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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

A Book of the Book / Rothenberg, Jerome, editor ; Clay, Steven, editor ; McCaffery S ; Nichol bp ; Young K ; Smith K ; Stein G ; Blake W ; Perloff M ; Cendrars B ; Delaunay S ; Marinetti FT ; Janecek G ; Khlebnikov V ; Maizels J ; Breton A ; Ernst M ; Duchamp M ; Artaud A ; Carothers M ; Meltzer D ; Borges J ; Phillips T ; Drucker J ; Roth D ; Hamilton R ; Knowles A ; Cutts S ; Tyson I ; Kaprow A ; Finlay A ; Finlay IH ; Schneemann C ; Fahrner B ; Watts B ; Bernstein C ; King S ; Cobbing B ; Derrida J ; Jabes E ; Mallarme S ; Goncharova N ; Brown B ; King R ; Jess ; Spector B ; Bing X ; Lessick H ; Spector B ; Mottram E ; Curnoe G ; Broudy H ; Blaine J ; Bory JF ; Stein C ; Quasha G ; Four Horsemen ; MacLow J ; Oliveros P ; King S ; Howe S ; Barthes R ; Jess ; Upton L ; Ringgold F., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34674-36375
Scope and Contents The subtitle of this book is "Some Works & Projections about the Book & Writing." It is divided into four sections" Pre-faces; The Opening of the Field; The Book Is as Old as Fire & Water; and The Book to Come. Marjorie Perloff contributes an essay from "The Futurist Moment" in which she describes "La Prose du Transsiberien" by Cendrars and Delaunay. The book Includes two fold-out pages that reproduce this work as well as an English translation of the poem (the original of this book is held by the Sackner Archive).Gerald Janecek contributed an essay from "Kruchonykh and the Manuscript Books" describing Old Fashioned Love,' 'A Game in Hell and 'World Backwards.' Johanna Drucker wrote, "The Artist's Book as Idea and Form" in which she describes the artist's book as "the quintessential twentieth-century artform. Artists's books appear in every major movement in art and literature and have provided a unique means of realizing works within all of the many avant-garde,...
Dates: 2000

a book of variations; love - zygal - art facts edited by Stephen Voyce / Nichol, bp., 2013

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Identifier: CC-56497-9999901
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This book reprints three previous published books by bpNichol, all of which are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2013

An H in teh Heart: A Reader / Nichol, bp ; Bowering G ; Ondaatje M ; levy da ; Gorman L ; Cobbing B ; Smith St ; Kroetsch R ; McCaffery S., 1994

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Identifier: CC-48506-69535
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The works for this volume were selected by George Bowering and Michael Ondaatje who respectively contributed a forward and an afterward. Nichol provide several hilarious stories about body parts. This book includes a graphic novella illustrated with photographs of Nichol and his friends. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Ground Works: Avant-Garde for Thee , 2002

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Identifier: CC-41495-43482
Scope and Contents

This book is a compendium of Canadian avant garde writing from 1965 to 1985. Margaret Atwood, who contributed an over-view essay of the work produced during those years, collaborated with Bok to organize the selections of experimental fiction by the authors. John Riddell contributed "Pope Leo: El Lope" from Criss-Cross. It is a lipogram using only the letters e, o, l and p. The contribution by bp Nichol is from "Still... a novel that depicts in minute detail the scenography for a potential, but postponed , story... his words provide a kind of textual terrain across which the eye pans like a camera." Steve McCaffery's "Panopticon" is an enigmatic whodunnit...The panopticon symbolizes the maze of words through which the reader must wander, playing the role of invisible spectator." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Patria: The Complete Cycle / Schafer, R. Murray ; Nichol bp., 2002

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Identifier: CC-39407-41359
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Patria is "a cycle of twelve related music dramas created and performed over the last thirty years. Each play in the cycle has a common theme - the search of two lovers for one another through the many labyrinths of life on Earth... This new, definitive edition of Patria contains all twelve parts of the cycle, plus photos, pages from the scores (complex visual artworks in their own right), commentary on the performance of the pieces and Schafer's personal essays on aestheticism. In these remarkable works, the arts court one another: theatre meets ritual, mythology fuses with art, and the line between performer and audience blurs." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

pauses to talk: 17 October 2006: a retrospective invitation / curry, jw ; Books, Jennifer ; Nichol bp ; Baker C ; Barlow J., 2007

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Identifier: CC-52026-73128
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This is a digression that took place from curry's reading of bp Nichol's the martyrology conducted with Jennifer Books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Reading in Four Dimensions: The Poetics of the Contemporary Experimental Book / Schwartzburg, Mary Alden ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA ; Phillips T ; Barron S ; Spector B ; McCaffery S ; Gins M ; Hejinian L ; Nichol bp ; Hubert RR ; Moeglin-Delcroix A ; Stein G ; Burroughs WS ; Howe S ; Traister D ; Smith K ; Sterne L ; Drucker J ; Kostelanetz R ; Phillpot C ; Broodthaers M ; Vostell W ; McLuhan M ; Finlay IH ; Acconci V ; Cutts S ; Finlay IH., 2004

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Identifier: CC-43609-45687
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Schwartzburg provides a very intelligent analysis of Tom Phillips' "A Humument" in Chapter 3. She mentions the following. Stanford's single copy of 'A Human Document' "has lain motionless on the shelves for so long that it has no circulation history prior to three times it was checked out since 1997, when the latest edition of 'A Humument" was taught in a graduate seminar. Phillips' very recovery of Mallock's text demonstrates its loss, for it is only being read now as an extension of 'A Humument.. It is entirely dependent on 'A Humument' - not prior to it." Three major sections of Schwartburg's book deal with works held by the Sackner Archive, Tom Phillips' "A Humument," Susan Barron's unique book, "Twisting Silence," and Ian Hamilton Finlay's "Two Poems." A great deal of research for this thesis was done by Schwartzberg in the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

St. Art: The Visual Poetry of bpNichol / Nichol, bp ; Dutton P ; Caruso B ; McElroy G., 2000

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Identifier: CC-43383-45445
Scope and Contents

This exhibition and catalogue were curated and written by Gil McElroy. The exhibition dealt with Nichol's early concrete and visual poetic works. Most of these works were done in the 1960's and early 1970's. He died at age 44 years in 1988. Paul Dutton and Barbara Caruso contribute essays on their collaborations with Nichol. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

The Arches - Selected Poems / Davey, Frank ; Nichol bp., 1980

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Identifier: CC-47321-50064
Scope and Contents

bp Nichol edited and wrote the introductory essay to this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

The Last Blewointment Anthology (Vol.2: LI-ZO: 1963-1983) / bissett, bill, editor ; Cobbing B ; Nichol bp ; Thibaudeau C ; UU D ; Vroom I ; West D ; Ball H ; Tzara T ; Schwitters K ; Apollinaire G ; Cage J., 1986

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Identifier: CC-23214-23653
Scope and Contents

Includes concrete poem by David UU on the breath of love, entitled "Verklarte Nacht" meaning Transfigured Night, written in the style of James Joyce with John Cage overtones with employment of neologisms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Tracing the Paths: Reading Writing The Martyrology / Miki, Roy, editor ; Nichol bp ; Davey F ; McCaffery S ; Niechoda I ; Barbour D ; Tallman W ; Scobie S ; curry jw ; Bowering G ; Wah F ; Aylward D., 1988

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Identifier: CC-30385-31801
Scope and Contents

This book is an anthology of definitive, critical essays and documentation of bp Nichol's long poem entitled "The Martyrology" that was15 years in the making. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Wharton Hood: Strip-Mining Traditional Haiku / curry, jw; Houedard DS; Nichol bp; Basho; Duggan MB; Gorman L., 1988

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Identifier: CC-20772-21177
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This piece was published in Rampike Vol.6 No.1. curry includes 5 handwritten Haiku poems by Hood (collaged onto pages) written as varients in House of Cards, Runaway Spoon & form the basis for curry's critical text. In a letter to the Sackners, curry notes that Jirgins (editor Rampike) "fucked it up by typesetting all the poems (including the bp Single letter translation!)(i'd provided him with a photocopy of bp's drawn version), rendering my discussion of Hood's handwriting superfluous..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Wording the Silent Art: Essays and Writings , 2001

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Identifier: CC-58988-10002178
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Amazon.com: Wording the Silent Art collects Barbara Caruso's essays on the contemporary art scene, including controversial issues like the National Gallery's purchase of Barnett Newman's Voice of Fire and the recent transformation of public galleries from institutions of preservation to places of pop entertainment and the effect this has on art. She also writes with elegance and verve on the subject of her own painting, on painting practice, and on how to look at visual art. Her generous and wise advice to a young painter is worth the price of this book alone. Caruso's is a unitary, clear, communicating voice, and she brings to the reader a marvellous and accessible vision of the essential nature of art in our lives. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001