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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4884 Collections and/or Records:

Avant 2 Symposium / Ficus Strangulensis., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-39551-41509
Scope and Contents

The CD consists of the slides that Ficus used in his talk at the Avant 2 symposium at Ohio State University in July 2002. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Avantcular, 2015

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Identifier: CC-60283-10003282
Scope and Contents

This book is considered unique because of its stencilled, hand painted cover.The original cover is from a Popular Mechanics Encyclopedia titled "Do It Yourself." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2015

Axle. No.43/Dec / Murphy P., 1997

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Identifier: CC-29991-31382
Scope and Contents

Peter Murphy contributed four visual poems that consisted of photographic images with arrows, abstract marks, or building signs. In an essay "Private Correspondence: Visual Poetry, Its Viewing and Discourse," he mentions how few original visual poems are seen by the public. Most are seen as reproductions in magazines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

[B] / Broel, Elisabeth., 1992

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Identifier: CC-23587-24032
Scope and Contents

This collage has the shape of a leaf. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Bab(B)-El-On / Wood, Reid; Altemus R., 2006

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Identifier: CC-45984-48690
Scope and Contents

Each print consists of a photocopied colored mage of a visual poem. Reed Altemus is the publisher of Live Matter. Reid Wood is aka State of Being in the mailart network. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Babel / Penn, Cheryl., 2013

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Identifier: CC-57957-10001215
Scope and Contents

The images of the pages are reproductions of collages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2013

Babel / Secunda, Arturo., 1975

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Identifier: CC-02218-2258
Scope and Contents

This print depicts a mountain-like, expressionistic image composed of stenciled letter and number forms with splattered black ink. In a letter to the Sackners, Secunda remarks that the image was influenced by Schwitters' sound poems, the randomness of the works of Cage, Beckett, Albee and Stein, as well as the Theatre of the Absurd. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Bad Breath Babble / Baroni, Vittore., 1991

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Identifier: CC-23447-23891
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. The center image of each assemblage depicts a standing man, viz., a silhouette with mint candies collaged over upside-down black lungs, a 3-dimensional model of clear, hollow plastic filled with c butts and mints, and a red plastic model with a hole in the chest for the heart surrounded by black pigment. Calligraphic and letraset messages along with related objects and images reinforce the antisocial and antihealth habit of smoking. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991