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Furnival, John, 1933-

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1933-05-29-

Found in 425 Collections and/or Records:

Dom Sylvester Houedard's Cosmic Typewriter / Poynor, Rick; Houedard DS; Furnival J; Sackner MA., 2012

 Item
Identifier: CC-55983-9999451
Scope and Contents

Poyner describes the symposium and exhibition held on the poet Dom Sylvester Houedard at the South London Gallery with a book launch by Occasional Papers .Marvin Sackner presented an illustrated talk on the drawings of Houedard and lent works for the pop-up exhibition. The Sackner Archive contributed the illustrations from the Archive for the catalogue. Stored in Houedard box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

Dorothy / Furnival, John, editor ; Bailey P ; Albert-Birot P ; Cox K ; Furnival A ; Furnival J ; Houedard DS ; Kostelanetz R ; Phillips T., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-12234-12458
Scope and Contents

This catalogue was printed for a group exhibition organized by Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Dorothy's Umbrellas / Furnival, John, editor ; Bailey P ; Furnival A ; Furnival J ; Houedard DS ; Meyer T ; Phillips T ; Davies H., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-36214-38001
Scope and Contents

This group exhibition was held at Nottingham Testival, Bristol Arts Centre and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Tom Phillips contributed "The Singing Mushroom: Poem for John Cage" and a page from "A Humument" both of which are reproduced in color in the catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Dorothy's Umbrellas / Furnival, John, editor ; Bailey P ; Furnival A ; Furnival J ; Houedard DS ; Meyer T ; Phillips T ; Davies H., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-13137-13434
Scope and Contents

This group exhibition was held at Nottingham Testival, Bristol Arts Centre and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Tom Phillips contributed "The Singing Mushroom: Poem for John Cage" and a page from "A Humument" both of which are reproduced in color in the catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

[Double Portrait] / Furnival, John., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-13211-13512
Scope and Contents

The two men in this portrait cannot be identified. Stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

dozibao gin nunga gap , 1966

 Item — Folder 57: [Barcode: 31858072537917]
Identifier: CC-53328-59055
Scope and Contents

The poster is stored in the unfolded state. There is small cartoon incorporated into this typographical piece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Dramatis Personae I (A-L) / Furnival, John ; Ackerman A ; Adrian M ; Arias-Misson A ; Arts A ; Bailey P ; Banana A ; Baroni V ; Bennett JM ; Bloch M ; Cleveland B ; Cobbing B ; Cutts S ; Chopin H ; Cohen R ; Crozier R ; Christie J ; CrackerJackKid ; Disler M ; Essary L ; Pittore-Eurofico C ; Finch P ; Fish P ; Fox H ; Furnival A ; Gerlovina R ; Helmes S ; Hocks P ; Hoffberg J ; Holden K ; Johnson R ; Karp A ; Kleinberg J ; King R ; Kostelanetz R ; Lane B., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-13107-13403
Scope and Contents

This project comprised two looseleaf notebooks (I & II) with plastic sleeves pages. It included "188 answers, excluding latecomers, to 308 letters sent from Rosewell, New Mexico" by John Furnival. A self portrait photograph of each recipient was supposed to be placed into the windowed envelope and remailed to Furnival. However, many participants sent portraits of others clipped from printed materials. The envelopes and their contents were often highly decorated and contained personal notes to Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

[Drawing for Watts Chapel] / Furnival, John., 1970

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Identifier: CC-13215-13516
Scope and Contents

A rendering from a stained glass window with four saintly figures, flowers and the motto "The Word Was with God" from the Watts Chapel at Compton, Surrey. Stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

[Drawing of Harry Matthew Furnival on Letter to Henri Chopin] / Furnival, John; Chopin H., 1964

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Identifier: CC-12674-12917
Scope and Contents

Furnival describes the birth of his son to Henri Chopin and asks to use Chopin as a reference during his job search. The picture is of Harry as a newborn. There is a small concrete vowel poem at the bottom of drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Egg Series: A Curate's Egg, Imperially Hatched, To be Viewed Landscape / Furnival, John., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-13273-13574
Scope and Contents

Curate is a British term for the assistant to a vicar of the Church of England. The egg shell has been divided into 16 segments, each with a different style of line-drawn hatchings. A lower case letter appears in negative relief on ten of the segments which spells, "excellent." This is a spoof on the British religious tradition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Egg Series: Curate's Egg, Imperially Hatched, In Parts / Furnival, John., 1976

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Identifier: CC-13276-13577
Scope and Contents

Curate is a British term for the assistant to a vicar of the Church of England. The drawing consists of hatched fragments of an egg shell with a lower case letter on each fragment that together spell "eggshellent." Here Furnival appears to be poking fun at the British religious institution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Egg Series: Egg Legs It Right / Furnival, John., 1976

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Identifier: CC-13271-13572
Scope and Contents

Half of an egg shell is depicted on the right side; the caption in bold cursive text is placed in the lower center of the drawing. The word "legs" references the shape on the left that also resembles a knee. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Egg Series: Eggs Sit Left / Furnival, John., 1976

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Identifier: CC-13272-13573
Scope and Contents

Viewed from above, the two parts of the egg shell in this drawing might be interpreted as the thigh meeting the knee. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Egg Series: Forty-nine Ways of Hatching a Cosmic Egg, 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-13286-13587
Scope and Contents

Consists of drawings of the same egg shell in a grid seven by seven. Each egg is formed with "hatched" lines done in a different way, e.g., horizontal, vertical, horizontal slanted, combination of slanted horizontal over slanted vertical, etc. The method of drawing egg shells with hatchings accounts for the title. These hatching styles are reminiscent of the wall drawings by Sol LeWitt.drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Egg Series: Imperial Disinteggration (for Gibbon) / Furnival, John., 1976

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Identifier: CC-13280-13581
Scope and Contents

Both the caption and the egg shell have been fragmented in this drawing. Gibbon refers to the British historian, Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) who wrote "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire." Furnival's drawing is a metaphor for this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Egg Series: Some Eggcentric Circles / Furnival, John., 1976

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Identifier: CC-13277-13578
Scope and Contents

The shape of an egg shell is formed by five eccentric egg shells with different hatched markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Egg Series: The Great British Egg Rise (1977) / Furnival, John., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-13274-13575
Scope and Contents

The drawing depicts an image of an egg shell with radiating bands as a spoof on the Japanese flag icon of the Rising Sun. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Egg Series: Yink Yolk / Furnival, John., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-13275-13576
Scope and Contents

Image and caption are a word play on Ying/Yang. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

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Subject
Concrete poetry 110
Visual art 78
Visual poetry 71
Picture poetry 67
Documentation 55