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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3522 Collections and/or Records:

12 Colorborations / Bennett, John M. ; Ernst, Kathy ; Grumman, Bob ; Helmes, Scott., 2004

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Identifier: CC-44015-46128
Scope and Contents

Bob Grumman contributed an introductory essay "Instigator Grumman's Introductions." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

12 Dancepoems from the Cosmic Typewriter / Houedard, Dom Sylvester ; Medalla D ; Ponge F., 1969

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Identifier: CC-09722-9915
Scope and Contents Also designated Aplomb Zero No.1. In an introductory essay, Houedard discusses buddhas, tantras, and Zen. These poems were translated from the Nahuati language by Houedard. The manuscript for these translations is also held byu the Sackner Archive.Wikipedia: ahuatl (Nahuatl pronunciation: [ˈnaːwatɬ] ( listen), with stress on the first syllable) is a language of the Nahuan branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family. It is spoken by an estimated 1.5 million Nahua people, most of whom live in Central Mexico. All Nahuan languages are indigenous to Mesoamerica. Nahuatl has been spoken in Central Mexico since at least the 7th century AD. It was the language of the Aztecs, who dominated what is now central Mexico during the Late Postclassic period of Mesoamerican history. During the centuries preceding the Spanish conquest of Mexico, the Aztec Empire had expanded to incorporate most of Mexico, and its influence caused the variety of Nahuatl spoken by the residents of Tenochtitlan...
Dates: 1969

13 x Kunstlerbucher/Livres de Artistes/Artists Books / Despalles F ; Strugalla J ; Metail M ; Stein P ; Schwartz R ; Ebel G ; Fahrner B ; Andryczuk H ; Mon F ; Malutzki P ; Furtwangler F ; Harms A ; Ketelhodt IV ; Schneider U ; Stoltz U ; Warnke U ; Wurth A ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34924-36637
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive is listed on the fly leaf as one of the institutions collecting contemporary book art and regularly buying works by the artists represented in the catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

17 Paintings with Details and Text / Gelfman, Lynne Golob ; Capellazzo A., 1997

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Identifier: CC-37381-39234
Scope and Contents

Amy Cappellazzo contributed a personal, descriptive text that is printed on translucent paper overlaying reproductions of the abstract expressionistic paintings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

21 Matched Asymmetries / Mac Low, Jackson ; Cheek C., 1978

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Identifier: CC-47571-68580
Scope and Contents Mac Low explains the compostion of these poems. ""Asymmetries" are nonstanzaic chance-generated poems of which the printed formats are notations for solo or group' performance. They are "asymmetrical" in that they have no regularly repeating stanzaic or other patterns. They are "notations" in that most aspects of their format can be translated into aspects of performance. Notably, the lengths of blank space before, between, & after single words or word strings, & between lines, stand for "temporal holes" -- durations in which readers keep silent or produce single prolonged tones on instruments that can sustain tones evenly (e.g., winds; bowed strings; reed, pipe, & electronic organs; & other electronic & mechanical sound producers). To measure these blanks, each poem page is conceived as a rectangle of which the horizontal sides are the top & bottom lines of words and the vertical sides are imaginary margin lines running parallelly thru the rightmost and...
Dates: 1978

22 Light Poems / Mac Low, Jackson., 1968

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Identifier: CC-47581-68590
Scope and Contents

The poems in this book were composed by chance operations through a chart made up of words denoting of all kinds of light. The chart is at the end of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

25 Extracts from 25 Cards / Baines, Phil., 1987

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Identifier: CC-29318-30679
Scope and Contents

The content of the cards from which this booklet was printed is diaristic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

25 Years in Mail-Art / Janssen, Ruud ; Stetser C ; Fricker H ; Greenfield M ; Kamperelic D ; Held Jjr ; Spathi L., 2008

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Identifier: CC-48477-69506
Scope and Contents

This book consists mostly of interviews of mail artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

40 Anos de Performances e Intervenciones Urbanes / Padin, Clemente ; Nieslony B ; Heartfeld J., 2009

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Identifier: CC-51034-72114
Scope and Contents

Boris Nieslony contributed the introductory essay to this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

53 Days / Perec, Georges ; David Bellos, translator ; Mathews H ; Roubaud J., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34686-36389
Scope and Contents

This is the last book written by George Perec who completed eleven chapters of the planned 28. Harry Mathews and Jacques Roubaud assembled Perec's notes for the remaining chapters of this inventive mystery story for publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

57 / Sackner, Sara., 1980

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Identifier: CC-33352-34990
Scope and Contents

The photograph depicts a close up view of Phillips's stencilled number "57." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

75 HP [facsimile]. No.1 / Ilarie Voronca, Victor Brauner, editors ; Voronca I ; Brauner V ; Janco M., 1993

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Identifier: CC-32678-34264
Scope and Contents

The original of this Rumanian magazine was published in 1924 and consisted of a sole issue. HP stood for horse power. The subject of the review was modernity and all manifestations of the then current technology, entertainment, communication and transportation. The texts and typography transgressed all rules of grammar and orientation. A particularly interesting page that is photographically reproduced in this book is entitled, "Pictopoezzie" an invention of Victor Brauner & Ilarie Voronca. It is a prototypical visual poem. Marina Vanci-Perahim wrote an introductory essay that includes photographs and visual works of and by the editors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

'94 Photographs / curry, jw ; LaRocque, Lance., 1994

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Identifier: CC-20597-20999
Scope and Contents

Visual description of jw curry's hitching a train ride across Canada in 1994. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

99: The New Meaning / Abish, Walter., 1990

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Identifier: CC-26211-26674
Scope and Contents

The stories in this book were constructed after the "cut-up" technique of Burroughs. The photographs were taken by Cecile Abish. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

100 Poems / Evason, Greg., 2001

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Identifier: CC-41087-43068
Scope and Contents

Evason notes that he wrote these poems on a computer while is was suffering from schizoaffective disorder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

120 Piccadilly Postcards / Roth, Dieter., 1996

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Identifier: CC-43729-45819
Scope and Contents

This set of cards depicts four paintings that were held by the Sackner Archive as well as many other works of art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996