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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 781 Collections and/or Records:

Letters from Kythera, Too , 1996

 Item — Folder 80: [Barcode: 31858072538394]
Identifier: CC-16396-16746
Scope and Contents

The poster printed on heavy glossy stock depicts an abstracted shape of a nude feminine torso with its surface covered by a grid of randomly selected typewritten letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

L'Homme de Parole, 1997

 Item — Box 272: [Barcode: 31858072460938]
Identifier: CC-34475-36172
Scope and Contents

The book represents a man's body with a white, plastic spiral spine, a face and hair made of cut, smaller spiral spine material, a heart shaped heart printed with "je t'aime," and appropriately shaped booklets for the arms, abdomen, legs and penis. Crombie wrote the Sackners that these book objects were too difficult to transport and make so that none of the editions were completed as stated in the colophon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Liber de Laudibus Sanctae Crucis / Maurus, Rabanus., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-06541-6660
Scope and Contents

There are 28 shaped poems in this book that was adapted from a manuscript in which the calligraphers who did the writing were supervised by Maurus. Three copies of this manuscript were made. A facsimile of one of them is held by the Sackner Archive a in the images from the manuscript in some of them. The black letters were made with lead type and the red letters with woodcut type. Includes reproductions of 28 shaped poems and two paintings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Liber de Laudibus Sanctae Crucis / Maurus, Rabanus., 1503

 Item
Identifier: CC-61964-6661
Scope and Contents

There are 28 shaped poems in this book that was printed from a manuscript in which the calligraphers who did the writing were supervised by Maurus. Three copies of this manuscript were made. A facsimile of one of them is held by the Sackner Archive and the images in the book are not identical to the manuscript in all instances. The black letters were made with lead type and the red letters with woodcut type. Two pages that depict a pattern poem of Christ on the Cross as well as another poem with a figure are missing from the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1503

Lilliput: MDZ. No.9 / Felice Piemontese., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-31991-33519
Scope and Contents

This series was edited by Luciano Caruso. Stored with Luciano Caruso material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Limitation / Wolf-Rehfeldt, Ruth., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-57619-10000892
Scope and Contents

The work is shaped like an emerald and each letter is printed in black and blue ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

little fountain in three colours / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-12311-12536
Scope and Contents

Three words, "liberty, equality, and fraternity" are printed as a vertical row of single letters in the shape of a spout from a fountain. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Lost & Found Characters / Butella, Alan., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-36424-38216
Scope and Contents

The author/printer used letters, numbers and symbols to create typographical explorations. "Each page of vellum with characteristic dancing type is interspersed with a page holding a central emblem which is also made of type."Doug Kisor writes in the introduction," Unyielding alphabets shaken loose from their disciplined path gather in new patterns. Moody riddles, shifting the tool of the specific into an expressive sign, their existence indicating a place, a path, an idea, a vision, a collective consciousness. Zoomorphic forms that translate into complex stories, embracing whimsy, myth, and ritual." The small typographic emblems in the book are also featured in a stamp sheet print held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Lost & Found Characters / Butella, Alan., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-33738-35401
Scope and Contents

The author/printer used letters, numbers and symbols to create typographical explorations. "Each page of vellum with characteristic dancing type is interspersed with a page holding a central emblem which is also made of type."Doug Kisor writes in the introduction," Unyielding alphabets shaken loose from their disciplined path gather in new patterns. Moody riddles, shifting the tool of the specific into an expressive sign, their existence indicating a place, a path, an idea, a vision, a collective consciousness. Zoomorphic forms that translate into complex stories, embracing whimsy, myth, and ritual." The small typographic emblems in the bookare also featured in a stamp sheet print held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Love Letters: A Celebration of Jewish Love and Marriage in Words and Images / Moss, David., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-62508-47661
Scope and Contents

This book was a gift from Arthur Jaffe in honor of the Sackners' 50th wedding anniversary. The hard cover book duplicates with illustrations and explanations the Ketubot (Jewish wedding contracts) created by David Moss from 1971 to the present. The portfolio contains prints of the Seven Blessings recited at a Jewish wedding ceremony. Love Letters was reviewed in the July 2005 issue of Letter Arts Review. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

L'Uomo e il Meccanismo / Miglietta, Enzo., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-06277-6392
Scope and Contents

The drawing is divided into a grid as a template for printing the pages of an artist book. The latter in an edition of 20 copies is also held by the Sackner Archive. The images consist of red and blue stick figures and mechanical gears, all constructed using a calligraphic, micrographic text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

[m bordered rectangles] (311063) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-56068-9999515
Scope and Contents

The borders of the rectangles are formed by overtyping lowercase m's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Maalaus / Ruutsalo, Eino., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-57551-10000828
Scope and Contents

The title in Finnnish translates to 'a painting a work of art' or to the 'act of painting.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966