Conceptual text
Subject Source: Sackner Database
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
59 >Format>: Zeitschift fur verbale und visuelle Kommunikation, no. 12, 1976
67, 1984
The following text is written one word to a page as follows, T.S. asked me to design a book containing as many pages as my age was. I promised immediately. "When is your birthday," he asked. I told him. "Don't wait too long." I was determined to keep the amount of pages to my present age. So it was no use to try to delay proceedings. I regret not to be any younger, the first time in my life. Sit was a member of the Boekie Woekie artist group. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Art A to Z Part One, 1977
For this book, each artist was asked to contribute one page of autobiography and one page about anything beginning with the same initial letter as his surname. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Boat Ride, 1975
The object is a small toy boat made of plaster and painted black. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Eighteen Self-Portraits - Fifteen Portraits - Nine Portraits in Two Different Forms, 1991
The book summarizes questionaires in the mail sent by the author asking for 10 dates which the respondent thought signified their being "penetrated by our culture." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Five Fore-and-Afters, 1978
Five names of ships and the names of their ports have been written in green color with a traditional calligraphic style. *WEB 1998: Publisher's name misspelt. Date wrong -- should be 1978. Sackner: corrected. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
I Suppose There Should Have Been More Colour, 1974
This book provides performances directions on fluxus-like themes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Local Colour, 2007
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.
Now first of all there's the letter A / Cobbing, Bob., 1996
railway schedule canada / Cobbing, Bob., 1996
Sea Threw (That Which We Call Arose), 1979
The identical words "sea threw" are carved on two granite stones. This sculpture is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Selections from Local Colour, 2008
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.
Sites and Events, 1994
This is a Square Poem, 1992
[Untitled], 1967
The envelope is addressed to John Furnival. The messages are printed rather than calligraphed as in Ben's later works. The cards may have been published in 1963, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
