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Subject Source: Sackner Database
Found in 75 Collections and/or Records:
The Electric Alphabet First Edition, 1986
A second deluxe edition illustrated by Jiri Sindler was published in 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Poetic In(ter)vention , 1987
This book records Aguiar's philosophy about concrete and performance poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Rosetta Stone, 1981
The Themersons and the Gaberbocchus Press - an Experiment in Publishing, 1948-1979, 1993
Published on the occasion of the first exhibition in the United States of the output of this indispensable press, covering the enormously wide range of the work of publishers Stefan and Franciszka Themerson, Polish avant-garde artists who in their long tenure in England brought the likes of Jarry, Apollinaire, Queneau, Schwitters, and so many others to a wider English-speaking audience.. Includes a description and the covers of the 82 books published by Gaberbocchus Press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Voluptuous Gardener: The Collected Art and Writing of Joe Rosenblatt - 1973-1996, 1996
A forward was written by Michael Bell traces the life and work of Rosenblatt. Bell writes, "The drawings range in style from the simplest, almost whimsical scratches on the paper, expecially some of the latest observations on the shoreline of Vancouver Island, to highly compendia of signs and symbols, richly worked in obsessive surface patterns." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
This Is a Permissive Exhibition, 1969
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.
Un Jardin Revolutionnaire, 1988
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.
Una Selva Oscura: Tom Phillips's Inferno, 1997
[Untitled] , 1982
This catalogue was edited by Jiri Valoch. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Visual Poetry in Ukrainian Literature, 1994
War and Peace in the Global Village, 1968
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.
World Visual Poetry, 1999
There is a brief, very informative abstract in English at the beginning of the book. The book is divided into three chapters, viz., 1) Evolution of visual poetry to the 20th century, 2) Contemporary visual poetry of the 20th century, and 3) Evolution of Ukrainian visual poetry in a world context. A photograph of Soroka flanked by Dick Higgins and Marvin Sackner taken at the EyeRhymes visual conference at Edmonton, Canada 1997 is reproduced. Marvin Sackner is characterized as "the owner of the biggest archive of visual poetry."The book depicts more than 20 examples in the Old Ukrainian language and 49 examples in many national literatures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Xerographica, 1985
Contains an essay by Vittore Baroni, "Towards the Heart of the Machine: Copy Art Today" and another on "Mohammed elogio per un vampiro." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
