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Game

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 57 Collections and/or Records:

Fly Kites In Bed / Hendricks, Bici., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-49921-70979
Scope and Contents

The title is also the printed text on the card. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Gronk Inadmissible Series: A Christmas Vision in the Voice of St. Nicholas. No.5/Dec / bp Nichol., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-31881-33404
Scope and Contents

This poem was executed by bp Nichol in 1980 and published about that time. It was originally issued as Gronk Intermediate Series No.21. According to jw curry in ROOM 3O2 10D 2007, this should have been labeled No.6 rather than No.5. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Gronk Intermediate Series: A Christmas Vision in the Voice of St. Nicholas. No.21 / bp Nichol., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-31886-33409
Scope and Contents

This poem, the 1st edition, was executed by bp Nichol in 1980 and published about that time. The Santa Claus depicted on the cover of the envelope is an offset print collaged to the envelope. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Gronk Intermediate Series: A Christmas Vision in the Voice of St. Nicholas (second edition). No.21 / bp Nichol., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-31880-33403
Scope and Contents

This poem was executed by bp Nichol in 1980 and first published at that time; this second edition differs from the current copy in that the Santa Claus on the cover of the envelope in the first edition is an offset print collaged to the envelope whereas in the current copy, Santa Claus is a rubberstamped image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Identities / Weiss, Irving., 2012

 Item
Identifier: CC-59850-10002901
Scope and Contents

This is a selective anthology of all the works that Weiss has done in the past. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

Jeux interessants; Presente par Bernard Magne, 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-31988-33516
Scope and Contents

Includes games, anagrams, and rebuses done by Perec in 1980-1982 for the popular press and their solutions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Language Box / Hendricks, Bici., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-27279-27840
Scope and Contents

Each card is printed on both sides with a single word selected by Hendricks "in accordance with no fixed laws. Some are likes, others are antitheses. often the pairs are reversible, sometimes not." The author suggests playing with the cards like building blocks to make whatever individual creation is desired. "Language Box is an invitation to the reader to involve himself in this process of creative synthesis. It is an attempt to break out of, not to break down, traditional habits and inhibitions in order to arrive at a richer, fresher sense of language and the world." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Mediterranean Alphabets/Les Alphabets Mediterraneens / Bernard Vuarnesson., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-27170-27645
Scope and Contents

This wooden puzzle shows the five alphabets that originated in the Mediterranean basin and are still in use: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Arabic. The six side of the block is composed of Cuneiform characters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Ode to Soto's Moustache / McCarthy, Cavan ; Furnival, John ; Soto J., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-54696-990133
Scope and Contents

A typed version of this poem of this Venezuelan "OP & Kinetic artist" dated 1961 is held by the Sackner Archive. In this piece, readers of Tlaloc are invited to render their version of the poem.This work is stored with the original in the Furnival box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Pacific Board Wargame / Ian Hamilton Finlay., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-12558-12790
Scope and Contents

The perforated papercard prints contain reproductions of airplanes and aircraft carriers and stylized cherry blossoms emblematic of Kamikazes, one print in red and the other in black. Instructions for playing the game are provided on the loose sheet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Pacific Board Wargame / Ian Hamilton Finlay., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-12558-12790
Scope and Contents

The perforated papercard prints contain reproductions of airplanes and aircraft carriers and stylized cherry blossoms emblematic of Kamikazes, one print in red and the other in black. Instructions for playing the game are provided on the loose sheet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Pacific; Type A & B - Board Wargame for Two Players / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1974 - 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-12787-13071
Scope and Contents

This maquette for the instruction sheet of Pacific in red and black ink was done by Michael Harvey. It was part of the Finlay Archive with the same title also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974 - 1975

Porn / Depew, Wally., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-48077-69100
Scope and Contents

Depew has hand printed "PORN" on the verso of each of these erotic playing cards. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970