Documentation

Membership Card to Marvin A Sackner / Black, Leda., 1996

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Identifier: CC-37615-39472

Scope and Contents

This is also a receipt for PLL issues #1-4. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

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

Memoirs of a Book Snake / Meyer, David ; Moore AD., 2001

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Identifier: CC-42675-44693

Scope and Contents

This is a book scout's memoir of forty years of seeking and saving old books. He mentions a friend of the Sackners, Bill Duprist, who was married for a brief period to Maggie, a South Miami bookdealer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

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

Memos / De Campos, Augusto; De Oliveria, Willy Correa., 1977

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Identifier: CC-14866-15179

Dates: 1977

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

Mercato Del Sale: Ri-Flessioni. Oct / Vincenzo Ferrari., 1974

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Identifier: CC-37803-39683

Scope and Contents

The photograph is blank and rubberstamped with the word, "Diario." -- 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: Periodicals

Mercato Del Sale: Semanticita della Sintassi. Mar / Rolando Mignani., 1975

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Identifier: CC-37808-39688

Scope and Contents

The same two prints in this folder were also printed with large white borders and signed in an edition of 100 copies; the latter is held by the Sackner Archive and catalogued under the artist's name. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Mercato Del Sale: Transgrafemi. Nov / Plinio Mesciulam., 1975

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Identifier: CC-37801-39681

Scope and Contents

The same print in this folder was also printed with large white borders and signed in an edition of 170 copies; the latter is held by the Sackner Archive and catalogued under the artist's name. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Merry Christmas - Snow on Fences / Sloy; Nichols, Dave., 2008

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Identifier: CC-49091-70129

Scope and Contents

The image on the card front is from a painting by Nic in 1989. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

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

Merry Meetings / Phillips, Tom ; Rosenthal N., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44288-46418

Scope and Contents

Norman Rosenthal has contributed a preface and Tom Phillips an introduction to the book that consists of letter and semi-figurative drawings as well as doodles made by Phillips on pages of the agenda of meetings of the board of Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Academy of Art and the British Museum while he was a participant. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Books

Merry Wishes / Dautricourt, Joelle., 1990

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Identifier: CC-14489-14799

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: Various Formats

Messages #1-6 / Edwards, Ronald., 1979

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Identifier: CC-14046-14351

Scope and Contents

The loose sheet is a photocopy of Marvin Sackner's message to Edwards. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

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

Meta / Tinguely, Jean ; Duchamp M ; Hains R ; Kluver B ; Klein Y ; Roth D ; Rotella M ; Schwitters K ; Spoerri D ; Tatlin V ; Uecker G ; Villegle J., 1973

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Identifier: CC-29860-31243

Scope and Contents This profusely illustrated book includes a signed drawing executed by one of Tinguely's machines, entitled "meta-matic No.8." It appears to be an original rather then a print subsequently published by the New York Graphic Society in 1975 in an English translation. It is described by Artext on Internet, thusly, "Hulten, K. G. Pontus and Jean Tinguely. JEAN TINGUELY: META. Paris, copyright states 1973 but published in 1974. 363 pp., 519 illus., 34 pp. on transparent paper, 13 color plates. with 6 fold-outs, numerous photos and film frames, 33 1/3 rpm record attached with metal brad to rear pastedown entitled "Sounds belonging to Pontus Hulten's book on Jean Tinguely's work, 'Meta.'." Text by Pontus Hulten. One of a limited edition which includes an original drawing signed by Tinguely, dated on verso, bound in, "peinture executee en collaboration avec metamatic No.8." 4to, pictorial cloth covers, bound as suitcase with lock closure and handle. Original French ed. preceding NYGS ed....

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: Books

Metamorphosis 4 / Fallon, Tom., 1981 - 1982

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Identifier: CC-49162-70202

Dates: 1981 - 1982

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

Metamorphosis 5 / Fallon, Tom; Higgins D., 1981 - 1982

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Identifier: CC-49163-70203

Dates: 1981 - 1982

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

Metaphor Taking Shape / The Publishers' Roundtable / Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 2008

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Identifier: CC-47749-68768

Scope and Contents

One half of this publication is devoted to Trans/Prose, the musical production based on the text of La Prose du Transsiberien et de la petite Jehanne de France by Sonia Delaunay and Blais Cendrars. The original score is by Matthew Suttor and the libretto is by Timothy Young. The latter mentions in his forward that the original copy of La prose in the Beinecke Library had been in the collection of Marvin and Ruth Sackner. Trans/Prose is to be performed at Yale in 2008. The second part of the book serves as the catalogue for two exhibitions and a conference related to poetry, art and the book. The icons on the "bookmark appear throughout the exhibitions to call attention to the thematic relationships between books featured in both exhibitions." This work is stored with Delaunay & Cendrars' facsimile of the "Transsiberian Railway." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

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