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Visual/verbal

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2135 Collections and/or Records:

The Eyes Have / Craigie, Peter M.., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-18099-18471
Scope and Contents

Each page consists of a visual/verbal vignette using images of eyes with text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

The Final (Anal) Statement of the Mad Diarheaist / Havens, Steve., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-08922-9098
Scope and Contents

Submitted as entry to the Homage To The Mad Diarist exhibition. Steve Havens also uses the name, God McDevil. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The First Fragment: The Case for the Burial of Ancestors Book 1, 1985

 Item — Box 302: [Barcode: 31858073143590]
Identifier: CC-00117-121
Scope and Contents

Three wooden objects and a thimble are placed upright in a bed of beige colored gravel like a dessert landscape. The text is rubberstamped on paper inside the lid and reads "I am the grain of truth...I hold the vessels of history and shatter them at Inside the lid is a small coffin-like wooden box; a black box on the outside has a metal capital "F." This sculpture symbolizes the puppeteer, a founder of an imaginary civilization, the Hegamons, who is described on p. 17 of the book in the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

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

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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

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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