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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3521 Collections and/or Records:

[ancient concrete poetry] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1970

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Identifier: CC-09696-9889
Scope and Contents

The manuscript consists of preparatory notes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Annual Report / Image Bank; Morris M; Lee-Nova G; Atchley D; Tarasoff V., 1971

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Identifier: CC-37158-39001
Scope and Contents

The envelope is stamped "Legal Tender." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Annual Report / Museum of Modern Art., 1990

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Identifier: CC-05966-6080
Scope and Contents

Cites Marvin Sackner as a member of the Library Committee. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Api Della Torah, Le: Storia di una famiglia de editori ebrei livornesi / Isgro, Emilio ; Caruso L ; Scheiwiller V., 2001

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Identifier: CC-40622-42595
Scope and Contents

This volume was realized for the inauguration of Isgro's "The Bees if the Torah" and a concert by Moni Ovadia for the re-opening of the Belforte Bookshop in Livorno after 63 years of closure as a result of the wartime regime. The press has resumed publishing Hebrew texts under the name of Belforte which was first started in 1805. The first part of the book is an illustrated time line of Italian political and cultural history in the world, in Italy and in Livorno and the relationship of the Belforte press to these events. The second part of the book illuminates the work of Emilio Isgro who represents the "Jews as bees that extract the honey from the Book and carry it to the various groups that they encounter in their journeys." isgro is interviewd in depth by Silvia Guastalla. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

April / Art Base ; Nauman B ; Johnson R ; Andre C ; Beuys J ; Duchamp M ; Barry R ; Warhol A ; Rauschenberg R ; Basquiat JM ; Manzoni P ; Darboven H., 2002

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Identifier: CC-38953-40889
Scope and Contents

This catalogue lists individual and group exhibitions of conceptual art as well as artists books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Arboretum / Byrne, David., 2006

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Identifier: CC-47019-49757
Scope and Contents

The musician, artist, and thinker presents an enigmatic, enchanting collection of mental maps. An eclectic blend of faux science, automatic writing, self-analysis, and satire, A journey through irrational logic - the application of scientific rigor and form to basically irrational premises, proceeding from careful monsense to unexpected sense. Whateaver you imagine can come to pass. There is absolutely no reason to discount anything, anywhere. Straight from the sketchbook, smudges and all, plus a four-foot foldout guide. David Byrne explains his 85 diagramatic graphite drawings in the pamphlet that is bound into the back cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Archaeopteryx / Truck, Fred ; Tatlin V ; Duchamp M ; Warhol A., 1992

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Identifier: CC-01407-1440
Scope and Contents

Deals with the history of flying machines with flapping wings designed by Da Vinci and Tatlin as modified by Truck in a computer simulation. In addition, the relation of such a device to virtual reality is described. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992