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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4861 Collections and/or Records:

Marius De Zayas and Visual Poetry: "Mental Reactions" / Bohn, Willard., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-23729-24176
Scope and Contents

Serving as the director of '291' during its brief but eventful existence (March 1915-February 1916), Marius de Zayas was the first to introduce the visual poem to America, writes Dr. Bohn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Marketing Decor for a Conflicted Era / MacLeod, Gillian., 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-47506-68503
Scope and Contents

The article describes how "companies try to find the words for furniture designed to defy description." The illustration combines text and image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

[Marlins Announcement] / Anonymous., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-40470-42442
Scope and Contents

The left page depicts a pitcher who has just released a baseball that appears to smash through the facing right page. The area that the ball "rips" through the newsprint dealing with an article on the young Marlin baseball players is filled with scattered letters of varying size, strewn about by the "force" of the pitched baseball. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Martini Culture / Kearns J ; Oldenburg C ; Ruscha E., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-39836-41800
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts a silkscreen print by Edward Ruscha entitled Sin (with an olive). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Marvin and Ruth Sackner Artchive of Concrete & Visual Poetry / Phillips, Tom., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-04836-4929
Scope and Contents

This painting was commissioned by Ruth & Marvin Sackner. It consists of 90 small paintings on masonite assembled as a grid within a single frame. It includes several personal jokes and aphorisms known to the Sackners and Phillips. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

[Marvin Sackner at EyeRhymes] / Gunther, Thomas., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-28689-29991
Scope and Contents

This photograph depicts a rear view of Marvin Sackner during his presentation at the EyeRhymes conference in Edmonton, Canada. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Mary Rudolf's Chromosomes / Cobbing, Bob., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-17787-18157
Scope and Contents

This poem with the appearance of a film sequence in the form of a grid, was published in Second Aeon No.15, 1972. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Mathemaku for Pete Spence / Grumman, Bob., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-37492-39345
Scope and Contents

Grumman gave this print to the Sackners during his visit to the Archive in June 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Mathemaku for Tom Phillips / Grumman, Bob; Phillips T., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-36677-38491
Scope and Contents

Grumman uses Phillips' Humument process on a page from a mathematical book on boundries. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Matieres et Talismans / Staritsky, Anna ; Butor M ; Sicard, M., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-32986-34606
Scope and Contents

This book, written in appreciation of Staritzky's ouevre, depicts examples of various aspects of her art including visual poem objects, collages, carved wood sculptures with text, and pages from an illustrated book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978