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Breath / Broel, Elisabeth., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-23182-23620

Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. Consists of a grid of 7 x 6 packets of normal and abnormal collaged chest roentgenograms fixed to a canvas stretcher support. Each row has one letter in each column which in the horizontal spells "breath." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1991

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 collage (paper, photocopied fragments, x-ray film, black and white photographs, ink, magic marker, string) in canvas stretcher) ; 60 x 50 x 2 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

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Physical Location

stairway wall

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: Cologne, Germany : [Publisher not identified]. Signed by: E. Broel/91 (l.r.). Nationality of creator: German. General: About 1 total copies. 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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