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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 395 Collections and/or Records:

Her Face Was Pale, 1980

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Baroni, Vittore: [Barcode: 31858072491123]
Identifier: CC-21697-22108
Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS / Vittore Baroni

Hera Oons, 1998

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-31724-33236
Scope and Contents

The drawing is done on a page from a book on mushrooms and includes printed drawings of mushrooms and a caption. One of the mushrooms in the drawing is titled, "Scleroderma verrucosum." The title and subject of Sackner's first published medical book was "Scleroderma," a disease of humans and unrelated to the mushroom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Hermes-Satie Hat, 1988

 Item — Box 45: [Barcode: 31858072460839]
Identifier: CC-22797-23232
Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS / Peter Bailey

Himorogos, 1984

 Item — Box 97: [Barcode: 31858072538105]
Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

Homage to the Mad Japanese Diarist / Ten Bamboo Studio, The., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-01288-1319
Scope and Contents

Submitted as entry for Homage To The Mad Diarist exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed)

hum muh, 2010

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-51543-72641
Dates: 2010
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

I Am a Painter, 1984

 Item — Box 72: [Barcode: 31858070812072]
Identifier: CC-15686-16015
Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

[I am afraid that to read this letter you might need binoculers] / Seille, Genevieve., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-02424-2464
Scope and Contents

In this letter to the Sackners, the artist writes about her new works which she calls "Architecture Fluide." Examples of this genre were later acquired by the Sackner Archive from an exhibition held at the England Gallery, London in April 1992. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / SMALL BOOKS

I Suppose There Should Have Been More Colour, 1974

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Crozier, Robin: [Barcode: 31858072491362]
Identifier: CC-19203-19586
Scope and Contents

This book provides performances directions on fluxus-like themes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS / Robin Crozier

In a Sequence of Dreams, 1968

 Item — Folder 51: [Barcode: 31858072537842]
Identifier: CC-25592-26050
Dates: 1968
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

In Rapporto A, 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-37412-39265
Scope and Contents

The calligraphy in this book is varied from page to page. -- 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 (processed) / BOOKS

In Tone, 1990

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (2 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491313]
Identifier: CC-17146-17504
Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS / Bob Cobbing

Infused, 1994

 Item — Box 336: [Barcode: 31858072491115]
Identifier: CC-49152-70192
Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

Ini Soit Qui Mal Y Pense, 1994

 Item — Box 342: [Barcode: 31858073143863]
Identifier: CC-08607-8779
Scope and Contents

The text on the recto of the loose sheet is a calligraphic colored, sound poem using made up words intersperced with abstract images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / Bertozzi

Inspire , 1990

 Item — Folder 65: [Barcode: 31858072537990]
Identifier: CC-16594-16947
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sackners relates to his commission for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

(Invisible) Random Sightings, 1999

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-48657-69689
Scope and Contents

This issue contains a photograph that is reprinted and reproduced in (Uh..One & Uh..Two) Random Sightings. The cover photograph is by Alan Horvath. Reprints numerous collages from Serif (volume 8, number 4, 1972, Marijuana Newsletter #2 (1965), The Day is a Prayer they Can't Understand (1967), Cleveland Undercovers (1966), All Gods Must Learn to Kill (1967). Also reprints Farewell the Floating Cunt (1964) in its entirety. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS / d.a. levy / Posthumous [1969-2008]

Iron Fist in Yr Yellow Chakra, 1998

 Item — Box 135: [Barcode: 31858072457835]
Identifier: CC-29776-31154
Scope and Contents This book is composed of calligraphic drawings, one to a card, that repetitively presents the title phrase in extremely varied letter styles and sizes using ink, paint, and graphite. Chakra is a word from Yoga that refers to any of the six points along the spine that are supposed to contain certain powers, persinified by Gods and able to be released through the proper exercises. The title phrase is occasionally modified with another word, e.g., "Iron Fuckin Fist In Yr Fuckin Yellow Fuckin Goddamn Chakra." The cards are a masterpiece of experimental calligraphy. The green corrugated cardboard box holding the cards was made by Sloy's husband, Nicholas. Richard Ovenden, Keeper of Special Collections at the Bodleian Library at Oxford, described the preparation of the cards by sloy. "The artist put blank paper through a press wiha clean plate to create a border indentation (the blank plate mark) to make the work look like an engraving. This technique was used by printers in the 19th...
Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS / nic and sloy

It Is a Tree of Life, 1995

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-24003-24453
Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

[It was so sweet...], 1996

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-16388-16738
Scope and Contents

A thank you presentation from Doner to the Sackners in the form of a wedge shaped book, tied and wrapped, containing examples of Doner's ideogramatic drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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 (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

JCMCJJ II, 1990

 Item — Box 287: [Barcode: 31858072460680]
Identifier: CC-01874-1910
Scope and Contents

Text and imagery relates to John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Jasper Johns "Dancers on a Plane." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

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