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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 253 Collections and/or Records:

dbqp: Visualizing Poetics, 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-42571-44586
Scope and Contents

Huth describes his visit to the Sackner Archive on April 13th in the section titled "Home Sweet Museum." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

[Detail of Poets and Artists] , 1995

 Item — Folder 52: [Barcode: 31858072537867]
Identifier: CC-35942-37706
Scope and Contents

This detail of a large painting consists of rubberstampings of the names of contemporary artists and poets utilizing concrete and visual poetry or language in their visual works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Earth I, 1989

 Item — Box 195: [Barcode: 31858072459674]
Identifier: CC-07741-7892
Scope and Contents

Book object which relates to Alchemy can be made into a number of different shapes; current shape is a pyramid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Entretiens avec Isidore Isou, 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-15934-16267
Scope and Contents

This book compiles a series of interviews of Isou by Devaux that took place between November 1991 and January 1992. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

E.O.N. Archive Share-Piece, 1996

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Baroni, Vittore: [Barcode: 31858072491123]
Identifier: CC-28659-29959
Scope and Contents Baroni explains this work in Arte Postale! No.74. He relates that he discovered mail art in 1977 and estimates that he exchanged a total of 32,850 mail art pieces. Since he found that he had insufficient space in his house to manage this material, he devised a scheme to turn the archive into a series of modular art pieces, ready to be hung flat or stored as an art book. The 32,850 mailings divided by 24 gives 1368 share-pieces, each arranged on a signed and numbered modular panel that includes 24 mail art letters tied with a red ribbon from the Ethereal Open Network (E.O.N.), a big color sticker with an enlarged networker statement (all different), a photo of the E.O.N. archive files, and one original mail art piece. The envelopes are tied with a ribbon and hot sealed in a plastic transparent folder, then mounted on a ready-to-hang cardboard folder. This finished product differs from Baroni's original description, viz., the sticker is absent and the letters are tied with a blue...
Dates: 1996

Essaying Wanda 1978-1990 Volume One, 1990

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Crozier, Robin: [Barcode: 31858072491362]
Identifier: CC-19633-20019
Scope and Contents

Book consists of a visual/verbal collaboration between Crozier and his student, Robert Kelly. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Estratto del Verbale del Senato Accademico, 1994

 Item — Box 342: [Barcode: 31858073143863]
Identifier: CC-24128-24580
Scope and Contents

Prof. Bertozzi, "il premio inista de poesia," was complimented for the presentation of his second edition work on the international poetic avant-garde. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Extinct, 1997

 Item — Box 145: [Barcode: 31858072457983]
Identifier: CC-27777-28906
Scope and Contents

Rifas indicates on the verso of the label, "This is an offshoot of a 1990's environmental piece called 'Fragile, Damaged, Extinct.' The word 'extinct,' in declining size letters, is etched into one of the open scissor blades. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

First Class Portraits, 1973

 Item — Box 607: [Barcode: 31858073143541]
Identifier: CC-23921-24369
Scope and Contents

Edited by A.D. Coleman. Each page depicts an out-of-focus, age deteriorated, photographic portrait taken with a polaroid camera. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Five Visual Poems, 1971

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (1 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491305]
Identifier: CC-17494-17860
Scope and Contents

Designated writers forum folder number nine. Poems include "Worm," "Typestract," "Grin," "Are Your Children Safe in the Sea," and "Spontaneous Appealinair." The earliest poem, "Worm" was initially written in 1954 and then revised in 1964. Reprints several poems published in "Eyerun" 1966, also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

flp business letter #4562, 1967

 Item — Box 610: [Barcode: 31858072460862]
Identifier: CC-31907-33431
Scope and Contents

This is an announcement of the release of rjs from jail and the delayed publication of d.a. levy tribute and anthology. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Footnotes: Collage Journal 30 years, 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34701-36404
Scope and Contents

Jerome Rothenberg contributes a pre-face in which he writes that "Footnotes, presented here, is the accounting of where Alison Knowles' feet (and hands and mind) have taken her." The pages of this book are reproductions of notebook pages dating from 1975 to 1995, inscribed and collaged by Knowles. As Knowles herself stated, "It is important to remember that we are free to make art and poetry out of anything: A loaf of bread, some beans, a hasty jotting on the train." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Galerie auf Zeit, 1995

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Gu-Ha: [Barcode: 31858072610375]
Identifier: CC-10635-10844
Scope and Contents

Includes a soft cover book describing the publications of Galerie auf Zeit and photocopied sheets of Zylla's book, "Die Irren - Die Haftlinge." This book was presented at the 2nd Artist Book International meeting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Genesis Twenty-two / The Binding of Isaac, 2006

 Item — Box 70: [Barcode: 31858070812213]
Identifier: CC-47610-68622
Scope and Contents

According to David Moss' explanation in the afterward of the accompanying book, the print was originally designed as a mural for the Akiba Academy in Dallas. The piece was a 45-foot canvas mural in three sections running down the entire central hall. Originally created as a collage using cut, colored papers it was scanned and refined to create the mural as well as the fine art giclee print. the work was inspired by a visit to the Arthur and Metta Jaffe Libraray at Florida Atlantic University. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

George Brecht - Notebooks I- II- III, 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-39010-40947
Scope and Contents

These facsimile notebooks in Brecht's handwriting are studies for his performance pieces, critical writings, experimental musical scores, poem objects and chance images. One volume is a replica of Brecht's class notes from the summer of 1958 taught by John Cage. Dieter Daniels was the editor with the collaboration of Hermann Braun. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Giovanni at 2 , 1995

 Item — Box 329: [Barcode: 31858072490950]
Identifier: CC-24110-24562
Scope and Contents

Baroni's son is photographed next to a copy-art work with Vittore pictured at 3 showing a very strong resemblance. The background is the Baroni library. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Gorgona: Stupidogram, No. 9, 1966

 Item — Box 608: [Barcode: 31858073143558]
Identifier: CC-62679-48817
Scope and Contents

Each book consists of a one page drawing entitled "Stupidogramm" consisting of a grid of commas with an area enclosed by an ink line drawing. Not one of the 200 copies is alike. This publication is stored in the 'R' flat files drawer. Note that Roth uses the name Diter Rot for this issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

[Great Visit!], 2002

 Item — Box 338: [Barcode: 31858072491230]
Identifier: CC-38951-40887
Scope and Contents

This work includes several items. There is a letter from John Bennett reflecting his visit to the Archive with the Director of the Library and the Vice President of Development of Ohio State University. The bib was from Joe Stone Crabs' Restaurant on Miami Beach where the Sackners took the group for lunch. Bennett stamped and wrote his characteristic poetry on the bib that he titled "Stone Crab Variations." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002