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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 254 Collections and/or Records:

25 cents for Levy's Defense / Kryss, Tom L.., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-33517-35166
Scope and Contents

The text deals with levy's rebuttal to his incarceration owing to pornography charges. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

925. No.10 / Pi O, Jas H Duke, editors ; Pi O ; Duke JH ; Clements L ; Murphy P ; thalia., 1981

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Identifier: CC-56296-53727
Scope and Contents

Stored in Jas H Duke's box. It includes Jas H Duke's infamous 'Shit Poem" by Australian radio's ABC who commisioned it but declined to broadcast it once they heard the tape of his reading. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

[A Bridge to a New Sun is Rising...] / levy, d.a.., 1967

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Identifier: CC-07268-7411
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts silkscreened portrait of levy and includes a handwritten inscription, "25 [cents] for levy's defense." The tipped-in silkscreen print on the page was probably made by levy. The text admonishes the people of Clevelsand for the treatment of levy. According to a letter from Alan Horvath, this is the first version of the book that was subsequently published with a different cover/title page. Further, he indicated that pages were missing from the Sackner copy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

A Ten Year Harvest: Third Decennial Reader / Harap, Louis, editor ; levy da., 1977

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Identifier: CC-48635-69667
Scope and Contents

d.a. levy contributed a long poem "new year" about his father and his alienation from what he knew as Jewish life. The manuscript was received by the editors in the mail on October 14, 1968. levy shot himself to death in his East Cleveland apartment on November 24, 1968. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

A Word about Words / Havel, Vaclav., 1992

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Identifier: CC-29873-31260
Scope and Contents

This is the acceptance speech for the award of the International Peace Prize of the German Booksellers Association. The text is contained in the book, "Open Letters" by Vaclav Havel with illustrations by Jiri Kolar. The Sackner Archive holds this important typographic book published by the Cooper Union and Alfred A. Knopf. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Aexplanation per l'Anarchia Culturale , 1967

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Identifier: CC-05440-5543
Scope and Contents

At the end of the printed text, Liberta della Cultura! is printed in a cursive text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Agitated Images: John Heartfield & German Photomontage 1920-1938 / Heartfeld J., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47137-49877
Scope and Contents

This folded pamphlet has one page of critical text and unfolded a reproduced Heartfield propoganda poster. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

An urgent appeal of utmost importance / Cavellini, Guglielmo Achille., 1980

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Identifier: CC-16617-16971
Scope and Contents

The message on the verso relates to an appeal for avoidance of a nuclear war. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Araminta and the Coyotes / Metcalf, Paul., 1991

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Identifier: CC-06240-6355
Scope and Contents

Metcalf writes about Harriet Taubman, the black slave who ran an "underground railway" to the North prior to the Civil War. He contrasts her story to illegal immigrants trying to enter the USA. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

art and social function / Willats, Stephen., 1976

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Identifier: CC-42839-44879
Scope and Contents

This book deals with interactions between the community and specific art projects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Artists Fall Foul of Parisian Cultural Cabal / Marnham, Patrick; Finlay IH., 1989

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Identifier: CC-05927-6039
Scope and Contents

Article discusses France's cancellation of Ian Hamilton Finlay's contract to design a garden in Versailles, accusing him of anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989