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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4861 Collections and/or Records:

[Photographs from Saarbrucken Visual Poetry Exhibition] / Trinkewitz, Karel; Higgins D; Sackner MA; Sackner RK; Takahashi S; Ruutsalo E; Dencker KP; Schauffelen KB; Trinkewitz K., 1984

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Identifier: CC-31104-32570
Scope and Contents

The Sackners were invited to a televised conference for German TV in which the definitions of visual and concrete poetry were discussed in German that lasted hours with no definitive conclusions. The concluding respondent in the conference, Wolfgang Schmidt, gave a wink to the Sackners and replied to the question "What is Visual Poetry" with I...DON'T....KNOW! The event included an exhibition and poetic performances. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Photographs / Kitasono, Katue., 2009

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Identifier: CC-54035-642998
Scope and Contents Amazon.com: Kitasano was one of the most important Japanese Avant Garde poets of the 20th century. He was born in 1902 and died in 1978. It was right in the middle of the century that his creativity unfolded during the fifty years before and after WWII. His work entailed announcements of the production of his poems and photos, critical essays, the binding and editing of books and magazines. In 1966 Kitasono published the work Plastic Poem which was first published in English as A Note on Plastic Poetry in VOU (Revue de la Poesie Experimentale). This book shows many examples of his published plastic poems many of them published in the sixties and seventies in the magazine VOU. Contains many photographs in b/w and reproductions in color.The Sackner Archive holds the following issues of Vou depiicted as covers in this book: 85, 106, 108, 109, 112 and 114. The Sackner Archive holds the photograph depicted on page 113 of this book (it also appeared in Vou No.106), photograph on page 114...
Dates: 2009

Photos of 2002 / Dmitry Babenko., 2002

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Identifier: CC-40110-42079
Scope and Contents

The disc contains images of Babenko's artistic works of 2002 in jpeg and tiff formats. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Physical Language Laboratory: An Obscure Object. No.9 / Leda Black., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33063-34688
Scope and Contents

Each card contains a single letter of the word, HOME, in different typefaces with a cryptic feminist phrase. The cards are attached by string to form a vertical row . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Physical Language Laboratory: An Obscure Object. No.9 / Leda Black., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33099-34724
Scope and Contents

Each card contains a single letter of the word, HOME, in different typefaces with a cryptic feminist phrase. The cards are attached by string to form a vertical row . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Physical Language Laboratory: Chesapeake One Two Three. No.12 / Leda Black., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42748-44787
Scope and Contents

The two sets of three prints are individually inscribed with different numbers for the edition of 74. The envelopes have different sequences of words that include sky, water, paper, etc. printed in white, brown and red with an undetermined printing technique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Physical Language Laboratory: Family Portrait. No.1 / Leda Black., 1996

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Identifier: CC-28665-29965
Scope and Contents

The title "Family Portrait" is printed on the cover. "Instructions: are you a) a knife b) a fork c) a spoon" is printed on the left sided page. The right sided page depicts a fork, knife and spoon that are filled with italicized run-on text dealing with the theme of flesh. The small loose sheet states that this work "may be displayed standing up on the piano with the other family portraits." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Physical Language Laboratory: Family Portrait. No.1 / Leda Black., 1996

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Identifier: CC-28666-29966
Scope and Contents

The title "Family Portrait" is printed on the cover. "Instructions: are you a) a knife b) a fork c) a spoon" is printed on the left sided page. The right sided page depicts a fork, knife and spoon that are filled with italicized run-on text dealing with the theme of flesh. The small loose sheet states that this work "may be displayed standing up on the piano with the other family portraits." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Picasso the Sorcerer / Jacoby, Ruth., 1986

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Identifier: CC-08227-8389
Scope and Contents

Jacoby notes that the word, spiral, has its origins from the latin word, spirare, which means to breathe. This text and Picasso images on this page oppose a page with a quote from Picasso, "Work is my respiration. When I cannot work, I cannot breathe Jacoby then creates a permutation with a Picasso-related theme: work, word, wore, wove, cove, dove, love, live. She draws a spiral and closes the poem with the words Aspiration, Inspiration, Respiration. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Piccolo Chau / Carrega, Ugo., 1987

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Identifier: CC-17125-17483
Scope and Contents

Text of painting reads "Io qui adesso respiro" or "I who at present... breathes" and is based upon a phrase by Marcel Duchamp. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Pictogramma / Bentivoglio, Mirella., 1973

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Identifier: CC-23133-23571
Scope and Contents

Includes essay by Gillo Dorfles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Pictographs / Keith, Bill ; McHugh B., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34777-36483
Scope and Contents

Keith hand colored his trade edition book and added fragments of text, with West African cultural images, and integrated elements of music scores with the pictographs and signs. This book is hand colored and collaged by the Keith from his trade edition book designed by Bryan McHugh. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000