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Found in 265 Collections and/or Records:

Una Selva Oscura: Tom Phillips's Inferno, 1997

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Identifier: CC-28695-29997
Scope and Contents This beautifully produced catalogue was published for the exhibition in the Olin Library at Washington University by the curator, scholar and Head of Special Collections, Kevin Ray. It coincided with the exhibition and symposium "The Dual Muse: The Artist as Writer and the Writer as Artist" organized by the Gallery of Art and the International Writers Center. The Sackner Archive lent nine handwritten and typed bound volumes of Phillips' Dante manuscripts, two silkscreen prints, eleven collages from the "Dante Diary," and a typewriter work on backing paper incorporating all the words of Phillips' first translation of the Inferno. Kevin Ray contributed an illuminating essay tracing the history of translations and illustrations of Dante, including the works of Botticelli, Gustave Dore, Blake and Rauschenberg. Ray writes that in the Tom Phillips' Inferno, the artist, incorporates "much of the method he developed in creating A Humument, 'treating' an existing text and making of it...
Dates: 1997

une anthologie poetique precede de RH l'optophoniste par isabelle maunet-salliet, 2007

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Identifier: CC-57133-10000469
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The compact disc includes Hausmann's readings of 1) RLQS, 2) Phonemes, 3) Interview avec les Lettristes, and 4) Sound-Reel. The original score of the latter is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

[Untitled] , 1982

 Item — Box 311: [Barcode: 31858072490760]
Identifier: CC-27112-27586
Scope and Contents

This catalogue was edited by Jiri Valoch. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

[Untitled Exhibit Catalog] , 1975

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Identifier: CC-11479-11695
Scope and Contents

The theme of the work is wooden matches and match boxes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

verbi visi voco; a performance of poetry , 1992

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Identifier: CC-20379-20776
Scope and Contents

This is the 500th Writers Forum publication that selectively reproduces pages from the previous publications of the press. Jennifer Pike is also known as Jennifer Cobbing. It was reprinted in 2003 by Edition Selene. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Vestiges ou Vertiges?, 2000

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Identifier: CC-46590-49320
Scope and Contents

This catalogue includes pages depicting and documenting the fire flies of Surinam. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Vrh Kostek: ceska experimentali poezie, 1993

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Identifier: CC-09775-9968
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Consists of an anthology of the works by 12 Czechoslovakian concrete poets from the sixties and seventies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

War and Peace in the Global Village, 1968

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Identifier: CC-33564-35216
Scope and Contents

This is the first edition of this text by the authors of "The Medium is the Massage." It brings together all forms of conflict, political, racial, and religious, into meaningful perspective. It offers ideas and an understanding essential to the "electric age." The ideas presented in this book seem to forecast the information age and even the advent of the Internet. The text is combined with multiple black and white images and includes many relevant quotations in the margins from James Joyce's "Finnagan's Wake." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Water from the Mountains of Light, 1995

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Identifier: CC-28936-30266
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This book does not include any of Kempton's signature typewriter glyphs. The theme deals mainly with preservation of the environment. This edition is one of 25 copies handbound and signed by Kempton for individuals who helped to support its publication. The Sackners were among that group and are so mentioned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Werkstatt Breitenbrunn: Druck Materialen 1970-1978, 1978

 Item — Box 262: [Barcode: 31858072460516]
Identifier: CC-27858-28996
Scope and Contents Consists of printed documentation of the activities of the Breitenbrunn group of artist/poets. Includes issues No.2 and 4 of this periodical. The large folded posters are listed as a series entitled Blatt (1-15); these deal with exhibition announcements and printed discussions and/or reproductions of their works. For example, the poster, entitled Blatt 4 has a discussion and examples of the typewriter works by Klaus Basset and a header that it was edited by Wil Frenken & Fria Elfin. Another copy of this poster is also held by the Sackner Archive. Typewriter works by Basset were an early acquisition by the Sackner Archive (1978). Issue No.2, 1968 consists of unbound pages of documentation and four signed prints by Will Frenken, Josef Hermann Steigler, H Hendrich. and Marc Adrian enclosed within a paper envelope. Issue No.4, 1974 consists of a paper envelope. It has four folded photographic posters documenting activities of the group including Timm Ulrichs. A photographic...
Dates: 1978

Wood Notes Wild: Essays on the Poetry and Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay, 1995

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Identifier: CC-12921-13213
Scope and Contents

The prior published essays in this book, edited by Ian Hamilton Finlay's son, present a comprehensive survey of his father's poetry and art, from 1958 to 1995. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

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

Works In Europe 1972-1995, 1995

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Identifier: CC-13126-13423
Scope and Contents

This publication which was edited by Zdenek Felix and Pia Simig was published on the occasion of Finlay's exhibition entitled Works - Pure and Political at Diechtorhallen, Hamburg Germany in 1995. Includes photographs b&w of Finlay's sculptural works, documentation on their significance, and a listing of his collaborators. Archival material forming the basis for several of these works is held by the Sackner Archive, e.g., Max Plank Institute, Stuttgart (1972). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

World Visual Poetry, 1999

 Item — Box 616: [Barcode: 31858072461019]
Identifier: CC-34017-35693
Scope and Contents

There is a brief, very informative abstract in English at the beginning of the book. The book is divided into three chapters, viz., 1) Evolution of visual poetry to the 20th century, 2) Contemporary visual poetry of the 20th century, and 3) Evolution of Ukrainian visual poetry in a world context. A photograph of Soroka flanked by Dick Higgins and Marvin Sackner taken at the EyeRhymes visual conference at Edmonton, Canada 1997 is reproduced. Marvin Sackner is characterized as "the owner of the biggest archive of visual poetry."The book depicts more than 20 examples in the Old Ukrainian language and 49 examples in many national literatures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999