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Aphorism

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 331 Collections and/or Records:

The Present Order Is the Disorder of the Future / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Sloan, Nicholas., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-12077-12301
Scope and Contents

This card provides instructions for cutting out the words of this poem that have been carved on stones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

The Shapes and S.P.A.C.I.N.G of the Letters, 1994

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Identifier: CC-08143-8304
Scope and Contents

This book consists of a collection of illustrated essays on the following topics, Short-Prose, Verbo-Visuals, Travel-Log, Agit-Prop, Colonial-English, Calendar-Art, Cut-Paste and Laughing-Stock. Includes a particularly good exposition of Picture or Emblem Poetry. Most of the writing is tongue-in-cheek. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

The Tablets I-XXVI / Schwerner, Armand., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-34601-36300
Scope and Contents

The tablets consist of translations of found, imagined, ancient texts, hieroglyphs, poetry and visionary philosopical writings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

The Utter Mystery / Crombie, John., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-40498-42470
Scope and Contents

The book is divided into chapters that are titled "The Perplexities Commence," "The Perplexities Mutliply" and "The Ultimate Conundrum." The answer to the posed questions of Who? What? When,? How? and Why? is on the last page - Because!!! Listed are many excuses from Human Fallibility, Gross Mismanagement to Precocious Senility. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

The Venice Installation / Holzer, Jenny., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-49737-70790
Scope and Contents

Michael Auping contributed a major essay "Reading Holzer or Speaking in Tongues." The Sackners attended this exhibition in Venice. An additional copy of the poster is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Watercolor Way / Blei, Norbert., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-23622-24069
Scope and Contents

The covers depict a self-portrait of the artist and the integrated caption, "I am Thick with Poems Today." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Worst Moment Is When You Realize That You Can't Change the Course of Art History, 2009

 Item — Box 327: [Barcode: 31858072490943]
Identifier: CC-49782-70836
Scope and Contents

The collaged card depicts a photograph of Vittore and an unknown man seated and reading books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

There Ain't No Sanity Clause ?! / Brewton, Johnny., 2009 - 2011

 Item
Identifier: CC-52889-74027
Scope and Contents

The folded card was hand printed in 2009 and signed by John & Giselle. The smaller card was inserted as a personal note to the Sackners in 2011. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009 - 2011

These Words Are My Blood / Gerz, Jochen., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-27452-28500
Scope and Contents

The title statement, translated into three languages, appears on a photograph of a video monitor in capital letters with Jochen Gerz's name on the bottom. The translucent overlay has handwritten instructions for reproduction of this image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

These Words Are My Flesh & My Blood / Gerz, Jochen., 1971

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Identifier: CC-61659-10004124
Scope and Contents

The three aphorisms in French, English, and German are depicted on a video monitor in capital letters with Jochim Gerz's name at the bottom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

These Words Are My Flesh & My Blood / Gerz, Jochen., 1971

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Identifier: CC-27456-28504
Scope and Contents

The three aphorisms in French, English, and German are depicted on a video monitor in capital letters with Jochim Gerz's name at the bottom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Thinking of You / Pettibon, Raymond., 1986

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Identifier: CC-32032-33563
Scope and Contents

This book was reproduced from a sketchbook of Pettibon that dates from 1986-1987 as evidenced by some of the pages that reproduce dated school notes on the verso of the drawings. The latter consist of silhouettes of one or more mostly erect, black penises with different dimensions that appear on each page along with brief captions of written and printed text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

This is Visual Poetry. No.59/Sep / Sarah B. McCann., 2010

 Item
Identifier: CC-52058-73160
Scope and Contents On the back cover and internet, it is stated that Sarah McCann is a Baltimore based community artist. She partners with individuals and organizations to facilitate projects that use existing systems of behavior to form deeper human relationships and create opportunities for reflection and growth. She is currently the Wide Angle Youth Media Festival Coordinator. Sarah also teaches with Baltimore Clayworks, and is an independent curator. Her most recent curatorial endeavor What's Your War? was exhibited at Load of Fun Gallery in Baltimore and 5 Myles Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Sarah has facilitated public and collaborative projects and looks forward to continuing her work in Baltimore and other urban centers. Sarah says: "This book contains a series of monoprints created from text appropriated from books, film, television, conversation, my own writing and other sources. I put them together in a way that I hope explains, communicates, and shares something about how I view the world. A...
Dates: 2010

Three Times Jonathan, 1994

 Item — Box 281: [Barcode: 31858072460649]
Identifier: CC-00649-665
Scope and Contents

The facing pages of the books have a text on the right side with a print from a black and white line drawing on the left side. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Time Art / Mackowiak, Barbara., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-06090-6204
Scope and Contents

Mackiowiak prints an aphorism on each page which should incorporate the word, "time" but instead substitutes the word "art." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979