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Fluxus

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 644 Collections and/or Records:

George Brecht - the editiions / Ruhe, Harry ; Martin H., 2005

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Identifier: CC-54215-643109
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This book lists 83 multiples, 10 prints and 28 books made by Brecht as well as ephemera and contributions to periodicals. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

George Maciunas, Fluxus and the Face of Time Volume II / Truck, Fred ; Maciunas G., 1984

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Identifier: CC-60657-10003526
Scope and Contents The number of copies of this book are unknown but because of the magic marker lines, no two are exactly the same.Steve Heller on internet describes tenghe original Selectric Composer, announced in 1966, required text to be typed twice. On the first pass, the machine would automatically measure the length of the line, providing the operator with a color+number (i.e. green-2) combination to be noted in the right margin. When the operator finished all lines of the document, they would put a clean sheet of specially coated paper into the machine and engage the justification lever. This time, prior to typing each line of text, the operator would turn a color dial to the noted color, and another dial to the noted number. Once the dials were set, the operator would begin typing the text. While typing, the Composer would insert incremental amounts of additional space between words such that the line would always be flush on the right margin. Errors could not be corrected, and when they...
Dates: 1984

Gerber's / Leiber, Steven ; Duchamp M ; Darboven H ; Brecht G ; Hirschman J ; Ben ; Cutts S ; Friedman K ; Ono Y ; Ashbery J ; Williams E ; Connor B ; Paik NJ ; Vostell W ; Boltanski C ; Castillejo JL ; Filliou R ; Oldenburg C ; Watts R ; Kosugi T ; Valoch J ; Gray D., 1993

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Identifier: CC-07408-7552
Scope and Contents

The interior box is a small box of Gerber's mixed baby cereal that serves as packing material and lends a feeling of a Fluxus presentation to this catalogue which has several Fluxus items on sale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Gibes at the Experts from an Enigmatic Chatterbox / Cotter, Holland; Johnson R., 1999

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Identifier: CC-31784-33300
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This review of "Ray Johnson:Correspondences" at the Whitney Mueum of American Art describes Johnson's collages as masterworks. "The visual elements they incorporated were equally diverse: pieces of photographs, magazine clips, commercial logos, abstract shapes, cartoons and above all, words: jokes, puns, anagrams, song lyrics, poetry, nonsense syllables, exclamations, dedications and lists of names of artists and actors, social luminaries and friends. The results amount to a consummate insider, a figure who was at once everywhere and nowhere in the art world, and who used his work to spin a personal myth." The Sackner Archive contains a collage of Johnson's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Grapefruit, 1970

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Identifier: CC-05109-5208
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This American edition does not contain the three introductory and one afterword facsimile, pen drawings by John Lennon, which appeared in the Sackner copy of the British edition. Ono documents a performance work, "Breath Piece," as follows: "Breathe. First performed at Wesleyan University, Conn., U.S.A., in 1966. A large card with small lettering saying "breathe" was passed three times among the audience." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Grapefruit, 1970

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Identifier: CC-05110-5209
Scope and Contents

The Sackner copy of the British edition contains three introductory and one afterword facsimile pen drawings by John Lennon that are not included in the American edition. Ono documents a performance work, "Breath Piece," as follows: "Breathe. First performed at Wesleyan University, Conn., U.S.A., in 1966. A large card with small lettering saying "breathe" was passed three times among the audience." In the introduction to this British first edition, there is a calligraphic text that states "Hi! My name is John Lennon I'd like you to meet Yoko Ono." This is offset printed in the American edition that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Great Bear Pamphlet, A: a Look into the blue tide part 2. No.17 / Dieter Roth., 1967

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Identifier: CC-32471-34045
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Roth's name on the cover of this pamphlet is spelled Diter Rot. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Great Bear Pamphlet, A: by Alison Knowles. No.1 / Alison Knowles., 1965

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Identifier: CC-10569-10774
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Higgins related at a symposium on Portuguese concrete and visual poetry at Yale University, New Haven, CT, that the name "Great Bear" originated from the name of a water cooler at Something Else Press - wanted pamphlets to refreshing just like the water from the Great Bear water cooler. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965