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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 31 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

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

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

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

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1988

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Identifier: CC-16341-16691
Scope and Contents

Depicts reproductions of this work, four drawings to each page arranged in a grid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

music, 1971

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Identifier: CC-57297-63406
Scope and Contents

All five envelopes are typed with the work "music" in the lower left corner.The enclosed cards are typed with the words music, drops, sand, stone, fragments, sky, and lines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

My Frankenstein / Corris, Michael ; Reinhardt A., 1992

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Identifier: CC-19677-20064
Scope and Contents

The text and images are printed as dark grays or blacks on black such that their reading is made difficult. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Nine Essays on Concrete Poems, 1974

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Identifier: CC-15117-15435
Scope and Contents

Includes several reprinted dictionary definitions of the words, "Concrete, Essay, Poem, and Poets." The back cover depicts a portrait of Wally Depew in Ben Day dots. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Nothing , 2013

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Identifier: CC-58481-10001701

Oevures sur Papier Photographique 1983-86 , 1987

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Identifier: CC-09938-10135
Scope and Contents

Artworks consist of photographs with appended texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987