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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 204 Collections and/or Records:

Naise dieu hal. A Round Dance / Cobbing, Bob., 1976

 Item — Box 389: [Barcode: 31858072461530]
Identifier: CC-20190-20586
Scope and Contents

Designated minibooks number nine. One copy is a varient in that the size of the booklet is smaller than the other two copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

[Neo-Dada reading lamp], 1984

 Item — Box 148: [Barcode: 31858072458015]
Identifier: CC-21837-22248
Scope and Contents

Object is composed of a book with blank black pages and a small plastic reading lamp covered with letraset letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Nothing , 1971

 Item — Folder 72: [Barcode: 31858072538071]
Identifier: CC-42183-44187
Scope and Contents

The letters ooooooo in white on a black background transform in a series of the same word length of letters into the word 'nothing' and then fragment into parts of letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

[oil war], 2003

 Item — Box 327: [Barcode: 31858072490943]
Identifier: CC-41635-43625
Scope and Contents

The penultimate line states "This is a sad poem by Vittore Baroni." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

One of the Most Important Even If Unfortunate Things about Breathing Is That It Allows Us to Speak / jw curry., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-18909-19287
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing Exhibition." A human silhouette painted on a panel silently points out a chest x-ray to another figure to emphasize the physiologic importance of breathing. Behind the door, a telephone is placed adjacent to a network of printed and handwritten, torn and fragmented texts appearing as a gigantic speech bubble (reminescent of a cartoon) to suggest babble, dependent on breathing, eminating from many telephone communications. The contrast is a metaphor for the title of this work. Five of the images show the current istallation as doors leading to one of the Sackners bathrooms, the sixth shows the original free standing installation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Open Folios, 1993

 Item — Box 635: [Barcode: 31858072464757]
Identifier: CC-20539-20936
Scope and Contents

Includes several texts from 1965 to 1968 that have been reworked and new texts from 1972 to 1993 that were not previously published. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

OW 2 / Cobbing, Bob., 1996

 Item — Box 388: [Barcode: 31858072463676]
Identifier: CC-20825-21233
Scope and Contents

This is the last book made on Cobbing's original photocopying machine. It broke down in 1996 and was replaced. The replacement was funded by the Sackners who received a few of Cobbing's concrete poetry wall works in exchange for the money. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Pagina 1979, 1979

 Item — Folder 30: [Barcode: 31858072459898]
Identifier: CC-15985-16320
Scope and Contents

This drawing has an appearance of an abstract train in a landscape or seascape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

[Paper Strips], 1987

 Item — Box 271: [Barcode: 31858073143376]
Identifier: CC-21834-22245
Scope and Contents

Poem object consists of bag with cut-up paper text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Paperback: Condensed Edition, 1993

 Item — Box 283: [Barcode: 31858073143418]
Identifier: CC-20492-20889
Scope and Contents

Consists of torn pieces of paper from a paperback novel packed within a transparent box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Piecemeal Part One, 1988

 Item — Box 333: [Barcode: 31858072491024]
Identifier: CC-22912-23348
Scope and Contents

Introduction by Harry Polkinhorn. Cover design by Bob Grumman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988