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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 417 Collections and/or Records:

I Suppose There Should Have Been More Colour / Crozier, Robin., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-19203-19586
Scope and Contents

This book provides performances directions on fluxus-like themes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

I.A.C. (International Artists Cooperation): Completition. No.45 / Ken Friedman., 1974

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Identifier: CC-08487-8656
Scope and Contents

The text reads, "When you have finished reading this sentence you have finished reading my book," spread out one word at a time. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Identifying Information Concerning the Following Four Pages / Piper, Adrian., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-30091-31489
Scope and Contents

The mimeographed page gives instructions for identifying the subsequent four pages of graph papers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Idiot-Ci, Idiot-La / Filliou, Robert., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-12283-12507
Scope and Contents

Each postcard asks a simple-minded question. The subtitle of this series is "Ample Food for Stupid Thought." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Images from the Arcadian Dream Garden / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-11061-11276
Scope and Contents

This book was Finlay's Christmas gift to friends. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Interpolations in Hegel / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-11788-12007
Scope and Contents

This booklet consists of philosophical statements. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

interpretation / Morris, Simon ; Morlock, Forbes ; Dalton, Liz., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-49402-70447
Scope and Contents

These texts include chapters titled "construction" where two academic writers construct texts on subjects of their own choosing, "erase" in which the title and the main body of each writer's text are erased and the remaining footnotes are e-mailed to the other writer and "reconstruction" where each writer reconstructs the other's work from the other's reference. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

It Looks Like Snow / Charlip, Remy., 1957

 Item
Identifier: CC-19153-19532
Scope and Contents

The pages contain citations at the bottom for the proposed images of this "picture book" sans images. Since the dedication of this work reads "for John Cage," the metaphor may signify the musical silences in the composer's avant garde musical scores. This copy might be much less than 750 copies. The completed book was published in 1962 but is out of print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957