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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 669 Collections and/or Records:

Re: Views: Re: Sponses: Review of Tom Walmsley's Rabies / curry, jw., 1987

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Identifier: CC-20265-20662
Scope and Contents

The book of the same title initially was published by Pulp Press in 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

[REACTION] / Topel, Andrew; Bennett, John M.; Leftwich, Jim., 2007

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Identifier: CC-50236-71302
Scope and Contents

Andrew Topol described to the Sackners during a visit with his wife Crystal that the three artists collaborated on this work by sending the drawings to each other for their additions. The orange spray paint and the painted calligraphic markings are by Andrew Topol. Jim Leftwich did the sponged black markings. John M. Bennett added his colored scrawls and the collaged elements. He did not sign any of the drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Recycling Papers / Miccini, Eugenio., 1997

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Identifier: CC-44351-46500
Scope and Contents

This book consists of a book onto which pages of another book have been printed. Miccini published a book with the same title in 1979 that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Red Dor [Red Door] / Steen, Vagn., 1963

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Identifier: CC-33337-34975
Scope and Contents

The Danish words "red" and "dor" are superimposed in large black typefaces and set upon the red background of this print. The image is also reproduced in Steen's book "riv selv," that is also held by the Sackner Archive. *WEB Steen 2002. According to Steen, this silkscreen was printed in 1963. He was uncertain as to whether it was done in 1963 or 1964. The poem is mirrored so that the viewer can also read it from the verso. Steen takes the Danish word for red (ROD), and mirrors the first letter, If the reader views it from behind, and gets the Danish word for door (DOR). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Repetition / Solomon, Nancy., 1982

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Identifier: CC-39680-41639
Scope and Contents

Solomon's handwritten text dealing with her involvement in repetition is printed in black ink in a quasi-circular layout on the acetate sheets and one side of the envelope. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Roman / Cepl, Gernot., 1988

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Identifier: CC-19613-19999
Scope and Contents

This is a trade edition German novel in which Cepl has collaged the covers and a small portion of each page with torn or cut fragments of printed text from other books or periodicals with different languages. The covers and part of their insides are covered completely with such fragments -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

[Rosenberg Area Code 212] / Kotowitz, Victor., 1972

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Identifier: CC-48116-69139
Scope and Contents

This print depicts a page of the white pages of the New York telephone directory with a text over text concrete poem consisting of the name "Robinson." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

[Russian Title - No English Translation!] / Kulemin, Edward., 2011

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Identifier: CC-55934-9999401
Scope and Contents

Stored in same envelope as Kulemin's "De-Gradation." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

[Sackner Archive Card] / Welty, Rachel Perry., 2010

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Identifier: CC-50733-71811
Scope and Contents

Welty has transformed the Sackner Archive card by drawing over and changing each letter to create a new alphabet. The card was originally designed by Sara Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Scarab, 1967

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Identifier: CC-06810-6931
Scope and Contents

The text consists mainly of dense overtyping of repetitive phrases collaged onto cardboard as a 2 x 3 grid such as "interior of my sphere," "thee like Ra, he praises," etc. The frottaged image in the middle right grid is a bony thorax overlaid by letraset formed words, SCARAB and SCARAB. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Scarab Poems 2nd Edition / levy, d.a.., 1996

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Identifier: CC-45028-47204
Scope and Contents

Poems were composed by d.a.levy in 1967 and most of the originals are held by the Sackner Archive. The covers differ between the 1st and 2nd editions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Schrift-Bild / Ulrichs, Timm., 1964 - 1969

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Identifier: CC-00987-1013
Scope and Contents

This print is depicted on pages 86-87 of Ulrichs exhibition catalogue, "Die Druckgrafik" 2003, a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964 - 1969