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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 95 Collections and/or Records:

Porte - Voix, 1979

 Item — Box 609: [Barcode: 31858073143566]
Identifier: CC-28504-29783
Scope and Contents

An unusal typeface ws used in this poster. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Printing Poetry: A Workbook in Typographic Reification , 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-21033-21442
Scope and Contents

Book describes the craft of letterpress printing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

Printing Poetry: A Workbook in Typographic Reification , 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-23163-23601
Scope and Contents

This book was sent to master printer Walter Hamady to review for "The American Book Collector" by Daniel Traister, book review editor. Hamady's response to Traister, his refusal to critique the book, and his reaction to the text is described in the correspondence. Furthermore, Hamady mutilated several pages by violently stabbing them with a ball point pen, reversed the dust jacket, wrote scathing opinions in the margins of the text, and returned the volume to Traister. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

[Proof Pages], 1984

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Ca-Cl: [Barcode: 31858072491289]
Identifier: CC-16744-17099
Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / Oversized A-C

ray eames 15 december 1912 - 21 august 1988, 2012

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-57439-10000731
Dates: 2012
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Retell the Tale, 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-27844-28977
Scope and Contents

Laxson writes that the "title is inspired by D.H. Lawrence who said - Don't trust the artist. Trust the tale." And the tale is written by Laxson in brilliant twists, turns, shapes of typography and drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

Rue de la Chaumiere / The Cradle of Montparnasse, 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-42100-44101
Scope and Contents

This is the second edition of a book with the same title printed letterpress in 1988. Crombie describes the history of the neighborhood and the artists and writers who lived there. He provides the history of printing by the Kickshaws Press whose shop was initially housed in Montparnasse. The Press was closed in 1994 but Crombie still retains a small shop in another location in Paris. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

Sculptures by Alice Hutchins , 1972

 Item — Folder 64: [Barcode: 31858072537982]
Identifier: CC-18767-19141
Scope and Contents

Designated as appearing in the periodical, Ou 40/41. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Silex (proof pages), 1967

 Item — Box 314: [Barcode: 31858072490802]
Identifier: CC-28517-29797
Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Slow Progress

 Item — Folder 74: [Barcode: 31858072538097]
Dates: -
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Sloynic, 1999

 Item — Box 135: [Barcode: 31858072457835]
Identifier: CC-49315-70357
Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / nic and sloy

[Stapled booklet], 1988

 Item — Box 621: [Barcode: 31858072461084]
Identifier: CC-11489-11705
Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Strategy for Wracking Hylic, 1989

 Item — Box 316: [Barcode: 31858072490810]
Identifier: CC-24610-25063
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

The Collected Ephemera of the Adagio Press, 1972

 Item — Box 319: [Barcode: 31858072490786]
Identifier: CC-21581-21992
Scope and Contents

Each pamphlet consists of a folded sheet of fine paper thereby amounting to four pages. The subjects include ornaments, alphabets of type specimens and quotes from writers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

[The Getty Center] , 1992

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-24006-24456
Scope and Contents

Baker's calligraphic rendering of the Getty Center's goals covers one side of this experimental, typographically designed brochure and bleeds through to the other side which has printed text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PERIODICALS / EXHIBIT CATALOGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

[The Getty Center Fellowship] , 1992

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-23999-24449
Scope and Contents

This poster has a more experimental design than usually distributed by the Getty. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

The History of Dada, 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-03429-3485
Dates: 1982
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

[The Individual Artist's Arrogation..., on purple], 1980

 Item — Folder 33: [Barcode: 31858072459922]
Identifier: CC-19933-20321
Scope and Contents

The background color of this print is purple; the text is the same on all the prints with tis title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / Kenneth Coutts-Smith

The Little Fruitgum Memory Book, 1978

 Item — Box 312: [Barcode: 31858072490828]
Identifier: CC-24518-24971
Dates: 1978
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / A / Adler, Jeremy

The Red Coat, 1990

 Item — Box 145: [Barcode: 31858072457983]
Identifier: CC-14498-14808
Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)