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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2627 Collections and/or Records:

Don't Let the Stars Get In Your Eyes, 1999

 Item — Box 257: [Barcode: 31858072458262]
Identifier: CC-32660-34246
Scope and Contents

Natalie Gallo was a fifth grade student at Rockway Elementary School when she made this book. The poems on the pages have the theme of stars. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Doubleday Hypertext #3 / Scott McCarney., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-06801-6921
Scope and Contents

McCarney removed the covers of this encyclopedia and constructed a back case from cardboard that he covered in cloth. The opened front exposes groups of collaged pages whose edges have been chiseled out to form a zig-zag pattern. The horizontal dimensions of these 12 groups of pages become progressively smaller from back to front. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Dramatis Personae I (A-L) / Furnival, John ; Ackerman A ; Adrian M ; Arias-Misson A ; Arts A ; Bailey P ; Banana A ; Baroni V ; Bennett JM ; Bloch M ; Cleveland B ; Cobbing B ; Cutts S ; Chopin H ; Cohen R ; Crozier R ; Christie J ; CrackerJackKid ; Disler M ; Essary L ; Pittore-Eurofico C ; Finch P ; Fish P ; Fox H ; Furnival A ; Gerlovina R ; Helmes S ; Hocks P ; Hoffberg J ; Holden K ; Johnson R ; Karp A ; Kleinberg J ; King R ; Kostelanetz R ; Lane B., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-13107-13403
Scope and Contents

This project comprised two looseleaf notebooks (I & II) with plastic sleeves pages. It included "188 answers, excluding latecomers, to 308 letters sent from Rosewell, New Mexico" by John Furnival. A self portrait photograph of each recipient was supposed to be placed into the windowed envelope and remailed to Furnival. However, many participants sent portraits of others clipped from printed materials. The envelopes and their contents were often highly decorated and contained personal notes to Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Dream Time/ Rainbow Travel / Ide, Christian ; Chatwin, Bruce., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-08594-8766
Scope and Contents

The text, "Songlines," taken from Chatwin a deceased Australian writer, is typographically presented by Ides on hand dyed Japanese papers. The theme is the Australian Aborigine's idea about how plants and creatures came to inhabit the Earth. One hundred copies were published in German and 60 copies in English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Drunkard's Path: QuilText 1 / McCarney, Scott., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-06764-6883
Scope and Contents

The pages unfold into a rectangular quilt made from cut-out texts from eight books of different languages which had been discarded from public libraries. The texts are mounted onto braile paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Dschamp: VP=VP. No.3 / Thomas Gunther, Sabine Jahn, editors ; Gunther T ; Jahn S ; Andryczuk H ; Dencker KP ; Deisler G ; Ebel G ; Garnier P ; Lohr H ; Mon F ; Nikonova R ; Scherstjanoi V ; Segay S ; Sorgel H ; Warnke U ; Zauner H ; Zylla K ; Hosselbarth K ; Jadot A ; Garnier I ; Claus CF ; Wurzberger M ; Zielke O., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-00869-889
Scope and Contents

The works from this portfolio constituted the exhibition with the same title. The other 25 copies in this edition were placed in a green rather than a black linen covered case as in this example. The photograph collaged to the cover of the case was done by Sabine Jahn (present only in this run of five copies). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Du Fykx / Di Palma, Ray., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-15413-15737
Scope and Contents

The edition size is unknown but must have been small since the pages are hand rubberstamped. The pages read from right to left. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Duster 2, 2002

 Item — Box 95: [Barcode: 31858072538121]
Identifier: CC-39169-41113
Scope and Contents

Each paper strip contains a poetic, metaphor about dusters, paper and words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002