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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3304 Collections and/or Records:

The Typewriter Revolution: A Typist Companion for the 21st Century / Polt, Richard., 2015

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Identifier: CC-61042-10003816
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Amazon.com: What do thousands of kids, makers, poets, artists, steampunks, hipsters, activists, and musicians have in common? They love typewriters"•the magical, mechanical contraptions that are enjoying a surprising second life in the 21st century, striking a blow for self-reliance, privacy, and coherence against dependency, surveillance, and disintegration. The Typewriter Revolution documents the movement and provides practical advice on how to choose a typewriter, how to care for it, and what to do with it"•from National Novel Writing Month to letter-writing socials, from type-ins to typewritten blogs, from custom-painted typewriters to typewriter tattoos. It celebrates the unique quality of everything typewriter, fully-illustrated with vintage photographs, postcards, manuals, and more. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2015

The Uncommon Reader:Fifty Years of Textual Intercourse / Phillips, Tom., 2009

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Identifier: CC-50278-71345
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Tom Phillips' blog includes the latest information about his exhibitions and reviews and design projects in London and in the Westminster Cathedral. The most detailed portion of the blog describes and illustrates Phillips' work on his painting "Quantum Poetics." Phillips' description of his creative process in developing the work is a rare insight into an artist's mind and techniques. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

The Universe: A Mirror of Itself / Wilson, Peter Lamborn., 1992

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Identifier: CC-00525-538
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Deals with the life and teachings of Charles Fourier who espoused the ideas of utopia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

The Unseen Alphabet / Reutersward, Carl Fredrik ; Sontag S., 1985

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Identifier: CC-30135-31533
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In this catalogue, Reutersward presents works in which the letters of the alphabet have been formed into abstract visual and sculptural pieces. Susan Sontag contributed a critical essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

The Value of Art: Money, Power, Beauty / Findlay, Michael., 2012

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Identifier: CC-54306-643195
Scope and Contents Amazon.com: What is art worth? How can a work by Pablo Picasso be sold for more than $100,000,000? This fascinating book explains the market for art--and art's value for all of us. In straightforward prose that doesn't mystify art or deny its special allure, prominent art dealer and market expert Michael Findlay offers a close up and personal view of almost a half century in the business of art. He engagingly explains art's three kinds of value: commercial; social; and what he terms its essential value--the range of responses to art that we as individuals have depending on our culture, education, and life experience. Few avid collectors are immune to the thrill of rising market value, but Findlay argues that buying for investment alone is seldom smart. A genuine love of art and the ways it may enrich one's social life also play important roles. Down-to-earth and with a touch of dry wit, he explains exactly how artworks are valued and reveals the workings of the art market....
Dates: 2012

The Venice Installation / Holzer, Jenny., 1990

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Identifier: CC-49737-70790
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Michael Auping contributed a major essay "Reading Holzer or Speaking in Tongues." The Sackners attended this exhibition in Venice. An additional copy of the poster is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Venice Library / Pound, Ezra ; Rudge, Olga ; Ginsberg A., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33693-35354
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This catalogue annotates and depicts several books from the library of Pound and Rudge from their years in Venice. The dedications and the marginal notes reflect the personal and intellectual influence of Olga Rudge. The collection includes several volumes inscribed and gifted to Pound by Allen Ginsberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923 / Drucker, Johanna ; Albert-Birot P ; Apollinaire G ; Marinetti FT ; Tzara T ; Zdanevich I ; Zwart P ; Schwitters K ; Isou I ; Picabia F., 1994

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Identifier: CC-16083-16425
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This critical text focuses on three themes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: 1) the relation of experimental typography used by the artistic avant garde to linguistic theories, 2) the divergence of experimental typography from visual images, and 3) the work of four influential practitioners of experimental typography and their debt to advertising copy, viz., Marinetti, Apollinaire, Tzara, and Zdanevich. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

The Visual-Narative Matrix: Interdisciplinary Collisions and Collusions / Coulter-Smith, Graham, editor ; Schwartzburg M ; Phillips T., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35762-37519
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Molly Schwartzburg contributed an essay, "Tracing Traces: Variations on the Theme of the Palimsest in Tom Phillips' A Humument. She concludes that "the palimsestic elements of this book suggest that what we construct is not a stable object. Instead, texts as we read them can only function as parts of a shifting set of relationships determined by the fact of reading." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

The Visual Poetry of Mirella Bentivoglio / Bentivoglio, Mirella ; Wasserman K ; Martin H ; Munari B ; Denes A ; Spector B., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32058-33592
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This exhibition featured Bentivoglio's stone book objects. It also included collages, prints, and poem objects. A portfolio, "Monument" and a poem object, Pagina/finestra, that are also held by the Sackner Archive were depicted in this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

The Women in my Life / Tompkins, Betty., 1997

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Identifier: CC-50507-71578
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This catalogue depicts the Fuck paintings but does not include any of the more recent rubberstamped paintings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

The Word and Beyond, 1982

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Identifier: CC-36611-38419
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Richard Morris reported a survey of 65 poet-editors of different schools of poetry and who were asked "the best poets currently writing in the English language." The results included among others Antin, Ashbery, Beckett, Berrigan, Blaser, Bukowski, Bunting, Cage, Codrescu, Coolidge, Corman, Corso, Davey, Dorn, Elmslie, Ferlinghetti, Ginsberg, Giorno, Hirschman, Hollo, Houedard, Ronald Johnson, David Jones, Kryss, Lifshin, McClure, Mac Low, Meltzer, Merrill, Merwin, Meyer, Perchik, Plymell, Raworth, Rothenberg, Simic, Snodgrass, Charles Stein, Swenson, Tarn, Keith Waldrop, Emmet Williams, Jonathan Williams, Zulovsky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

The Word Returned: Artist Books by Ken Campbell / Campbell, Ken ; Drucker J ; Fairman E., 1996

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Identifier: CC-28169-29332
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This book includes a complete isting of Campbell's books together with his comments on how and why each book was produced. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

The Xul Reader: An Anthology of Argentine Poetry 1980-1996 / Grosman, Ernesto Livon ; Solar X ; Doctorovich F ; Ferro R ; Roessler G ; Lepore J ; Cignoni R., 1996

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Identifier: CC-30129-31527
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This book is an anthology of poems from a contemporary Argentine magazine of poetry. Its name is based upon the Argentine artist, Xul Solar. Concrete poems by Roberto Ferro, Gustavo Roesler, Jorge Lepore, Fabio Doctorovich, and Roberto Cignoni are reprinted in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Theme et Variations / Lalou, Frank ; David, Le Roi., 1993

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Identifier: CC-41460-43445
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The title of the book is Theme and Variations on Psalm 23. Frank Lalou contributed illustrations of texts of several translations from early Bibles to 20th century ones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Then and Now: Fifty Years of Assemblage, 2003

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Identifier: CC-47234-49977
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George Herms was an important artist is the California assemblage movement of the 1960's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003