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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

A TV Dante 2nd Series No.16 / Phillips, Tom; Minsky R., 1985

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Identifier: CC-54382-989901
Scope and Contents

The left side of this page is a collaged page from a magazine titled Dante over which are pasted a scrap reading "big screen/small screen, a distorted head, and a handwritten post card addressed to Tom.The right bottom of the page is a newspaper photograph of Terry Waite, captured in Lebanon, being led off by a strange drawn figure of Phillips' imagination. Below are two clippings that read " ...and hell followed with him - Clint Eastwood." Phillips handwritten text continues with his meetings with Peter Greenaway.At the bottom left Phillips writes "Meanwhile in New York Richard Minsky continues with his epic Dante binding." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

A TV Dante 2nd Series No.19 / Phillips, Tom; Minsky R., 1986

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Identifier: CC-54385-989904
Scope and Contents

This page is titled "I drove my big Mercedes from Stuttgart down to Hades." This relates to the book Phillips made in collaboration with Richard Minsky. The left side of the page depicts four collaged images of the front of a Mercedes truck and the painted words "Minsky in London." The right side of the page lists the contents of the NY Center for Book Arts show of Phillips' works including original manuscript books from the Sackner Archive. It was at this exhibition that the Sackners purchased the sculpture "Miami Beach More than a Million Poems." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

A TV Dante 2nd Series No.23 / Phillips, Tom; Phillips L; Minsky R; Sackner MA; Sackner RK; Ackerman M; Ackerman D., 1986

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Identifier: CC-54391-989908
Scope and Contents

Titled "Dante on Broadway II" this collage has fragmented newspaper clippings from the New York Times of Le Bernadine Restaurant where Phillips writes that he had lunch with Marvin and Ruth Sackner and Martin and Diane Ackerman. Also collaged is the obituary of Dante scholar John Ciardi, a torn portion of the announcement of Phillip's talk at the Center for Book Arts and an announcement of a concert in Boston with Leo Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

A TV Dante 2nd Series No.24 / Phillips, Tom; Phillips L; Minsky R; Sackner MA; Sackner RK; Ackerman D; Ackerman M., 1986

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Identifier: CC-54392-989909
Scope and Contents

Titled "Dante on Broadway" this collage contains handwritten and collaged additions describing Phillips' opening exhibition at the Center for Book Arts. Collaged elements include a match book cover from the Noho Star, the graphic design logo for Hero Boy, a picture on Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland holding a Broadway sign and the Hebraic calligraphy for 2nd Ave Deli. Phillips comments that there was a "very lively and successful opening on Broadway with lots of people close to me there, Leo and Ruth, the Sackners, the Ackermans and of course Richard [Minsky] who has made such a wonderful job of curating the exhibit ." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Avenue. Sum / Minsky R ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 1992

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Identifier: CC-26432-26901
Scope and Contents

Includes an article on Minsky and mentions that the Sackner Archive has subscribed to his latest book, "Minsky in Bed." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Bookworks by Tom Phillips / Phillips, Tom ; Erskine-Tulloch P ; Minsky R., 1986

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Identifier: CC-04113-4192
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive lent the Dante Inferno notebooks, "Trailer," and the archival copy of "Ein Deutsches Requiem," to this exhibition. Other works such as "The Heart of A Humument" and TV Dante were subsequently acquired after the exhibition by the Sackner Archive. The text of this catalogue originates from those published by Waddington Galleries. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Dante Diary: Number XXIX / Phillips, Tom; Ackerman M; Minsky R., 1980

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Identifier: CC-53846-642903
Scope and Contents

Page 29 is rubberstamped "Dante in New York" and contains references to meetings with Martin Ackerman and Richard Minsky.This page has a border of miniature painted sketches, dense diary entries and a collage illustration of a drawing of a head by Phillips from the Royal Academy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Exhibition Catalogues / Center for Book Arts ; Lohr H ; Kyle H ; Minsky R ; Broaddus JE ; Duncan H ; Sandberg W ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; DeGonet J ; Ely T ; Phillips T ; Michaux H ; Knowles C., 1995

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Identifier: CC-36554-38355
Scope and Contents

The catalogue "The Altered Page," selections from the Sackner Archive that was curated by Marvin Sackner and Richard Minsky is listed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Pop Delusions: Creation and Fabrication / Minsky, Richard., 2012

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Identifier: CC-54759-990188
Scope and Contents

The text of Minsky's book describes in computer type and illustration the actual thought process and physical creation of his book Pop Delusions. It also has his friends' comments on Facebook as the work proceeds. Minsky writes "A complete photographic record of the construction includes the conceptual, technical, and aesthetic decisions made along the way." A Chinese bill is included in each book; muliple bils are used in the construction of the house along with Minsky's credit cards. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012