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Obituary

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:

John De Pol, 91, An Artist Who Excelled at Woodcuts / Saxon, Wolfgang; Smith WJ., 2004

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Identifier: CC-43231-45290
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Among his accomplishments, John De Pol illustrated the poems of William Jay Smith. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

John Frederick Nims, 85, Poet, Translator, Professor and Author / Anonymous; Nims J., 1999

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Identifier: CC-31910-33435
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The article mentions Nims' book, "The Six-Cornered Snowflake," a work held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Jonathan Williams, Publisher, Dies at 79 / Hevesi, Dennis; Meyer T., 2008

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Identifier: CC-47779-68798
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The Sackner Archive holds several Williams' publications from Jargon Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Influential Composer and Avant-Garde Guru, Dies at 79 / Griffiths, Paul; Stockhausen K; Bauermeister M., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47371-50115
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Stockhausen was a leader in the development of electronic music. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

mercury hymn / ian hamilton finlay is dead / Davenport, Philip; Parkinson, Gary., 2006

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Identifier: CC-50679-71753
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This is a tribute to the late Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay that was inscribed on the wall of the Heart gallery in Edinburgh Scotland. Davenport blends text messages from friends with snatches of Shelley's Hymn to Mercury to produce a work that is both daring and elegiac. The two contrasting forms of English work together to produce a flowing whole. The phrasing of high romance lends gravitas, while the text messages add a sense of contemporary hastiness. This print is stored with Finlay material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Mistah Leary, He Dead / Thompson, Hunter S. ; Brewton J ; Leary T., 1997

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Identifier: CC-61655-10004120
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Tipped in simulated acid blotter sheet sectioned into small squares with a portrait of Timothy Leary. The announcement caes is cataloged as a separate entry but stored in this booklet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Nicholas Zurbrugg: Energetic Advocate of Postmodern Expression / Richardson, Robert; Chopin H; Burroughs WS; Cobbing B; Williams E; Bernstein C; Conz F., 2001

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Identifier: CC-37772-39651
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Zurbrugg was an academic and poet who was born February 1, 1947 and died on October 14, 2001. He was a friend of the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

[Obituary] / Merton, Thomas., 1968

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Identifier: CC-30786-32232
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The recto of this card depicts a black and white photographic portrait of Thomas Merton; the verso, mentions the following facts, Born in Prades, France Jan. 31, 1915, Entered Gethsemani Abbey Dec. 10, 1941, Died in Bangkok, Thailand Dec. 10, 1998. It prints the following quote from The Sign of Jonas, "I have always overshadowed Jonas with My mercy... Have you had sight of me, Jonas My child? Mercy within mercy within mercy." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

[Obituary of Ian Hamilton Finlay] / Anonymous., 2006

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Identifier: CC-44651-46815
Scope and Contents Ian Hamilton Finlay October 28, 1925 - March 27, 2006 Scottish poet and artist who turned his Lanarkshire grounds into Little Sparta, a celebrated shrine to pacifism. Ian Hamilton Finlay: in Little Sparta, as his garden came to be known, he embodied his ideas in concrete form with inscribed stones and sculpture SURPRISINGLY for a poet, perhaps, Ian Hamilton Finlay's most striking, best-known and internationally celebrated creation was a garden. Over many years he gradually turned the grounds about his Lanarkshire home into a unique assemblage of sculptures, structures and inscribed stones called Little Sparta. The ideas given concrete form in Little Sparta range widely over philosophy and myth, but the over-arching idea was Finlay's uncompromising hostility to war, in all its forms from Homer onwards. Also surprisingly for one whose life and art were devoted to the pacifist cause, usually expressed in terms of a rather chilly Neo-Classicism, Finlay was famously prone to...
Dates: 2006