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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4876 Collections and/or Records:

Puddle Art: A Retrospective / Vitale, Julius ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-32168-33717
Scope and Contents

The Sackners are mentioned as holding a Vitali photograph. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Pulmoneorum Descriptio Locorum Index Verborum, 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-02635-2678
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. Drawings, booklet and cards are inserted into sleeve pages formed by partial fastening with paper tape. The pages depict bizarre, human-like figures and obsessive, multiple calligraphic styles. Seille lists words in French and English relating to breathing on cards but the major text on the pages on lung anatomy and disease is taken from Latin writings of Pliny, e.g. "a heavy cold clears up if the sufferer kisses a mule's muzzle." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Pulmoneorum Descriptio Locorum / Seille, Genevieve., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-02628-2671
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. The borders of the picture depict a stylized outline of the two lungs. Several smaller images of the lungs are placed within this outline. Dense, obsessive, calligraphy in Latin ranging from large size to micrographic lettering appears in most of the picture. The image deals the with anatomy and physiology of the lungs and heart and is transcribed from the book "Natural History" by Pliny. Seille also provides a list of French words related to breathing and lung disease. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Pulmoneorum Descriptio Locorum / Seille, Genevieve., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-02639-2682
Scope and Contents

The textural part of this drawing in Latin is taken from the writings about the lungs by Pliny, the Roman Naturalist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Pulmoneorum Descriptio Locorum / Seille, Genevieve., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-02792-2835
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. In the lower half of the drawing, a human-like figure with stylized representation of the lungs and airways is present. On its right side, there are several smaller images of the lungs while on the left side and above it, dense Latin text taken from the writings of Pliny are written, e.g. "below the heart are situated the lungs, drawing in and sending back the breath, and consequently spongy in substance and perforated with empty tubes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Pulmoneorum Descriptio Locorum / Seille, Genevieve., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-03051-3096
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. The main image of this picture is a human-like figure whose lungs are represented by circles and tubes. Smaller, more complex images of the lungs also appear as well as bimorphic organic forms. Obsessive calligraphy is transcribed from Latin writings of Pliny, e.g. at the lower center of the drawing, the large lettering reads: But especially good for those attacked by pulmonary tuberculosis (phthisis), is the root of the plant consiligo... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Pulso / De Araujo, Avelino., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-60530-10003441
Scope and Contents

Taken from Archiveof O!!Zone 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Puntata Continua / Perfetti, Michele., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-28670-29971
Scope and Contents

Image consists of printed material from magazines that depicts two arms, one feminine and the other masculine embracing Italian words and phrases as well as images. The title of this work appears as collaged, printed text at the top center of the piece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Purche La Parola Sia / Miglietta, Enzo., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-06496-6615
Scope and Contents

This calligraphic drawing on translucent paper depicts three gear-like forms connected with pulleys. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Pyramid Ecstacy Exerzise / Alain Arias-Misson., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-28150-29313
Scope and Contents The plexiglas sculpture is from the Pyramidal Ecstasy Exerzises (sic) of Arias-Misson. In a letter to the Sackners, he stated that "they are without doubt the most concentrated and beautiful work I have done... a joyous affair built on the proportions of the Cheops; first I became fascinated by the compelling geometrical forces of the Pyramid, as angles and slopes and proportions created a grammar of relations between the figures I was working with.The theory of numbers, the enormous equation at the heart of the Pyramid, is not irrelevant to this mental energy. The Pyramid, unlike the Western spiritual structures, which soar upward from the ground, appears to have crashed from a void at its summit (the uncompleted golden pyramidal point) to the ground with a geomagnetic intensity. The figures on the walls and inside the pyramids come from the various shamanistic cultures of the world (Polynesian, African, Mayan, Vaudou etc.) which I feel can cluster in this all-encompassing...
Dates: 1997