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Book review

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 376 Collections and/or Records:

Small Press Review. No.424-425/May- / Len Fulton, editor ; Fox H ; levy da ; Krech R ; Congdon K ; Luschei G ; Grumman B ; Beining G., 2008

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Identifier: CC-48753-69787
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Hugh Fox contributes a review about da levy's Spontaneous Sightings (Kirpan Press) that captures the life of the poet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Spoils of the Remembrancers / Phillips, Tom., 2003

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Identifier: CC-41136-43117
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Tom Phillips reviews the exhibition and the catalogue "The Museum of the Mind" at the British Museum organized by John Mack. Phillips describes the artifacts ranging from prehistoric to 2001 as "reminders of the importance of the aesthetic; memory is most efficient assisted by artefacts in which coherence is synonymous with beauty...These leaps of time and space and subject sketch a network of associations that builds for the visitor a microcosmic map of the museum as neatly schematic and graphically witty as the plan of the London Underground." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Street Beat: Documentarians Give Tour of Immigrant Mecca / Kalish, Bob; Lehrer W; Sloan J., 2003

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Identifier: CC-43707-45796
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The book "Crossing the Blvd" by Lehrer and Sloan documents their New York Queens neighborhood. The book is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Subdivided We Fall / Meyerowitz, Rick., 2008

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Identifier: CC-48129-69152
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The illustration for this review by Scott Stossel is similar to Meyerowitz's famed New Yorker wold map cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Taken to the Cleaners / Phillips, Tom., 1989

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Identifier: CC-04272-4351
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Tom Phillips' review of "The Ravished Image, or How to Ruin a Masterpiece by Restoration" by Sarah Walden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

The Art of the Word / Heller, Steven; Phillips T; Lissitzky E; Mayakovsky V; Weiner L; Holzer J; Kruger B., 2009

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Identifier: CC-50454-71522
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Heller includes the book "Art and Text" in his review article. In this book, Tom Phillips is described as"a pioneer of text art." His painting Here We Exemplify, held by the Sackner Archive, is depicted in this book as are pages from "A Humument." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

The Aylesford Review Review of Reviews: Cisatlantic Scenery & To Freshen Our Sense of Language / Houedard, Dom Sylvester ; Jones D ; Hollo A ; Horovitz M ; Houedard DS ; Gomringer E ; Finlay IH ; Chopin H ; Heidsieck B., 1964

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Identifier: CC-53939-642936
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The complete issue of this periodical containing the reprints is also held by the Sackner Archive. The duplicate copy is unsigned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

The Aylesford Review Review of Reviews: Cisatlantic Scenery & To Freshen Our Sense of Language / Houedard, Dom Sylvester ; Jones D ; Hollo A ; Horovitz M ; Houedard DS ; Gomringer E ; Finlay IH ; Chopin H ; Heidsieck B., 1964

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Identifier: CC-09857-10051
Scope and Contents

The complete issue of this periodical containing the reprints is also held by the Sackner Archive. The duplicate copy is unsigned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

The Castle by Franz Kafka / Adler, Jeremy; Kafka F., 1998

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Identifier: CC-29940-31331
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Jeremy Adler reviewed a new translation of "The Castle" based on the restored text by Franz Kafka. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

The eccentric monk and his typewriter / Rawsthorn, Alice; Houedard DS; Furnival J; Wright E; Morgan E., 2012

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Identifier: CC-55764-9999308
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This article (page 9) about Dom Sylvester Houedard deals with the book launch of "Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter" (2012) by Occasional Papers at the South London Gallery in December 2012. The Sackners were present at this event and Marvin Sackner lectured on visual works that Houedard made before his well known typed concrete poems. One of the two illustrations in this article was the property of the Sackner Archive. The newspaper was mailed to the Sackners along with a thank you card by Sara [de Bondt] and Antony Hudek, the owners of Occasional Papers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

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

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Identifier: CC-13370-13671
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Structure of the Visual Book by Keith Smith is reviewed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Hidden Picture / Oakley, Barry, editor; Phillips T; Sackner MA; Sackner RK., 1993

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Identifier: CC-05263-5366
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Reproduces in color the painting by Tom Phillips, "The Sackner Artchive," taken from the Phillips' exhibition catalog, Works and Texts 1992. This painting was commissioned by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

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

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Identifier: CC-08611-8783
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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 Look of Russian Literature Avant Garde Visual Experiments, 1900-1930 by Gerald Janecek / Hill, Crag; Janecek G; Jensen D; Frank J., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09085-9264
Scope and Contents

Hill reviews Janacek's book "The Look of Russian Literature..." a work held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991