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Visual/verbal

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2127 Collections and/or Records:

The General Knowledge of Idiots / W. Mark Sutherland., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-02881-2925
Scope and Contents

Illustrations include among others the tip of John Cage's thumb and the end of William Burroughs penis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

The Hand Correspondence: Paper Has a Memory / Golden, Alisa., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-10254-10457
Scope and Contents

This is one of a series of three books; the others are entitled, "Mirror Error" and "Voyeur." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Labyrinth / Steinberg, Saul., 1954

 Item
Identifier: CC-30396-31813
Scope and Contents

This book is a collection of line drawings that appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Life, etc. It deals with false dicuments, passports, diplomas, certificates, false photographs, false etchings, false wine labels, letters, manuscripts, fingerprints, cowboys, games, rubberstamp architecture, slums, skyscrapers, cacography, etc. There are 350 drawings in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1954

The Last Great Do / Voo Doo., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-00724-742
Scope and Contents

Collage submitted as entry to Homage To The Mad Diarist exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Look of Russian Literature Avant Garde Visual Experiments, 1900-1930 by Gerald Janecek / Hill, Crag; Janecek G; Jensen D; Frank J., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09085-9264
Scope and Contents

Hill reviews Janacek's book "The Look of Russian Literature..." a work held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Moore-Turing Calculation / Cole, David., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-17870-18240
Scope and Contents

Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Obispu, California. Exhibition was curated by Karl Kempton. The visual images are reproductions of Henry Moore sculptures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Music Pack / Van Der Meer, Ron ; Berkeley, Michael., 1994

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Identifier: CC-00887-910
Scope and Contents

Described as a "unique, three-dimentional tour through the creation of music over the centuries: what musicians do, how they do it, and the masterpieces they have given us." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

The New Heroine of Street Fashion / Edelstein, Andrea., 1985

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Identifier: CC-14120-14425
Scope and Contents

Collage is based on Bill Cunningham's "Street Fashion" in which Ruth Sackner is photographed wearing a worded shirt. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

The Old Morgan Pharmacy, 1991

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Identifier: CC-23439-23883
Scope and Contents

This print was commissioned by the Temple University School of Pharmacy, Marvin Sackner's undergraduate college. It depicts the counter of the old Morgan Pharmacy originally housed at 17th & Walnut St., Philadelphia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991