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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1089 Collections and/or Records:

Black / Nannucci, Maurizio., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-05738-5846
Scope and Contents

The prints have a black background and the word "black" or fragments of the word "black" printed on this background in a glossy black color. The word becomes bIgger and bigger after each printing such that by the final print it entirely covers the last print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Blake: painting/printing/prophecy/poetry / Selenitsch, Alex., 1989

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Identifier: CC-02147-2185
Scope and Contents

Published in commemoration of a symposium "Blake in Melbourne." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

[blind typed] / Dreyfus, Charles., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-36406-38198
Scope and Contents

Phrases of French text are blind typed on varying size pieces of purple-bluish colored, scratched paper that are mounted to the center of each page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Bob in the News / Loose, Gerry., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-07577-7722
Scope and Contents

A birthday poem for Bob Cobbing in which most of the words cut from newspapers or magazines begin with the letter "B." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Book 1A: Merde / Depew, Wally., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-15122-15441
Scope and Contents

The poems in this book deal with the Scarab beetles who live and eat in dung piles. Despite their unusual environment, they become beautiful creatures. The copies have covers of yellow, green, blue and orange papers, respectively. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Book #10 / Marcus, Aaron., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-41870-43865
Scope and Contents

Marcus greatly enlarged the letters of the words in this book to bleed across the pages to make the text illegible. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Book 12 (6 mechanical variations and reversals) / Depew, Wally., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-53074-74220
Scope and Contents

The letters of the words and the constructivist images have been formed from stencils. The cover depicts a bust of Beethoven. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

[book collection] / Olbrich, Jurgen O.; DeVree P; Fierens L; Olbrich JO., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42743-44762
Scope and Contents

One of the booklets in this collection describes the thoughts of Mao Tse-Tung in German. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Book Containing an Unfinished Poem / Fritzius, Harry., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-10750-10960
Scope and Contents

The artist was associated with the first generation Abstract Expressionists, abandoned art in the sixties, and began again in the seventies with mixed media paintings and assemblages, founded on the belief that by "destroying' the art in its conventional sense he might release its fundamental spiritual energy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Book of My Life, 1989

 Item — Box 144: [Barcode: 31858072457975]
Identifier: CC-28722-30028
Scope and Contents

Each page is a molded mask (of the artist?) made of paper with the addition of collage, straw, newspaper clippings, paint and embroidery thread. Each mask fits precisely into the following one, including the one on the cover, creating an exquisite, compact mask book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989