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Porter, Bern, 1911-2004

 Person

Biographical / Historical

b. 1911; physicist & methodology specialist

Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:

Performing Objects / Peter Huttinger, curator ; Miller L ; Porter B ; Schneemann C., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-04495-4580
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive lent two books by Bern Porter to this exhibition. This was acknowledged by Peter Huttinger, the curator of this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

recorthings: aspects of modern poetry. No.2 / Bern Porter ; Bob Holman., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-49143-70183
Scope and Contents

Stored in box containing tape cassette periodicals of Linebreak, Recorthings and Tellus. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Score. No.8 / Jurgen O. Olbrich ; Bern Porter ; DiMichele B ; Groh K ; Higgins D ; Colombo JR ; Perkins S ; Dunn L ; Melnicove M ; Beckett T ; Grumman B., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-38755-40666
Scope and Contents

This issue deals with found poetry and includes contributions from other poets and writers on this genre beside Porter and Olbrich. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

[Selected Items] / Phillps de Pury ; Andre C ; Porter B ; Sprinkle A., 2010

 Item
Identifier: CC-51220-72308
Scope and Contents

These three items are all held by the Sackner Archive and were part of this auction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Signs / Porter, Bern., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-30807-32253
Scope and Contents

This books consists of signs and symbols found in American urban life. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Sounds That Arouse Me / Porter, Bern ; Melnicove M., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-04773-4863
Scope and Contents

Edited and with an introduction by Mark Melincove. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

The Last Acts Of Saint Fuckyou 3rd Edition / Porter, Bern ; Perkins, Stephen., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-48952-69990
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive contains a version of this poem on a white plastic window shade. The book includes reproductions of collages by Steve Perkins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

The Last Acts Of Saint Fuckyou / Porter, Bern ; Perkins, Stephen., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-48889-69926
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive holds a version of this poem on a white plastic window shade. The book includes reproductions of collages by Steve Perkins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

The Last Acts of Saint Fuckyou (Window Shade Version) / Bern Porter., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-04096-4174
Scope and Contents

The text of this work is laid out in two printed red columns with the space between the columns consisting of the title printed in a large bold typeface. The left column begins, "The abnegating of treaties - The acidifying of alkalis - The afiliation of bastards - The alighning of booby-traps - The ambulating of cripples - The annuling of covenants - The assessing of polls... The right column begins with The naming of misers - The napping of covers - The narrating of contradictions - The nidification of vats - The non-processing of plantiffs - The non-plusing of laities... There were three artist proofs in this edition. Bern Porter was born February 14, 1911 and died June 7, 2004. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Manhattan Telephone Book 1972, 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-59673-52175
Scope and Contents

Only the right-sided pages are printed and constitute the page count. The titles of the pages are arranged alphabetically. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975