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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4884 Collections and/or Records:

The Mystic Explorer / Podwel, Mark., 1980

 Item
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

 Item
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

 Item
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

The Parchment Is Burning , 1985

 Item — Folder 68: [Barcode: 31858072538022]
Identifier: CC-25655-26113
Scope and Contents

The full title of this print, a quote from Rabbi Hanina Ben Tradyon, is "The Parchment is Burning but the Letters are Flying Free." It depicts Hebrew letters arranged randomly above a collaged, burnt surface of paper at the bottom of the print. Tradyon was an ancient Talmudic scholar who was executed for his beliefs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

the peerless Mantra / Petasz, Pawel., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-39975-41942
Scope and Contents

Petasz's visual works generally feature a single letter; in this piece, it is an "I." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

The Philadelphia Love / Indiana, Robert., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-08365-8531
Scope and Contents

Folio contains offset lithographic version of Indiana's "Love" poem and "Wherefore the Punctuation of the Heart." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

The Pillow Book; ...Pillow Book: A Record of How the Text Developed through Exchange / Cole, David ; Shonagon, Sei ; Stetser, Carol., 1991

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Identifier: CC-59853-10002906
Scope and Contents

Sei Shonagon was a lady-in-waiting at the court of the Japanese Empress in 990 A.D. who kept a note book on the people, places and things she encountered in her daily life. Cole and Stetser used these notes as the basis for their collaboration. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Pillow Book; ...Pillow Book: A Record of How the Text Developed through Exchange (Collector's Edition) / Cole, David ; Shonagon, Sei ; Stetser, Carol., 1991

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Identifier: CC-18332-18704
Scope and Contents

Sei Shonagon was a lady-in-waiting at the court of the Japanese Empress in 990 A.D. who kept a note book on the people, places and things she encountered in her daily life. Cole and Stetser used these notes as the basis for their collaboration. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Poet Considers His Resources, 1979

 Item — Folder 63: [Barcode: 31858072537974]
Identifier: CC-22278-22700
Scope and Contents

Poem by R. Bradbury. Designed and printed by R. Bigus. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

The Portal - for Marvin & Ruth Sackner / Topel, Andrew., 2011

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Identifier: CC-53352-100051
Scope and Contents

A smaller version with a colored figure is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

the portal / Topel, Andrew., 2011

 Item
Identifier: CC-52924-74064
Scope and Contents

The image was generated with a computer and then printed from a computer file by an internet service. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011