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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 204 Collections and/or Records:

Ta-A-Ti (Original and 4 Performance Sheets) / Cobbing, Bob., 1989

 Item — Box 392: [Barcode: 31858072461563]
Identifier: CC-17570-17936
Scope and Contents

Consists of original collage made from colored papers and four black & white prints made from the collage by a photocopier technique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Telegrams from My Windmill / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-11679-11897
Scope and Contents

This is Finlay's first book of concrete poetry based upon a typed layout. Sixtenn poems are printed in red color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

The Cancellors, 1990

 Item — Box 324: [Barcode: 31858072490901]
Identifier: CC-23610-24057
Scope and Contents

The theme is Baroni's Stickerman Museum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Exorcism of Page 13 , 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-28377-29573
Scope and Contents

Burtner placed six small squares on eight rows cut from magazines with the page number 13 on each square. The cut up technique, first used by William Burroughs, has inspired the work of many visual poets. Part of his name appears on the second square from the left, first row. Duchamp invented found art, and his name appears in the second square from the right, last row. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

The Text Bursts , 1968

 Item — Folder 48: [Barcode: 31858072537826]
Identifier: CC-13081-13376
Scope and Contents

A page from a periodical dealing with a political issue in Wales is cut jaggedly down the center. The printed black name, Wales, is repeated in its opening with progressive enlargement of the typeface dimensions. The uppermost "Wales" is printed in red, large capital letters. On the verso, the caption, "subscribe to Second Aeon" is printed in handwritten black letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

[Tile Collage], 1996

 Item — Box 284: [Barcode: 31858073143426]
Identifier: CC-27547-28616
Scope and Contents

Barbera was a student in the New World School of the Arts in Miami and was inspired to make this collage when she saw the exhibition "Visual Hothouse" in the Centre Gallery MDCC, that was on loan from the Sackner collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Twisting Silence , 1991

 Item — Box 322: [Barcode: 31858072490885]
Identifier: CC-23541-23986
Scope and Contents

This book commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition was created utilizing a trade edition book as a support structure. Barron composed poems and utilized poems from other poets along with found text. She placed them in the layers of the book, e.g.,"Twisting silence into words, my shrouded shadow sucked deep of a breath of emptiness, to shriek into its own ear," (S.B.) "what have you done to the garden that was entrusted to you?" (A. Machado) and "Breathe in a mouthful of dust..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Typomusings, 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34691-36394
Scope and Contents

Helmes cut up pages from periodicals that had offset word and calligraphic content and arranged them into new forms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

[Untitled], 1967

 Item — Folder 21: [Barcode: 31858072459807]
Identifier: CC-13077-13372
Scope and Contents

This is a minimalist image in which the letters cannot be distinguished. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Videopoem #1 , 1983

 Item — Folder 56: [Barcode: 31858072537909]
Identifier: CC-23746-24193
Scope and Contents

Baroni notes "this poem was composed watching TV on 29 Dec. 1983 Hr. 9:30-11:45 PM. It is reproduced in Doc(k)s No.71, 1985, a periodical held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Vision Not Revision, 1999

 Item — Box 135: [Barcode: 31858072457835]
Identifier: CC-33026-34648
Scope and Contents

The box was made by sloy's husband, Nicholas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999