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Pulmoneorum Descriptio Locorum Index Verborum, 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-02635-2678

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Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. Drawings, booklet and cards are inserted into sleeve pages formed by partial fastening with paper tape. The pages depict bizarre, human-like figures and obsessive, multiple calligraphic styles. Seille lists words in French and English relating to breathing on cards but the major text on the pages on lung anatomy and disease is taken from Latin writings of Pliny, e.g. "a heavy cold clears up if the sufferer kisses a mule's muzzle." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1990

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 hard cover book + sleeve pages (ink, graphite, handwriting) + page (fold-out, ink, graphite, handwriting, collaged) + 4 drawings (folded, ink, handwriting, crayon, collaged) + booklet (watercolor, ink, handwriting) + 7 cards (ink, crayon, handwriting) (8 pages) in artist bookbinding (collaged, paper)) ; 27 x 15.8 x 2.5 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

Original Sackner location: box shelf 2nd f On exhibit UIHC 08/2023

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: Burton-upon-Trent, England : [Publisher not identified]. Signed by: Genevieve Seille (t.c.- title page). Nationality of creator: French. General: About 1 total 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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