is the God-Son of William Jay Smith. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994