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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 48 Collections and/or Records:

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-16341-16691
Scope and Contents

Depicts reproductions of this work, four drawings to each page arranged in a grid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

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

music, 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-57297-63406
Scope and Contents

All five envelopes are typed with the work "music" in the lower left corner.The enclosed cards are typed with the words music, drops, sand, stone, fragments, sky, and lines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

My Frankenstein / Corris, Michael ; Reinhardt A., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-19677-20064
Scope and Contents

The text and images are printed as dark grays or blacks on black such that their reading is made difficult. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Nine Essays on Concrete Poems, 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-15117-15435
Scope and Contents

Includes several reprinted dictionary definitions of the words, "Concrete, Essay, Poem, and Poets." The back cover depicts a portrait of Wally Depew in Ben Day dots. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Nothing , 2013

 Item — Box 323: [Barcode: 31858072490893]
Identifier: CC-58481-10001701

Oevures sur Papier Photographique 1983-86 , 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-09938-10135
Scope and Contents

Artworks consist of photographs with appended texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Paste Book Number One: [Eat Yourself], 1985

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-55019-300998
Scope and Contents

The suite of 26 collages with the first title [Paste Book Number One] are stored in a single folder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

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

Sports, 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-48871-69908
Scope and Contents

This is the last of Kenneth Goldsmith's trilogy (The Weather, Traffic and Sports). It consists of Goldmith's parsing of the complete radio transcription of the longest nine inning major league baseball game on record. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Spring, 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-44610-46773
Scope and Contents

In this book, Goldsmith transcribes one year's worth of daily, sixty-second weather reports broadcast on a New York City AM radio station. The engravings have been described by Siena as visual algorithms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005