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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 313 Collections and/or Records:

Reading the Removal of Literature [Craig Dworkin, Editor] / Thurston, Nick., 2006

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Identifier: CC-48926-69964
Scope and Contents This book is a reading of Maurice Blanchot's seminal book The Space of Literature, performed on the page as an annotative writing that encircles the should-be space of print. Through the progressive appropriation and then erasure ("cancelled") of Blanchot's text, and through a processual transposition of hand-writing into formal typography, Thurston addresses the very question of the possibility of literature that obsessed Blanchot. The meaning of the candid reflections and meditations which form the incisive marginalia is founded in a tension with the suggestions of the absent text. Floating alone these annotations may have little worth or make little sense, but between these covers they do not deny the history of their derivation: They are constantly anchored by that which is missing, in a creative erring, in a process of over-coming, which in this book asserts an equality of presence between the read and the written; the reading and the writing. The closest analogue is...
Dates: 2006

Reworks 1968-1993 / Cross, Doris ; Phillips T ; Grumman B ; Berman W., 1993

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Identifier: CC-40319-42290
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In an introductory essay, the exhibition curator Jim Edwards, compares Cross' dictionary work to Tom Phillips' "A Humument." He further indicates that the artist he most equates Doris Cross to is Wallace Berman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

SadisfactionS / Nagy, Paul., 1977

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Identifier: CC-05558-5665
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The envelope indicates that this print is Collection d'Atelier 6; further, a label, "The Future Press, New York," is affixed to the envelope as its distributor in the USA. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

SadisfactionS / Nagy, Paul., 1977

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Identifier: CC-48403-69429
Scope and Contents

This print was also published in a folded state stored within an envelope. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Save / Stilinovic, Mladen., 1991

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Identifier: CC-29870-31257
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The newspaper pages are thinly painted white and the center of each page is collaged with a clipping with the word "save" and various prices and words. The last page has a one dollar bill, placed within a collaged insert on the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Schwarz-Buch I / Cepl, Gernot., 1988 - 1989

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Identifier: CC-19612-19998
Scope and Contents

The blocks of text are painted for the most part black with the margins left intact. In some instances, grays are used so that the printed text is allowed to shine through. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988 - 1989

Sculpted In This World / Reedy, Carlyle., 1979

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Identifier: CC-39261-41208
Scope and Contents

Reedy's handwritten additions and corrections to the poems are also printed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Segregation by Robert Penn Warren, 1996

 Item — Box 88: [Barcode: 31858072538220]
Identifier: CC-24183-24635
Scope and Contents Each page has been treated by routing out all the text horizontally with a rotating tool such that the cancellation process takes place word by word. This process is imperfect so that some of letters and fragments of words still remain. The spine of the book has been deliberately cracked to allow the book to be displayed in its opened state. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001.In a letter (2001) to the Sackners, Beube made the following comments. In Segregation, a metamorphosis occurs, transforming the printed text to empty space, and the black ink to dust. Although entire words have become illegible, the remnants of broken letters and vowels can be seen and felt on the crater-like surfaces of the pages.Portions of the book's text have been removed by drilling out each word one page at a time, a process that fragments the book's content. Multiple pages become translucent white veils beneath which a number of underlying pages may be...
Dates: 1996