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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

[A], 1967

 Item — Folder 21: [Barcode: 31858072459807]
Identifier: CC-13062-13357
Scope and Contents

Consists of uppercase A forms bisected with 3 vertical lines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[Aerial View Building] (260569), 1969

 Item — Folder 54: [Barcode: 31858072537883]
Identifier: CC-08875-9050
Scope and Contents

This complex, dense, aerial view of buildings was achieved by typing only slashes and minus signs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Ampersands, 1968

 Item — Folder 13: [Barcode: 31858069877920]
Identifier: CC-22038-22454
Scope and Contents

Design by John Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

BELTRAN Texture Series: T's H's, 1993

 Item — Folder 34: [Barcode: 31858072459930]
Identifier: CC-43491-45556
Scope and Contents

This print depicts a grid of T's in red, blue, and white that provide an optical effect that also presents a grid of H's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Breath, 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-40507-42479
Scope and Contents

The work was typed with an IBM electric wheelwriter, typewriter onto Japanese paper. The letters have no litertal meaning. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

In vino verites. And what's in beer., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-03792-3864
Scope and Contents This piece was depicted in Kaldron 14, 1981. Dmitri Prigov, one of the most influential poets of the post-Soviet era, died early Monday in a Moscow hospital, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported. He was 66. Prigov had been in intensive care since suffering a heart attack July 7, 2007. He and his close friend Lev Rubenstein were leaders of the so-called conceptualist school, which arose in unofficial Soviet art in the late 1960s. They were the first in Russia to see performance as a form of art. Prigov was a prolific poet and his work has been widely published since the late 1980s. He was perhaps better known in the West for his live performances, which incorporated visual and musical elements. Until he fell ill, Prigov was planning to return to the ideals of his youth and to participate in a performance where he would sit in a wardrobe as it was hauled up the 22 flights of stairs of Moscow State University, reading poems all the way to the top, The Moscow Times reported. -- Source...
Dates: 1977

Little Xerox Book: Eon Pulse (for Sylvia). No.3, 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-28090-29249
Scope and Contents

This work was first published by NRG magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Little Xerox Book: Eon Pulse (for Sylvia). No.3, 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-46214-48931
Scope and Contents

This work was first published by NRG magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Logo for..., 1984

 Item — Box 621: [Barcode: 31858072461084]
Identifier: CC-18104-18476
Scope and Contents

The cards depict a logo for the Activist, Cultivated, Confused, and Dispossessed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Metacubus (1/12/77), 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-21156-21565
Scope and Contents

Klaus Basset was born in 1926 and died in 1996. This drawing is reproduced in his book held by the Sackner Archive, "Ein Leben in Zeichen." In this book, it is dated 1977/1983 and shows minor differences from the original. This typing (1/12/77) and the prepatory drawings (30/11/77) and (29/11/77) are framed together. This work was purchased from the Modern Art Gallery in Vienna and mrked the first typewriter piece purchased by the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Michel Butor reseau aerion, 2005

 Item — Folder 77: [Barcode: 31858072538360]
Identifier: CC-46966-49704
Scope and Contents

Pessin's writing of a Butor text is presented in gold ink on a black paper background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Mobius Poem: Being a Four Dimensional Concrete Poetry Happening, 1969

 Item — Box 280: [Barcode: 31858072460631]
Identifier: CC-43831-45927
Scope and Contents

This work is also designated two windows folio V. The concrete poem is printed on a Mobius strip. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Piecemeal Part Four, 1989

 Item — Box 333: [Barcode: 31858072491024]
Identifier: CC-21551-21962
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1989

Signal: Word / Yoshizawa, Shoji., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-62476-47626
Scope and Contents

Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispu, California. Exhibition was curated by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984