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Mentions that Golden's works are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Martha Wilson, founding director, traces the history of Franklin Furnace. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue was edited by Rene Morales, curator at the PAMM museum, for the exhibition at the museum opening in the first week of December 2013. Johanna Drucker contributed in depth essay titled "Visual Poetics and the Technics of Conception." Rene Morales contributed "Imaged Words, Worded Images: A conversation with Ruth and Marvin Sackner." The contibutors cited consist of only those whose work is depicted in this catalogue. The image on the dust jacket was done by Jeremy Adler, the frontispiece by Tom Phillips and the end papers by Willem Boshoff. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalogue was edited by Rene Morales, curator at the PAMM museum, for the exhibition at the museum opening in the first week of December 2013. Johanna Drucker contributed in depth essay titled "Visual Poetics and the Technics of Conception." Rene Morales contributed "Imaged Words, Worded Images: A conversation with Ruth and Marvin Sackner." The contibutors cited consist of only those whose work is depicted in this catalogue. The image on the dust jacket was done by Jeremy Adler, the frontispiece by Tom Phillips and the end papers by Willem Boshoff. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Titled Dante in Winggield, Phillips writes that Astrid Furnival " has knitted me a new Dante sweater from the olive oil label etc." An actual label is collaged on the right side of this page next to a tag for Dante yarn. The newsprint is an advertisement of Dante's Inferno which is described "in the Sunday Times as stupendous, breathtakingly sumptous...epic...impressive limited de-lux edition took seven years to make." The handwritten dairy continues the tale of progress with a TV Dante. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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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.

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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.

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This collage follows Phillips from London to Jamaica to Miami Beach. A hand addressed label in the upper right corner from Ruth and Marvin Sackner to Tom Phillips has the following written message: "25th Nov 1986 arrives the Sackner catalogue herein after known as the whopper with a list of their holdings & nominally all the important Dante material." A record of Phillips' diary entries are written on the left side of the collage dating from November,1986 to March 1987. An invitation to an exhibition of Phillips' graphic works at the National Gallery of Jamaica is collaged at the top center. Phillips includes a portion from the Dante piece by Paul Laffoley hanging in the Sackner Archive. l -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This first page is dated with handpainted Roman numeral 26 Mar 1984. Phillips writes, "A year after our first proper meeting, Peter [Greenaway] and I are ready to start; as usual the waiting for finance causes most of the delay...It was only after I consulted my chronology notes I realized and remembered that Dante's journey actually begins on March 26th. Thus the auspices seemed good indeed." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This page consists of three small rectangular panels in its right third and a collaged, almost obscured text from typed carbon backing on its left two thirds. The uppermost panel on the right side is a collage made from a logograph that also appears in Phillips' Dante's Diary book, entitled "WHYSPEND." The middle panel is a handwritten, micrographic portion of Phillips diary in which he discusses meetings with Peter [Greenaway] and viewing Edward Muybridge original photographs at the V&A. The lowermost panel consists of a rectangular collage made from the Sackner Archive stationery. The section on the right two-thirds of the drawing consists of the circular drawing WHYSPEND collaged onto the typed carbon backing of "the thirty three sheets of notes to accompany the Thames and Hudson edition of Dante. A careworn piece of paper." In this collage, only an illegible shadowy remnant of words remains. This drawing anticipates the typed carbon backing for the translation of Dante's...

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This page is divided into a grid of nine rectangles that are described by Phillips as "nine versions of 'many different tongues' connected to Dante and worked on on Sunday XV/VII, including scrambled script by myself, confused Mallock, random bank numbers, parts of the Sackner letterheading, reproductions of pictures of mine from Stuttgart & the Tate Gallery & Waddington Catalogue (after Dante in his study) & two fake scripts from scratch." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The catalogue, "Human Documents: Tom Phillips's Art of the Page" curated by Daniel Traister, preface by Marvin Sackner, from the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, won an award from the Association of College and Research Libraries. Marvin Sackner also participated in the Awards presentations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Baroni notes that the first 5 issues were Assemblings. Thereafter, several issues were written solely by Baroni. He mentions the Sackner Archive as having a complete collection of Arte Postale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a sumptiously colored illustrated book on 40 book collectors and the way they live with and care for their books in their residences. The Sackners and Micky Wolfson collections are described in a section of the book entitled, "The Grand Passion." The collections of the Harris', Richard Minsky, and Michele Oka Doner are described in a section entitled, "Beautiful Bookscapes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive is mentioned as containing the PPP works. Also Marvin Sackner's "Chicken Soup" postcard of 1987 is listed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Gunther recounts a visit to the Sackner Archive in 1994. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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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.