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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3304 Collections and/or Records:

Public Library Buys a Trove of Burroughs Papers / Wyatt, Edward; Burroughs WS; Altmann R; Jackson R; Jackson D., 2006

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Identifier: CC-44575-46731
Scope and Contents

Robert and Donna Jackson who sold these Burroughs papers is a friend of the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Published in Paris / Ford, Hugh ; Apollinaire G ; Breton A ; Brown B ; cummings ee ; Duchamp M ; Ford CH ; Hugnet G ; Mallarme S ; Smith WJ ; Joyce J ; Stein G., 1975

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Identifier: CC-11419-11635
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Subtitled "American and British Writers, Printers, and Publishers in Paris, 1920-1939." Includes a detailed description of Bob Brown and his book, "Readies" in the chapter, The Roving Eye. The Sackner Archive holds Readies - a gift of Eric Estorick. This edition is a reprinting of the book that was first published in 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Pustolina / Radovanovic, Vladan., 1987

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Identifier: CC-34992-36711
Scope and Contents

There are a large number of concrete poems in the final section of this book. The painting on the card has black text on a black background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera & Books / Helfand, William H.., 2002

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Identifier: CC-39354-41304
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This book served as the catalogue for the exhibition from the collection of William Helfand at the Grolier Club. It traces the history of the "frequently excessive & flamboyant seller" or quackery and the marketing of proprietory medicines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Quadrat-Print: Muziek En Techniek / Music And Technics. / Ton de Leeuw ; Stockhausen K., 1960

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Identifier: CC-50458-71527
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The text by the author analyzes electronic music as it has emerged from vocal music and instrumental music. the book is illustsrated with historical and early scientific musical machines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

Quilts / Phillips, Tom; Yeats WB., 2001

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Identifier: CC-39167-41111
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The quilt made by Tom Phillips and Alice Wood is contained in the Sackner Archive. It is based on the poem by William Butler Yeats "He wishes for the cloths of heaven." The title of the quilt comes form the closing line "Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Quix Art Quarterly. No.4/Win / Baker J., 1993

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Identifier: CC-03749-3820
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Contains photo-essay on Jan Baker's house and work, and a calligraphic tribute to her godson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

RA (The Royal Academy Magazine). No.23/Sum / Phillips T., 1989

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Identifier: CC-03469-3525
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Article on Phillips' globes entitled "Heaven and Earth" mentions globe in Sackner Archive. Phillips also reviews Wendy Beckett's book, "Contemporary Women Artists." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

RA (The Royal Academy Magazine). No.33/Win / Phillips T., 1991

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Identifier: CC-03490-3547
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This issue is mainly devoted to Andrea Mantegna and his exhibition at the Royal Academy. Tom Phillips contributed an essay titled "The Glory That Was Rome." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Rabbit Remix / Kac, Eduardo., 2004

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Identifier: CC-59840-10002891
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This catalogue was presented by the gallery for the XXVI Bienal de San Paulo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media, 1991

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Identifier: CC-04787-4878
Scope and Contents

Perloff demonstrates that contempory experimental poetry is highly influenced by the media of television, sound bytes and billboards. Taking an historical approach, she notes that the speech base is no longer the common speech of Yeats and Eliot but the personal utterance of the poet. She cites Charles Olsen in his manifesto "Projective Verse" (1950) who stated that "breath allows all the speech-force of language back in (speech is the solid of verse, is the secret of a poem's energy) p.34. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991