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Breathing / Saunders, Robert., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-02223-2263

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Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. The drawings are arranged as a grid, 4 across and 5 down. Each drawing contains the same repetitive, printed text without spacing between words as a background, viz. "breathing just one more lung of air next to the bone he squeezed me so hard I thought my ribs would break breathe OK OK." The collage elements include letters, lines, abstract images, text from the background, and reproductions of animals and plants. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1990

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (20 prints (photocopied colored) + print (letraset) in portfolio (papercard)) ; prints 29 x 21 cm, in portfolio 25 x 30 x 1 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

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: Gardiner, Maine : [Publisher not identified]. Signed by: R. Saunders (u.r.- verso); R Saunders (l.r.- portfolio). Nationality of creator: American. General: About 4 total copies. 1 number copy. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

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

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