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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3304 Collections and/or Records:

Regenerativ / Koehler, Reinhold ; Riha K., 1990

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Identifier: CC-07759-7911
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Also designated Vergessene Autoren der Moderne No.45. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Regina Silveira / Silveira, Regina., 2011

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Identifier: CC-52748-73885
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This book features works by Silveira dating from 1996 on and does not discuss her earlier poetic and rubberstamped works. A large number are gallery installations and outdoor pieces.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Reinventing the Wheel / Helfand, Jessica ; Apianus P ; Duchamp M ; Eggers D ; Acconci V ; Apollinaire G ; Hesse E., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42292-44302
Scope and Contents This book served as the catalogue at the Grolier Club exhibition in New York but was published one year before the exhibition. The Sackner Archive lent two works to the exhibition.tSTEP inside design, March/April 2003 review: Lately I've been indulging in books of unusual visual richness, and for me the most exhilarating illustrated book of the season is Jessica Helfand's Reinventing the Wheel. Helfand is a designer, a scholar, and as the book shows in spades a passionate collector of ephemera. The ephemera in question here are those odd wheel charts widely used from the 1920s to 1960s for purposes as diverse as telling fortunes, managing diets, identifying birds, spotting aircraft, charting the stars, and learning French grammar (remember the Cuthbertson Verb Wheel?). Helfand's gorgeously designed book reproduces more than a hundred of these volvelles, as hey're technically known, traces their history back to early astronomy indeed to the properties of the circle itself as a...
Dates: 2004
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Remastered / Muniz, Victor., 2005

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Identifier: CC-49411-70456
Dates: 2005
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Rene Crevel / Pound, Ezra., 1992

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Identifier: CC-04639-4726
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This book is a reprint of an essay (with poetic license by the book designer, Michael Caine) first published by Pound in The Criterion, Jan. 1939. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Report on the Present State of the Jean Brown Collection / Vos, Eric; Nonack S., 1989

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Identifier: CC-00691-708
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Several comparisons to Sackner Archive are made by Vos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Representative Works: 1938-1985 / Mac Low, Jackson ; Rothenberg J., 1986

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Identifier: CC-37916-39796
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Jerome Rothenberg wrote the introduction and Mac Low supplied notes throughout the book that documented the varied works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Representative Works: 1938-1985 / Mac Low, Jackson ; Rothenberg J ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 1986

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Identifier: CC-37915-39795
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Jerome Rothenberg wrote the introduction and Mac Low supplied notes throughout the book that documented the varied works. The handwritten poem on the last two pages of the book, "Ruth and Marvin Sackner," spells out the namesby a diastatic-chance method by drawing words from this book by placement of the names. For example, the first line of the poem is righteous number out nothing is obtained as follows. Righteous (page 18), nUmber (page 21), ouT (page 20), notHing (page 8). The page numbers correspond toplaces of the required letters in the alphabet: the words in stanza 1, from "018"; 2 from "118," etc. Mac Low has also handwritten a list of errata near the title page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and the Politics of Cultural Memory 1910-1945 / Nelson, Cary ; DeZayas M ; Brown B ; Crosby H ; Zukofsky L ; Patchen K ; Lissitzky E ; Apollinaire G ; Meyer A ; Lewis WP ; Gillespie AL., 1989

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Identifier: CC-05534-5641
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Nelson describes the work of "forgotten" poets involved in avant garde cultural and political movements during the period 1910-1945. Includes a great deal of poetry with critical text and documentation by blacks and leftists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Res Publica: The Public Works 1968-1999, 1999

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Identifier: CC-34554-36253
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Although Gerz began as a visual poet, his later work dealt often with the events of the Holocaust. Gerz's public works frequently took the form of interviews and participation of the viewer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS

Res Publica: The Public Works 1968-1999 / Gerz, Jochen ; Hapkemeyer A., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33700-35362
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This catalogue was edited by Andreas Hapkemeyer and Marion Hohlfeldt who also contributed critical essays on Gerz's works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Research on the Origin / Filliou, Robert., 1974

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Identifier: CC-13105-13400
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The references in the booklet explain Filliou's search into the physical and metaphysical origins of the universe with quotations from texts of astronomy, astrophysics, Watson and Cricks' DNA discovery, Darwin and Tao Te Ching. The scroll is Filliou's interpretation of these universal themes using squares, rectangles, dots, arrows, numbers. This is a facsimile reproduction of a handwritten manuscript that has the appearance of being an original. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Ressource Kunst: Die Elemente neu gesehen / Weiner L ; Beuys J ; Badura M ; Broodthaers M ; Gerz J ; Ulrichs T ; Roth D ; Hainke W ; Olbrich JO ; Jappe G., 1989

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Identifier: CC-03142-3191
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Curated by Georg Jappe. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Retorica della Fotografia / Miccini, Eugenio ; Mucci E., 1984

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Identifier: CC-44044-46158
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This is also issue number 10 of Architettura e citta. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Retour Du Futur: L'Art a contre-courant, 2010

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Identifier: CC-60203-10003216
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In this dense, heavily annotated essay, Moineau explains that to resist globalization and commodification of art, other trends have appeared advocating all kinds of back: back to modernism, back to the author, return to morality, return to ethics, etc. But in vain he said, because these too reactive attempts end up caught by reification and absorbed by the global art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Retrospectiva. Obras 1954-2004 / Ferrari, Leon ; Camnitzer L ; Artaud A., 2004

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Identifier: CC-44919-47091
Scope and Contents This is a massive, profusely illustrated catalogue with extensive documentation. The WEB site of this exhibition states: The exhibition of Leon Ferrari is a retrospective one that includes fifty years of his work, from the beginnings, in 1954, until the present. It presents a sample of works of different periods with the purpose of unfolding the creative process of the artist. The exhibition does not include the totality of its works, but a selection of each series or creative moment. If in the retrospective exhibition of an artist a period of its work were eliminated, it would be being been clipping or censuring his production. Leon Ferrari is expressed in a poetic and controversial sense. His creations explore the possibilities of the plane, the space and the meaning with drawings, sculptures, collages, brailles and objects. In them, he uses metals, inks, pencils, engravings, heliografi­as, dummies, bottles, birds, fish, excrements, images, reliefs in brailles, videos. As much...
Dates: 2004
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Retrospectiva. Obras 1954-2006 / Ferrari, Leon ; Camnitzer L ; Artaud A., 2006

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Identifier: CC-46084-48793
Scope and Contents This massive, profusely illustrated catalogue with extensive documentation is a reprint of Leon Ferrari retrospective catalogue of 2004 with additions to bring it up to 2006. The catalogue has been translated from Spanish into Portuguese and was edited by Andrea Giunta. It presents a sample of works of different periods with the purpose of unfolding the creative process of the artist. The exhibition does not include the totality of its works, but a selection of each series or creative moment. If in the retrospective exhibition of an artist a period of its work were eliminated, it would be being been clipping or censuring his production. Leon Ferrari is expressed in a poetic and controversial sense. His creations explore the possibilities of the plane, the space and the meaning with drawings, sculptures, collages, brailles and objects. In them, he uses metals, inks, pencils, engravings, heliografi­as, dummies, bottles, birds, fish, excrements, images, reliefs in brailles, videos....
Dates: 2006
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Retrospective 1953 - 1973 / Gaul, Winfred., 1973

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Identifier: CC-52737-73874
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Page 81 depicts four images of visual poems similar to the piece held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Retrospective 1961-1985 / de Charmoy, Cozette ; Grey R ; Chopin H., 1985

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Identifier: CC-15039-15356
Dates: 1985
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Retrotempo/O Mito de Cada Um / Vater, Regina ; Lundberg, Bill ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 1995

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Identifier: CC-00904-928
Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

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