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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

67, 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-32497-34073
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1984

Art A to Z Part One, 1977

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Crozier, Robin: [Barcode: 31858072491362]
Identifier: CC-19212-19595
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1977

Boat Ride, 1975

 Item — Box 199: [Barcode: 31858072459690]
Identifier: CC-19999-20387
Scope and Contents

The object is a small toy boat made of plaster and painted black. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Eighteen Self-Portraits - Fifteen Portraits - Nine Portraits in Two Different Forms, 1991

 Item — Box 613: [Barcode: 31858072460995]
Identifier: CC-34624-36325
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1991

Five Fore-and-Afters, 1978

 Item — Box 190: [Barcode: 31858072459609]
Identifier: CC-12905-13196
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1978

I Suppose There Should Have Been More Colour, 1974

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Crozier, Robin: [Barcode: 31858072491362]
Identifier: CC-19203-19586
Scope and Contents

This book provides performances directions on fluxus-like themes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

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

Sea Threw (That Which We Call Arose), 1979

 Item — Box 160: [Barcode: 31858072458130]
Identifier: CC-01681-1717
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1979

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

[Untitled], 1967

 Item — Box 335: [Barcode: 31858072491040]
Identifier: CC-20894-21303
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1967