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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 378 Collections and/or Records:

Vittore on Tour, 1981

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Baroni, Vittore: [Barcode: 31858072491123]
Identifier: CC-21632-22043

Vocabulaire: Breathe, 1989

 Item — Folder 46: [Barcode: 31858072460052]
Identifier: CC-14568-14879
Scope and Contents

Depicts image of lungs with phrase, "breathe in and breathe out" in red and green, respectively, corresponding to the red color that de Charmoy used for the pulmonary parenchyma and the green color for the airways. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Wasteland, 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-44011-46124
Scope and Contents

This exhibition was curated by the Brazilian Sergio Bessa (b.1951) who serves as the Director of the Bronx Museum in NYC. A biography of Bessa appears on David Daniels' Gates of Paradise web site. For this exhibition, Kay Rosen contributed four pages of language poetry and Vic Muniz three pages entitled "Study for Neon." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

withapile, 2010

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-51987-73089
Scope and Contents

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Working Day and Night, 1989

 Item — Box 107: [Barcode: 31858073143772]
Identifier: CC-09851-10045
Scope and Contents

This work shows a balcony with books, very much like the Sackner Archive. The artist confirmed that he had no idea of this when he did the work. In the bottom center, a child is seated at a round table. Through two large windows are a day time and a night time scene. The frame is covered with dense hand-lettered text on topology. The top and bottom edges are written backwards and can be read with a small mirror provided by the artist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Xerolage, No. 37: Assassin, 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-44338-46487
Scope and Contents

Each page reproduces a single concrete poem. The Sackner Archive also holds the manuscript for this work which has 40 pages of poems. Twenty-six poems were used for this issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Yod, 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-09485-9673
Scope and Contents

This book is an example of the Kabbalistic period of Hirschman's work in which the poet combined Hebrew letters within his poetry. Yod is the letter Y and also means hand in Hebrew. The book was designed by Paul Vaughn and Pip Benveniste as a facsimile of Hirschman's manuscript. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Zapp: Censored, 2011

 Item — Box 136: [Barcode: 31858072457843]
Identifier: CC-52055-73157
Scope and Contents

The smaller box contains postcards that Sloy and Nic mailed to the Sackners after the box was sent. The book is an exhibition catalogue from the Oregon Artists Series in which both artists were included. It is slipped into the larger box. All the cards deal with censorship. The box came from tony colomona who was the drummer for the band, "plug," that sloy managed in the 1990s. The box was from deen castronovo's Zappo's shoe box, with his name on the inside of the censored box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

Zen Concrete: Translations & a new interpretation of Buddhist Doctrines [with ephemera], 1967

 Item — Box 543: [Barcode: 31858072461068]
Identifier: CC-48611-69643
Scope and Contents

This is the introductory piece of this 23 piece suite of altered mimeographed works. This is a letter to Bill Wyatt, a British poet, that states, "dear bill: i hope you can use this - i have no way to reproduce here - the fugs and allen ginsberg will be doing a benefit for me & jim lowell so we'll at least be able to pay our lawyers - its going to be difficult staying out of jail - establishment here is [swastika symbol] insane - i hope you can afford the return postage on this if you cant use it - if not let me know & ill try to get some return coupons & send them to you..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Zwolf, 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-15141-15462
Scope and Contents

Includes pages from Denker's artist visual poetic books "Die Reise Nach Rom" and "Gedicht: Die personifizierte Schlagzeile." Gedichrt was reproduced in black and white in this book and in color in Zeitschrift fur Fotographie No.32- 33, 1984. The latter is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981