Kriben Aske (River Run) / Luigi Tola., 1991
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Scope and Contents
The text in Italian and Ligurian has its title taken from Joyce's Finnegan's Wake. The recto depicts a large eye collaged from newspapers of several languages and states "The eye is the hand that catches the world and gives it back to the word from which has come into being writing." The verso has collaged images of nudes and the text, "I am carving the running of signs; I am carving here on my mind the running of signs; I am carving here on my mind the running of signs, the running of signs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates
- Creation: 1991
Creator
- Tola, Luigi, 1930-2014 (Person)
Extent
0 See container summary (1 standing screen (3 panels, enamel paint, collaged, wooden, ink, string, resin, varnish, letraset, both sides)) ; panels each 173 x 50 x 2 cm, in standing screen 173 x 156 x 2 cm
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Physical Location
master bedroom
Custodial History
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.
General
Published: Genoa, Italy : [Publisher not identified]. Signed by: [Luigi] Tola (c.- top edge); [Luigi] Tola (l.r.- panel). Inscription: Italian. General: About 2 total copies. 1 number copy. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: RED.
Genre / Form
Repository Details
Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository
125 W. Washington St.
Main Library
Iowa City Iowa 52242 United States
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