Visual art

prvni lide na Mesici [The First Men in the Moon] / Hoffmeister, Adolf ; Wells, Herbert George., 1964

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Identifier: CC-51750-72850

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Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 -- 13 August 1946) was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books. Together with Jules Verne, Wells has been referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction." Wells was an outspoken socialist and sympathetic to pacifist views, although he supported the First World War once it was under way, and his later works became increasingly political and didactic. His middle-period novels (1900--1920) were less science-fictional; they covered lower-middle class life (The History of Mr Polly) and the "New Woman" and the Suffragettes (Ann Veronica).Adolf Hoffmeister provided 18 collages to illustrate this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

P.S. My Love Is This Fear / Blei, Norbert., 1980

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Identifier: CC-23156-23594

Dates: 1980

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Psalm 24: An Echoing Interpretation / Moss, David., 2011

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Identifier: CC-52676-73812

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The images for the picture poems are abstract and the captions are in Hebrew. David Moss writes, "I believe that one of the most fundamental concepts of Judaism is balance - balance between the physical and the spiritual, between time and space, between strictness and leniency, between justice and compassion, between heritage and destiny...This little book is an attempt to give this notion of biblical parallelism a visual interpretation." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Psalm One Hundred Nineteen / Moss, David., 2014

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Identifier: CC-59772-10002831

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Moss writes,"Psalm 119 is a long, brilliant ode, praise, and paean to Torah itself...This work of art was my attempt to create a version of psalm 119 that highlights its intimate connection with the Hebrew alphabet, reflects its length and structure and relates to its prime theme of Torah.. ..I drew out an alphabet and wrote as much of the text as I could for each letter in micrography, outlining the letter itself...I continued the text by filling in the borders around the letters and around the whole text." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)