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Thomkins, André

 Person

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Diese 18 Brief-Collagen / Tinguely, Jean; Sacher, Maja; Roth D; Thomkins A; Spoerri D., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-31830-33348
Scope and Contents

The loose sheet prints a poem by Werner Duggelin. The prints are replications of letters sent by Tinguely to his patron, Maja Sacher. She was the heiress to the Hoffmann-La Roche fortune. The original letters consisted of drawings, collage, handwriting, found objects. The complete collection of drawings is reproduced in the book "Brief von Jean Tinguely an Maja Sacher" that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Dogmat-Mot / Andre Thomkins., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-60186-64571
Scope and Contents

This work is Andre Thomkins (1930-1985) Fluxus take on the rotating text generator game. This is a machine that consists of 10 hexagonal cards, each with 12 words that are common in each of three languages, German, English and French (there are 48 German-French, 60 German-English and 12 German-French-English words. The hexagons pivot on a plane and form phrases in three directions on the hexagonal roof. They can even be arranged differently on the 10 slots, so that the number of combinations can further increase. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Dogmat-Mot / Andre Thomkins., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-60186-64571
Scope and Contents

This work is Andre Thomkins (1930-1985) Fluxus take on the rotating text generator game. This is a machine that consists of 10 hexagonal cards, each with 12 words that are common in each of three languages, German, English and French (there are 48 German-French, 60 German-English and 12 German-French-English words. The hexagons pivot on a plane and form phrases in three directions on the hexagonal roof. They can even be arranged differently on the 10 slots, so that the number of combinations can further increase. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Freunde + Freunde / Gerstner, Karl ; Roth, Dieter ; Spoerri, Daniel ; Thomkins, Andre ; Johnson R ; Brecht G ; Filliou R ; Williams E ; Iannone D ; Greenham L ; Carmi E., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-36307-38097
Scope and Contents

This book was published by Hansjorg Mayer. One of the copies is accompanied by a separate pamphlet that lists the works in the exhibition along with advertisements. The catalogue consists of questionaires answered by the artists along with visual documentation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

futura: Palindrome. No.25 / Andre Thomkins., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-27480-28528
Scope and Contents

This presents six palindromes in printed facsimile of a handwritten text that has an added explanation. The only copies of this issue are in futura sammelband. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Gesammelte Anagramme, 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-01277-1308
Scope and Contents

This book, that depicts examples of Thomkins' poems from 1957-1985, was edited by Dieter Schwarz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

klankteksten ?konkrete poezie visuele teksten Exhibition: ANDRETHOMKINS. No.194 / Andre Thomkins., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-38387-40291
Scope and Contents

This poster was hung in the most important exhibition of concrete poetry in its time. The numbering scheme used to classify the posters is based upon the pages of the exhibition catalogue with the same title. In this case, the poster was not depicted in the catalogue and the page reference is to Thomkins' biography. The poem is arranged in a rectangular grid in large capital letters. Each row is forms an anagram of the poet's name. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

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Calligraphic text 4
Fluxus 4
Visual art 3
Anagram 2
Critical text 2