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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3304 Collections and/or Records:

The Position of Things: Collected Poems 1961-1962, 2008

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Identifier: CC-51779-72879
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Beppe Cavatorta contributed an essay on Spatola's poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

The Present Order:Writings on Ian Hamilton Finlay / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Caitlin Murray, curator ; Tim Johnson, curator ; Finlay A ; Moeglin-Delcroix A ; Charlesworth M ; Perloff M ; Goldsmith K ; Schwartzburg M ; Scobie S ; Herbert G., 2010

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Identifier: CC-53998-642971
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Ths publication of the book coincided with an exhibition of Finlay's printed works at the Marfa Book Company in Marfa, Texas. It was entitled "Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Selelection of Printed Works." All the works displayed in this exhibition are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

The Printed Performance: Brian Lane Works 1966 - 99 / Lane, Brian ; Bevis J ; Lumb M ; Wheatley S ; Janssen J ; Sackett C ; Cutts S., 2001

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Identifier: CC-55711-9999287
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Brian lane's unique contribution to small-press publishing was begun in the mid nineteen-sixties at Gallery Number10 in Blackheath, southeast London.This was one of the first artists' spaces in Britain, and along side its programme of exhibitions and events, there emerged a growing lit of publications with poets and artists. The apogee of this activity was, however, the late nineteen-seventies, when under the imprint Editions Brian Lane he issued many of his distilled performance in print... This book incluses an extensive bibiography of all of Brian Lane's published works now held in the Tate Gallery Archive, with forty-eight pages of illustrations in color and black and white. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The Record As Art Work: From Futurism to Conceptual Art / Celant, Germano ; Anne Livet, curator ; Russolo L ; Marinetti FT ; Depero F ; Schwitters K ; Duchamp M ; Ball H ; Chopin H ; Hausmann R ; Ben ; VanDerMarck J ; Schraenen G ; Nannucci M ; Lora-Totino A ; Heidsieck B ; Phillips T ; Weiner L ; Dias A ; Topor R ; Roth D., 1977

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Identifier: CC-19820-20207
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From his personal collection, Celant mounted an exhibition of record covers as artworks that also featured sound poetry. He includes a definitive discography from 1927-1977 and a listing of record producers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

The Revolt of the Bees: Wherein the Future of the Paper-Hive is Declared / Levy, Aaron, editor ; Squire, Thaddeus, editor ; Arakawa ; Gins M., 2005

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Identifier: CC-46568-49297
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This book was published as a companion work for the exhibition in the Rare Book Room of the Van Pelt Library. It proposes "A new culture of memory and archiving in the true spirit of the beehive." Anthony Grafton's essay "The Commonplace Bee; A Celebration" describes through historical commonplace books "how early modern playwrights and poets, scholars and scientists, ladies and schoolboys went about the vital task of mastering and using books - at a time when books were the most powerful source of knowledge about life, the universe and everything." The DVD "In which the thinking man finds himself" was produced by Aaron Levy and explores an archive in disarray in historic Founder's Hall at Girard College in Philadelphia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

The Romantic Paintings / Brockway, Lyn ; Jacobus, Harry ; Jess., 1990

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Identifier: CC-22980-23417
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The exhibition was curated by Christopher Wagstaff. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Beginnings; Manuscript for State of Art Sponsored by Flowers Gallery / Sackner, Marvin., 2006

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Identifier: CC-46195-48910
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This essay for the Flowers Gallery London publication, State of Art was titled "Miami Vice" when printed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

The Scandal of Pleasure / Steiner, Wendy., 1995

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Identifier: CC-03079-3126
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Steiner writes that her book "is an argument for the subjectivity of aesthetic response, an attempt to explain what it means to invest art with value and derive pleasure from it. It tries to demonstrate the utility of a liberal aesthetics in which art is...a virtual realm tied to the world by acts of interpretation." The author considers the controversial issues of censorship, political correctness, anti Semitism and academic scholarship. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

The Science of Secrets / Evans, Dennis., 1994

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Identifier: CC-14296-14604
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The Science of Secrets is the fourth part of a seven part suite of works titled "The Book of the World/The Book of Life." It is composed of three large environmental, poetic installations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

The Self as a Stranger, 2010

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Identifier: CC-51492-72590
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This catalogue depicts two works from the Sackner Archive who is also listed among the supporters of this publication. The drawing was given to the 11 supporters of the publication of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

The Self as a Stranger / Lewty, Simon ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Courtney C., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51686-72786
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This catalogue depicts two works from the Sackner Archive that is also listed among the supporters of this publication. A drawing given to the 11 supporters of the publication of this book is depicted in another entry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

The Silver Age: Russian Art of the Early Twentieth Century and the "World of Art" Group / Bowlt, John E.., 1979

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Identifier: CC-22350-22773
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Book discusses artists, writers and esthetes "active and influencial during the late 1890 and 1900s, the time of Symbolism in Russia." Several chapters on "The World of Art" movement. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

The Singing of Feeling / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Cox K., 1968

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Identifier: CC-09688-9881
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houedard provides a critical analysis of the artistic works of Ken Cox. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

The Society of the Spectacle / Debord, Guy ; Donald Nicholson-Smith, translator., 1998

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Identifier: CC-32609-34190
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This text of political and cultural theory spectacle was first published in Paris in 1967. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998