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Visual/verbal

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2130 Collections and/or Records:

The First Twilight / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-09034-9211
Scope and Contents

The words of Martin Luther King in this poem relate to the first bombing of the Gulf War on the same day as King's birthday. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Flat Chin / Was, Elizabeth (aka Was, Liz)., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-00494-506
Scope and Contents

Using made-up words like nasolabialis and embouture, the artist has placed them on a wooden support that seems to resemble a tongue. The vertical text reads in part "All roads lead to the flat chin/all roads leave from the flat chin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

The Fourth Dimension / Hung, Berwyn., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27503-28555
Scope and Contents

The text reads, "We are the prisoners of our own creation" and the accompanying images are wrist watches. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

The General Knowledge of Idiots / W. Mark Sutherland., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-02881-2925
Scope and Contents

Illustrations include among others the tip of John Cage's thumb and the end of William Burroughs penis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

The Hand Correspondence: Paper Has a Memory / Golden, Alisa., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-10254-10457
Scope and Contents

This is one of a series of three books; the others are entitled, "Mirror Error" and "Voyeur." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Labyrinth / Steinberg, Saul., 1954

 Item
Identifier: CC-30396-31813
Scope and Contents

This book is a collection of line drawings that appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Life, etc. It deals with false dicuments, passports, diplomas, certificates, false photographs, false etchings, false wine labels, letters, manuscripts, fingerprints, cowboys, games, rubberstamp architecture, slums, skyscrapers, cacography, etc. There are 350 drawings in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1954

The Last Great Do / Voo Doo., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-00724-742
Scope and Contents

Collage submitted as entry to Homage To The Mad Diarist exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Look of Russian Literature Avant Garde Visual Experiments, 1900-1930 by Gerald Janecek / Hill, Crag; Janecek G; Jensen D; Frank J., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09085-9264
Scope and Contents

Hill reviews Janacek's book "The Look of Russian Literature..." a work held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Moore-Turing Calculation / Cole, David., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-17870-18240
Scope and Contents

Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Obispu, California. Exhibition was curated by Karl Kempton. The visual images are reproductions of Henry Moore sculptures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Music Pack / Van Der Meer, Ron ; Berkeley, Michael., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-00887-910
Scope and Contents

Described as a "unique, three-dimentional tour through the creation of music over the centuries: what musicians do, how they do it, and the masterpieces they have given us." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

The New Heroine of Street Fashion / Edelstein, Andrea., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-14120-14425
Scope and Contents

Collage is based on Bill Cunningham's "Street Fashion" in which Ruth Sackner is photographed wearing a worded shirt. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985