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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1080 Collections and/or Records:

[letter to Will Inman re his anxiety (recto) / PATA COURT ROOM CHANT (verso) / levy, d.a.., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-60715-10003570
Scope and Contents

The drawing includes a Tibetan chant. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Letters and Jazz: For Richard Hamilton, Lester Young, Charlie "Yardbird" Parker / Brecht, George ; Wewerka, Stefan ; Hamilton R., 1983

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Identifier: CC-21549-21960
Scope and Contents

G. Brecht and S. Wewerka cut-up, stamped and glued R. Hamilton's artrubberprint "Fire Tires" while listening to jazz to make this book.Printed Matter: This book presents reproductions of collaborative drawings made in January, 1981, by Brecht and Wewerka. As Brecht writes in the introduction: "We talked about letters, and Chinese, while / listening to jazz: Lester Young, Billie Holiday / Yardbird, and others. / Richard Hamilton's artrubberprint "Five Tires' / was cut up, stamped, glued. / There was plenty to drink, too! / We have never thought of these "drawings' as / works to be shown, let alone reproduced. They are / just the leftovers of an evening when the authors / tried to get a bit clear(er) about "letters.'" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Little Critic Pamphlet: Patchwork. No.7/Apr / Pip Culbert., 1992

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Identifier: CC-07366-7510
Scope and Contents

Recounts the history of a small museum in England founded in 1888. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Los Angeles 1965 / Ruscha, Edward., 2009

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Identifier: CC-49451-70497
Scope and Contents

Uncerrtain whether this is a print by Ruscha. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Luftwaffe after Mondrian , 1976

 Item — Folder 61: [Barcode: 31858072537958]
Identifier: CC-12431-12658
Scope and Contents

This image is adapted from an early Mondrian abstracted painting and depicts crosses of various sizes and shadings that act as a metaphor for the cross on Luftwaffe airplanes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Mülltraktat / Traston, Simon ; Wagner, Dieter., 1988

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Identifier: CC-01440-1473
Scope and Contents

Simon Traston is the pseudonym of Gert Micha. This book is stored in the Dieter Wagner box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Mandala 3: Magma / Claire, Paula., 1979

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Identifier: CC-19909-20297
Scope and Contents

Made by the scorch marks of a soldering iron. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979