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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 315 Collections and/or Records:

[Overstamped Alphabet] / Miller, Brenda., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-06091-6205
Scope and Contents

The drawing consists of a rubberstamped grid of the alphabet laid out in 26 x 26 letter format in which Miller has overstamped with all the letters with the one preceding the left side of the row from top to bottom such that the density progressively inccreases from left to right and top to bottom. The greatest density of letters and ink is at the lower right hand corner of the drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Paideuma #0X3 / Delgado, Fernando Garcia., 2001

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Identifier: CC-38537-40445
Scope and Contents

The collage was made from a page of a German text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Pain Tings / Topel, Andrew., 2004

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Identifier: CC-44582-46739
Scope and Contents

The poems deal with famous painters, e.g., Dali, Klein, Minimalists,Pollack, Picasso, Rothko, and Kandinsky. The words appear to have been taken from a text through a cancelling procedure somewhat like Tom Phillips' "A Humument." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Palimpsest / Lovett, Ann., 1990

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Identifier: CC-07065-7204
Scope and Contents

An unidentified text is cancelled with squiggly lines leaving a new poetic text much like Phillips' A Humument but without varied visual treatment. Photographs and drawing are also interspaced in the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Pattern: Body Type. No.27 / Giuliano Della Casa ; Martini SM ; Caruso L., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-31419-32908
Scope and Contents

Most of the pages depict two columns of cancelled texts by Della Casa. There is a single visual poem by Luciano Caruso and a conventional poem by Stelio Maria Martini in this booklet. This publication was edited by Luciano Caruso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

[Perspective Protractor] #200 / Segal, Mary., 1991

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Identifier: CC-02754-2797
Scope and Contents

The artist has treated the printed page from a book on perspective in a manner similar to Tom Phillips' "A Humument." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Pictures Words Threes & Other Numbers / Shein, Keith ; Arnold P., 1977

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Identifier: CC-39467-41423
Scope and Contents

Cover was designed by Patty Arnold. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Postkarten & Kunstlerkarten / Rehfeldt, Robert, editor ; Albrecht d ; Below P ; Beuys J ; Bzdok H ; Cavellini GA ; Rehfeldt R ; Staeck K ; Staeck R ; Ulrichs T ; VanBeveren P ; Christo ; Neumann M ; Dressler O ; VanGeluwe J ; Hahn H ; Morstedt A ; Tress H., 1978

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Identifier: CC-04163-4242
Scope and Contents

Each card is collaged to an unbound page. This work is a signed, limited edition issued from an East Berlin Art Gallery. Joseph Beuys signed his own card contribution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

[Pourquoi] / Eristov Genghis Khan, Agathe., 1984

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Identifier: CC-14081-14386
Scope and Contents

This a trade edition of a book in which the artist has cancelled the text with a variety of calligraphic and abstract markings. It is impossible to identify the trade edition because of the cancellation process. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

[Pourquoi...] / Sutherland, W. Mark., 1990

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Identifier: CC-02783-2826
Scope and Contents

The pages of a book were altered in the style of Tom Phillips' "A Humument" to create a new poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990