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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 417 Collections and/or Records:

Genuine Brand Blank Verse / Nichol, bp., 1984

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Identifier: CC-50363-71431
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Consists of a blank sheet of paper with a header and a footer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s / Luis Camnitzer, curator ; Jane Farver, curator ; Rachel Weiss, curator ; Boshoff W ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Andre C ; Antin E ; Art & Language ; Beuys J ; Boetti A ; Broodthaers M ; Cage J ; Celant G ; Darboven H ; Debord G ; Deisler G ; Duchamp M ; Ferrari L ; Flynt H ; General Idea ; Gerchman R ; Gins M ; Goeritz M ; Holzer J ; Johns J ; Kabakov I ; Katz L ; Kocman JH ; Komar & Melamid ; Kosuth J ; Kruger B ; Latham J ; Lissitzky E ; Malevich K ; Mallarme S ; Manzoni P ; McLuhan M ; Ono Y ; Perneczky G ; Opalka R ; Rauschenberg R ; Rehfeldt R ; Wolf-Rehfeldt R ; Rodchenko A ; Siegelaub S ; Stepanova V ; Todorovic M ; Tot E ; Valoch J ; Warhol A ; Wolman G ; Young L ; Claus CF ; Arakawa ; Isou I ; Bann S ; Camintzer L ; Tupitsyn M ; Valoch J ; Oiticica H ; Weiner L ; Piper A ; Rosler M ; Snow M ; Lippard L ; Parr M ; Kelly M ; Baldessari J ; Siegelaub S ; Haack H ; Filko S ; Trasov V ; Knizak M ; Merz M ; Xu B ; LeWitt S ; Koraichi R ; Filko S ; Frampton H ; Parr M ; Cha T., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32761-34353
Scope and Contents In an introductory essay, Stephen Bann writes that "artists like Willem Boshoff and Frederic Bruly Bouabre clearly demonstrate the fertility of language-based investigations on African soil: Boshoff prepared for his work with dictionaries by lengthy exercises in concrete poetry." Okwui Enwezor contributes an essay "Where, What, Who, When: A Few Notes on "African" Conceptualism." Bann adds that "Willem Boshoff's conceptual practice is an elaborate effort dedicated to the study of ignorance, that is, pushing to the point of dissolution the idea that the world is knowable. Imprisoned by South African authorities for his refusal to serve in the military (the micrographic work, Kleinpen I, was produced in prison as a way to maintain mental equilibrium)... Boshoff finds in obscure and obsolete words a way to construct a map that denies sight but empowers knowledge...His study of linguistics and Wittgensteinian philosophy led him to explore other ways of rendering words into pulsating...
Dates: 1999

Ha!art. No.14 / Fajfer Z ; Joyce J ; Bukowski C ; Szopa L., 2003

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Identifier: CC-43129-45184
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Zajfer contibutes a poem is entitled "Seven Letters." Its Engish translation that was sent to the Sackners by Katarzyna Bazarnik is placed within this issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Head Citations / Goldsmith, Kenneth., 2003

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Identifier: CC-43201-45258
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Goldsmith provides a numbered list of a line from a popular song but altered with a malapropism, one nation under guard, invisible and play that funky music eyeball, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Homage A Pavlov / Bory, Jean-Francois; Tinguely J; Arman; Cesar; Christo; Duchamp M; Ben; Boltanski C; Segal G; Spoerri D; Malevich K., 1972

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Identifier: CC-21273-21683
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Each line of J. Bory's poem refers to an artist by name and makes reference to a major attribute or aspect of his art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Homage to Mallarme / Mayer, Peter., 1987

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Identifier: CC-06596-6715
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Thus poem is subtitled, "Dictionary poem in SN." On the left side of the card, Mayer presents an English translation from a text by Mallarme, "Les Mots Anglais (1877) that deals with creation of words. For example, Mallarme states that 'sneer' and 'snake' lead a reader of English to regard the diagraph 'SN' as being sinister. He then uses 'SN' to create a layout of words with such a beginning through incorporation of the vowels, e.g., snag, snail, sneak, sneeze, snide, sniper, snob, snot, snub, snuff. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Hot Bird Mfg: Gnotes. No.7/Jan / Steve McCaffery., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09141-9322
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Edited by Ray DiPalma. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Hot Bird Mfg: Horror Vacui. No.18/Apr / Doug Lang ; Khlebnikov V., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09152-9333
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Edited by Ray DiPalma. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Hypothesis / Piper, Adrian., 1969

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Identifier: CC-53228-74380
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This work is hand addressed to "Wally & Linda DePew." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969