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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5490 Collections and/or Records:

A Colony With a Conscience / Dezso, Andrea., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47509-68506
Scope and Contents

Andrea Dezso has illustrated this article about the little-known New York roots of religious tolerance with drawings of reflecting historic New York buildings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

A Common Crow Manual / Forney, Darrell ; Depew W ; Dogmatic I ; Ackerman A ; Allen T., 1977

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Identifier: CC-49946-71004
Scope and Contents

This book of annotated crow images was published in conjunction with Forney's exhibition at Artists Contemporary Gallery in Sacramento, CA in 1977. The loose sheet is an exhibition anouncement. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

A Country Lane with Stiles / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Clark, Laurie., 1988

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Identifier: CC-12563-12795
Scope and Contents

Cover designed by Laurie Clark. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

A Creator of More Than New Yorker Covers / Wilken, Karen; Steinberg S., 2007

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Identifier: CC-46235-48954
Scope and Contents

This review of Saul Steinberg's exhibitions at the Morgan Library and the Museum of the City of New York describes "mysterious documents [that] appear often: sheets of impenetrable pseudo-writing punctuated with the featureless photographs, fictive seals and stamps, and incomprehensible signatures of nightmare bureaucracies." The Sackner holds one such documentary drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

A Day in Remember / Kahn, Robin., 1998

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Identifier: CC-40755-42729
Scope and Contents

Kahn has pasted a pictre of her face on top of a picture of a woman showing her trophy shark. The caption reads, "What I did on my summer vacation." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

A Dryad Discovered / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Jones, Grahame., 1983

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Identifier: CC-12078-12302
Scope and Contents

The poem is a metaphor for Finlay's dispute with the Strathclyde region tax collectors on a background of camouflage coloring or cloudy dark sky (?). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

[A Henri] / Blaine, Julien; Chopin H., 1967

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Identifier: CC-22170-22592
Scope and Contents

This print is dedicated to Henri Chopin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

A Herb Garden / Clark, Thomas A.., 1980

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Identifier: CC-20159-20554
Scope and Contents

The varied colored sheets without words, suggest the natural hues of a garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

A History Maker / Gray, Alasdair., 1994

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Identifier: CC-31884-33407
Scope and Contents

This is novel about wars in the world, fought like sporting events, that is set in Scotland in the 23rd century. This is the first British edition. The images of the dust jacket differ between the British and American editions. The book was designed and illustrated by Alasdair Gray. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

A History Maker / Gray, Alasdair., 1994

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Identifier: CC-31885-33408
Scope and Contents

This is novel about wars in the world, fought like sporting events, that is set in Scotland in the 23rd century. This is the first American edition. The images of the dust jacket differ between the British and American editions. The book was designed and illustrated by Alasdair Gray. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

A Humument Page 4 (print) / Phillips, Tom., 2009

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Identifier: CC-50788-71866
Scope and Contents

This page refers to the tragedy of 9/11. Two of the four images are from Phillips' postcard series. The poem reads, "pasted on to the present - see it is nine - eleven - the time singular - which broke down illusion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

A Humument Page 6 (print) / Phillips, Tom., 2009

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Identifier: CC-50789-71867
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This page refers to the Toge, the protagonist in A Humument. There are two half portraits of a seated man. The poem reads, "in that narrative passage he sat dejected the most literal man alone - The man as photograph; - the anal man of names. sidera sideri ning - the cover man he had compiled the story man she had conceived wiht rough materials - the Journal man of the novel volume - only one half of the toge story - the man's time described." An image of the original drawing for this image is depicted in the book 'Art and Text' (2009) on page 250 that is held by the Sackner Archive. Two prints of this imageare also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

A Humument Page 12 (print) / Phillips, Tom., 2009

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Identifier: CC-50783-71861
Scope and Contents

This page refers to the power of people. The poem reads, "we men and women who are life - we are the people - the good the evil the incomplete - the good and evil, the necessary." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

A Humument Page 196 (print) / Phillips, Tom., 2009

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Identifier: CC-50784-71862
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This page refers to love, possibly religious love. The image is a stave. The name at the bottom reads "Sterne." The poem reads, "I knew the feelings, the sentiment, of my genuine self - love is all - libera me - be bound toge by all the links of love - is the pain you preach love? - ! separa me kind minister - libera me so I shall make my service." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009