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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

A Humument Supplement: Variations of Page 85 II & III [see at the sea] & [all of them] (2 prints), 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-54456-989942
Scope and Contents

One of the prints depicts most of the lines obliterated with brown paint and the other one with white paint. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Buch Seitages, 1993

 Item — Box 281: [Barcode: 31858072460649]
Identifier: CC-33562-35213
Scope and Contents

The theme of this issue deals with pages of a book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Cuts, 1987

 Item — Box 607: [Barcode: 31858073143541]
Identifier: CC-03851-3924
Scope and Contents

The collages constitute the original artwork of illustrations for the book by Malcolm Bradbury "Cuts" which is held by Sackner Archive. Cuts refers to U.K. governmental 'cuts' of the budget. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

gratuitous sted lids (200864), 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-08621-8793
Scope and Contents

This minimalist poem deals with the gratuitous help (archaic meaning of sted) for viewing authority. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

JCT 1, 1968

 Item — Box 617: [Barcode: 31858072461027]
Identifier: CC-15376-15700
Scope and Contents

In this book, Diacono provides a parody of Stephan Mallarme's "Un Coup de Des." Diacono introduces the poem that he designates "a metrica n'aboolira with cartoons. He then cancells the 1914 layout with blue and orange colored rectangles to bring out its constructivistic presentation. Diacono's book predates the more famous cancelled text treatment by Marcel Broodthaers, a work also held by the Sackner Archive, that was published in 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Local Colour, 2007

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-48925-69963
Scope and Contents

This pamphlet is based upon Paul Auster's novella, "Ghosts" which has characters named White, Black and Blue. Black lives on Orange Street. In the Beaulieu treatment of this work, only chromatic words are retained and the the rest are "cancelled" with non-printed, white space. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

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

Selections from Local Colour, 2008

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-49382-70427
Scope and Contents

This pamphlet is based upon the original book that is held by the Sackner Archive, "Local Colour" which in turn derives from Paul Auster's novella, "Ghosts." The latter descibes characters named White, Black and Blue. Black lives on Orange Street. In the Beaulieu treatment of this work, only chromatic words are retained and the rest are "cancelled" with non-printed, white space. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Taste the & or wind wind, 2009

 Item — Box 612: [Barcode: 31858072460987]
Identifier: CC-49321-70363
Scope and Contents

The ink line drawing of Nettelbeck's self-portrait is on the title page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

The Fool Still Looking at the Same Thing [2], 1988

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-53023-74167
Scope and Contents

This version of the poem has slight differences from the first version, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

The Golden Age, 1982

 Item — Box 138: [Barcode: 31858072457918]
Identifier: CC-15914-16247
Scope and Contents This work consists mostly of feminist material. According to her web site, Barbara Drucker received her MFA from UCLA, where she is currently the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the School of the Arts and Architecture and Professor of Painting and Drawing in the Department of Art. From 1996 - 2001 she was the founder/director of The Living Room, an alternative exhibition space in Santa Monica, California. Drucker's art practice includes painting, mixed media installation, sculpture, photography and video. It has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the Mazzocchi Gallery, Parma, Italy; Academy of Fine Arts, Brescia, Italy; Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, Austria; Kennedy Gallery, Athens, Greece; Bouzianis Gallery, Athens, Greece; Center for Book Arts, New York; and Mount St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, CA. Her work is also included in numerous public collections such as the Smithsonian Archives of Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C.; the...
Dates: 1982

The Tibetan Stroboscope, 1968

 Item — Box 544: [Barcode: 31858072461050]
Identifier: CC-07407-7551
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint of the book of the same title on white paper stock printed in red ink. Original copies are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968