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This exhibition was curated by Craig Saper and Theo Lutz. The Sackner Archive lent 25 artists' books and 23 typewriter works to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This issue includes a lengthy interview with the Fluxus artist, Jeff Perkins. The latter collaborated with Guy de Cointet in performances in Los Angeles. Marvin Sackner is mentioned as giving a lecture at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia for the 10th anniversary of the master of fine arts in book arts and printmaking program. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In the section of exhibition catalogs, "Networking Artists and Poets: Assemblings from the Ruth and Marvin Archive of concrete and Visual Poetry" is reviewed. The exhibition, curated by Craig Saper at the University of Pennsylvania Library, focused on post-war collections that circumvented the gallery system with direct mailings, collected in folios, bound volumes, and boxes of original artists' prints, poems, texts pages, books and textual objects and were called assemblings. The designer Greg Baer was praised for his sensitivity to the materials and to the energy of the collectors themselves. Saper's text becomes an explanation for the captioned illustrations and also a rhapsody on these materials. The catalog has a checklist of the 53 items in the exhibition, "just the top of the iceberg of the thousands of items in the Sackner collection." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents This beautifully produced catalogue was published for the exhibition in the Olin Library at Washington University by the curator, scholar and Head of Special Collections, Kevin Ray. It coincided with the exhibition and symposium "The Dual Muse: The Artist as Writer and the Writer as Artist" organized by the Gallery of Art and the International Writers Center. The Sackner Archive lent nine handwritten and typed bound volumes of Phillips' Dante manuscripts, two silkscreen prints, eleven collages from the "Dante Diary," and a typewriter work on backing paper incorporating all the words of Phillips' first translation of the Inferno. Kevin Ray contributed an illuminating essay tracing the history of translations and illustrations of Dante, including the works of Botticelli, Gustave Dore, Blake and Rauschenberg. Ray writes that in the Tom Phillips' Inferno, the artist, incorporates "much of the method he developed in creating A Humument, 'treating' an existing text and making of it...

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The works in this exhibition were clothing labels, from a varied group of manufacturers, sewn together as a wall work . These were accompanied by calligraphic drawings that interpreted the visual labels in text. The drawing accompanied this deluxe edition is entitled "all duty." The Sackner Archive is cited as containing the works of Berty Skuber. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This exhibition featured Ebel's text collaged objects as well as Artist Books and the contents of four issues of miniature obscure (edited by Ebel). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The catalogue Iincluded an interview of Chopin by Zurbrugg and a series of brief reminsciences submitted by friends of Chopin including Marvin Sackner. Nicholas Zurbrugg's nationality is Swiss-Australian. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Includes listings of all editions of Common Sense (beginning in 1989) as well as other publications in print and out of print. Mentions the Sackner Archive among the international institutions holding works of Tarlatt. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Mention is made that the Sackner Archive holds books of this press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Klessinger combines abstract sculpture with handwritten texts. The materials include rock, mirrors, transparent paper, zinc, and stone. His idea is to that poetics in conjuction with space give meaning beyond the written word. The Sackners are mentioned as having work by Klessinger in their collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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R K Francis writes, "In 1989, following a visit to the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Collection of Concrete and Visual Poetry in Miami, Rea was inspired by the idea of creating an artist's book. His interest in this project grew out of a desire to paint a series of watercolour images to accompany extracts from Rimbaud's 'Une saison enfer,' a work which has for a long time fascinated him." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The photographs show the banner depicting the Sackners standing on an open book as part of an installation in mid-town Miami during the Basel art fair. Several prominent Miami collectors were painted on banners in a circus side show setting. Sanchez Calderon said that the city was transformed into an art circus when Basel took place, and that inspired his theme. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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In this catalogue, Share mentions that the Sackner Archive holds her work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This publication is the proceedings of an Asthma symposium chaired by Marvin Sackner sponsored by Key Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Sackner commissioned the book artist, John Eric Broaddus to re-create this book in his unique and highly original style. Three copies were made by the artist; two were presented to the chairman and president of Key Pharmaceuticals and the third copy is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a review of an exhibition in which all the works were loaned from the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The Sackner Archive lent 29 works to this exhibition. Ruth and Marvin Sackner delivered a talk about their collection at the exhibition opening. The exhibition was reviewed in Art on Paper Vol.8 No.1, 2003. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Ration books issued to Marvin Sackner during World War II. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The manifesto deals with a new conventional direction the two artists want to take in future years. The rest of the book documents previous undertakings and exhibitions in Neo-Dada and Food Art projects. The Sackners are mentioned as holding work by Eidia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a review of "Personal Choice: Selections from Four Penn Alumni Collections" at the ICA at the University of Pennsylvania in which selections from the Sackner Archive were included. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.