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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2627 Collections and/or Records:

The Golden Age, 1982

 Item — Box 138: [Barcode: 31858072457918]
Identifier: CC-15914-16247
Scope and Contents This work consists mostly of feminist material. According to her web site, Barbara Drucker received her MFA from UCLA, where she is currently the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the School of the Arts and Architecture and Professor of Painting and Drawing in the Department of Art. From 1996 - 2001 she was the founder/director of The Living Room, an alternative exhibition space in Santa Monica, California. Drucker's art practice includes painting, mixed media installation, sculpture, photography and video. It has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the Mazzocchi Gallery, Parma, Italy; Academy of Fine Arts, Brescia, Italy; Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, Austria; Kennedy Gallery, Athens, Greece; Bouzianis Gallery, Athens, Greece; Center for Book Arts, New York; and Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, CA. Her work is also included in numerous public collections such as the Smithsonian Archives of Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C.; the...
Dates: 1982

The Good Life [Bliss in the Hills] / Valicenti, Rick., 1997

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Identifier: CC-30322-31731
Scope and Contents

The perforated, translucent paper pages alternate with colored pages of domestic scenes including strange, sci-fi creatures. The text uses "dirty" typography after the style of Ed Fella. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

The Gosh of Goshes / Jack A. Hirschman., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09195-9376
Scope and Contents

This is an affectionate love poem with abstract painted embellishments in a book object that is an unfolding construction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Gospel According to Smith / Edgar, Anne; Smith K., 1984

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Identifier: CC-13370-13671
Scope and Contents

Structure of the Visual Book by Keith Smith is reviewed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Gospel of Jesus Christ According to John and Romans / Leftwich, Jim., 1998

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Identifier: CC-33047-34672
Scope and Contents

Leftwich overlayed colored, handwritten markings and colored, rubberstamped abstract shapes on each page of a previously published, double column, Biblical textbook. He placed loose sheets between each page and made abstract writings down the vertical center of the sheet. The inside and outside of the front and back covers have also been covered with abstract writings and rubberstampings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

The Grazer / Barrett, Martha Barron ; Strong, Peggy Heigold., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27696-28785
Scope and Contents

The text deals with people "grazing" through life in terms of goals, careers, and fulfillment. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

The Hand Correspondence: Mirror Error / Golden, Alise., 1990

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Identifier: CC-10253-10456
Scope and Contents

This is one of a series of three books; the others are entitled, "Paper Has A Memory" and "Voyeur." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Hand Correspondence: Paper Has a Memory / Golden, Alisa., 1991

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Identifier: CC-10254-10457
Scope and Contents

This is one of a series of three books; the others are entitled, "Mirror Error" and "Voyeur." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Hand Correspondence: Voyeur / Golden, Alisa., 1991

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Identifier: CC-10429-10633
Scope and Contents

This is one of a series of three books; the others are entitled "Mirror Error" and "Paper Has a Memory." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Hanged Man: In Memory of Mitch Snyder / Jack A. Hirschman., 1990

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Identifier: CC-08909-9085
Scope and Contents

Poem in homage to the homeless advocate, Mitch Snyder, who had recently committed suicide, and the sweep of the homeless from Civic Center in San Francisco. As Hirschman states, this is an ongoing struggle, i.e., a half-mast flag hangs at City Hall (ironically and hypocritically) and thus his symbolic allusion at the poem's ending. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Imposter (One Thing Leads to Another) and Other Short Stories / Sandra Jackman., 1995

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Identifier: CC-08313-8476
Scope and Contents

Jackman writes at the bottom of the box, "From the old, rare, curious one of a kind foreign unfit to read, non archival book collection." Seven varying shaped collage assemblages are stacked in the richly collaged box which has a lid with a handle made from a carved and embellished pencil. The scrolls consist of hand printed poems on the recto and drawings on the verso. These also include pseudo-Chinese ideograms. As usual, a tour de force by Jackman! -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

The Journal of the Paumonock Traveller, 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-19629-20015
Scope and Contents

Five of the book covers have handcolored painted and/or collage additions. Two of the books have string spines.Sixteen items are listed on the table of contents label.l -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The Kandinsky Suite #1: Poems 1-10 / Helmes, Scott., 2001

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Identifier: CC-36012-37782
Scope and Contents

First printing of poems composed from cut, magazine illustrations to simulate Kandinsky's early, non-objective, expressionist paintings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The Languages of Images and Words / Ingalls, Zoe; Lehrer W., 1996

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Identifier: CC-08611-8783
Scope and Contents

Warren Lehrer's newest book "The Portrait Series" is reviewed in which he "uses a melange of prose, poetry, photographs, illustrations and typographic elements to profile four men." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

The Lending Library / Golden, Alisa., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27846-28980
Scope and Contents

The hard cover, accordion book seves as a "lending library' for the three booklets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996