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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 331 Collections and/or Records:

Letters to the Great Dead: Ars Longa Vida Blue Ave Atque Vale! / Furnival, John; Williams, Jonathan; Oppenheimer J., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-13152-13453
Scope and Contents

Photograph depicts Joel Oppenheimer in baseball regalia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Letters to the Great Dead: Monsieur Point / Furnival, John; Williams, Jonathan., 1984

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Identifier: CC-13161-13462
Scope and Contents

This depicts a portrait of M. Point, a French architect who built "La Pyramide" in Paris, with a quote by him in the caption, "success is the sum of a lot of small things correctly done." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

L'Histoire de l'Historie / Clavin, Hans., 1970

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Identifier: CC-17111-17469
Scope and Contents

Each page has 13 typewritten French phrases that translate into English, "History repeats itself." The duplicate copy does not have any ink additions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Little Critic, The: [Exhibition Catalogue]. No.4 / Ian Hamilton Finlay., 1988

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Identifier: CC-47696-68714
Scope and Contents

Filed in Finlay pamphlet box. Includes b&w photographs of Little Sparta. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Little Sermons Series: Volume Makes Beauty / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Gardner, Ian., 1982

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Identifier: CC-11780-11999
Scope and Contents

Printed at the Barbarian Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Living , 2000

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Identifier: CC-49667-70720
Scope and Contents

This book was first published in 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Lustmord, 1997

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Identifier: CC-33169-34797
Scope and Contents

Beatrix Ruf writes that "the language of the LUSTMORD texts is as direct as the images of the daily media reporting on war, horrors, crimes, and murder...LUSTMORD produces feelings, perceptions intuitions of the danger which lurks in the tangle if act, participation, sympathy, helplessness and disgust." Holzer's texts were displayed on LED screens, carved benches, as tattoos, bones, labels. The exhibition took place at the former Carthusian Monastery at Ittengen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Maledicta Monitor. No.2/Win / Reinhold Aman, editor., 1991

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Identifier: CC-06186-6300
Scope and Contents

Edited by Reinhold Aman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Measures, 2002

 Item — Box 134: [Barcode: 31858072457850]
Identifier: CC-38817-40731
Scope and Contents

Joyce Kaiser reprinted lines from the first poem of "Measures" by Nadya Aisenberg, reflecting on life's meaning. The lines of the poem are individually printed and placed randomly on all sides and top and bottom of the poem object. A chestnut is placed on the front of the base and resembles an Oriental rock. The book, published by salmonpoetry, consists of Aisenberg's poetry. The sculpture was made for and presented to Marvin Sackner on the occasion of his 70th birthday. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Measures / Joyce Kosh Kaiser., 2002

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Identifier: CC-38817-40731
Scope and Contents

Joyce Kaiser reprinted lines from the first poem of "Measures" by Nadya Aisenberg, reflecting on life's meaning. The lines of the poem are individually printed and placed randomly on all sides and top and bottom of the poem object. A chestnut is placed on the front of the base and resembles an Oriental rock. The book, published by salmonpoetry, consists of Aisenberg's poetry. The sculpture was made for and presented to Marvin Sackner on the occasion of his 70th birthday. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Messages / Holzer, Jenny., 1986

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Identifier: CC-09053-9232
Scope and Contents

The labels consist of short messages, e.g., Private Property Created Crime. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986