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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2627 Collections and/or Records:

Read and Book, 1998

 Item — Box 203: [Barcode: 31858072460102]
Identifier: CC-31768-33282
Scope and Contents

"Read" lists 18 definitions of the word "read," and "Book" lists seven definitions of the word "book" and combinations and phrases incorporating the word "book." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Reading / Luckam, Lawrence., 1978

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Identifier: CC-07596-7741
Scope and Contents

Because of the locations of the perforations, paging through this book gives different meanings as new words appear from old letters and new ones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Reciprocal Encoding Decoding Construction / Barnett, Peter., 1981 - 1983

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Identifier: CC-22545-22970
Scope and Contents Book has opposite spiral spines so that pages interleave.Peter H. Barnett: Reciprocal Encoding-Decoding Construction (hand drawn numbered limited edition, 1981-1983) is made of two spiral-bound sketch pads bonded together and cut down to 14" square. The result is a book with bindings on either side and a stiffened middle. There are 12 pages attached to each binding. The principal graphic element, which supports the textual elements, is a sequence of triangular cutouts within circles. The cut-out pages mesh together on either side of the core, and texts written across the edges of the cutouts become legible in sequence as the pages are meshed. As the pages mesh and the designs and texts on one side of the book become legible, the designs and texts on the other side are decomposed. The meshing and unmeshing of pages by the interactive reader, together with the composition and decomposition of design and text, articulates the title Reciprocal Encoding Decoding Construction ,...
Dates: 1981 - 1983

Recit d'l Voyage jas si imaginare que ca / Yzert, Fabian., 1989

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Identifier: CC-00119-123
Scope and Contents

In same slipcase as Fabian Yzert's book "Une Semaine Pale Pitante". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Recit-Gît (Edition Parallele), 1989

 Item — Box 121: [Barcode: 31858072458072]
Scope and Contents

This edition of the object is described as parallel to the original (designed as wood slabes in a wooden case).

Dates: 1989

Rectangles Volume One / Crozier, Robin., 1978

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Identifier: CC-19641-20027
Scope and Contents

All the images relate to the shape of rectangles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Reduced E.A. Poe's The Raven No. o43 / Kocman, J.H.., 1982

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Identifier: CC-59716-10002774
Scope and Contents

Designated JHK/Book No. 099. Kocman states that he has utilized 18 strophes of the poem, each represented as one page in the book by blindstamping "Nevermore" on each page of black-gray handmade paper. A Strope is any separate section or extended movement in a poem, distinguished from the stanza in that it does not follow a regularly repeated pattern. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Reduced E.A. Poe's The Raven No.o99 / Kocman, J.H.., 1984

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Identifier: CC-07916-8070
Scope and Contents

Designated JHK/Book No. 099. Kocman states that he has utilized 18 strophes of the poem, each represented as one page in the book by blindstamping "Nevermore" on each page of black-gray handmade paper. A Strope is any separate section or extended movement in a poem, distinguished from the stanza in that it does not follow a regularly repeated pattern. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Referendum / Backer, Heimrad., 1988

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Identifier: CC-21960-22372
Scope and Contents The book consists of photographs and poems dealing mostly with negative feelings related to the title. The five loose photographs in this limited edition of five copies (size of trade edition unspecified) also appear in the book.Goodreadss review: Using the techniques of concrete and visual poetry, Heimrad Backer presents quotations from the Holocaust s planners, perpetrators, and victims. The book offers a startling collection of documents that confront us with details from the bureaucratic world of the Nazis and the intimate worlds they destroyed. Backer s sources range from victims letters and medical charts to train schedules and the telephone records of Auschwitz. His transcriptions and reworkings of these sources serve as a reminder that everything about the Shoah was spoken about in great detail, from the most banal to the most monstrous. transcript shows us that the Holocaust was not unspeakable, but was an eminently describable and described act spoken about by thousands...
Dates: 1988

Reliquary for the Book / Eller, Evelyn., 1996

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Identifier: CC-38411-40316
Scope and Contents

The theme of this book is to question whether the book is obsolete because of the information super highway and computer systems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996