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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3293 Collections and/or Records:

Difficulties, The. No.1 / Tom Beckett, Earel Neikirk, editors ; Corman C ; Dawson F ; Eshleman C ; Eigner L ; Beckett T ; Higgins D ; Bernstein C ; Howe S ; Metcalf P ; Grossinger R ; Waldrop R ; Raworth T., 1980

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Identifier: CC-15371-15695
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The editors state in this first issue of The Difficulties that they "are starting a new journal of the arts which is to be devoted to process-oriented, language-centered work." The title is derived from a quote of Charles Olson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Dire. No.34., 1981

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Identifier: CC-15406-15730
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This issue is devoted to the poet and writer, Jean Vodaine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Disavowals / Cahun, Claude ; Susan de Muth, translator ; Agnes Lhermitte, translator ; MacOrlan P., 2008

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Identifier: CC-49124-70164
Scope and Contents Claude Cahun (1894-1954), born Lucy Schwob, was a French poet, artist, photographer, writer, performance artist, and "queer freak," who explored the ambivalence of gender and sexual identity in her work. During the 1920s, she lived in Paris with her life-long partner and stepsister Suzanne Malherbe aka Marcel Moore ("the other me"). Together they collaborated on written works, sculptures, photomontages, and collages. Cahun is known for confronting the public's perception of sexuality, gender, beauty, and logic both in her Surrealist work and in her lifestyle. Cahun was known for her public appearances disguised as a sailor, gypsy, vampire, Buddha, or angel. Her collected writings were published in 2002 as Claude Cahun - Ecrits (edited by Francois Leperlier). In May, 1930, Editions Carrefour of Paris first published a book called Aveux non avenus, in which Cahun explored her subversive aesthetics in book form. Disavowals: or Cancelled Confessions is significant in that it is the...
Dates: 2008

Disjunctive Poetics: From Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe / Quartermain, Peter ; Andrews B ; Antin D ; Apollinaire G ; Bernstein C ; Cage J ; Creeley R ; Davenport G ; Duncan R ; Finlay IH ; Ford FM ; Ginsberg A ; Joyce J ; McCaffery S ; McClure M ; Mottram E ; Olson C ; Stein G ; Zukofsky L ; Bunting B., 1992

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Identifier: CC-32947-34564
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According to text on the dust jacket, this book "examines some of the most interesting and experimental contemporary writers whose work forms a counterpoint to the mainstream writing of our time." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Dismisuratesti: Y. No.9 / Arrigo Lora-Totino ; Fontana G., 1983

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Identifier: CC-38605-40514
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This booklet is a supplement to Dimisura No.62-63 and is stored with that issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Dmitri Plavinsky / Plavinsky, Dmitri ; Bowlt J., 2000

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Identifier: CC-53110-74257
Scope and Contents Product description: "Dmitri Plavinsky was born in Moscow in 1937. In 1956, he graduated from the theater department of the 1905 Institute of Art. In the sixties, Plavinsky became one of the founders and leaders of the artistic nonconformist movement in Russia. Since 1991, he has lived and worked in New York. His art works are in the collections of several American museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as major museums in Russia and Europe.This book is the first comprehensive monograph of the art of Dmitri Plavinsky--paintings, graphic art, objects, and installations from 1958 to 2000. It consists of three sections. The first section is made up of essays by John E. Bowlt, who introduces the artist; Alexander Jakimovich, who positions Plavinsky's art within the historical and philosophical context of contemporary art; and Elizaveta Plavinskaya-Mikhailova, who offers an in-depth discussion of the themes and techniques in...
Dates: 2000

Dnevnik Avangarde [Dairy of the Avantgarde] / Todorovic, Miroljub ; Sackner MA ; Hausmann R ; Blaine J ; Groh K ; Sarenco ; Petasz P ; Sackner RK., 1990

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Identifier: CC-28451-29719
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The inscription by Todorovic on the title page refers to a citation from the Sackner Archive catalogue of 1986. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Do You Have a Poem Book on E.E.Cummings? / Davenport, Guy., 1969

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Identifier: CC-14867-15180
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Also numbered Jargon 67. Printed by A.D. Moore of the Finial Press and R.E. Chapdu of the Moneytree Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Documenta 6 : Handzeichnungen, Utopisches Design, Bucher / Kolar J ; Michaux H ; Arakawa ; Baruchello GF ; Darboven H ; Fahlstrom O ; Ruhm G ; Zush ; Steinberg S ; Roth D ; Ruscha E ; Paolozzi E ; Badura M ; Blank I ; Broodthaers M ; Carrega U ; Knizak M ; Nannucci M ; Ulrichs T., 1977

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Identifier: CC-15478-15804
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This was the first artist book exhibition that the Sackners attended. It made a major impact on them in terms of the their subsequent direction in collecting. The catalog includes reproductions of Kenneth Snelson's drawings for the sculpture, Forest Devil, the maquette of which is held by the Sackners. Marcel Broodthaers' Un Coup de Des and Jes Petersen's Piero Manzoni, books held by the Sackner Archive were exhibited. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Documentaries on the Arts / Phillips T., 1977

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Identifier: CC-16334-16684
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Book cover is illustrated by Tom Phillips. Review of Phillips' film at White Ink Studios is illustrated with "Benches" and two pages from "A Humument." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Documents Dada / Lecat, Jacques, editor ; Picabia F ; Ernst M ; Tzara T ; Crotti J., 1974

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Identifier: CC-07421-7565
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Contains reproductions of Dada emphemeral material, viz., posters, invitations, announcements and programs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974