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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3298 Collections and/or Records:

Oeuvres poetiques 2 1968-1988, 2009

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Identifier: CC-54273-643162
Scope and Contents

Martial Lengelle contributed the preface to this book that consisted of a review of different types of concrete and visual poetry. The second half of the book reprints several of Garnier's published works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Oeuvres Poetiques Eparses !! 1981-1989 / Amarger, Michel ; Devaux F., 1989

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Identifier: CC-26007-26469
Scope and Contents

The cover color photograph depicts Amarger in a Lettrist sweater. The book consists mainly of sound poems in made-up language composed from 1981-1989. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Offene Buch, Das No.1 / Rypson P ; Gomringer E ; Gappmayr H ; Havel V ; Hula J ; Mon F ; Ulrichs T ; Blum J ; Myslowski T., 1998

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Identifier: CC-37990-39875
Scope and Contents

This exhibition dealt with concrete poems installed in public places. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Offene Buch, Das No.2 / Daniel P ; Dluzniewski A ; Dencker KP ; Groh K ; Ovcacek E ; Valoch J ; Gomringer E ; Adamus K ; Kolar J ; Grogerova B ; Hirsal J ; Novak L., 1999

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Identifier: CC-37991-39876
Scope and Contents

This exhibition dealt with concrete poems installed in public places. There are also critical texts about concrete poetry by Gomringer and Valoch in the catalogue. Peter Daniel lists his work in exhibition in the Sackner Archive's "Hebrew Concrete Poetry" in 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Offmedia; Nuove Tecniche Artisiche: Video,Disco,Libro / Celant, Germano ; Johnson R ; Ruscha E ; Kawara O ; Broodthaers M ; Kosuth J ; Ben ; Darboven H ; Grisi L ; Paik NJ ; Hausmann R ; Schwitters K ; Beuys J., 1977

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Identifier: CC-20283-20680
Scope and Contents

The book is organized into three sections, i.e., Video as Artwork, Record as Artwork, and Book as Artwork. It provides a chronology of video works from 1958-1969, and record and book works from 1960-1977. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Oltre Il Libro Beyond Books, 2011

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Identifier: CC-54245-431432
Scope and Contents

This is a profusely illustrated book that covers the intense activity of Boetti as both a typesetter and director of his works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

On Art & Design / Lipsky, Jacqueline R., editor ; Lovejoy M ; Marcus A ; Mohr M., 1983

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Identifier: CC-36699-38515
Scope and Contents

The exhibition focuses on "artists who have explored the use of computer technology to create art of aesthetic value. "A symposium on computer art was held with the exhibition, to address the humanistic issues raised by the computer's influence on art and design. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

On Libraries / Phillips, Tom., 1986

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Identifier: CC-39168-41112
Scope and Contents

This essay was originally written for the Art Librarians Journal v.11 no.3, 1986. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

On Paper:The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History / Basbanes, Nicholas A.., 2013

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Identifier: CC-58950-10002144
Scope and Contents DAVID WALTON Review on interent: Nicholas Basbanes is an especially congenial writer, a quality he displayed memorably in A Gentle Madness, his 1999 history of book collecting and collectors. He does it again most pleasurably in On Paper, a wide-ranging investigation into the "everything" of that ubiquitous and indispensable construction of cellulose fibers whose history paralleled "” and made possible "” the rise of civilization.On Paper, true to its double-duty title, isn't a history of papermaking, though Basbanes tracks the process from its discovery in China a century or two B.C., east into Japan and Korea, west in the eighth century to Arabia, where the Koran had been recited from memory for a hundred years, to Spain in the 11th century, to Italy in the 13th, where it spurred the Renaissance, then to North America in 1690 "” and now, everywhere.As a prism into history, the role of paper offers a unique and often defining perspective. For example, at the start of the Civil...
Dates: 2013

On Stefan Themerson / Wadley, Nicholas ; Themerson S., 1990

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Identifier: CC-00361-369
Scope and Contents

Includes fragments from Themerson's unpublished, uncompleted autobiography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990