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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 669 Collections and/or Records:

Walls That Are Cracked: A Paralogue on Panels 1 and 2 of Steve McCaffery's Carnival / Bok, Christian; Wershler-Henry, Darren; Chan, Katy; Gomringer E., 1995

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Identifier: CC-24022-24472
Scope and Contents

This work was published for the session on "Innovation and the Carnivalesque in Postmodern Canadian Poetry" at the Northeast Modern Language Association. The text is designed in short spaced paragraphs in two columns. The loose sheet contains variations of Gomringer's poem Silencio by Christian Wagenknecht. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Wegdenken? / Elsas, Wolfgang., 1999

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Identifier: CC-36800-38630
Scope and Contents

Wolfgang Elsas cards are grouped together as a card set. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Whatever / Amrhein, Joe., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44510-46660
Scope and Contents

The hand painted, multi-colored letters are listed vertically. Each word is a different typeface. The artist was a sign painter in his early career and the fonts clearly reflect varing commercial styles. The complete sentence reads, "Unraveling art historical tradition, or arguing with political correctness, or thinking only about painting, or fusing art history and modernity, or exploring the refractory nature of sexual desire, or whatever." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Windmills Enter Arms Race / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Willcocks, Jonathan; Furnival J., 1967

 Item — Folder 36: [Barcode: 31858072459963]
Identifier: CC-12407-12633
Scope and Contents

This is a varient copy of a print with the same title in Finlay's portfolio Headlines:Eavelines. The overlaid text in this print as well as the colors differ from the print in the portfolio. The finished print has words printed in blue and bluish-purple and the varient copy is printed in green and light blue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Wir wuNschen Ejn is pannEndes und erFol ReiChes jAhr / Wichering, Ranier ; Leunig, Cornelia., 2001

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Identifier: CC-35517-37257
Scope and Contents

The booklet serves as a New Years greeting and a means to document the history of the gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Wizuhu Cries Mice Up In Nests / Tomazos, Criton., 1973

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Identifier: CC-49280-70322
Scope and Contents

Also designated Writers Forum #99. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Woord / Beld / Werkelijkheid / Clavin, Hans ; Damen, Herman ; Van Dijk, Pier ; Joseph, Robert ; De Rook, G.J. ; Stikker, U.G.., 1974

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Identifier: CC-33279-34912
Scope and Contents

The book is divided into sections for the individual poets; representive poems are printed one to a page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Word Paths / Stetser, Carol., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51391-72484
Scope and Contents

The four prints are titled Word Paths and are numbered 1 to 4. The images incorporate the title in a grid of nine squares of varying found texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

writing / Hill, Crag., 1989

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Identifier: CC-60803-10003657
Scope and Contents

Taken from pete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Wurfelwurf; Fragmentarische Annaherung ab Stephan Mallarme / Nasshan, Reinhold ; Mallarme S., 1992

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Identifier: CC-05645-5752
Scope and Contents

The German word, Wurfelwurf, meaning throw of the dice, is printed in large capital letters in red, brown, and gray inks as a border around the folded and cut pages of this book. Rather than reprinting Mallarme's Un Coup de Des, Nasshan prints fragments of personal interest along with his impressions of the poem. Here the poem is subservient to Nasshan's creation of an artist book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Xerolage: Imaginal Landscapes. No.38 / Peter Ciccariello., 2006

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Identifier: CC-48858-69894
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a single visual poetic landscape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006