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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4875 Collections and/or Records:

Edifice Wrecks / Martin, Ross., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-31170-32638
Scope and Contents

Pages were reproduced from old scientific books and then collaged with images found in the same or similar books. The page numbers are not ordered but refer to those in their original book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

e.e. cummings: L (a leaf falls) oneliness , 1995

 Item — Folder 76: [Barcode: 31858072538352]
Identifier: CC-32754-34344
Scope and Contents

This work is based on a poem by e.e. cummings from 1958. "L (a leaf falls) oneliness" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Egg Series: A Curate's Egg, Imperially Hatched, To be Viewed Landscape / Furnival, John., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-13273-13574
Scope and Contents

Curate is a British term for the assistant to a vicar of the Church of England. The egg shell has been divided into 16 segments, each with a different style of line-drawn hatchings. A lower case letter appears in negative relief on ten of the segments which spells, "excellent." This is a spoof on the British religious tradition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Eiffel Tower May 1968 / Furnival, John., 1968

 Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]
Identifier: CC-13319-13620
Scope and Contents

The layout and implications of this poem are similar to Arc d'Triomphe May 1968. Here the Eiffel tower formed by calligraphic text substitutes for Arc d'Triomphe and receives ejaculate from a penis shaped with calligraphic text, newspaper headlines and a collaged Albert-Birot print (Paridis). Text of the poem is a sympathetic response to the student rebellion in France during May 1968. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Eight Letter Poems / Cobbing, Bob., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-20578-20976
Scope and Contents

The prints of these collages, also held by the Sackner Archive, were published by Writers Forum in 1982. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Ein Deutsches Requiem After Brahms / Phillips, Tom., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-43368-45430
Scope and Contents

This was the first purchase by the Sackners of a Tom Phillips artwork. It was acquired fom Galerie Bama in Paris. According to the colophon, this is a suite of 12 lithographs bvased on Brahms Opus 45. The images were derived from postcards collected by Phillips in Germany and have inset texts, which are treated fragments of the novel 'A Human Document' by W H Mallock, and titles quoting the textural material of the Requiem itself. One of the prints has been framed and hangs in the first floor hallway. In the BBC Music magazine (JUne 2013), comments about the CD of the month Brahms's 'A German Requiem' included the following.This Requiem does not mention Jesus nor is there a fire-breathing 'Dies Irae' striking fear into souls of potentially errant isteners! This is a requiem that sets a German not Latin text to music and doesn't pray for the well-being of the dead but instead comforts the living. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Ein Dichterleben / Rixdorfer Drucke; Eisendle, Helmut; Bremer U; Schindehutte A; Vennekamp J; Waldschmidt A., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-03470-3526
Scope and Contents

The colophon utilizes typographical elements to depict the bearded face of a poet such that an exceptionally good, visual poetic, letter picture, image is presented. Each print is signed by the individual member of the group who composed them. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976