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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 97 Collections and/or Records:

2x2=5, 1980

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Identifier: CC-32498-34074
Scope and Contents

The cover of this catalogue and two of the pages depict photographic reproductions of crumpled pages of telephone books; the Sackner Archive holds a unique artist book by Sit of torn telephone pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

15 Shakespeare Kaku 3rd edition / Cobbing, Bob., 1973

 Item — Box 389: [Barcode: 31858072461530]
Identifier: CC-20097-20491
Scope and Contents Designated minibooks number six. This is the third edition of the booklet. jw curry writes on the WEB: "15 Shakespeare Kaku was given a three-voice and organ live performance by Konkrete Canticle (Bob Cobbing, Paula Claire and Michael Chant) on April 23rd 1972 at a Shakespeare Birthday Week Gala Concert in Southwark Cathedral. The text presents fifteen spatially sequential typographical assemblages, I refer to them as figures, that are so partial as to be all but illegible. Two exceptions are the first and last figures, the first being a compacted version of the title page minus the word kaku, "shake" overprinted above and overprinted "spear". Although neither is cleanly present the expected closure Shakespeare can easily be made. Cobbing's final figure reprises the spear but does so to draw emphasis to "ear." The six-page text sequence begins on the recto with three horizontal figures, a double page spread with one vertical figure opposite to three more horizontal figures, a...
Dates: 1973

15 Shakespeare Kaku 5th edition / Cobbing, Bob., 1979

 Item — Box 387: [Barcode: 31858072461522]
Identifier: CC-46463-49192
Scope and Contents Designated minibooks number six. This is the fifth edition of the booklet. jw curry writes on the WEB: "15 Shakespeare Kaku was given a three-voice and organ live performance by Konkrete Canticle (Bob Cobbing, Paula Claire and Michael Chant) on April 23rd 1972 at a Shakespeare Birthday Week Gala Concert in Southwark Cathedral. The text presents fifteen spatially sequential typographical assemblages, I refer to them as figures, that are so partial as to be all but illegible. Two exceptions are the first and last figures, the first being a compacted version of the title page minus the word kaku, "shake" overprinted above and overprinted "spear". Although neither is cleanly present the expected closure Shakespeare can easily be made. Cobbing's final figure reprises the spear but does so to draw emphasis to "ear." The six-page text sequence begins on the recto with three horizontal figures, a double page spread with one vertical figure opposite to three more horizontal figures, a...
Dates: 1979

15 Shakespeare Kaku / Cobbing, Bob., 1972

 Item — Box 389: [Barcode: 31858072461530]
Identifier: CC-17492-17858
Scope and Contents Designated minibooks number six. This is the first edition of the booklet. jw curry writes on the WEB: "15 Shakespeare Kaku was given a three-voice and organ live performance by Konkrete Canticle (Bob Cobbing, Paula Claire and Michael Chant) on April 23rd 1972 at a Shakespeare Birthday Week Gala Concert in Southwark Cathedral. The text presents fifteen spatially sequential typographical assemblages, I refer to them as figures, that are so partial as to be all but illegible. Two exceptions are the first and last figures, the first being a compacted version of the title page minus the word kaku, "shake" overprinted above and overprinted "spear". Although neither is cleanly present the expected closure Shakespeare can easily be made. Cobbing's final figure reprises the spear but does so to draw emphasis to "ear." The six-page text sequence begins on the recto with three horizontal figures, a double page spread with one vertical figure opposite to three more horizontal figures, a...
Dates: 1972

A, 1968

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Identifier: CC-46993-49731
Scope and Contents This book is a first edition; it was reprinted in 1998. Wikepedia: The book is a roman a clef, meaning that the fictional characters are thinly-disguised actual persons. a, A Novel is a 1968 book by the American artist Andy Warhol (1928--1987) published by Grove Press. It is a nearly word-for-word transcription of tapes recorded by Warhol and Ondine (Robert Olivo, a Warhol superstar) over a two-year period in 1965-1967. a, A Novel, Warhol's knowing response to James Joyce's Ulysses, was intended as an uninterrupted twenty-four hours in the life of Ondine, an actor who was famous mostly as a Factory fixture, Warhol film Superstar and devoted amphetamine user.[1] A taped conversation between Warhol and Ondine, the book was actually recorded over a few separate days, during a two-year period. The book is a verbatim printing of the typed manuscripts and contains every typo, abbreviation and inconsistency that the typists produced from the twenty-four tapes (each chapter is named for...
Dates: 1968

A?: any questions?, 1998

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-31039-32501
Scope and Contents

Produced to coincide with the 3rd annual WHIPlash poetry festival in Ottawa. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Aleator, 1989

 Item — Box 36: [Barcode: 31858072460979]
Identifier: CC-09200-9381
Scope and Contents

Heimbach used the first page of a German newspaper and transferred letters from the words on this page to the 24 pages of his book such that in the printed, final form, the words are read through layers in three dimensions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Book of My Life, 1989

 Item — Box 144: [Barcode: 31858072457975]
Identifier: CC-28722-30028
Scope and Contents

Each page is a molded mask (of the artist?) made of paper with the addition of collage, straw, newspaper clippings, paint and embroidery thread. Each mask fits precisely into the following one, including the one on the cover, creating an exquisite, compact mask book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Chiaro Scuro, 1994

 Item — Box 615: [Barcode: 31858073143871]
Identifier: CC-07571-7716
Scope and Contents

This book reprints poems by Lora-Totino composed from 1970-1984. Garnier contributed an introduction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Christmas Greetings / Cobbing, Bob; Pike, Jennifer., 1970

 Item — Box 389: [Barcode: 31858072461530]
Identifier: CC-17466-17832
Scope and Contents

The author is also known as Jennifer Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Collected Poems Volume Nine: Lame Limping Mangled Marked Mutilated, 1986

 Item — Box 633: [Barcode: 31858072464732]
Identifier: CC-17348-17712
Scope and Contents

David Barton's introductory essay describes Cobbing's work from 1942 to 1986 as the discovery of new sound and movement in poetry. The works reprinted in this book are mainly abstract xerox images from which Cobbing performs sound poetry. Examples of Cobbing's works in "Destruction in Art Movement," some of which are held by the Sackner Archive are also included. Cobbing denotes his mimeograph (a subclassification of "xerox art" in Archive) as duplicatorprints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

coloured noise, 1995

 Item — Box 615: [Barcode: 31858073143871]
Identifier: CC-60855-10003710

Covent Garden Broadsheet: Beethoven Today. No.1, 1971

 Item — Folder 23: [Barcode: 31858072459823]
Identifier: CC-18728-19102
Scope and Contents

Designated Broadsheet No.1. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971