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Illustrated book (citation)

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 166 Collections and/or Records:

Princely Magnificence, 1997

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Identifier: CC-28388-29586
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This exhibition of illuminated manuscripts and printed books from the 13th to the 16th century was presented at Ursus Rare Books by Dr. Jorn Gunther, antiquarian book dealer in Hamburg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Private Printer and the Avant-Garde at Penn, The / Hoyem A ; Grabhorn R ; Pound E ; Swenson M ; Waldrop R., 1992

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Identifier: CC-04295-4375
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This exibition was held to honor Andrew Hoyem's visit to the University of Pennsylvania for the Library's Board of Overseers meeting. May Swenson's Iconographs and Rosemarie Waldrop's Camp Printing, donated to the Library by the Sackner Archive, were exhibited. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Sketching His Way through Genesis / Salkin, Allen; Crumb R., 2009

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Identifier: CC-50268-71335
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This is a review of R. Crumb's book illustrating the Book of Genesis. It took four years to complete. The text is based on the translation by Robert Alter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Textes et Images: Cent Livres Illustres de L'Epoque 1890-1990 / Lurcat J., 1990

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Identifier: CC-01182-1212
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Jean Lurcat's book "Patrice de la Tour du Pin" and Robert Schwarz's book "George Trakl: Abendland," both held by Sackner Archive, are depicted in this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Coming of the Book Arts to the Farm / Ryan, Michael T.., 1992

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Identifier: CC-03565-3629
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Michael Ryan as Director of Research Collections, Van Pelt Library University of Pennsylvania, was responsible for the Tom Phillips exhibition there in May 1993 with works lent by the Sackner Archive. In this book, he writes about collectors who donated livres d'Artistes amd finely bound books to the Stanford University Library, his former post. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

The Futurist Moment: Avant Garde, Avant Guerre, and the Language of Rupture / Perloff, Marjorie ; Cendrars B ; Delaunay S ; Balla G ; Derrida J ; Carra C ; Malevich K ; Smithson R ; Marinetti FT ; Tzara T ; Kruchenykh A ; Mayakovsky V ; Burliuk D., 1986

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Identifier: CC-04142-4221
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In this work, Perloff consolidates the thrust olf the avant garde movements of the early 20th century as a whole. She provides extensive critical and analytic discussions of Cendrars and Delauney's "La Prose du Transsiberien" (held by the Sackner Archive), Marinetti's "Zang Tumb Tuuum" (held by the Sackner Archive), and Carra's "Interventionist Manifesto" (possibly the best discussion of a Futurist collage work). In addition, several classical books and periodicals of the Futurist and Russian Avant Garde periods as well as Robert Smithson's conceptual works are extensively reviewed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Thirty-six Poems / Tu Fu ; Rexroth, Kenneth ; Marden, Brice ; Yau J., 1987

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Identifier: CC-01694-1730
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Tu Fu, an 8th century disciple of Confucious, is regarded as one of China's greatest poets. The translations were made by Rexroth. A suite of 25 prints by Marden, inspired by the poems, is reproduced in the book along with a signed print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

[Untitled] / Rea, Nicholas ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 1991

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Identifier: CC-03364-3417
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R K Francis writes, "In 1989, following a visit to the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Collection of Concrete and Visual Poetry in Miami, Rea was inspired by the idea of creating an artist's book. His interest in this project grew out of a desire to paint a series of watercolour images to accompany extracts from Rimbaud's 'Une saison enfer,' a work which has for a long time fascinated him." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991