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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3383 Collections and/or Records:

Visible Language: New Perspectives: Critical Histories of Graphic Design: Part 3: Interpretations. No.1/Jul / Andrew Blauvelt, editor ; Lissitzky E ; Butler F., 1994

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Identifier: CC-00900-924
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Teal Triggs contributes an essay on British small magazines (fanzines). She states that the term fanzine was first coined by Russ Chauvenet in the United States in 1941 to describe mimeographed publications devoted primarily to science fiction and super hero comic enthusiasts. Today, it has come to mean a periodical that embraces any subject faithful to the specific interests of the "fans." Frances Butler contributes an essay, "New Demotic Typography: The Search for New Indices." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visible Language. No.1/Win., 1996

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Identifier: CC-29040-30378
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This issue deals mainly with the background for Chinese and Japanese ideograms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Visible Language. No.1/Win., 1994

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Identifier: CC-00896-920
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The cover illustration, an etching by Jeanine Coupe Ryding titled "Talking to Myself," consists of a figure surrounded by abstract mirror handwriting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visible Language. No.3., 2006

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Identifier: CC-46962-49700
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This issue includes articles on children's school books, Arabic typography, and Mayan hieroglyphics, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Visible Language. No.3 / Niikuni S., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33885-35557
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Min-Soo Kim contributes an essay on the work of Yi Sang, a korean poet and philosopher whose concepts and experimental poetry "go beyond Dada and concrete poetry." This poetry is oriented to a mathematical approach. Ken Friedman's book "The Fluxus Reader," and Jed Rasula and Steve McCaffery's "Imagining Language, an Anthology" are reviewed by Sharon Poggenpohl. An excerpt from Richard Kostelanetz' "A New Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes" is also included. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Visible Language: Research in Communication Design. No.3 / Poggenpohl S., 2002

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Identifier: CC-44045-46159
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This issue includes an indepth essay on preserving cuneiform titled "Communicating cuneform: the Evolution of a Multimedia Cuneiform Database." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Visible Language: Special Issue: Cultural Dimensions of Communication Design. No.2 / Byron Hamann, editor ; Poggenpohl S ; Scotford M., 2004

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Identifier: CC-48503-69532
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Includes an essay Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and related languages for concrete poetry with illustrations by Marth Scotford. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Visible Language: The Avant-Garde and The Text. No.3/4 / Stephen Foster, Estera Milman, editors ; Foster S ; Milman E ; Benson T ; Guenther P ; Runold R., 1987

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Identifier: CC-53777-63321
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This issue is oriented mainly toward the works that origninated in the various locations for Dada experimentation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Visible Language: The Luminous Object: Video Art/Video Theory. No.2/Jul / Hans Breder, Herman Rapaport, editors ; Zurbrugg N ; Paik NJ ; Kuspit D ; Kostelanetz R ; Maciunas G ; Beuys J ; Higgins D ; Brecht G ; Ben ; Cage J ; Wilson R ; Vostell W ; Viola B ; Sherk B ; McLuhan M., 1995

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Identifier: CC-29038-30376
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Nam June Paik in his interview with Nicholas Zurbrugg points out differences between the academic and creative people in video art. The layout in this issue is highly experimental with a concrete poetic sensibility. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Visible Language: The Origin of Visible Language in the New World. No.1/Win / Denise Schmandt ; Besserat., 1991

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Identifier: CC-00888-911
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The theme of this issue is concerned with the decipherment of early Central American scripts and pre-literate symbolic systems, including those of the Olmecs, late formative cultures, Mayas, and Mixtecs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Visible Language: Writing...In Stereo. No.1-2/Win-Spr / Rapph Sarkonak, Richard Hodgeson, editors., 1993

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Identifier: CC-00871-892
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Theme deals with the interplay of the inclusion of multiple languages in poetry, fictional and non-fictional texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Visual Art: To Sober and Quiet the Mind by Kathan Brown / Cage, John ; Sumsion C., 2000

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Identifier: CC-37954-39836
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This book consists of Cage's visual prints created at the Crown Point Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Visual Dimensions in Ukarainian Futurist Poetry and Prose / Ilnytzkyj, Oleh S.; Semenko M., 1990

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Identifier: CC-41361-43344
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The author discusses the Ukrainian futurists of the early 20th century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Visual Poems 1967-1970 / Padin, Clemente ; Harry Polkinhorn, translator., 1997

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Identifier: CC-37692-39566
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Padin writes an introduction concerning visual, concrete and alternative experimental poetry for the concrete poems that follow. Several of the original poems depicted in this book are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Visual Poems 1967-1970 / Padin, Clemente ; Harry Polkinhorn, translator., 1990

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Identifier: CC-47127-49867
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Several of the original poems depicted in this book are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990