Conceptual text
Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:
15, 1976 - 1980
The typed letters in several books have been expanded by several passes through a photocopier. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
59 >Format>: Zeitschift fur verbale und visuelle Kommunikation, no. 12, 1976
67, 1984
The following text is written one word to a page as follows, T.S. asked me to design a book containing as many pages as my age was. I promised immediately. "When is your birthday," he asked. I told him. "Don't wait too long." I was determined to keep the amount of pages to my present age. So it was no use to try to delay proceedings. I regret not to be any younger, the first time in my life. Sit was a member of the Boekie Woekie artist group. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Accounting, 1973
The pages depict orderly pyramids of numbers from 0 to 9. This booklet is also designated Poetry Newsletter Special Issue 14 (PNSI 14). One copy is stored in a Depew Box and another in a Kostelanetz box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Annotator , 1975
Art A to Z Part One, 1977
For this book, each artist was asked to contribute one page of autobiography and one page about anything beginning with the same initial letter as his surname. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Blue Book 8, 1989
This is a reproduction of an original manuscript printed entirely with rubberstamped letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Boat Ride, 1975
The object is a small toy boat made of plaster and painted black. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Can You Tell Me How What You Are Doing Now Is To Do Something Philosophical? , 1980
Peter H Barnett: Can you tell me how what you are doing now is to do something philosophical? (Assembling Press, 1980) consists of handwritten philosophical questions arranged four to a page. Each page has a rectangular cutout of a quarter, a horizontal half page or a vertical half-page, allowing the questions to be seen in continually changing groups and associations. The title expresses the theme: what would it mean to act philosophically, or to take a philosophical initiative? -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Carbon Copy / Immoos, Franz., 1978
The expression "CARBON - COPY" appears on each page, progressively fainter as the number of copies increases. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Circle Pamphlet: Zen Aphorism. No.3 , 1970
Cosmogonic Historicity, 1975
This balanced piece charts "the nature of historical time" within a six pointed star that describes the manifestation of civilization and a horizontal graph that states the nature of historical and spiritual time. The elements are balanced left to right and top to bottom throughout the piece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Day, 2003
This book is the printed version of Goldsmith's retyping of one day of The New York Times. Goldsmith writes, "I am spending my 39th year practicing uncreativity. On Friday, September 1, 2000, I began retyping the day's New York Times, word for word, letter for letter, from the upper left hand corner to the lower right hand corner, page by page...When I reach 40, I hope to have cleaned myself of all creativity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
do it yourself 1971 - 1974 / Valoch, Jiri., 1975
Each page lists one to four ideas for poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Eighteen Self-Portraits - Fifteen Portraits - Nine Portraits in Two Different Forms, 1991
The book summarizes questionaires in the mail sent by the author asking for 10 dates which the respondent thought signified their being "penetrated by our culture." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Ein Mann und Tausend Frauen, 1991
Five Fore-and-Afters, 1978
Five names of ships and the names of their ports have been written in green color with a traditional calligraphic style. *WEB 1998: Publisher's name misspelt. Date wrong -- should be 1978. Sackner: corrected. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Gemma Three: White Truth Black, 1979
The text of the cards is printed in binary code. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
