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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 372 Collections and/or Records:

Mail Action (reprint), 2002

 Item — Box 622: [Barcode: 31858072461092]
Identifier: CC-42237-44243
Scope and Contents

The book mainly documents the indictment and trial of the author for sending five "indecent" postcards in the mail. It is reprinted from the 1976 edition; the back covers differ. The loose sheets consist of a biography and bibliography. The photograph depicts a visual poem related to Queen Elizabeth. The rubberstamp reads unsolicited pornography and is stored separately. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Major Reference Works, 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-42916-44959
Scope and Contents

Ian Hamilton Finlay is featured in this general catalogue with 16 picture poems and photographs of fleets of model boats in his garden "Little Sparta" in Scotland. This book is stored in the Finlay materia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Make Perhaps This Out Sense Of Can You / Cobbing B; Abess M; Traister D; Sackner MA; Sackner RK., 2007

 Item — Box 386: [Barcode: 31858072461514]
Identifier: CC-47113-49852
Scope and Contents

This invitation was published for the exhibition on the work of the British poet, Bob Cobbing. The exhibition was curated by Matthew Abess who was the scholar in residence at the Sackner Archive during the summer of 2006 between his sophomore and junior years at the University of Pennsylvania. He also wrote the catalogue essay and organized a symposium at the Kelly Writers House with Maggie O'Sullivan and cris cheek, compatriates of Bob Cobbing, participating in the event along with Charles Bernstein and Marvin Sackner. All the Cobbing material for the exhibition came from the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

mdc grabinoulor (270365), 1965

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-57847-10001099
Scope and Contents

Charles Cameron writes about this collection of '1 foolscap letter addressed "mdc" (my dear charles) concerning Pierre Albert-Birot's celebrated book Grabinoulor,together with4 foolscap pp of dsh's translation, book 3 chapter 8, with ca 20 - 30 corrections in dsh's hand on each page" The covering letter is stored with the manuacript in the manuscript binder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Memos, 1977

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: D: [Barcode: 31858072491370]
Identifier: CC-14866-15179

Metakuben, 1978

 Item — Box 330: [Barcode: 31858072490968]
Identifier: CC-22113-22530
Scope and Contents

The text was written by Basset. Klaus Basset was born in 1926 and died in 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Millennium Mallarme, 1999

 Item — Box 622: [Barcode: 31858072461092]
Identifier: CC-35894-37655
Scope and Contents

The poster deals with the exhibition and symposium commemorating the 100th anniversary of Stephan Mallarme's birth. The card is a photograph of the artists in Un Coup de Des performance clothing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Mixed Bag (March), 1986

 Item — Box 322: [Barcode: 31858072490885]
Identifier: CC-06159-6273
Scope and Contents

Contains CVAA Newsletter. CVAA is acronym for Central Visual Artists' Association. Stored in Anna Banana Publications box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Modern Antiquities, 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-35422-37157
Scope and Contents

The pages consist of 29 black and white photographs taken by Hannappel of Finlay's garden, Little Sparta. One page has a poem by Hoderlin translated by Harry Gilonis, opposite a photograph of a contemplative Finlay, sitting on a bench in the garden just outside his house, The poem reads, "At peace the ploughman sits outside his cottage in the shade... A drawing on the inside cover of the book provides the sites in the garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Musee-Galerie Imaginaire, 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-34322-36017
Scope and Contents

Lemaitre presents a small catalogue of his works for sale. They date from 1954 to 1990. The Sackner Archive holds two works from this catalogue: a bronze sculpture titled "Dialogue de dieux" and a gouache titled "Les Signes s'approchent!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Music For n Players , 1966

 Item — Folder 87: [Barcode: 31858072538444]
Identifier: CC-30059-31454
Scope and Contents

This print was silkscreened by Dave Pike at Ipswich. This score (Opus 2) consists of wavy black heavy curved lines with thinner red line intersections. Phillips provides directions on one side of the folded print in his own handwriting. The letter to John (Furnival?) describes a broadsheet/poster drawing for publication. He mentions that the musical print is "...something David Bedford asked me to do - an indeterminate piece for any number of people (to use where he teaches) -so, for interest, I enclose that too." Depicted in Tom Phillips: Works Texts To 1974, page 249. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Myths, 1991

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-10842-11052