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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:

15, 1976 - 1980

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Identifier: CC-08776-8951
Scope and Contents

The typed letters in several books have been expanded by several passes through a photocopier. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976 - 1980

67, 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-32497-34073
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1984

Accounting, 1973

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Identifier: CC-53077-74223
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1973

Art A to Z Part One, 1977

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Crozier, Robin: [Barcode: 31858072491362]
Identifier: CC-19212-19595
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1977

Blue Book 8, 1989

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Identifier: CC-18916-19294
Scope and Contents

This is a reproduction of an original manuscript printed entirely with rubberstamped letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Boat Ride, 1975

 Item — Box 199: [Barcode: 31858072459690]
Identifier: CC-19999-20387
Scope and Contents

The object is a small toy boat made of plaster and painted black. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Can You Tell Me How What You Are Doing Now Is To Do Something Philosophical? , 1980

 Item — Box 323: [Barcode: 31858072490893]
Identifier: CC-21054-21463
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1980

Carbon Copy / Immoos, Franz., 1978

 Item — Box 523
Identifier: CC-62497-47650
Scope and Contents

The expression "CARBON - COPY" appears on each page, progressively fainter as the number of copies increases. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Cosmogonic Historicity, 1975

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Identifier: CC-07411-7555
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1975

Day, 2003

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Identifier: CC-42133-44135
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2003

do it yourself 1971 - 1974 / Valoch, Jiri., 1975

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Identifier: CC-57396-63413
Scope and Contents

Each page lists one to four ideas for poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Eighteen Self-Portraits - Fifteen Portraits - Nine Portraits in Two Different Forms, 1991

 Item — Box 613: [Barcode: 31858072460995]
Identifier: CC-34624-36325
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1991

Five Fore-and-Afters, 1978

 Item — Box 190: [Barcode: 31858072459609]
Identifier: CC-12905-13196
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1978

Gemma Three: White Truth Black, 1979

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Identifier: CC-28096-29255
Scope and Contents

The text of the cards is printed in binary code. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979