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details from the book of notice: the sound of the idle / Seaman, Bill., 1988

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Identifier: CC-53413-100082

Scope and Contents

This is one of 20 posters printed as an outdoor environmental event by Bill Seaman. The Sackners lent financial support to this artistic action. Each finished poster carries a brief instruction to the viewer that has been set in an old blind printed computer jagged typeface on a solid black background achieved by pressing, with steamroller, an inked metal plate placed on a paper sheet upon a street. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

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

details from the book of notice: the sound of [the] services / Seaman, Bill., 1988

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Identifier: CC-53414-100083

Scope and Contents

This is one of 20 posters printed as an outdoor environmental event by Bill Seaman. The Sackners lent financial support to this artistic action. Each finished poster carries a brief instruction to the viewer that has been set in an old blind printed computer jagged typeface on a solid black background achieved by pressing, with steamroller, an inked metal plate placed on a paper sheet upon a street. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

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

details from the book of notice: the sound of underwater / Seaman, Bill., 1988

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Identifier: CC-53399-100067

Scope and Contents

This is one of 20 posters printed as an outdoor environmental event by Bill Seaman. The Sackners lent financial support to this artistic action. Each finished poster carries a brief instruction to the viewer that has been set in an old blind printed computer jagged typeface on a solid black background achieved by pressing, with steamroller, an inked metal plate placed on a paper sheet upon a street. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

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

details from the book of notice: the sound of vehicles / Seaman, Bill., 1988

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Identifier: CC-53400-100068

Scope and Contents

This is one of 20 posters printed as an outdoor environmental event by Bill Seaman. The Sackners lent financial support to this artistic action. Each finished poster carries a brief instruction to the viewer that has been set in an old blind printed computer jagged typeface on a solid black background achieved by pressing, with steamroller, an inked metal plate placed on a paper sheet upon a street. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

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

details from the book of notice: the sound of whistles / Seaman, Bill., 1988

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Identifier: CC-53401-100069

Scope and Contents

This is one of 20 posters printed as an outdoor environmental event by Bill Seaman. The Sackners lent financial support to this artistic action. Each finished poster carries a brief instruction to the viewer that has been set in an old blind printed computer jagged typeface on a solid black background achieved by pressing, with steamroller, an inked metal plate placed on a paper sheet upon a street. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

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

Dignified Image Reflected by Mirror in Twelve Lines, 2000

Item — Box 180: [Barcode: 31858072459500]

Identifier: CC-42832-44872

Scope and Contents

Each poem object consists of a box handmade by Biro into which has been placed a circular mirror on a cushioned bed with the following lines: 1) We Get On Well, 2) I Don't Look Anyone In The Eye, 3) I'm Obsessed With The Future, 4) It's Hard Not To Hate In A Situation Like This, 5) Often Feel Like Don Quixote and 6) Life Here Is Just Survival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

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

domain / Langlands, Ben ; Bell, Nikki., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44699-46865

Scope and Contents

One list of acronyms used in the artworks consist of international NGO's and UN agencies based in Kabul, Afghanistan, the other banned organizations, liberation armies, and security agencies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

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

Dream / Depew, Wally., 1973

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Identifier: CC-58087-10001336

Scope and Contents

The prints consist of single four letter words including fade, bunt, slow and rant on abstract colored backgrounds. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

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

DREAM OCEAN DREAM / Depew, Wally., 1984

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Identifier: CC-52978-74122

Scope and Contents

The pages of this long poem can be arranged by the reader. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

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

Eclipses / Lewty, Simon ; Dubrow J., 2004

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Identifier: CC-54122-643037

Dates: 2004

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

Emigrate if you want a White Christmas / Jackson, Nicola., 1996

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Identifier: CC-47232-49975

Dates: 1996

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

Essay Packs / Holzer, Jenny., 1980

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Identifier: CC-49660-70713

Scope and Contents

The typographic appearance of the broadsides shows poorly printed typesetting of the texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

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

Etymological Collection Of Adverbs Equivalent-To-103, 1983

Item — Box 200: [Barcode: 31858072459708]

Identifier: CC-59793-66603

Dates: 1983

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

Everyday Classics / Smagula, Howard., 1975

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Identifier: CC-49044-70082

Scope and Contents

Howard Smagula is an artist born in 1942 who wrote a book entitled "Creative Drawing" (2002). There is no mention of this book on the internet nor its date or tirage. It consists of a banal story in large single colored letters on each broadside. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

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