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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 243 Collections and/or Records:

Pictoesies, 1998

 Item — Box 128: [Barcode: 31858072458304]
Identifier: CC-33697-35359
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts four horizontally placed squares containing line drawings and texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Plans for the Night , 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-28424-29668
Scope and Contents

The pages are blue architectural papers and contain, in addition to the hand printed story, architectural drawings, geometric figures, interior spaces, figurative drawings blended in a surrealistic manner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Michael Kasper

Pour l'Enfant, 2000

 Item — Box 130: [Barcode: 31858072457876]
Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Pour un plomb, 1978

 Item — Box 164: [Barcode: 31858072458189]
Dates: 1978
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Émile Bernard Souchière

Pushing the Envelope, 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35700-37451
Scope and Contents

Air mail envelopes, mailed to Kim Lieberman by herself, were returned from around the world from places she travelled. A chart documents the places and timing of the mailings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Qui voit sépare, 1994

 Item — Box 130: [Barcode: 31858072457876]
Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Read and Book, 1998

 Item — Box 203: [Barcode: 31858072460102]
Identifier: CC-31768-33282
Scope and Contents

"Read" lists 18 definitions of the word "read," and "Book" lists seven definitions of the word "book" and combinations and phrases incorporating the word "book." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Recall of the Soul, 1989

 Item — Box 173: [Barcode: 31858072459252]
Identifier: CC-00028-27
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Recit-Gît (Edition Parallele), 1989

 Item — Box 121: [Barcode: 31858072458072]
Scope and Contents

This edition of the object is described as parallel to the original (designed as wood slabes in a wooden case).

Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Anik Vinay

R.O.T.W., 1982

 Item — Box 271: [Barcode: 31858073143376]
Identifier: CC-21852-22263
Scope and Contents

The two masks are identical and represent a frontal image of a male face with glasses. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

[Scratched out book], 1984

 Item — Box 170: [Barcode: 31858072458320]
Identifier: CC-14219-14526
Scope and Contents

A French novel has been placed on a slanted base covered with finely inked cross hatched markings. The pages are folded, woven and sewn so that it is impossible to read the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Segregation by Robert Penn Warren, 1996

 Item — Box 88: [Barcode: 31858072538220]
Identifier: CC-24183-24635
Scope and Contents Each page has been treated by routing out all the text horizontally with a rotating tool such that the cancellation process takes place word by word. This process is imperfect so that some of letters and fragments of words still remain. The spine of the book has been deliberately cracked to allow the book to be displayed in its opened state. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001.In a letter (2001) to the Sackners, Beube made the following comments. In Segregation, a metamorphosis occurs, transforming the printed text to empty space, and the black ink to dust. Although entire words have become illegible, the remnants of broken letters and vowels can be seen and felt on the crater-like surfaces of the pages.Portions of the book's text have been removed by drilling out each word one page at a time, a process that fragments the book's content. Multiple pages become translucent white veils beneath which a number of underlying pages may be...
Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Sign Rock River, 1989

 Item — Box 295: [Barcode: 31858072460748]
Identifier: CC-07478-7622
Scope and Contents

The calligraphic markings were modified from fossils discovered in a rock. The artist includes a photocopied photograph of "the rock that inspired the book - a language of fossils." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

[Small Booklet] / Schnyder, Achim., 1988

 Item — Box 622: [Barcode: 31858072461092]
Identifier: CC-01779-1815
Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Achim Schnyder

Social Butterfly, 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-32259-33820
Scope and Contents

This is a feminist book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Sarah Jackson

Special Edition #3, 1966

 Item — Box 617: [Barcode: 31858072461027]
Identifier: CC-36041-37814
Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / 1966

Spectacle, 1990

 Item — Box 619: [Barcode: 31858072461043]
Identifier: CC-07230-7372
Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Stamp Book / Cobbing, Bob., 1994

 Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-20547-20944
Scope and Contents

Images consist of photocopied reproductions of collages made from postal stamps and fragments of envelopes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1990s / 1994

StandPoint / Andrews, Bruce., 1991

 Item — Box 316: [Barcode: 31858072490810]
Identifier: CC-26175-26638
Scope and Contents

Each page has a grid of nine drawings of abstract markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / A / Andrews, Bruce

Surgery Its Principles and Practice, 1989

 Item — Box 111: [Barcode: 31858073143731]
Identifier: CC-05665-5772
Scope and Contents

The title of the book Nicasti used is "Surgery: Its Principles & Practice." The front cover is opened with rows of nails on the outside front cover. The back cover has an attached wooden box containing a shattered plexiglas cylinder and gauge. An abstract plexiglas form is built into the fastened pages of the book. A small sculptural element, composed of a collaged wooden fragment with rows of nails, contains a partial index of the medical text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Joe Nicastri