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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

A Preface by Stephen Bann for the Exhibition 29 May - 5 July 1986 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Bann S., 1986

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Identifier: CC-11749-11967
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This catalogue consists entirely of a critical essay by Stephen Bann on Finlay's works dealing with the French Revolution. The cover is red paper stock, the end papers are blue paper stock, and the text is printed on white paper stock, e.g., the French tricolor flag. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Clip Stamp Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magaines 196X to 197X / Colomina, Beatriz, editor ; Buckley, Craig, editor ; Sky A ; Bois YA ; Bann S ; Cook P ; Steadman P ; Aubert J ; Lissitzky E ; Ranier A ; Samaras L ; Finlay IH ; Valoch J ; Biederman C ; Rodchenko A., 2010

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Identifier: CC-59122-10002242
Scope and Contents Amazon.com: "An explosion of little architectural magazines in the 1960s and 1970s instigated a radical transformation in architectural culture, as the magazines acted as a site of innovation and debate. Clip/Stamp/Fold takes stock of seventy little magazines from this period. The book brings together a remarkable range of documents and original research which the project has produced during its continuous travels over the last four years starting with the exhibition at the Storefront in November 2006. The book features transcripts from the "Small Talks" events in which editors and designers were invited to discuss their magazines; a stocktaking of over 100 significant issues that tracks the changing density and progression of the little magazine phenomenon; transcripts of more than forty interviews with magazine editors and designers from all over the world; a selection of magazine facsimiles; and a fold out poster that offers a mosaic image of more than 1,200 covers examined...
Dates: 2010

Collaborations / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Bann S ; Scobie S ; Hall D ; Orvell M ; Raine K ; Fine J., 1977

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Identifier: CC-11752-11970
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This book consists of a collection of the following essays. Raines contributed a poem about Stonypath. Bann discussed Heroic Emblems by Finlay (designated Picture Poems in the Sackner Archive). Douglas Hall wrote of Finlay's collaboration with Jud Fine in their series of 20 drawings. Miles Orvell analyzed Finlay's "Pacific." Scobie provided an essay on Finlay's picture poem, "Homage to Kahnweiler." Finlay created a pun on Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler's critical book on Juan Gris "Life" and "Work" with the caption Juan Gris: His "Knife" and "Fork." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Collaborations / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Bann S ; Scobie S ; Hall D ; Orvell M ; Raine K ; Fine J., 1977

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Identifier: CC-12537-12765
Scope and Contents

Raines contributes a poem about Stonypath. Bann discusses Heroic Emblems by Finlay (designated Picture Poems in the Sackner Archive). Douglas Hall writes of Finlay's collaboration with Jud Fine in their series of 20 drawings. Miles Orvell analyzes Finlay's "Pacific." Scobie provides an essay on Finlay's picture poem, "Homage to Kahnweiler." Finlay creates a pun on Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler's critical book on Juan Gris "Life" and "Work" with the caption Juan Gris: His "Knife" and "Fork." Pencilled-in corrections in an unknown hand have been made for two typographic errors, 'r' for 't' on page 7 to change the word 'takes' to 'rakes' and 'n' for 'r' to change the name 'Gallard' to 'Galland.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Ein Projekt fur das Bankhaus Schroeder Munchmeyer & Co / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Bann, Stephen ; Simig, Pia Maria ; Sloan, Nicolas ; Sterling, Annet., 1995

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Identifier: CC-12938-13230
Scope and Contents

This is an extensive architectural project for a German bank that was planned from the onset of construction. It consisted of six carved, lettered stone sculptures for the facade, poetic wall paintings, poems on glass doors, and a floor poem. The concrete and picture poems were modified from earlier published versions, e.g., wave/rock, star, evening will come, sackcloth n., wild flower n. Bann wrote a critical analysis, Simig helped in production, & Sloan provided the stone carvings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Form. No.3/Dec / Philip Steadman, Mike Weaver, Stephen Bann, editors ; Lissitzky E ; Malevich K ; Finlay IH ; Jandl E ; Schwitters K ; Bann S ; DeVree P., 1966

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Identifier: CC-11415-11631
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El Lissitzky describes his theatrical plans for "The Electrical-Mechanical Spectacle." It was published as a folio of ten colored lithographs which were used by Mayakovsky in "For Reading Out Loud." The Spectacle used the music from "Victory Over the Sun" by Krutchyck with sets by Malevich. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Form. No.4/Apr / Philip Steadman, Mike Weaver, Stephen Bann, editors ; Bann S ; DeCampos A ; Gomringer E ; Finlay IH ; Cox K ; Mayer HJ ; Furnival J ; Vince J ; Stevenson A ; Bremer C ; Wright E ; Morgan E ; Nussberg L., 1967

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Identifier: CC-11414-11630
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This issue includes information on the Brighton Festival Exhibition of Concrete Poetry that was directed by Stephen Bann. The founding of Black Mountain College is described by Lewis Shelley. "The Early Days of Concrete Poetry" are described by Eugen Gomringer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Form. No.5/Sep / Philip Steadman, Mike Weaver, Stephen Bann, editors ; Hausmann R ; Schwitters K ; VanDoesburg T ; Bann S., 1967

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Identifier: CC-11413-11629
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This issue contains the second section in the series on the history of Black Mountain College. The article on sound poetry by Hausmann was translated by Stephen Bann. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Form. No.6/Dec / Philip Steadman, Mike Weaver, Stephen Bann, editors., 1967

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Identifier: CC-11412-11628
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Contains section three of the history of Black Mountain College. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Form. No.8/Sep / Philip Steadman, Mike Weaver, Stephen Bann, editors ; Bowlt J ; Albert-Birot P ; Apollinaire G ; Tzara T ; Wright B., 1968

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Identifier: CC-11410-11626
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John Bowlt contributes an in-depth essay titled "Russian Exhibitions, 1904 to 1922." The series on Black Mountain College is continued with "Play, Life, Illusion 1924-37," a Spectodrama by Xanti Schawinsky. An excerpt of the experimental novel, Grabinoulor, by Albert-Birot that has been translated into English by Barabara Wright is included as well as a bibliography of several small magazines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Form. No.9/Apr / Philip Steadman, Mike Weaver, Stephen Bann, editors ; Duchamp M ; VanDoesburg T ; Cage J ; Hornick L., 1969

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Identifier: CC-11418-11634
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Hans Richter contributes "In Memory of Marcel Duchamp." Mark Hedden continues the series on BMC with "Notes on Theatre at Black Mountain College." The magazine Kulture, published by Lita Hornick, is indexed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Ian Hamilton Finlay / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Bann S., 1972

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Identifier: CC-11724-11942
Scope and Contents

The introductory essay by Stephen Bann deals with Finlay's belief in the decline of innovation in concrete poetry in the seventies and his own shift toward classicism. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Idylls / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Bann S., 1990

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Identifier: CC-12206-12430
Scope and Contents

The card is accompanied by a critical essay by Bann and photographic reproductions of Finlay's works in the show. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

International Festival Of Concrete Poetry / Dom Sylvester Houedard, curator ; Lionel Miskin, curator ; Altmann R ; Arias-Misson A ; Bann S ; Bory JF ; Belloli C ; Blaine J ; Breakwell I ; Chopin H ; Cobbing B ; Furnival J ; Fernbach-Flarscheim C ; Flanagan B ; Heidsieck B ; Finlay IH ; Hollo A ; levy da ; Lijn L ; Mayer HJ ; McCarthy C ; Morgan E ; Phillips T ; Riddell J ; Sharkey JJ ; Ben ; DeVree P., 1967

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Identifier: CC-53743-57870
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This document presents a superficial view of the exhibition and is more concerned with a global assessment of concrete poetry. This work is stored in the Houedard box.This dcoument consists of a three page forward by Houedard and a two page "backword" by Mishkin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Inverted Utopias: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America / Mari Carmen Ramirez, curator ; Hector OLea, curator ; Bense M ; Brett G ; Adorno T ; Agam Y ; Bann S ; Beckett S ; Blake W ; Borges J ; Cage J ; Camintzer L ; DeCampos A ; DeCampos H ; Clark L ; Dias A ; VanDoesburg T ; Duchamp M ; Ferrari L ; Fontana L ; Friedeberg P ; Goeritz M ; Grunewald JL ; Huidobro V ; Joyce J ; Kandinsky V ; Klee P ; Lissitzky E ; Malevich K ; Mallarme S ; Manzoni P ; McLuhan M ; Oiticica H ; Paz O ; Reverdy P ; Schendel M ; Tatlin V ; Torres-Garcia J ; Vigo EA ; Weiner L ; Wittgenstein L ; Solar X., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42800-44840
Scope and Contents

Curated by Mari Carmen Ramirez and Hector Olea who organized this first large-scale overview of the avant-garde in Latin America during the twentieth century. Many Latin American works predated artistic works from Europe and the United States and challenged traditional notions of art and science. the catalogue and exhibition are organized into six conceptual areas or "constellations": Universal and Vernacular: Play and Grief; Progression and Rupture; Vibrational and Stationary; Touch and Gaze; Cryptic and Committed. Leon Ferrari contributed an illustrated essay "The Written Word." Hector Olea's illustrated essay on Leon Ferrari is titled "From the Drawing to Texts to the Texture of Poetry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Metaphor and Motif: Tarasque Press Exhibition / Stephen Bann, curator ; Blaine J ; Cutts S ; Finlay IH ; Mills S ; Gardner I., 1972

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Identifier: CC-06559-6678
Scope and Contents

Includes essays by Stephen Bann, Robert Kenedy, Stuart Mills and Simon Cutts on the relationship of Tarasque press to concrete and visual poetry in England during the seventies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Nature over again after Poussin / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Bann S ; Paterson W., 1981

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Identifier: CC-12533-12761
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Wilma Paterson contributed a music score on "julie.' Finlay contributed two pages on "Unconnected Sentences on Gardening" including "A Garden is not an object but a process, Modern Sculpture is "Wilfuly" ignorant, Technology - Epic Convenience, A liberal's compost heap is his castle, and Weather is the chief content of a garden, Camouflage is the last form of classical landscape painting - It represents not 'this' tree but fields and trees, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981