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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4850 Collections and/or Records:

Invisible City Books: Foresta Ultra Naturam ("forrest beyond nature'). No.6 / Emelio Villa ; Giulia Niccolai ; Luciano Caruso., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-00702-719
Scope and Contents

This work was translated by Pasquale Verdicchio and edited by Paul Vangelisti. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Ipermarket / Miglietta, Enzo., 1992

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Identifier: CC-06431-6549
Scope and Contents

The multicolored images consist of a grid depicting objects stacked on the shelves of a supermarket, viz., bottles, boxes, paper rolls, glasses etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Irma / Phillips, Tom., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-30072-31467
Scope and Contents

This is the score for an Opera that was first published in 1969 as part of Revue Ou. It was then reprinted by Tetrad Press in 1972. This copy is a subsequent printing on better paper with slight touches of color, e.g., light yellow-brown background and greys in the images, printed circa 1985. The opera was first performed at the Ceolfrith Arts Association at the University of Newcastle in 1972. The work is made up entirely of fragments from A Human Document. The piece has been recorded on a 33 1/3 record and a compact disc and both these versions are also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Irma / Phillips, Tom., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-30074-31469
Scope and Contents

This is the score for an Opera that was first published in 1969 as part of Revue Ou. It was then reprinted by Tetrad Press in 1972, the current copy. A subsequent printing on better paper with a touch of color, e.g., light yellow-brown background and greys in the image, was printed circa 1985. The opera was first performed at the Ceolfrith Arts Association at the University of Newcastle in 1972. The work is made up entirely of fragments from the book, A Human Document. The piece was recorded on a 33 1/3 record and a compact disc and both these versions are also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Irma / Tom Phillips; B Eno; G Bryars., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-30073-31468
Scope and Contents

Tom Phillips did the libretto and Gavin Bryars the music for this piece. On the verso of the jacket, Bryars explains how he composed the musical score. A portion of the libretto is also reprinted on the verso. Brian Eno produced the record. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Irma / Tom Phillips; B Eno; G Bryars., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-30073-31468
Scope and Contents

Tom Phillips did the libretto and Gavin Bryars the music for this piece. On the verso of the jacket, Bryars explains how he composed the musical score. A portion of the libretto is also reprinted on the verso. Brian Eno produced the record. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Irretire / Manfredi, Mauro., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-28466-29736
Scope and Contents

The collage consists of printed strips of Italian text fixed to the background white canvas in a chaotic lattice-like pattern. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Irreverzibili Zeneon / Bujdoso, Alpar., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-23191-23629
Scope and Contents

Contains visual poems in which text arranged in varied patterns and type faces overlays roentgenograms of different parts of the body including two of the chest. In the latter, the text is Neo-Dada in content, e.g. along the left border of one chest x-ray is printed in Hungarian "The chest wall is like Moses' basket of breathing" and in the middle of the cardiac silhouette, "With fear, I am the guardian of my diaphragm." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

(&) It Is A Song / Hollo, Anselm ; Furnival, John., 1965

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Identifier: CC-45243-47428
Scope and Contents

John Furnival provided the illustrations to Hollo's poems and designed the cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965