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Mathematical poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 341 Collections and/or Records:

Grafemas / Hamburger, Alex., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-09804-9998
Scope and Contents

Grapheme is defined as a "single graphic sign composed by different graphic traces that permit the visual understanding of the words in the written language, just as the phonemes allow the acoustic understanding in the oral language. Term created in the north-American linguistics, with a more rigorous and wider designation than letter since it also encompasses the diacritics, ideograms and punctuation dots." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Happy 70th Ta From Eli / Behar, Elijah Sackner., 2002

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Identifier: CC-38820-40734
Scope and Contents

This drawing was made by Marvin Sackner's grandson in honor of his 70th birthday. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Happy Holidays / Fodde, Raphael., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-35619-37366
Scope and Contents

The numbers 2001 are printed 14 times, each in a different typeface on the front of the brochure. Elizabeth Fodde Reguer contributed an etching using highly stylized calligraphy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Homage to Poussin / Hutchins, Alice., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-09013-9190
Scope and Contents

This is a copy of the original image made by altering a postcard with overlaid letraset numbers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

I.A.C. (International Artists Cooperation): Time Book. No.38 / Gabor Attalai., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-08394-8560
Scope and Contents

Edited by Klaus Groh. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

In the Beginning: A Novella, 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-37070-38911
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a progressively increasing horizontal row of letters of the alphabet, e.g., A, ABB, ABBCCC, etc. to form a pyramid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Industrial Sabotage No.50: Lineage (Mock-Up) / curry, jw; Baker C; Bennett JM; bissett b; Coleman V; DiMichele B; Duggan MB; Dutton P; Grumman B; Laba M; Jupitter-Larsen G; Nichol bp; Ross S; Silliman R; Truhlar R; Tzara T; Troendle Y; Drake LB; lore q., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-20273-20670
Scope and Contents

Also includes R. Beland, jw curry, K. Connely, G. Evason, M. Fratocelli, E. Bushmiller, A. Darlington, L. Banjii, D. Cunliffe, J. Glass, D. Jensen, T. Kupferberg, R. Lieberman, M. Peach, H. Polkinhorn, and G. Reitzenstein as contributors. This mock-up of Curvd H&Z No.415 is missing full page originals that were directly printed from works by G. Evason, b. bissett, M. Peach and G. Reitzenstein. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Infineightations (stamped with 4 infinity signs on each page) / Gibbs, Michael., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-44635-46798
Scope and Contents

The book is stamped as four infinity signs on each page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

John Pearson: Works from 1968-76 / Pearson, John., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-03783-3855
Scope and Contents

Drawing of this period formerly held by Sackner Archive donated to the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Ken Cox Memorial / the sun-cheese wheel-ode; a double-rolling- gloster memorial forkencox [white background] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Wright E., 1968

 Item — Folder 35: [Barcode: 31858072459948]
Identifier: CC-53335-100045
Scope and Contents

This copy has a white background onto are which printed colored letters dictated by the analysis on the verso. William Allen comments: "Dom Sylvester's memorial to the artist Ken Cox, who died in November 1968 after a tragic accident. This double-sided print was printed at the Compton Press, Salisbury, in orange and green on yellow stock. The verso side of the print features silkscreen, together with the title and date. Recto, printed in black, contains the full length title "Ken Cox Memorial/Sun-Cheese wheel-ode, a double-rolling-gloster memorial for kencox" and the complex workings of Houedard's Consonant and Vowel System, as well as acknowledging Semi-Bold Flaxman by Edward Wright. The letters K- E- N- C- O- X are missing from the composition - reflecting the loss of the artist. Less than 300 prints were produced on white, pink and yellow stock." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Ken Cox Memorial / the sun-cheese wheel-ode; a double-rolling- gloster memorial forkencox [yellow background] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Wright E., 1968

 Item — Folder 35: [Barcode: 31858072459948]
Identifier: CC-53334-100044
Scope and Contents

This copy has a yellow background onto are which printed colored letters dictated by the analysis on the verso. William Allen comments: "Dom Sylvester's memorial to the artist Ken Cox, who died in November 1968 after a tragic accident. This double-sided print was printed at the Compton Press, Salisbury, in orange and green on yellow stock. The verso side of the print features silkscreen, together with the title and date. Recto, printed in black, contains the full length title "Ken Cox Memorial/Sun-Cheese wheel-ode, a double-rolling-gloster memorial for kencox" and the complex workings of Houedard's Consonant and Vowel System, as well as acknowledging Semi-Bold Flaxman by Edward Wright. The letters K- E- N- C- O- X are missing from the composition - reflecting the loss of the artist. Less than 300 prints were produced on white, pink and yellow stock." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Kolaze 1964-1981 / Ovcacek, Eduard ; Joza V., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-51512-72610
Scope and Contents

The print is written in French and consists of a poem relating to Beckett's "Waiting for Godot." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

La Vie Mode d'Imploi / Perec, Georges., 1978

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Identifier: CC-31965-33493
Scope and Contents

This is a second printing of the first edition of the novel, "Life: A User's Manual," as translated into English by David Bellos, a version also held by the Sackner Archive. The novel was the winner of the Medicis Prize (1978). It was printed on November 27, 1978 whereas the first printing took place August 25, 1978. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Language 1966-2006 / Bochner, Mel ; Hesse E ; LeWitt S ; Johns J ; Weiner L ; Reinhardt A ; Smithson R., 2007

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Identifier: CC-62732-68919
Scope and Contents

Amazon WEB "A leading practitioner of conceptual art, Mel Bochner (b. 1940) was one of the first artists in the 1960s to introduce language into the visual field. Despite their significance, these contributions remain unexplored in art historical scholarship. This fascinating book provides the first overview of Bochner's language-based works from the past forty years, including previously unpublished images and projects. Long preoccupied by language and its influence on vision and perception, Bochner has recently shifted from a more analytical use of language to an exploration of the way in which color diverts a text from its duty to convey meaning. As a result, language becomes a tool in Bochner's interrogation into how an object"”be it a painting, sculpture, mathematical equation, or a complete replacement of the "object" with language itself"”can function as a work of art." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007