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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3466 Collections and/or Records:

West Country Stone Barge / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1996

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Identifier: CC-35245-36979
Scope and Contents

The image on the card depicts a row of fishing boats on dry beach. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Wexford Artists' Book Exhibition, 3rd / Barton CJ ; Bevis J ; Boschi A ; Coleman L ; Collins D ; Cutts S ; VanHorn E ; deCharmoy C ; Drum D ; Echevarria-Myers JA ; Figueiredo C ; Finlay A ; Harroff W ; Neaderland L ; Johanknecht S ; Karasik M ; McGarry A ; Nakamura K ; Putz C ; Siff E ; Stussi M ; Sutherland WM ; Wednesday Club ; Olbrich JO., 1997

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Identifier: CC-32166-33714
Scope and Contents

The catalogue includes several statements by the contributing artists dealing with their reasons for making books. It lists the contributing artists but does not describe the books that were exhibited. The exhibition was curated by Andi McGarry and Denis Collins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

What I'm Doing / Hartman, Arleen., 1997

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Identifier: CC-34626-36327
Scope and Contents

The text is an autobiographical analysis of a radical, feminist artist who is the wife of the poet/publisher John Byrum. The Sackner Archive holds a calligraphic notebook by Hartman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

When Islam was sensual / Dannatt, Adrian; Amer, Ghada; Amer G ., 2001

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Identifier: CC-43821-45917
Scope and Contents

This interview with the Egyptian artist Ghada Amer explains how she draws on a medieval Muslim erotic text for her works of art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Who Says Old Color Supplements Don't Have Their Uses? / Linklater, Andro; Phillips T., 1992

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Identifier: CC-07400-7544
Scope and Contents

Title relates to the making of collages torn from color magazine supplements. The Sackner Archive holds an example, "Persecution." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Why I Got Busted & Other Nonsense, Part 1 / levy, d.a.., 1967

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Identifier: CC-49028-70066
Scope and Contents

This is a polemic against the Cleveland establishment. In this piece, levy mentions that he decided to commit suicide at age 17 years but changed his mind at the last minute and began reading everything and writing poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Widdershins, 1988

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Identifier: CC-02064-2102
Scope and Contents

In this book, Skuber describes her process of making art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Wild Flower / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1992

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Identifier: CC-12255-12479
Scope and Contents

Image is a British Navy "Flower" class corvette in a storm. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

William Anastasi's Pataphysical Society: Jarry, Joyce, duchamp and Cage / Levy, Aaron, editor ; Rabate, Jean-Michel, editor ; McCaffery S ; Romberg O., 2005

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Identifier: CC-46572-49301
Scope and Contents This publication served as the catalogue for the exhibition of Anastasi's work at the Slought foundation, Philadelphia, curated by Oswalds Romberg who contributed an introductory essay. It engages work by conceptual artist William Anastasi in relation to literary and artistic predecessors and contemporaries including Jarry, Joyce, Duchamp, and Cage. This publication is edited by Aaron Levy and Jean-Michel Rabate, with contributions by William Anastasi, Joseph Masheck, Thomas McEvilley, and Steve McCaffery, and an introduction by Osvaldo Romberg. In addition, nearly 40 manuscript pages from William Anastasi's manuscripts "me innerman monophone" and "du jarry," engaging Joyce and Duchamp via Jarry, are reproduced in the book, alongside 10 pages of reproductions of Anastasi's work from the 1960s. By showing concretely that many passages in Finnegans Wake contain buried allusions to Jarry's characters and vocabulary and personality, Anastasi is not simply annotating Joyce's...
Dates: 2005

William S. Burroughs, avant-garde author / Burroughs, William S.., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28240-29409
Scope and Contents

This obituary of Burroughs was written by Tony Perry for the August 4, 1997 edition of the newspaper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

William S. Burroughs, the Beat Writer Who Distilled His Raw Nightmare Life, Dies at 83 / Burroughs, William S.., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28239-29408
Scope and Contents

This obituary of Burroughs was written by Richard Severo for the August 4, 1997 edition of the newspaper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997