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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 75 Collections and/or Records:

The Electric Alphabet First Edition, 1986

 Item — Box 312: [Barcode: 31858072490828]
Identifier: CC-24353-24805
Scope and Contents

A second deluxe edition illustrated by Jiri Sindler was published in 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

The Poetic In(ter)vention , 1987

 Item — Box 313: [Barcode: 31858072490794]
Identifier: CC-24498-24951
Scope and Contents

This book records Aguiar's philosophy about concrete and performance poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The Themersons and the Gaberbocchus Press - an Experiment in Publishing, 1948-1979, 1993

 Item — Box 608: [Barcode: 31858073143558]
Identifier: CC-01526-1559
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1993

The Voluptuous Gardener: The Collected Art and Writing of Joe Rosenblatt - 1973-1996, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-43367-45429
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1996

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

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

[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

War and Peace in the Global Village, 1968

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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

World Visual Poetry, 1999

 Item — Box 616: [Barcode: 31858072461019]
Identifier: CC-34017-35693
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1999

Xerographica, 1985

 Item — Box 621: [Barcode: 31858072461084]
Identifier: CC-20810-21218
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1985