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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2614 Collections and/or Records:

Go Book: no.38 / Depew, Wally., 1973

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Identifier: CC-57966-10001224
Scope and Contents

Each page is a woodblock in varying arrow configurations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: Run. No.34 / Wally Depew., 1973

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Identifier: CC-54347-643234
Scope and Contents

As with other Depew books, the page count includes the blank side of the page, e.g., 24 leaves equals 48 pages. Most of the pages of this book depict an abstract woodcut image that has been manipulated by joining multiple images of it. On other pages, Depew has rubberstamped anagrams of the word "RUN." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: S A U N T E R. No.21 / Wally Depew., 1973

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Identifier: CC-54342-643229
Scope and Contents

As with other Depew books, the page count includes the blank side of the page, e.g., 24 leaves equals 48 pages. One letter of the title is rubberstamped with varied fonts on the lower right corner of a page and separated from it by one or more pages that depect abstract woodcut prints. The title, saunter, means to walk in a slow, relaxed manner, without hurry or effort. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: [Squares and Rectangles]. No.14 / Wally Depew., 1973

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Identifier: CC-54334-643221
Scope and Contents

As with other Depew books, the page count includes the blank side of the page, e.g., 24 leaves equals 48 pages. The special issue numbering also included non-related booklets with different titles. Go Book 14 consists of woodcut images of juxtaposed squares and rectangles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: Squares. No.16 / Wally Depew., 1973

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Identifier: CC-54336-643223
Scope and Contents

As with other Depew books, the page count includes the blank side of the page, e.g., 24 leaves equals 48 pages. The special issue numbering also included non-related booklets with different titles. Go Book 16 is divided by subheadings into four parts: 1) 16 one to six squares joined together with one and two repeated on eight pages, 2) 16 1/4 one to three squared joined together, 3) 16 1/2 one square with different spatial arrangements on 5 pages, 3) 16 3/4 no subsequent pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: unnumbered / Depew, Wally., 1973

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Identifier: CC-57950-10001207
Scope and Contents

Three pages are woodcut images and the remaining pages are rubberstamped with the word 'go.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: Walk Run. No.1 / Wally Depew., 1973

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Identifier: CC-54320-643207
Scope and Contents

As with other Depew books, the page count includes the blank side of the page, e.g., 24 leaves equals 48 pages. The special issue numbering also included non-related booklets with different titles. Go Book 1 consisted of different arrangements of the rubberstamped words 'walk' and 'run' along with abstract woodcut prints on non-rubberstamped pages that appear to relate to the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go On Sam / Jack A. Hirschman., 1990

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Identifier: CC-08766-8941
Scope and Contents

Book is an homage to Samuel Beckett and refers to Beckett's "I can't go on. I'll go on." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

[God], 1988

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Identifier: CC-04467-4551
Scope and Contents LaCrosse Tribune Obituary: Earl "Buddy" Potvin, 91, passed away peacefully Wednesday Sept. 17, 2014.Buddy was born in Minneapolis. He attended Minneapolis West High School and shortly after served in World War II. Upon returning from the service, he earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota and a master's of fine arts from Cranbrook Academy of the Arts.Buddy was an art faculty member at the University of Minnesota, and at College of St. Teresa in Winona. He also taught with his wife on the Ganado indian reservation in Arizona in the early 1980s.He was preceded in death by his wife, Rosemary (Posy) Potvin; his parents, Floyd and Amabel Potvin; and his sisters, Mary (Bill) O'Brien, Helen (Bill) Summers, Nancy (Charles) Madden, and Joann (Richard) Shannon.Buddy was a prolific artist who lived a passionate life. He spent most of his life walking; around cities, along the train tracks from Winona to Minneapolis, to visit his parents, from Lake Michigan to the O'Hare...
Dates: 1988

God, 1993

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Identifier: CC-05280-5383
Scope and Contents

All pages of this book are blank but include two vertical linear perforations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

going / Depew, Wally., 1984

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Identifier: CC-15176-15497
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts the same rubberstamped dragon as its companion volume but here the darkest image is at the beginning of the book and progressively lightens as it approaches the end. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Gold Not Sold - Almanach 1996 / Knistoff, Fredy Flores ; Andryczuk, Hartmut., 1996

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Identifier: CC-08167-8328
Scope and Contents

Some of the works have been recycled, e.g., a drawing by Knistoff dated 1988 is included in this work which was a collaboration by the two authors. The binding includes two paper handles at its top which gives a shopping bag appearance to it. The paper has the color of a brown printed paper bag. The story begins with a visit to Anna Frank's in Amsterdam: to inspect "the diaries behind the wall" and ends with the perspective of "the diaries before the wall." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Gorbachev / Prigov, Dmitri., 1988

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Identifier: CC-04219-4298
Scope and Contents The pages of this book have been altered by Prigov with hand drawn, vertically elongated, letters overlying the original text. Upon his death in July 2007, Igor Satinovsky wrote the following to Richard Kostelanetz who sent a copy to the Sackners. Ye, Dmitry Aleksandrovich Prigov was a very interesting figure. Born in 1940, the same year as J.Brodsky, K.Kuzminsky and R.Kostelanetz, he truly came to spotlight only in the 80s, being a phenomenally gifted performer of his own writing. An artist by education, Prigov has been experimenting with various traditional and avant-garde poetic/artistic modes since the early 60s, including visual and typographic poetry (Sackners have some examples in their archive). By the late 70's, he settled into very disciplined conceptual work, which at its core had a performance persona of Prigov as a cross between a mad Soviet intellectual and a traditional Russian «holy schizo», yurodivyi. In reality, he was probably one of the most consistently...
Dates: 1988

Graffitextures / Jack A. Hirschman., 1990

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Identifier: CC-09058-9237
Scope and Contents

Images on inside of box painted on plastic foam are enlargements of graffiti observed by Hirschman on San Francisco subways. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Graphemes en Vibrances / Chopin, Henri., 1990

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Identifier: CC-16599-16952
Scope and Contents

Only the first five numbers of the edition included an original typewriter drawing and a silkscreen print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Graphies: Livre a ecrire, 1984

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Identifier: CC-30629-32069
Scope and Contents

The pages of handwritten text include examples of micrographic writings, freeform markings, abstract shapes and calligraphic characters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984