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Object contains a book on Magritte, a pipe, and a wax foot covered with the word "cap" which means head in Catalan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Everybody Needs Milk...Even Dada / Kahn, Robin., 1993

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Identifier: CC-07979-8135

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Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Aim High" at the Jersey City Museum, these prints depict several erotic images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Framing the Narrative / Beaulieu, Derek., 2000

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Identifier: CC-36500-38298

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The image depicts a man hanging a framed picture of an English and made-up (or a dialect) text from a book. This work is also designated Content Vol.1 No.1. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Inspiration Machine / Barron, Susan., 1992

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Identifier: CC-23310-23750

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In this drawing, Barron emphasizes the importance of directing attention to observing the act of breathing in diagnostic medicine over the utilization of the invasive diagnostic tool, the Swan-Ganz catheter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Irreverzibili Zeneon / Bujdoso, Alpar., 1985

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Identifier: CC-23191-23629

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Contains visual poems in which text arranged in varied patterns and type faces overlays roentgenograms of different parts of the body including two of the chest. In the latter, the text is Neo-Dada in content, e.g. along the left border of one chest x-ray is printed in Hungarian "The chest wall is like Moses' basket of breathing" and in the middle of the cardiac silhouette, "With fear, I am the guardian of my diaphragm." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E [Language]. No.1/Jan / Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, editors ; Eigner L ; Coolidge C ; Piombino N ; Johnson R ; Weiner L ; Greenwald T ; Lally M ; Silliman R ; Drucker J ; Bernstein C ; Rothenberg J ; McCaffery S ; Weiners J ; Laufer S ; Weiner H ; Andrews B ; Sherry J., 1978

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Identifier: CC-62631-47883

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This issue includes a review of Johanna Drucker's "From A to Z" book by Charles Bernstein and a note by McCaffery on his work, "Carnival." The layout of this issue was done by Susan Laufer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Lone Ranger / Kasper, Michael., 1984

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Identifier: CC-07875-8028

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This print depicts five eye masks with different configured eye openings and captions. It was exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispu, California, an exhibition curated by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Mon Alias: La Simona / Baroni, Vittore., 2000

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Identifier: CC-37551-39408

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The rubberstamped words in a horizontal layout to form the lips of daVinci's appropriated Mona Lisa read, "Mona Lisa No Smile." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry