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Conventional non-fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1869 Collections and/or Records:

Body of Work / O'Sullivan, Maggie ; Bernstein C., 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-47125-49865
Scope and Contents

This book is a compilation of reprints of O'Sullivan's publications. In "tonetreks," she has composed concrete, shaped and conventional poems to depict Monet's paintings, a Giacometti sculpture, and a Rothko painting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Boggs: A Comedy of Values / Weschler, Lawrence ; Alechinsky P., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33703-35365
Scope and Contents

This book documents the antics of J.S.G. Boggs, a visual artist whose ouevre consists of drawn reproductions of currency that are bartered as artworks to merchants for wares or sevices. It raises the questions of trust in anything as confoundingly insubstantial as money, and how to place a value in art and other things. The book is illustrated with reproductions of currency drawn and designed by Boggs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Bones Pomes / Evason, Greg., 1992

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Identifier: CC-13854-14159
Scope and Contents

Each poem, one on a page, deals with the theme of bones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Book 6: dis dis / Minnis, James., 1991

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Identifier: CC-06307-6423
Scope and Contents

The words of the printed text are arranged to form abstract images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Books Go to the Rotunda: Reflections of a First-Time Curator / Miller, Daniel., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28007-29160
Scope and Contents

The author recounts, in a most charming essay, his experience in curating an exhibition on Armed Services Editions (ASE) from World War II. These oblong paperback books were produced for the military by a Council on Books in Wartime; originally there were 1322 titles, but copies after 50 years were rare. Daniel Miller sets guidelines for other novice curators which he calls the seven First-time Curator Commandments for his exhibition "Books Go To War." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Bord-Dikter 1952-1955 / Fahlstrom, Oyvind., 1966

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Identifier: CC-11149-11364
Scope and Contents

Contains early concrete poems contemporary with those of Gomringer and the Noigandres group and stylistically similar. Also includes Fahlstrom's manifesto on Concrete Poetry (1953). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Bored Messengers / Nichol, bp., 1988

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Identifier: CC-05634-5741
Scope and Contents

These poems were taken from The Martyrology Bo(o)ks 7 (V11). According to Serendipity Books Canadian Poetry 1998 Internet, the publisher believed that the intended signed edition was abandoned. This was because Nichol died while the book was in press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988