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Typography

 Subject

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 90 Collections and/or Records:

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Ursachen Rauschen, 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-08199-8360
Scope and Contents

Karl Riha wrote the introduction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations, 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-62402-47535
Scope and Contents

Flexitype heads [allowing the manipulation and distortion of type] were used in this book in co-operation with Cooper and Beatty. To the knowledge of the Editors of this book, it was the first time that Flexitype has been used in any quantity outside the field of advertising. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Marshall McLuhan

Vorwerk 1 & 2, 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-10237-10440
Scope and Contents

Paragraphs of the text are added to newer paragraphs by overprinting in different horizontal and vertical arrangements with increased or decreased type faces and shadings of ink such that the final pages appear the most dense. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

Voyelles, 1989

 Item — Box 620: [Barcode: 31858072461076]
Identifier: CC-07866-8019
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon the five vowel sounds. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Wheeling, 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-07329-7473
Scope and Contents

Theme deals with the rise and fall of the automobile in American culture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

William Addison Dwiggins / Abbe, Dorothy, 1987

 Item — Box 311: [Barcode: 31858072490760]
Identifier: CC-24763-25216
Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / A / Abbe, Dorothy

William Blake - Proverbs of Hell, 1982

 Item — Box 319: [Barcode: 31858072490786]
Identifier: CC-22006-22422
Dates: 1982
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Xerox Mother Fucker, 1985

 Item — Box 319: [Barcode: 31858072490786]
Identifier: CC-21556-21967
Dates: 1985
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Zum Ballspeil, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-39876-41843
Scope and Contents

The first section of the book consists of typographic work and photo-documentation of soccer activities of the group. The second section reproduces press work from 1976 to 1988. Several pieces held by in the Sackner Archive are reproduced including "Dr.phil. Lettaus Sittenjournal." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS