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 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 419 Collections and/or Records:

Aur Sea, 1969

 Item — Box 106: [Barcode: 31858073143822]
Identifier: CC-56715-58322
Scope and Contents

Three pages taken for consideration by Favretto 2016, Two loose pages: Thou and Thou into dover futtering, Honeyblood of jese green the color of the grass (signed at bottom). One mounted page on board Avenue six flights up ten fifteen Longwood avenue (with hand painted paper collage, painting of soldier face, stamps). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Autobiographical Portrait, 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-23267-23706
Scope and Contents The drawing is a self-portrait written in English and Spanish words with a graphite pencil. Wikipedia: José Antonio "Tony" Burciaga (1940 - October 7, 1996) was a Chicano artist, poet, and writer who explored issues of Chicano identity and American society. In 1960 Burciaga joined the United States Air Force. After spending a year in Iceland, where he wrote extensively as part of his job, he was sent to Zaragoza, Spain, for three years. There he discovered the work of Spanish poet, Federico Garcí­a Lorca. After completing his military service, he earned a B.A. in fine arts from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1968 and started work as an illustrator and graphic artist, first in Mineral Wells, Texas (an experience he later recorded in an "Hispanic Link" column called "Mineral Wells--A Near and Distant Memory"), and then in Washington, D.C., where he began his participation in the Chicano movement and where he met Cecilia Preciado, whom he married in 1972. After moving to...
Dates: 1980

Aux Hommes, 1969

 Item — Folder 31: [Barcode: 31858072459906]
Identifier: CC-20227-20623
Scope and Contents

This is a preparatory study for a poster announcing the first festival at Ingatestone, England that was published by South Street Publications in 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Baffling Means, 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-17401-17766
Scope and Contents

One thousand, five hundred, soft cover unsigned copies of this book were also issued. It includes 41 black and white reproductions of drawings by Guston. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

[Basta!], 1994

 Item — Folder 49: [Barcode: 31858072537834]
Identifier: CC-16148-16491
Scope and Contents

A ghost-like, computer manipulated, red colored photograph of a woman is in the center of a border of handwritten phrases e.g., insoportable pesar (insupportable sorrow), un verdadero silencio se impone (a veritable silence asserts itself), suicidio (suicide). The handwritten phrases around the border were printed with computer generated typefaces. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Bill Jubobe, 1977

 Item — Folder 23: [Barcode: 31858072459823]
Identifier: CC-18756-19130
Scope and Contents

This work was made for a performance in Saarbrucken, West Germany, January 1977. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

[Book Object on Brass Feet], 1987

 Item — Box 273: [Barcode: 31858072460904]
Identifier: CC-34795-36502
Scope and Contents

Jackman made an artist book seated on two brass clawed feet. The pages are heavily collaged with drawings and photographs. The cover has metal fragments that include a turning, cogged wheel and spear-like object. This book object is placed within a baker's glass dome that is used to display a cake. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Book of Elevations, 1994

 Item — Box 333: [Barcode: 31858072491024]
Identifier: CC-31571-33067
Scope and Contents

Each of the pages depicts a reproduction of a handwritten visual poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Book Walk Series in the Backwoods, 1978

 Item — Box 110: [Barcode: 31858073143681]
Identifier: CC-36347-38137
Scope and Contents

Nineteen handmade books, drawings and objects are placed randomly within the leather formed feet. the bottom of the feet are hand lettered" Souls that walk Souls that talk." The project was started in 1979; the drawings are dated 1983. The theme of the work is the daily rural life of the Afro-American community including the papermakers at a community center, animal sketches, people and a leather object shaped like Noah's ark. Robinson, who received a MacArthur prize, had a major retrospective exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum 2006. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Border(ed) , 1989

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-22701-23135
Scope and Contents

Basmajian (30 September 1950 "“ 25 January 1990) was a Canadian poet and author. Born in Beirut, Lebanon to Armenian parents, Basmajian emigrated to Canada when he was seven years old. He was a founder of the Canadian Poetry Association, co-founder of Old Nun Publications (with Ted Plantos), and was a member of the Parliament Street Library poetry group. The Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award, given annually to a Canadian poet, was established in his memory. The contest ran from 1996-2008. In 1986, he was attacked with a knife and robbed while he was driving a taxi. His right lung was punctured when a robber stabbed him. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989