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Mathematical poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 341 Collections and/or Records:

dbqp: A Definition Of Visual Poetry. No.30 / Bob Grumman., 1988

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Identifier: CC-16236-16581
Scope and Contents

Also designated Wordict No.1. The answer to the title of the poem is an ampersand raised to the third power. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

dbqp: Mathemaku for Ronald Johnson. No.172/Mar / Bob Grumman., 1993

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Identifier: CC-14820-15133
Scope and Contents

The poem was adapted from Ronald Johnson's poem, Balloons for Moonless Nights, a print portfolio held by the Sackner Archive which Grumman inspected during his visit to the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

dbqp: The Pluraled. No.96/Jun / Karl Kempton ; Jonathan Brannen., 1990

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Identifier: CC-14963-15277
Scope and Contents

Also designated dboubdiedb #3. Kempton's poem reads, spot + place - plot = space. Brannen's poem reads, word + 1 = world. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Der Buchstabe als Weltenformel / Daniel, Peter., 1994 - 1995

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Identifier: CC-27722-28827
Scope and Contents

The drawing consists of five formulas: i2 = -1 / E=mc2 / 0+0= infinity symbol=shin / Aleph=Yod+Vav+Yod / Taw=Raish+Vav. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994 - 1995

Dessin Architectural III / Seille, Genevieve., 1992

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Identifier: CC-02629-2672
Scope and Contents

This two vertical human-like figures in the center of this drawing are less obvious than the surrealistic creatures prominent in Seille's earlier works. The dense handwritten words and numbers are done is in varied styles that are typical of her ouevre. The background includes consists of collaged elements of other Seille's drawings and the work is varnished giving it a a brownish cast. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Doing Long Division in Color: A Portfolio of Recent Mathemaku (Mostly in Color) / Grumman, Bob ; Bennett JM ; spence p ; Blake W ; Ernst KS ; Phillips T ; Basinski M., 2001

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Identifier: CC-37986-39871
Scope and Contents

With the exception of 3 sequences created with John M. Bennett, all the "mathemaku" were completed in June at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

[eight]} 8 / Horwitz, Channa., 1986

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Identifier: CC-59803-59934
Scope and Contents Wikipedia: hanna Horwitz (nee Channa Helene Shapiro, May 21, 1932 -- April 29, 2013) was a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles, United States.[1] She is recognized for the logically-derived compositions created over her five decade career. Her visually complex, systematic works are generally structured around linear progressions using the number eight.n 1968, Horwitz (then Channa Davis) submitted a proposal to the seminal Art and Technology Program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The proposed sculpture consisted of eight beams moving vertically out of sculptural bases over ten minutes of time, corresponding to a choreography of colored lights. Although the sculpture was never fabricated, Horwitz's proposal was included in the 1970 program catalogue, whose cover prominently displayed the faces of the white male artists whose works appeared in the culminating exhibition at the Museum. Art and Technology's glaring omission of women"”specifically the fact that Horwitz was...
Dates: 1986

Einhalb-Texte / Wezel, Wolf., 1992

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Identifier: CC-00550-563
Scope and Contents

This book depicts poems based solely on the numbers, 1, 2 and 4. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Elemens Des Mathematiques Ou Traite De La Grandeur En General.. (reprint of 1741 edition) / Lamy. Bernard., 2014

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Identifier: CC-59375-10002454
Scope and Contents

Francois Mairey purchased this book after she has begun her experimental typing and calligraphic letter and number combination works and discovered that Lamy had discussed such permutations in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014