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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2614 Collections and/or Records:

Eight Cold Spot Tondos (Lettrist), 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-15704-16033
Scope and Contents

Each poem is on the verso of a commercial circular top of a "Cold Spot Freezer Pail Pack." All the poems have been given a title by Drachler, e.g., Stop Loss, Quiz, Buzz Fact, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Eight Cold Spot Tondos (Lettrist) / Jacob Drachler., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-15704-16033
Scope and Contents

Each poem is on the verso of a commercial circular top of a "Cold Spot Freezer Pail Pack." All the poems have been given a title by Drachler, e.g., Stop Loss, Quiz, Buzz Fact, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Eighteen Self-Portraits - Fifteen Portraits - Nine Portraits in Two Different Forms / Maher, Miranda., 1991

 Item — Box 613: [Barcode: 31858072460995]
Identifier: CC-34624-36325
Scope and Contents

The book summarizes questionaires in the mail sent by the author asking for 10 dates which the respondent thought signified their being "penetrated by our culture." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Einladung Zum... nr.1 / Saito, Takako., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-59266-64117
Scope and Contents

This work is another version of a book with the same title published by Edition Hundertmark in 1984 with the following description: A book with plastic cover pages: Page 1, with a painted fish and a fish bone, Page 2, a paper moon, and pressed flowers, Page 3, with onion powder, Page 4, a face, Page 5, a pencil drawing Page 6, a pencil drawing, Page 7, a pen drawing with drink stains, page 8, dried fruit. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Eis Chthoneis / Caruso, Luciano., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-19143-19522
Scope and Contents

Every page and the cover have a central background of white paint overlaid with collage elements, paint and writings. An ink border has been drawn on every page suggesting that the collages were made separately and then assembled as a book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Eisfelder Oder Das Verlieren Des Blicks Im Weiss Der Augen Des Anderen / Broel, Elisabeth., 1983

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Identifier: CC-21952-22364
Scope and Contents

Contains collaged electroencephalographic recordings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Ekhona / Segay, Serge., 1982

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Identifier: CC-33770-35434
Scope and Contents

The drawings of rebuses, poems, formulas, and diagrams, one each to a page, that constitute this book were done in 1969 through 1982. The calligraphy is highly stylized. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Elegy for Dead Letters / Maret, Russell., 1996

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Identifier: CC-06710-6829
Scope and Contents

Each print contains the same symbol resembling a backwards "4" which is rotated one revolution. One word is printed on each page - meaning, pirouettes, through, memory, unnoticed, eclipsed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Elephant Walk / Depew, Wally., 1973

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Identifier: CC-58086-10001334
Scope and Contents

Each page is rubberstamped with small elephants in different configurations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Ellis Island / Horrigan, Terry., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-09893-10089
Scope and Contents

In this book, Horrigan reviews the medical inspections and legislation affecting steerage passengers immigrating to America from Europe 1892-1954 through Ellis Island. The letter-codes of suspected or real illnesses in the immigrants were written in chalk on their lapels. A listing of the codes and meanings in a calligraphic text done by Ann Miller are printed on a three page fold-out. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Éloge de l'Italique, 1989

 Item — Box 152: [Barcode: 31858072459302]
Identifier: CC-12272-12496
Scope and Contents

Shape of book whose pages are completely sealed is slanted like an italic letter, consonant with the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Emily Dickenson's I Saw No Way / Lalou, Frank., 1993

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Identifier: CC-07510-7654
Scope and Contents

This poem, the first done in English by Lalou, was written with a conventional calligraphic style on the front of the series of the folded paper that formed four unbound pages. In addition, parts of the poem were written in a highly experimental style with vertical elongation and personal flourishes added to the letters. Lalou also illustrated these pages using brightly colored inks to form images composed of abstract calligraphic markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Eminentia / Frieles, Antonio., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-10847-11057
Scope and Contents

Text written by Patricia Trutty Coohill. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986