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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3293 Collections and/or Records:

Hermetic Philosopher and Surveyor of Two Worlds by Joselyn Godwin / Fludd, Robert., 1979

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Identifier: CC-11483-11699
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In his screen "Cogito Ergo Sum," commissioned by the Sackners, John Furnival used illustrations from the occult works of Robert Fludd, the last of the true Renaisssance men. These include The Solar Logos, The Division of the Waters, The Pythagorean Tetrad, The Diapason Closing Full in Man, The Descent and Re-ascent of the Soul, The Qualities of the Winds, and Chiromancy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Heroic Emblems / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Costley, Ron ; Bann S., 1977

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Identifier: CC-12538-12766
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In this book, Stephen Bann who wrote the text, provides a critical analysis of Finlay's Picture (Emblem) Poems, which are reproduced with commentary, one to a page. The poems include among others "Woodland is Pleasing to the Muses, Et in Arcadia Ego, Out of the Strong Came Forth Sweetness, Through a Dark Wood, Battle of Midway Fourth June 1942 (1) and Battle of Midway Fourth June 1942 (2). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Heroic Emblems / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Costley, Ron ; Bann S., 1977

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Identifier: CC-27599-28676
Scope and Contents

In this book, Stephen Bann who wrote the text, provides a critical analysis of Finlay's Picture (Emblem) Poems, which are reproduced with his commentary, one to a page. The poems include among others "Woodland is Pleasing to the Muses, Et in Arcadia Ego, Out of the Strong Came Forth Sweetness, Through a Dark Wood, Battle of Midway Fourth June 1942 (1) and Battle of Midway Fourth June 1942 (2). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Heterotopia: Works by Willlem van Genk and Others edited by Yorck Forster and Peter Cachola Schmal / van Genk, Willem ; Fent F., 2008

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Identifier: CC-50953-72031
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This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition oh Heterotopia at the Deusches Architekturmuseum (DAM) from May to August 2008 in collaboration with the Dr. Guislaiin Museum in Ghent. Michel Foucault used the term "heterotopia" to refer to parallel social worlds tht display a different fabric of relationships and a different order - enclaves in the real world, such as prisons and sanatoriums. This book features works that can be considered "Outsider Art" - working outside the mainstsream, their authors are people exposed to extreme mental strains and pushed to the fringes of society. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Hexen 2.0, 2012

 Item — Box 276: [Barcode: 31858073143392]
Identifier: CC-55642-13357
Scope and Contents HEXEN2.0 specifically investigates the participants of the seminal Macy Conferences (1946-1953), whose primary goal was to set the foundations for a genersl science of the workings of the human mind...HEXEN2.0 draws this material together in the form of alchemical diagrams, photo-text works, drawings and designs for 78 card Tarot deck. [Hexen2.0 is] based on actual events, people, histories and scientific projections of the future."The 78 Tarot cards feature alchemical drawings depicting interconnected histories of the computer and the Internet, cyberbetics and counter culture, science fiction and scientific projections of the future, government and military research programmes, social engineering and ideas of the control society." Treister's art work is comarable to that of Mark Lombardi but with a more expressionistic style. Internet: Suzanne Treister (b.1958 London UK) studied at St Martin's School of Art, London (1978-1981) and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London...
Dates: 2012

Hexen 2.0 / Treister, Suzanne., 2012

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Identifier: CC-55631-9999235
Scope and Contents HEXEN2.0 specifically investigates the participants of the seminal Macy Conferences (1946-1953), whose primary goal was to set the foundations for a genersl science of the workings of the human mind...HEXEN2.0 draws this material together in the form of alchemical diagrams, photo-text works, drawings and designs for 78 card Tarot deck. [Hexen2.0 is] based on actual events, people, histories and scientific projections of the future...Treister's art work is comarable to that of Mark Lombardi but with a more expressionistic style. Internet: Suzanne Treister (b.1958 London UK) studied at St Martin's School of Art, London (1978-1981) and Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (1981-1982), and is now based in London having lived in Australia, New York and Berlin. Initially recognized in the 1980s as a painter, she became a pioneer in the digital/new media/web based field from the beginning of the 1990s, making work about emerging technologies, developing fictional worlds and...
Dates: 2012

Hexen2039 / Treister, Suzanne., 2006

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Identifier: CC-55633-443355
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HEXEN2.0 specifically investigates the participants of the seminal Macy Conferences (1946-1953), whose primary goal was to set the foundations for a genersl science of the workings of the human mind...HEXEN2.0 draws this material together in the form of alchemical diagrams, photo-text works, drawings and designs for 78 card Tarot deck. [Hexen2.0 is] based on actual events, people, histories and scientific projections of the future... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt / Betro, Maria Carmela., 1996

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Identifier: CC-28196-29362
Scope and Contents

In the introduction, the author writes that "The constant relation between a hieroglyph and its value as an image explains the deep nature of its tie with art. Every hieroglyph may itself be a work of art, as often occurs in writing on monuments. Reciprocally, every artistic object from ancient Egypt should be read and decoded in its elements as a hieroglyphic whole...Text and image frequently interpenetrate...Some sculptures are truly three-dimensional hieroglyphs, gigantic stone rebuses." The introduction explains hieroglyphic writing. The main section of the book traces the origins and meaning in detail of approximately 600 hieroglyphics used in the classical phase of Egypt's sacred writing. A glossary and a bibliography are also included. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Hika. No.2 / Michael Berryhill, editor ; Cook G., 1966

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Identifier: CC-09555-9745
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This issue dals with student poetry at Kenyon College. Geoffrey Cook contriuted an essay "The Poet as Prophet" defining poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Histoire d'E, 1988

 Item — Box 339: [Barcode: 31858072491248]
Identifier: CC-21391-21802
Scope and Contents

The introduction to the book was written by Francis Pohl. The theme is the letter "E" which has been a favorite icon of the artist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Hodibis Potax - Poetry Anthology / Oeuvres poetiques / Kac, Eduardo ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 2007

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Identifier: CC-59817-10002869
Scope and Contents On page 52 and 53 a hologram "Adrift" (1991) by Kac is acknowledged and illustrated to be in the collection of the Sackner Archive. In another publication Kac has described this work, "Adrift is composed basically of seven words that dissolve in space and into each other as the viewer reads them. In one case, the reader may be invited to start reading from the letter which is further away from him or her. In another case, the letter closer to the reader could be the starting point. The letters that make the words are floating irregularly along several Z axes, except for the word 'breathe', which is integrated into the overall light field. This word is blown by an imaginary wind as its letters actually move away from their original position to dissolve the light field. The movement of the letters in this word disrupts the apparent stability of the other words."This book is divided into sections titled Holopoetry, Digital Poetry, Biopoetry and Space Poetry. -- Source of annotation:...
Dates: 2007