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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 235 Collections and/or Records:

Art As a Muscular Principle: 10 Artists and San Francisco 1950-1965, 1975

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Identifier: CC-24862-25315
Scope and Contents

The cover photo is Wallace Berman's Portrait of Jay De Feo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Artists' Books, Kunstlerbucher Buchobjekte, 1986

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Identifier: CC-10086-10287
Scope and Contents

Contains statement by the artists on the definition of an Artist Book. This catalogue provides documentation of the artist's activities often accompanied by photographic reproductions. The quirky binding of this book, which in itself might be classified as an artist's book, make access to the pages difficult and time-consuming and therefore not a easily readable reference text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Aus Wortern eine Welt, 1981

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Identifier: CC-33454-35096
Scope and Contents

The book comprises poems, stories, and texts dedicated to Heissenbuttel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Autologia: Poemas escolhidos 1951 - 1982, 1983

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Identifier: CC-38459-40365
Scope and Contents

Fernando Segolin contributed a long introductory essay about de Melo e Castro's poems. The first concrete poems in Portugal appeared in 1962 in a book entitled "Ideogramas." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Avant-testo , 2002

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Identifier: CC-46936-49673
Scope and Contents This book was published on the occasion of an exhibition of Irma Balnk at the Galleria Spaziotemperaneo di Milano in November 2002. In his essay Gillo Dorfles describes Irma Blank's techniques for the blue paintings. "Indeed the artist uses both hands to fill with signs the vast canvases and the series of polyester sheets, all realized with a wholly manual, or rather 'corporal' technique. In fact, holding a bunch of ball-point pens in each hand, and giving each of these a synchronous rotary movement from the edge towards the centre, in close correspondence with her respiration and heartbeats, she impresses on the surface of the canvas, of polyester sheet, skeins of bright, stratified colours that - as the writing proceeds - thicken until they cover the whole surface of the painting, while maintaining imperceptible openings between one line and another: this is, in a sense, the breathing (the einatmen, or inhalation, and ausatmen, or exhalation) of the colour." -- Source of...
Dates: 2002

Balanco Da Bossa e Outras Bossas, 1978

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Identifier: CC-14886-15199
Scope and Contents

Theme is bossa nova and contemporary music of Brazil. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Baptismal Corruption in the Sunflower Patch, 1969

 Item — Box 350: [Barcode: 31858072490869]
Identifier: CC-48103-69126
Scope and Contents

Thorne designed the cover and did the illustrations for this book. Don Cauble provided an introduction to the poems. The book was printed by Wally Depew. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Belgium Fluxus, 1999

 Item — Box 307: [Barcode: 31858073143616]
Identifier: CC-39895-41862
Scope and Contents

The concept and design were done by Picasso Gaglione and the text by John Held Jr. The latter wrote, "The three rubberstamps in this boxed set are an ongoing tribute to the influence of Fluxus and its spirit of collaboration among international cultural workers." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Bilocations, 1985

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Identifier: CC-15363-15687
Scope and Contents

The bookbinding is unique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Brache di Gutenberg, Le: Storia: Poesie futuriste. No.12 , 1990

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Identifier: CC-22646-23077
Scope and Contents

This book was edited by Anna Maria Saludes. Series edited by Luciano Caruso and Sonia Puccetti. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Cahiers George Perec, 1985

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Identifier: CC-32010-33541
Scope and Contents

This book consists of essays on Perec and his work, e.g., Perec and Judaism, sexual aspects to his work, utopian ideas, etc. It also includes annotations and analysis of Perec's book, "Life: A User's Manual," photographic reproductions of manuscript pages, and notes for Perec's books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Cal-ligrames poeticovisuals, 2002

 Item — Box 314: [Barcode: 31858072490802]
Identifier: CC-40080-42049
Scope and Contents

Laura Lopez Fernandez wrote the introduction to this catalogue. She visited the Sackner Archive in December 2002. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Che Cos'e il Libroggetto, 1989

 Item — Box 342: [Barcode: 31858073143863]
Identifier: CC-23078-23515
Scope and Contents

Publication includes reproductions of A. Dupont's "Nathalie et Justine" and "L'Art en Ciel," and I. Isou and A. Dupont's "Concerto pour Oeil et Oreille" which are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Chiaro Scuro, 1994

 Item — Box 615: [Barcode: 31858073143871]
Identifier: CC-07571-7716
Scope and Contents

This book reprints poems by Lora-Totino composed from 1970-1984. Garnier contributed an introduction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Chimaren, 1998

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Identifier: CC-31079-32544
Scope and Contents

This exhibition catalogue lists Andryczuk's personal publications and provides illustrations of them that are ofter tipped-in. It also lists publications of other poets that he has published. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998