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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 536 Collections and/or Records:

Gli Arcani Maggiori, 1997

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-28694-29996
Scope and Contents

The poem by Caruso deals with Tarot cards; the print depicts one example. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Grand Testaments et ceramiques avec du signes Pessenois / Pessin, Marc., 1998

 Item — Box 567: [Barcode: 31858072463221]
Identifier: CC-46591-49321
Scope and Contents

This work represents photographs of Pessin's objects and wall work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

[Great Visit!], 2002

 Item — Box 338: [Barcode: 31858072491230]
Identifier: CC-38951-40887
Scope and Contents

This work includes several items. There is a letter from John Bennett reflecting his visit to the Archive with the Director of the Library and the Vice President of Development of Ohio State University. The bib was from Joe Stone Crabs' Restaurant on Miami Beach where the Sackners took the group for lunch. Bennett stamped and wrote his characteristic poetry on the bib that he titled "Stone Crab Variations." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Group H / Cobbing, Bob, editor ; Themerson F ; Pike J ; Flanagan B ; Nuttall J ; Cobbing B ; Latham J ; Rowan J ; Tomazos C ; Wall B., 1966

 Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-17457-17823
Scope and Contents

Designated writers forum quartos number two. This book was published for the 36th exhibition of Group H held at the Drian Galleries, October 1966. In the introduction, John Rowan traces the origins and history of Group H, the membership being led by Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Hairbone Stew: Psychotic Nursery Rhymes, 1988

 Item — Box 341: [Barcode: 31858072491263]
Identifier: CC-21293-21703
Scope and Contents

According to Kettner, "This is the first (and only) edition, limited to less than 100 copies. Cover a color xerox of a Chris Winkler painting tipped onto very heavy, gold card stock. Text illustrated throughout with Miskowski's "applananoids;" that is, animated figures with an appliance/electrical theme. Print on covers rubber-stamped. Tissue endpapers. A primo xerox publication." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Head, 1990

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-55166-999863

Head Second, 1965

 Item — Box 543: [Barcode: 31858072461068]
Identifier: CC-51257-72345
Scope and Contents

d.a. levy contributed six abstract drawings and Judson Crews wrote the poems in this publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Highlights: A Homage to Andre Derain, 1997

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-31264-32734
Scope and Contents

The photographs consist of images of tree trunks and branches painted by Janet Boulton and photographed by Robin Gillanders. The images satisfy the caption on the first page, viz., HIGHLIGHT, n., a mark, sign, or medal, awarded by the light. The book was printed and bound by Colin Sackett. One copy of this book was given by Finlay to the Sackners as a Christmas gift. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

[Holes] / Pogacnik, Marko., 1969

 Item — Box 624: [Barcode: 31858073143889]
Identifier: CC-31720-33232
Scope and Contents

The loose sheets of white papercard that were perforated with circular white holes placed at random on the different leaves, are held together by a single loose leaf ring. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

[Homage to Joseph Cornell], 1992

 Item — Box 161: [Barcode: 31858072458148]
Identifier: CC-43507-45579
Scope and Contents

Trasobares covered the cedar box with a wire lid that that opens like a gate to the nostalgic garden of Cornell's collage, "For Josephine," that is printed on the cover of the book, Joseph Cornell: Gifts of Desire by Dickran Tashjian. When the book is removed, the open gate reveals Cornell in his garden in Flushing, New York. In a direct reference to Cornell's assemblages, Trasobares selected an array of evocative objects for display in the box's small compartments." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Horndeski Sampler # 1, 1993

 Item — Box 89: [Barcode: 31858072538188]
Identifier: CC-09590-9781
Scope and Contents

This work was commissioned by the Sackner Archive to include a sampler of Horndeski's work. The theme is a couple who appear on the top of the box reading in their library with the sky outside their windows reminiscent of Van Gough's Starry Night. The top of the box depicts a fragment of a music score by Vivaldi and the sides calligraphic text and diagrams on Michaelson's theory of light and distance; all paintings are landscapes that relate to the couple's activities near their house. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Huff Lane, 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-35081-36809
Scope and Contents

According to this book, published to commemorate Christmas 2000, HUFF, n. is defined as follows: a fit of anger, sulks, or offended dignity (Chambers); a fit of petulance caused by an affront (Oxford); an armed withdrawal (IHF). The pages consist of black and white photographs of plants in Finlay's gardens as well as wood or stone engraved benches with aphorisms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

[Humument Page 20: Six Variations] , 1986

 Item — Folder 76: [Barcode: 31858072538352]
Identifier: CC-46300-49022
Scope and Contents

The print depicts deconstructed images all involving women. The texts read from image on left to right and top to bottom, "(1) a course in Sussex; (2) a photograph of a curious muse; (3) constant to the subject - the subject extended - he talked and his range came - pursuing the subject; (4) fair sex in various capitals - the politics show; (5) came across a picture of flesh; and circles - The Art revelation; (6) her, smiling her last. - they were Europe." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

I Advance with a Loaded Rose, 1969

 Item — Box 350: [Barcode: 31858072490869]
Identifier: CC-23425-23869
Scope and Contents

Cover is original silkscreen print by Kryss. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969