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The Hell Passport Project, 2007

 Item — Box: 278
Identifier: CC-50012-71071

Scope and Contents

Each issue within the box covers varying engagements with surrealism through drawings and text. Some topics depicted are floral forms (#4), cartoons (#5), hell (#6), pessimism (#7), humor (#7), nightmares (#9), fragmentation (#10)

This issue consists of surrealistic drawings and text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. This issue consists of surrealistic drawings that resemble paint by number drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. This issue consists of surrealistic drawings by Fiona Smyth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. This issue consists of surrealistic drawings of floral forms by Julie Voyce. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. This issue consists of cartoon-like surrealistic drawings by Ben b. Jacques. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. This issue consists of a lively tale of things the author imagines he will have or not have in hell. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. This issue consists of a lively tale of things the author imagines he will have or not have in hell. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. This issue consists of pessimistic texts and images not without humor. The cover contains 21 anagrams of "hell passport." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. This issue consists of surrealistic sketches by Whitman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. This issue consists of drawings and texts of nightmare vacations created by Rebecca Dolen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. Each page of this issue consists of varying size black dots in horizontal and vertical lines. The covers depict fragmented texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 2007

Creator

Extent

1 item (1 periodical object) : 24 soft cover booklets in 1 box (cardboard, wrapping paper, collaged, label) ; 18.5 x 13.5 cm (book), 5.2 x 29.5 x 20 cm (box)

Language of Materials

English

Original Sackner Archive Location

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Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, gift of Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

Materials Specific Details

Published: Vancouver, Canada : Perro Verlag.

Physical Description

The booklets of the "Hell Passport" series are collected in one dual-compartment cardboard box, organized numerically.

Processing Information

Added by RUTH; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

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

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