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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3298 Collections and/or Records:

One of a Kind Artists' Books / Horvitz SR ; Raman AS ; Hoffberg J ; Beube D ; Carothers M ; Colby S ; Cutler-Shaw J ; Helfgott G ; Jackman S ; Korf K ; Kyle H ; Lerner S ; McCarney S ; Zagar I., 1995

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Identifier: CC-27717-28819
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The exhibition was curated by Suzanne Reese Horvitz and Anne Stengel Raman. Judith Hoffberg's essay is titled "Full of Elegance and Wit, Timeless yet Familiar: Unique Bookworks" from the writing of Robert Lax. She claims that artists books are not containers of ideas, but a consummate experience that challenge the reader and actively shape the reading experience. "The experience of viewing and reading a unique artist book is an interactive experience in which the viewer completes the work, creating and changing emotional reactions to the artist's own." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Op Papier 2008 - 2010 / Werbachowska, Alicja ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 2011

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Identifier: CC-54952-990365
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The Sackner Archive is listed as containing Alicja Werbachowska's work. The letter accompanying the catalogue from Galeria Wit was written in appreciation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

Open House / Weiner, Hannah ; Durgin PF ; MacLow J ; Watten B ; Bernstein C., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47828-68848
Scope and Contents This antholgy of Weiner's works was edited by Patrick F. Durgen who also wrote the introduction. Hannah Weiner's Early and Clairvoyant Journals by Patrick Durgin is also on http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/m504/index.html. "Typing to you a thoug[h]t is seen cartridge script machine." Hannah Weiner, letter to Bernadette Mayer, April 19, 1975. It is an extremely rare thing in any field to invent a new form. Invention, as such, momentarily collapses the frontier between theory and practice. This is why it not only invariably widens the scope of that field's potential acheivements, but it appears to us, in hindsight, as an event, a phenomenon, a content through which to bring the overall form of that field into historical relief. Although largely unknown and practically unread, Hannah Weiner accomplished such an invention. She called it "large-sheet poetry" - I call it "avant-garde journalism." With the publication of Weiner's major works of the 1970s, we come a long way toward filling...
Dates: 2007

Open Letter: George Bowering Bridges to Elsewhere. No.4/Fall / Ian Rae, editor ; Bowering G ; Birney E., 2010

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Identifier: CC-52216-73338
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Karis Shearer contributed an essay dealing with Imago, a small press magazine edited by Bowering and its influence on the Canadian long poem. The Sackner Archive holds five of the 20 issues of this periodical. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Open Letter: Language Graphic. No.7/Spr / Caruso B ; Tostevin L ; VanDoesburg T ; Jirgens K ; bissett b ; Curnoe G ; Davey F ; Larionov M ; Goncharova N ; Delaunay S ; Dutton P ; Cobbing B ; Evason G ; Smith S ; Shikatani G ; Upton L ; Havel V., 2003

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Identifier: CC-43653-45738
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Paul Dutton provides a vivid description of Bob Cobbing's apartment on Petherton Avenue in London in 2002 that was visited by the Sackners several times. Dutton also describes the innovative ways that Cobbing utilized his photocopy machine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Open Letter: Lisa Robertson. No.5/Spr / Angela Carr, Heather Milne, editors ; Robertson L ; Pound E., 2010

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Identifier: CC-52411-73536
Scope and Contents Lisa Robertson (born on July 22, 1961 in Toronto) is a Canadian poet who is best known for a collection a poem entitled The Weather, which was inspired by the shipping forecasts announced on BBC radio. She currently lives in Oakland, California. In 1979, she moved to British Columbia, where she remained for twenty-three years. During her time there, she was a member of The Kootenay School of Writing, which is a non-profit society that offers an alternative to the mainstream pedagogy of most Canadian universities. She has been integrally involved in Vancouver's art scene and is an honorary board member of Artspeak Gallery. She has written on and reviewed exhibitions and pieces by Kelly Wood, Robert Garcet, Liz Magor, Allyson Clay, Kathy Slade, and Hadley+Maxwell, among others. She has also written on architecture and sites in British Columbia. Robertson contributed the "Beneath the Pavilions" column to Mix from 1997-1999. She co-edited the poetry journal Raddle Moon with Susan Clark...
Dates: 2010

Open Letter: Millennial 'Pataphysics. No.7/Win / Christian Bok, Darren Weshler-Henry, editors ; McCaffery S ; lopes d ; deCharmoy C ; Jarry A ; Werschler-Henry D ; Bok C ; Ronell A ; Jirgens K ; Borges J ; Kristeva J ; Learn B., 1997

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Identifier: CC-27657-28740
Scope and Contents This issue deals with Pataphysica as expoused by Jarry and current interpretations by Canadian writers. The introductory essay by the Editors, Christian Bok and Darren Werschler-Henry, indicates that " 'Pataphysics (a neologism fraught with polysemy) makes its debut at the turn of the century when Ubu, the nihilist scaramouche, describes himself as a "Professor of 'pataphysics, a branch of science which we have invented and for which a crying need is generally experienced." Jarry precedes the orthography of the French word 'pataphysique with an apostrophe in order to avoid a "simple pun", but ironically enough, such a diacritical mark only signals, as present by proxy, what is absent by edict, so that the word invokes apostrophically the homophonic phrases that it revokes catastrophically. Ubu, for example is a slapstick comedian (pataud physique ) of unhealthy obesity (pateax physique), whose bodily language (patois physique) foments an astounded physics (epatee physique) that is...
Dates: 1997

Open Letter. No.2/Win / Bowering G ; Atwood M., 1990

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Identifier: CC-05384-5487
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Edited by Frank Davey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Open Letter. No.6/Fall / Ondaatje M., 1989

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Identifier: CC-05066-5165
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Barbara Godard contributes an extensive review on Ondaatje's "Billy the Kid." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Open Letter: Race, Gender, Region. No.4/Fall., 1995

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Identifier: CC-28906-30232
Scope and Contents

This issue deals mostly with a critical analysis of feminist writings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Open Letter: Redrawing the Lines: the Next Generation. No.4/Sum / Lola Lemire Tostevin, editor., 1992

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Identifier: CC-05238-5338
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The theme of this issue deals with new feminist Canadian authors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992