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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 134 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to Jacob Leed, re: publishing Tom Kryss' book: [im trying to hit everyone i know...], 1968

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-07347-7491
Scope and Contents

levy asks Leed for a donation to print a book by Tom Kryss. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Life Cycles, 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-34735-36441
Scope and Contents

The word "eat" is printed 19 times in a center column. On the top line, The letters "cr" and "ion" are added to form creation. In the middle of the column, "procr" and "ion" are added to spell procreation. At the bottom "d" and "h" are added to state death. Jacoby writes on the verso of the frame, "One definition of EAT: To corrode; waste or wear away. Life cycles are birth - sex - death. This poem is a combination of man's life cycles with the life process of wearing away." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

LORA-TOTINO ED 912 Posters (Situazione, No. 5): Movimento, 1966

 Item — Folder 26: [Barcode: 31858072459856]
Identifier: CC-14151-14456
Scope and Contents

On the verso of thIs numbered copy, the signature of the previous owner, Bob Cobbing appears. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

[Mail Art], 1987

 Item — Box 316: [Barcode: 31858072490810]
Identifier: CC-24607-25060
Scope and Contents

Includes "Make Something Differently," "The erotic is pleasure seeking its coherence," "Towards a new alphabet," and other photocopied work, including a message from Miekal And.

Dates: 1987

masking, 2014

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Be-Bir: [Barcode: 31858072491172]
Identifier: CC-58394-10001610

Miniature Obscure, No. 6: Between, 1996

 Item — Box 125: [Barcode: 31858072458239]
Identifier: CC-27358-28394
Scope and Contents

Cards and objects of the same dimensions are stacked between two square, thick wooden plywood boards that are held together by two long screws with flanged nuts. The word "between" is printed on the cover board and blind embossed on the dividing handmade thick paper sheets. Most of the artwork relates directly to the theme of this assembling, e.g., 'zwischen' in German, 'between' in English. This theme is expressed in both verbal and visual images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Modular Poems, 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-27280-27841
Scope and Contents

In his introduction, Higgins defines a modular poem "in which the principle structural factor is the repetion, usually in different contexts, of one of more elements of th text. Each element becomes a module which may be expanded, compressed or otherwise altered. Or not." The book is illustrated with photographs mainly of old machinery by Eugene Williams. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Nine Essays on Concrete Poems, 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-15117-15435
Scope and Contents

Includes several reprinted dictionary definitions of the words, "Concrete, Essay, Poem, and Poets." The back cover depicts a portrait of Wally Depew in Ben Day dots. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

On Impulse / Cobbing, Bob., 1994

 Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-20550-20947
Scope and Contents

This book provides s sampling of Cobbing's previously published poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Ozon, 1969

 Item — Folder 30: [Barcode: 31858072459898]
Identifier: CC-32453-34027
Scope and Contents

The poem with red colored, repetitive words of the title is printed in a large typeface in a circular shape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Pagina/finestra (Window-Page), 1971

 Item — Box 203: [Barcode: 31858072460102]
Identifier: CC-21733-22144
Scope and Contents

Object is inscribed with the Italian word "piove" (it rains) along with several ditto marks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Paralengua, 1994

 Item — Folder 49: [Barcode: 31858072537834]
Identifier: CC-16145-16488
Scope and Contents

Consists of four computer portraits in red and black including one of Doctorovich himself composed with the word paralengua in various typefaces. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Paste Book Number One: For You You You, 1985

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-55000-113355
Scope and Contents

The suite of 26 collages with the first title [Paste Book Number One] are stored in a single folder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Paste Book Number One: Ho Ho Ho, 1985

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-54994-90397
Scope and Contents

The suite of 26 collages with the first title [Paste Book Number One] are stored in a single folder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Poems to Hear and See, 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-11713-11931
Scope and Contents

This trade anthology of Finlay's concrete poetry is printed with several different inks on paper with several different colors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971