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Abstract markings

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1080 Collections and/or Records:

Not Southern / Villeneau, Georges., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-45199-47384
Scope and Contents

This book appears to be a facsimile of the author's sketch book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Notes from Cleveland: Selected Correspondence Jim Lowell to Kent Taylor [1970-2003] / Lowell, Jim ; Kryss TL ; Taylor K ; levy da ; Sackner MA ; Golden M., 2005

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Identifier: CC-48537-69568
Scope and Contents

Lowell mentions Marvin Sackner in a letter to Taylor on February 14, 1999. In a letter dated June 28, 1999, he expresses disgust at Mike Golden's biography of d.a. levy because of statements of rumors that he treated as facts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

NRG: Selected Pages / curry, jw., 1989

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Identifier: CC-27749-28869
Scope and Contents

The images on the pages is a study in orthographic mutation. In a letter to the Sackners, curry indicates that the book is in fine shape except for "a coupla small cannabis resin stains on 2 pp (where yr thumb would go)... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

O Poem , 1966

 Item — Folder 48: [Barcode: 31858072537826]
Identifier: CC-13083-13378
Scope and Contents

The label on the verso is handwritten in Bob Cobbing's writing probably meaning that he printed the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

O Poem , 1966

 Item — Folder 48: [Barcode: 31858072537826]
Identifier: CC-13084-13379
Scope and Contents

The label on the verso is handwritten by Bob Cobbing probably because he printed this work. Wikipedia: Barry Flanagan RA OBE (11 January 1941 "“ 31 August 2009) was a Welsh sculptor,best known for his bronze statues of hares and other animals. Barry Flanagan was born on 11 January 1941 in Prestatyn, in North Wales. From 1957 to 1958 he studied architecture at Birmingham College of Art and Crafts. He studied sculpture at Saint Martin's School of Art in London from 1964 to 1966, and from 1967 to 1971 taught both at Saint Martin's and at the Central School of Art and Design. Flanagan died on 31 August 2009 of motor neurone disease -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Ocean Stripe Series 4 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Antonucci, Emil., 1966

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Identifier: CC-11697-11915
Scope and Contents

Design and drawings by Emil Antonucci. *WEB 1998: [Email]seamus.cooney@wmich.edu noted "Since ABE is offering the following--Presentation copy (ocean stripe series 4) inscribed to fellow concrete poet, Ronald Johnson: "To Ronald / with love from Ian / July 1964." Fine. $ 100.00. Please contact Skyline --ABE, 8/10/98-- your date of publication must be off by two years." Sackner comments: The date of publication does not appear on this booklet. The catalogue raisonne 1958-1990 (Graeme Murray) & printed works until 1990 (Victoria Miro Gallery) give its publication as 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

oh vietnam my love / Valoch, Jiri., 1968

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Identifier: CC-00847-866
Scope and Contents This piece probably derives from the French movie, 'Hiroshima mon amour.' This is a series of conversations (or one enormous conversation) over a 36-hour long period between a French actress (Emmanuelle Riva), referred to as She, and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada), referred to as He. They have had a brief relationship, and are now separating. The two debate memory and forgetfulness as She prepares to depart, comparing failed relationships with the bombing of Hiroshima and the perspectives of people inside and outside the incidents. The early part of the film recounts, in the style of a documentary but narrated by the so far unidentified characters, the effects of the Hiroshima bomb on August 6, 1945, in particular the loss of hair and the complete anonymity of the remains of some victims. He had been conscripted into the Japanese army and his family was in Hiroshima on that day. In Valoch's poem he chanfes the title to Vietnam and the explosion of the atomic bomb to a ted stain...
Dates: 1968

Ohio City Series: Birmingham Breakdown. No.7 / DagmaR., 1965

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Identifier: CC-05226-5326
Scope and Contents

Edited by d.a.levy. DagmaR aka Mara was levy's wife. Pages depicts non-verbal, abstract markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

OHO / Nikonova, Rea., 1990

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Identifier: CC-60413-10003358
Scope and Contents

This work was included in pete spence's archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990