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Visual poetry

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4875 Collections and/or Records:

Five Themes / Kentridge, William ; Miller A., 2009

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Identifier: CC-50536-71608
Scope and Contents With a searing body of work ranging from films and drawings to print, sculptures, and theatrical productions, William Kentridge has offered a fresh and distinctive perspective on the contemporary social landscape, with a particular emphasis on his native South Africa. His practice of the past two decades is based on his intensive exploration of themes that are evocative of his own life experience as well as the political issues that most concern him. Produced in close collaboration with the artist, this catalogue investigates the five primary themes that have engaged Kentridge over the course of his influencial career: 1. Parcours d'Atelier: Artist in the Studio 2.Thick Time: Soho and Felix 3.Occasional and Residual Hope: Ubu and the Procession 4.Sarastro and the Master's Voice: The Magic Flute 5.Learning from the Absurd: The Nose Rich in content and illustrations, the publication bears witness to an artist wrestling with each theme and experimenting with formally innovative ways...
Dates: 2009

fLaming cRust / Strangulensis, Ficus., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32279-33840
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Several of the poems printed one to a page appear to been made using Burroughs and Gysin's cut-up technique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Flight of the Canuck Buck / Gorman, Leroy., 1986

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Identifier: CC-10165-10366
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This card is stored in LeRoy Gorman box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Floating Heads; A Contemporary Visual Narrative, 1985

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Identifier: CC-17400-17765
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The book consists of reproductions of several poems, composed by repetitively rubberstamping words and images, reflecting hazards to the environment. Also, includes several poems on topics related to breathing, viz. the words "scream and gotta sing" appear on one page with an image of a mouth and a face opposite to another page with the words "acid rain and gotta dance" with an image of two dogs dancing as metaphors for our lack of concern with a clean environment. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Floor Space / Cole, David., 1997

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Identifier: CC-34345-36040
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David Cole includes a letter with this pamphlet in which he describes a series of large paintings that he calls "shrouds" as well as large visual floor paintings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

[Florida] / Gunther, Thomas., 2005

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Identifier: CC-45076-47252
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The is a card Thomas Gunther made for the Sackners while visiting Art Basel Miami Beach in 2005. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Fly with the Angels! / Glass, Jesse Jr.., 2001

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Identifier: CC-37025-38865
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These poems were mailed from Japan where Glass is a Professor of Language and Culture. On the prints, poems were handwritten and hand printed along the curves or lines of abstract line drawings. One of the cards depicts micrographic writing, the others Haiku. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Focus / Kempton K., 1985

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Identifier: CC-10717-10926
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Newspaper magazine article documents the work of Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985