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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4852 Collections and/or Records:

The Last Blewointment Anthology (Vol.2: LI-ZO: 1963-1983) / bissett, bill, editor ; Cobbing B ; Nichol bp ; Thibaudeau C ; UU D ; Vroom I ; West D ; Ball H ; Tzara T ; Schwitters K ; Apollinaire G ; Cage J., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-23214-23653
Scope and Contents

Includes concrete poem by David UU on the breath of love, entitled "Verklarte Nacht" meaning Transfigured Night, written in the style of James Joyce with John Cage overtones with employment of neologisms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

the Letters Between Us: To Ruth on her birthday March 2006 / Helmes, Scott., 2006

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Identifier: CC-44622-46785
Scope and Contents

The abstract lithographed markings resemble partial letter forms. They are over painted in rose colored watercolor and outlined with a graphite border. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

The Locative and Vocative Case / Furnival, John., 1995

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Identifier: CC-13185-13486
Scope and Contents

The box was made from wooden fragments of commercial shipping crates that were printed or stenciled with the names of commercial products. A large surface of one lid is the actual tympan from the letterpress at Bath College with residuals of colored inks from student mistakes; the title is stenciled onto it. Inner surfaces of the box have been collaged with paper labels and stenciled with words, who? & where? in different languages. The box holds Furnival prints such as the Nailsworth series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

The Madison Collages, 1975

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Identifier: CC-07246-7389
Scope and Contents

The silkscreen cover print of d.a.levy was done by Tom Kryss. The collages were first published in Quixote Vol.4 No.6. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

The Madness of Art by Naomi Campbell / Phillips, Tom ; Sackner MA., 2013

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Identifier: CC-57715-10000970
Scope and Contents

Nancy Campell, editor of Printmaking Today, profiles A Humument as it approaches its half century. Phillips describes how he is developing two digital versions of the artist book. In her personal letter to the Sackners, Campell writes,"I thought you would like a copy for the archive. I am thrilled to have Tom's witty 'mise en scene' of the magazine format on the cover. I also wish to acknowledge my gratitude, since I found Marvin Sackner's essay 'Humuantism' a useful resource." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2013

The Magical World of David Cole / Cole, David ; Allen B., 1984

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Identifier: CC-17397-17762
Scope and Contents

Blair H. Allen edited the artwork. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Marvels of Professor Pettingruel, 1978

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Identifier: CC-32699-34285
Scope and Contents

Peter Koch illustrated this surrelistic novel with six visual poetic images and Shelly Hoyt made the binding. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

The Marvels of Professor Pettingruel, 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-38292-40188
Scope and Contents

Peter Koch illustrated this surrelistic novel with six visual poetic images and Shelly Hoyt made the binding. Nations drew two small boxes next to his signature, one designated yes, the other no; the yes box is checked. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

The Matter (Seria Entropy), 2002

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Identifier: CC-40017-41984
Scope and Contents

The paper was made from cardboard egg crate carton material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

The Moralist, 2002

 Item — Box 84: [Barcode: 31858072538238]
Identifier: CC-39074-41012
Scope and Contents

This work features ambiguities related to censorship. The label of two cigarette packs, "Lucky Strike" is cancelled to leave only "Lust." The cancelling device is a large block of wood with black paint at its tip that serves as phallic symbol. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

The Mystic Explorer / Podwel, Mark., 1980

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Identifier: CC-03972-4047
Scope and Contents

Podwell illustrates a review by Cynthia Ozick using Hebrew letters and symbols. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

The New National Theatre is yours / Phillips, Tom., 1977

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Identifier: CC-46259-48980
Scope and Contents

The content of the image is mainly taken from pages of A Humument. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

The Next Worst Thing to Being Here / Bradley, Daniel f.., 1988

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Identifier: CC-23521-23966
Scope and Contents

Edited by Greg Evason. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

The Only Good Luddite Is a Dead Luddite , 1963

 Item — Folder 58: [Barcode: 31858072537925]
Identifier: CC-13229-13530
Scope and Contents

Luddites were bands of workers in England (1811-1816) organized to destroy machinery under the belief that its use diminished employment. Ned Luddite, an 18th century Leicestershire worker originated the idea. Furnival depicts a man's body flattened by a Rube Goldberg like machine with numbers streaming from upper pipes of the machine. Stored in Odds & Sods. Depictd in Furnival's "Lost for Words" (2011 page 138. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

The Other's Writing / Lehmann, Pablo ; Rodrigo Alonso, curator., 2011

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Identifier: CC-54599-990046
Scope and Contents

Lehmann cuts small capital letters of Spanish texts on paper and creates two and three dimensional unique works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011