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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5472 Collections and/or Records:

Selections from the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Phillips, Tom ; Houston Pascal, curator., 1990

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Identifier: CC-04118-4197
Scope and Contents

This exhibition with all works lent by the Sackner Archive was the first one-man museum show of Phillips in the United States. The curator, Huston Pascal, contributed an exceptionally perceptive essay on Phillips works. Phillips also contributed an essay mainly dealing with his relation to the collectors, Ruth & Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

[Self Portrait in Collaged Dress], 1964

 Item — Folder 31: [Barcode: 31858072459906]
Identifier: CC-35941-37705
Scope and Contents

This print depicts a frontal portrait of Cozette De Charmoy standing behind a collaged dress. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Self Portrait With Heads and Humument Fragment / Phillips, Tom., 1976

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Identifier: CC-46279-49001
Scope and Contents

Tom Phillips' self-portrait of his face also appears on the catalogue cover of his exhibition, New Drawings and Prints, 1975-1976, Welsh Art Council. The Humument fragment in the print but not the catalogue cover reads, "a curious rien in photo edged in tea - for every day in the Year - discover the mask." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Self Portrait with Shifting Alphabets / Jackman, Sandra., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44210-46337
Scope and Contents

The image is a portrait of Jackman with overlaying English and Hebrew letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Semina Culture / Duncan, Michael, editor ; McKenna, Kristine, editor ; Berman W ; Antin E ; Artaud A ; Breton A ; Burroughs WS ; Cage J ; Conner B ; Corso G ; DiPrima D ; Duchamp M ; Duncan R ; Ernst M ; Falk A ; Ferlinghetti L ; Foulkes L ; Ginsberg A ; Herms G ; Hirschman J ; Jarry A ; Jess ; Johns J ; Johnson R ; Kaufman B ; Lamantia P ; MacLow J ; Malanga G ; Mayakovsky V ; McClure M ; Meltzer D ; Olson C ; Patchen K ; Reed J ; Rosenthal R ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Schneemann C ; Williams J ; Perkoff S ; Bukowski C ; Bremser R ; Kaufman B ; Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz ; Altoon J ; Miller H., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44287-46417
Scope and Contents This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the Santa Monica Museum of Art. The Sackners are mentioned in the chapter on Jack Hirschman stating that "his visual work has been extemsively collected by the Marvin and Ruth Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry in Miami Beach." Michael Duncan describes Wallace Berman as "a key under-recognized artist of his generation...an enigmatic, underground figure whose colllages and assemblages articulate an important strand of dark spirituality in postwar American culture." Descriptions and illustrated works and a biography of each member of the circle contribute an important body of work to the understanding of this group. the book also includes an in depth analysis of Semina, Wallace's journal that is "a fragmentary guidebook to alternative modes of thinking, living, and art making...based on a romantic embrace of mysticism, individualism, and domesticity." The catalogue also includes an illustrated chronology from...
Dates: 2005

Serien / Schmidt, Wolfgang., 1965

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Identifier: CC-01926-1962
Scope and Contents

Wolfgang Schmidt was born in 1929 and died in 1995. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965