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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3384 Collections and/or Records:

An Anthology of Asemic Handwriting, 2012

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Identifier: CC-58435-10001653
Scope and Contents

The editors take a libersl view of asemic writing including surrealism, lettrisme, an COBRA works in this anthology. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, 2010

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Identifier: CC-51577-72676
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Amazon.com: "One overcast weekend in October 1974, Georges Perec set out in quest of the "infraordinary": the humdrum, the non-event, the everyday--"what happens," as he put it, "when nothing happens." His choice of locale was Place Saint-Sulpice, where, ensconced behind first one cafe window, then another, he spent three days recording everything to pass through his field of vision: the people walking by; the buses and driving-school cars caught in their routes; the pigeons moving suddenly en masse; a wedding (and then a funeral) at the church in the center of the square; the signs, symbols and slogans littering everything; and the darkness that finally absorbs it all. In An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris, Perec compiled a melancholic, slightly eerie and oddly touching document in which existence boils down to rhythm, writing turns into time and the line between the empirical and the surreal grows surprisingly thin." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

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

An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Letterist Painting As Exemplified in the Oeuvre of Maurice Lemaitre, 1976

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Identifier: CC-13256-13557
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The paper in this book was presented at the first International Symposium on Letterism. Mentions that James Joyce was Isou's earliest inspiration. This book is stored in a Lemaitre box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Letterist Painting As Exemplified in the Oeuvre of Maurice Lemaitre in Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Letterism / Failing, Patricia; Lemaitre M; Isou I; Marinetti FT; Schwitters K., 1976

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Identifier: CC-13284-13585
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This manuscript, published as a book that is also held by the Sackner Archive, was presented at the First International Symposium on Letterism. In the introduction, Failing focuses on Isou and mentions that James Joyce was his earliest inspiration. Takes up Lemaitre work when he is 24 years old and preparing his picture novel, Canailles. Note that even in his early works, Lemaitre's images can be distinguished from Isou in that they are more refined and contain a greater variety of shapes and lettering. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Ana Eccetera: La Questione S. No.5 (Suppl)) / Alan Jouffroy., 1963

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Identifier: CC-24249-24701
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Entitled Etcetera. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Ana Eccetera. No.1 / Martino Oberto, editor., 1959

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Identifier: CC-24248-24700
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Includes supplements A & L. The duplicate copy is missing the pamphlet entitled Martino Oberto. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1959

Ana Eccetera. No.6 / Martino Oberto, editor ; Martini SM ; Carrega U ; Vitone R ; Isou I ; Oberto A ; Oberto M., 1965

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Identifier: CC-24251-24703
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Titled "Ana Etcetera" and includes supplement. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Anais: Coloquio de Estudios Luso-Brasileiros. No.9 / DeCampos A ; DeCampos H ; Pignatari D ; Gomringer E ; Niikuni S ; Finlay IH ; Williams E ; Mon F ; Vinholes L., 1975

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Identifier: CC-24580-25033
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Contains essay by Vinholes on Brazilian and Japanese Concrete Poetry and a description of the contents of the Japanese periodical ASA. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Anarchy / Cage, John., 2001

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Identifier: CC-41473-43458
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This book is comprised of twenty mesostic poems by Cage that draw on the writings of serious anachists, for example, one mesostic is based on a quote from Thoreau, "That government is best which governs not at all..." Anarchy is considered the culmination of Cage's work as a poet, a composer and thinker about contemporary society. Cage also wrote an intoductory essay documenting his thoughts about anarchism. The mesostics consist of the names of important anarchists, e.g., Emma Goldman, Peter Kropotkin, and Mario Maletesta. the book was written by Cage in 1988 but published here in 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Angel Dancing / Butler, Bill., 1982

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Identifier: CC-21044-21453
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Introduction by Eric Mottram. Bill Butler is an American living in London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Angela Flowers Gallery 35th Anniversary Exhibition 2005 / Flowers, Angela ; Phillips T ; Baxter G ; Hughes P ; Kidner M ; Paolozzi E ; Smith J., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44524-46674
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In his introductory essay, Robert Hall writes, "Tom Phillips' first one-man show with Angela Flowers was an instant hit that has led to an astonishing, abundant variety of erudite and imaginative creation, not only of figurative paintings and treated books, but (among others) tapestries, calligraphy and manuscripts, of which 'Palimpsest' (1987), worked over in 2004) is an intriguing and beautiful example." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005