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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4852 Collections and/or Records:

Selected Paintings: 1990-2000 / Olivieri, Irene Hardwicke., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-44917-47089
Scope and Contents

The paintings mostly depict nude woman with dense text written onto the bodies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Selected Poems, 1987

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Identifier: CC-11338-11554
Scope and Contents

Peter Finch introduces his collected works by tracing those poets who influenced him. He writes that "concrete poetry does not use language for the recollection of emotion in tranquility but as the material of the poem itself." The book includes a poem, "Breath (after Philip Glass)," which repetitively utilizes the phrases, "the breath came and the breath went," as an incessant background rhythm for the main text in an analogous way that Philip Glass presents his music compositions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Selected Works of the Last Twenty Years / Furnival, John ; Martin H ; Zurbrugg N ; DellaGrazia P., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35500-37237
Scope and Contents

The catalogue mentions that Furnival's works are held by the Sackner collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Selections from the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Phillips, Tom ; Houston Pascal, curator., 1990

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Identifier: CC-04118-4197
Scope and Contents

This exhibition with all works lent by the Sackner Archive was the first one-man museum show of Phillips in the United States. The curator, Huston Pascal, contributed an exceptionally perceptive essay on Phillips works. Phillips also contributed an essay mainly dealing with his relation to the collectors, Ruth & Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Self Acting / Biro, Jozsef ; Kassak L., 2007

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Identifier: CC-50832-71910
Scope and Contents

The originals of several of the collages reproduced in this book are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Self Portrait, 1970

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Identifier: CC-42087-44088
Scope and Contents

The text begins, "OMBWHNW ($5.95) is enigmatic like the title. It's 'bound like a prayer book.'" The book that it cites is Foew&ombwhnw published by Something Else Press in 1969. It is not known whether this print was ever editioned or the size of the edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Self Portrait as a Red Indian / Ryan, Robert., 1995

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Identifier: CC-03687-3753
Scope and Contents

Robert Ryan is a young British artist exhibiting his paintings and prints in an alternative art gallery in London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

[Self-Portrait] / Dana, Llys., 1999

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Identifier: CC-34185-35870
Scope and Contents

This is one of ten expressionist self-portraits formed with written words and marks from varied weighted pen strokes. Photocopies of the other drawings are held by the Sackner Archive. Some of these drawings were shown in an exhibition, "Les Delirants." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Self Portrait With Heads and Humument Fragment / Phillips, Tom., 1976

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Identifier: CC-46279-49001
Scope and Contents

Tom Phillips' self-portrait of his face also appears on the catalogue cover of his exhibition, New Drawings and Prints, 1975-1976, Welsh Art Council. The Humument fragment in the print but not the catalogue cover reads, "a curious rien in photo edged in tea - for every day in the Year - discover the mask." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Self Portrait with Shifting Alphabets / Jackman, Sandra., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44210-46337
Scope and Contents

The image is a portrait of Jackman with overlaying English and Hebrew letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

[Self-Portraits] / Dana, Llys., 1999

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Identifier: CC-34186-35871
Scope and Contents

These are ten reproductions of expressionist self-portraits formed with written words and marks from varied weighted pen strokes. One of th originals is held by the Sackner Archive. Some of these drawings were shown in an exhibition, "Les Delirants." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Semiautomatic: Body Factory Landscape Language. No.2 / Jason Keehn., 1981

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Identifier: CC-29149-30494
Scope and Contents

Each page has a dense visual poem printed on heavy stock, grey paper. This is a different publication than the periodical with the same title published in the nineties out of Athens, Georgia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981