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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3293 Collections and/or Records:

Mercury Springtime: Drawings by Chris Hipkiss / Hipkiss, Chris., 2000

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Identifier: CC-41350-43333
Scope and Contents

The self-taught artist draws the theme of docile and tamed nature and mankind's domination over the natural world. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Metalinguagem, 1976

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Identifier: CC-14898-15211
Scope and Contents

This is the 3rd edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Metaphor and Motif: Tarasque Press Exhibition / Stephen Bann, curator ; Blaine J ; Cutts S ; Finlay IH ; Mills S ; Gardner I., 1972

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Identifier: CC-06559-6678
Scope and Contents

Includes essays by Stephen Bann, Robert Kenedy, Stuart Mills and Simon Cutts on the relationship of Tarasque press to concrete and visual poetry in England during the seventies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Metaphor Taking Shape / The Publishers' Roundtable / Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 2008

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Identifier: CC-47749-68768
Scope and Contents

One half of this publication is devoted to Trans/Prose, the musical production based on the text of La Prose du Transsiberien et de la petite Jehanne de France by Sonia Delaunay and Blais Cendrars. The original score is by Matthew Suttor and the libretto is by Timothy Young. The latter mentions in his forward that the original copy of La prose in the Beinecke Library had been in the collection of Marvin and Ruth Sackner. Trans/Prose is to be performed at Yale in 2008. The second part of the book serves as the catalogue for two exhibitions and a conference related to poetry, art and the book. The icons on the "bookmark appear throughout the exhibitions to call attention to the thematic relationships between books featured in both exhibitions." This work is stored with Delaunay & Cendrars' facsimile of the "Transsiberian Railway." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Metaphora. No.1/Win / Felipe Boso, Fernando Millan, editors ; Castillejo JL ; Pignatari D ; Boso F ; delCerro E ; Escribano M ; Barber L ; Codina R ; Palacios F ; Altmann R ; cummings ee ; Derrida J ; Heidsieck B ; Paz O ; Pound E ; Stein C ; Wittgenstein L ; Millan F ; Leiva J ; Berenguer JL., 1981

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Identifier: CC-32042-33575
Scope and Contents

This issue includes a theoretical essay on writing by Jose Luis Castillejo, a long story as a single sentence by J. Leiva, and experimental music scores by Jose Bernenguer, Maria Escribano, Llorenc Barber, Ramon Codina, Fernando Palacios, and Emilano del Cerro. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Micro-Opera de Benet Rossell / Sarduy, Severo ; Van De Pas, Annemieke., 1984

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Identifier: CC-28221-29389
Scope and Contents

The book is profusely illustrated with calligraphic drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Micrography As Art; La Lettre Hebraique et sa Signification / Avrin, Leila, editor ; Sirat, Colette, editor., 1981

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Identifier: CC-26740-27210
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Provides a history of Hebrew micrography and a survey on its worldwide dissemination. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Microscripts / Walser, Robert ; Susan Bernofsky, translator ; Benjamin W., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51119-72204
Scope and Contents Susan Bernofsky writes in her introductory essay "Secrets, Not Code: On Robert Susan Bernofsky writes in "Secrets, Not Code: On Robert Walser's Microscripts" that Walser's "writing that initially looked like secret code...turned out to be a radically miniturized Kurrent script, the form of handwriting favored in German-speaking countries until the mid-twentieth century, when it was replaced by a Latinate form similar to that used in English." The recently published "Red Book" by Carl Jung contains many examples of this calligraphic script. Walter Benjamin contribted an essay about Walser's life and work that was first published in 1929.Amazon.com reviews: W. G. Sebald called Robert Walser "a clairvoyant of the small," and nowhere is the phrase more apt than in his "microscripts." Robert Walser wrote many of his manuscripts in a highly enigmatic, shrunken-down form. These narrow strips of paper (many of them written during his hospitalization in the Waldau sanatorium) covered with...
Dates: 2010

Mild Mannered Mews / Upton, Lawrence ; Cobbing, Bob ; Metcalf P., 1996

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Identifier: CC-34320-36015
Scope and Contents

The pages consist of abstract black and white images that were rendered into a performance by Birdyak on the occasion of Cobbing's 76th birthday. One of the loose sheets is an extremely witty newspaper review by Jon Levitt of the performance; the other is a photograph of the performers. The duplicate copy does not have the newspaper review. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996