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The Crumpled White Note / Tan, Sherri., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-01235-1266

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Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. The book is a narrative story about a woman who has a break-up of a love affair. Each page has polaroid photographs depicting punctuated, typewritten text or images collaged over phrases accompl with automatic writing. The typed text of the photographs alludes to aspects of breathing, e.g. to escape she began to breathe deeply, with each measured breath, deliberately exhaled, the pace of her breathing, she sighed deeply loudly exhaled etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1990

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (9 unbound pages (black and white photographs, ink, handwriting, museum board, both sides) + unbound page (ink, handwriting, museum board) in slipcase (cloth)) ; collage 45 x 36 cm, in slipcase 49 x 40 x 3 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

portfolio sh 1904

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: Miami, Florida : [Publisher not identified]. Signed by: Sher Tan 1990 (b.c.- title page). Nationality of creator: American. General: About 1 total copies. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: RED.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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