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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4884 Collections and/or Records:

Balance Poem / Shiomi, Mieko., 1965

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Identifier: CC-55206-65627
Scope and Contents The collage elements were made from cut black paper. This work or anything similar to it is not listed in the Silverman's catalogue, "Fluxus Codex." Internet: Mieko Shiomi grew up in a musical family and received a classical musical education at an early age. She began to study musical theory and music at the State University of the Arts in Tokyo in 1957. In 1960, together with Takehisa Kosugi and others, she founded the group Ongaku (Music) and began to extend the radius of her own music to include improvisation and action. The group received stimulus from performances by artists such as John Cage, La Monte Young and George Brecht, who visited Tokyo in the early 60s. As from 1963, Shiomi had contact to Yoko Ono; through her, she got to know George Brecht's events, adopting the term "event" to describe her own works. On the invitation of George Maciunas in 1964, Shiomi went to New York, where she took part in the Fluxus events taking place there. Shiomi's events are characterised...
Dates: 1965

Bank Manager / Phillips, Tom., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28525-29805
Scope and Contents

This print, which depicts a portrait overlaid by calligraphic poetic text, was reproduced from a drawing by Phillips in conjunction with the Dual Muse exhibition held at the Washington University Art Museum in November 1997. The Sackner Archive lent several works to this exhibition and also attended a symposium which took place there. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Bank of Fun / Baroni, Vittore, editor ; Ciani, Piermario, editor ; Angelo L ; Baroni V ; Bates K ; Ciani P ; Cohen R ; Dogfish ; Echaurren P ; Mancusi T ; Wood R., 2003

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Identifier: CC-41585-43575
Scope and Contents

One of the publisher's names, FUN, stands for Funtastic United Nations. The banknotes are fake currencies issued by made-up countries. The book documents the history of artists' currencies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Bar-Bar / Hubaut, Joel., 1988

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Identifier: CC-09252-9433
Scope and Contents

This work consists of 40 separate drawings based on Hubaut's home town of Bar Fleur , France and Barcelona, Spain where he completed several art projects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Baseball Series: Imagine , 1990

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Identifier: CC-25874-26335
Scope and Contents

The main image of the print is a baseball player bent backward as if trying to avoid a a pitched ball. On the baseball bat that he holds, Atkinson has placed the label, "Theory" and on one leg of his uniform pants, "Imagine." In the lower, left corner, the word "Economics" is written. The main image is bordered by an embroidered doily image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Basho No Pantanal Do Simbolo / Azeredo Campos, Roland; DeCampos H; Antunes A., 1991

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Identifier: CC-52170-73289
Scope and Contents

The clear acetate print is meant to be superimposed upon the paper silkscreen print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Bass Offers the Latest Word from the Sackners / Kohen, Helen L.; Phillips T; Furnival J; Furnival A; Noel A; Houedard DS; Edmonds T; Kindersley D; Sackner MA; Sackner RK., 1988

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Identifier: CC-07990-8146
Scope and Contents

This is an exhibition review of British Art from the Sackner Archive held at the Bass museum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Be Fruitful and Multiply, 1987

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Identifier: CC-12235-12459
Scope and Contents

The imagery in this knitted sweater relates to fruit, including the one arm bandit, gambling or fruit machines, a big apple, and a "Be Fruitful..." text. The colors have their basis in the brightness of Southwestern United States where Furnival knitted this piece at Roswell Institute, New Mexico, during an artistic sabbatical. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Beautiful Dreamer / Elena Presser., 1983

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Identifier: CC-04820-4913
Scope and Contents

Presser writes that this work is her "very personal expression of a mask...There is an emphasis on the eye, the mouth and the ears because those are the organs that I use to communicate within myself and with the external world... The back of [the mouth] carries all the threads that are attached to the alphabet and the numbers. Those strings are like marionettes pulling the letters that form the words that allow us to communicate." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983