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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 271 Collections and/or Records:

This Is a Permissive Exhibition, 1969

 Item — Box 393: [Barcode: 31858072461571]
Identifier: CC-17743-18112
Scope and Contents

This is Cobbing's introduction to " A Gala Exhibition" which took place at Royal Festival Hall in 1969. It included examples of contemporary British poetry and International concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

To Do As Adam Did: Selected Poems of Ronald Johnson, 2000

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Identifier: CC-37061-38901
Scope and Contents

Edited by Peter O'Leary who also contributed an introduction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Trasparenze Reciproche, 1995

 Item — Box 318: [Barcode: 31858072490778]
Identifier: CC-26855-27325
Scope and Contents

Produced on the occasion of an exhibition at Galleria Derbylius in Milan. The collage is a cut-out celluloid angel onto which Arias-Misson has written a poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Typographia 2 , 1979

 Item — Box 319: [Barcode: 31858072490786]
Identifier: CC-21964-22376
Scope and Contents

The book deals with definitions of the private press and includes 24 quotes from printers and critics in chronologic order by year beginning with 1897 and ending with 1979. The typographic styles for these quotes are varied in the tradition of fine press work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Un Jardin Revolutionnaire, 1988

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-11772-11991
Scope and Contents

This proposal for a revolutionary garden in Versailles was never carried out owing to a political perception in France that Finlay espoused pro-Nazi, anti-semitic views (this opinion is not shared by the Sackners). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Una Selva Oscura: Tom Phillips's Inferno, 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-28695-29997
Scope and Contents This beautifully produced catalogue was published for the exhibition in the Olin Library at Washington University by the curator, scholar and Head of Special Collections, Kevin Ray. It coincided with the exhibition and symposium "The Dual Muse: The Artist as Writer and the Writer as Artist" organized by the Gallery of Art and the International Writers Center. The Sackner Archive lent nine handwritten and typed bound volumes of Phillips' Dante manuscripts, two silkscreen prints, eleven collages from the "Dante Diary," and a typewriter work on backing paper incorporating all the words of Phillips' first translation of the Inferno. Kevin Ray contributed an illuminating essay tracing the history of translations and illustrations of Dante, including the works of Botticelli, Gustave Dore, Blake and Rauschenberg. Ray writes that in the Tom Phillips' Inferno, the artist, incorporates "much of the method he developed in creating A Humument, 'treating' an existing text and making of it...
Dates: 1997

une anthologie poetique precede de RH l'optophoniste par isabelle maunet-salliet, 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-57133-10000469
Scope and Contents

The compact disc includes Hausmann's readings of 1) RLQS, 2) Phonemes, 3) Interview avec les Lettristes, and 4) Sound-Reel. The original score of the latter is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

[Untitled], 1976

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Be-Bir: [Barcode: 31858072491172]
Identifier: CC-22391-22814
Scope and Contents

Cover is print of Bentivoglio's "La firma" (1973). Inside includes communication to Caro Stelio

Dates: 1976

[Untitled] , 1982

 Item — Box 311: [Barcode: 31858072490760]
Identifier: CC-27112-27586
Scope and Contents

This catalogue was edited by Jiri Valoch. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

[Untitled Exhibit Catalog] , 1975

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Identifier: CC-11479-11695
Scope and Contents

The theme of the work is wooden matches and match boxes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

verbi visi voco; a performance of poetry , 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-20379-20776
Scope and Contents

This is the 500th Writers Forum publication that selectively reproduces pages from the previous publications of the press. Jennifer Pike is also known as Jennifer Cobbing. It was reprinted in 2003 by Edition Selene. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Vestiges ou Vertiges?, 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-46590-49320
Scope and Contents

This catalogue includes pages depicting and documenting the fire flies of Surinam. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Vrh Kostek: ceska experimentali poezie, 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-09775-9968
Scope and Contents

Consists of an anthology of the works by 12 Czechoslovakian concrete poets from the sixties and seventies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

War and Peace in the Global Village, 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-33564-35216
Scope and Contents

This is the first edition of this text by the authors of "The Medium is the Massage." It brings together all forms of conflict, political, racial, and religious, into meaningful perspective. It offers ideas and an understanding essential to the "electric age." The ideas presented in this book seem to forecast the information age and even the advent of the Internet. The text is combined with multiple black and white images and includes many relevant quotations in the margins from James Joyce's "Finnagan's Wake." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Water from the Mountains of Light, 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-28936-30266
Scope and Contents

This book does not include any of Kempton's signature typewriter glyphs. The theme deals mainly with preservation of the environment. This edition is one of 25 copies handbound and signed by Kempton for individuals who helped to support its publication. The Sackners were among that group and are so mentioned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995