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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4867 Collections and/or Records:

Greek village by Syrakus, 1960

 Item
Identifier: CC-51586-72685
Scope and Contents

This collage is depicted in the Adolf Hoffmeister1902-1973 edited by Karel Srp on page 238. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

Greetings / Jackman, Sandra., 1996

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Identifier: CC-30853-32301
Scope and Contents

Painted and found collages are arranged with found text that reads, "From time to time - the mountain - tints - scattered from the clouds - perform - melodies - too slow to tell." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Grigio quan Nero / Mussio, Magdalo., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-54361-55170
Scope and Contents

Magdalo Mussio (1925"“12 August 2006) was an Italian author, artist, animator and editor. A native of the Tuscany town of Volterra, Magdalo Mussio served during the 1960s as the editor of several Italian cultural publications, including Marcatrè and was widely throughout his country's art gallery circuit. He was also the creative artist behind a number of animated films, including Reale dissoluto, I ragazzi di Theresi, Il potere del drago and Umanomeno and published several books detailing his life and work and uniting his own creative writings with what has been described as an archaeology of images in a sweetly melancholic mixture. Among his best-known titles are In practica, Praticabili per memoria concreta and Il fastidio delle parole. Magdalo Mussio died after a lengthy illness in the year of his 81st birthday. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

groaning, 2010

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-51995-73097
Scope and Contents

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. Although the pages are photocopied, the composition was made with a combination of ink jet printing and rubberstamping. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Gronk Final Number Series: Write Me an Adventure. No.2 / bill bissett., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-36253-38043
Scope and Contents

Each page of this book reproduces a collage made from newspapers and magaziines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Gronk Flash Series: Exposure. No.4 / jw curry ; Nichol bp., 1982

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Identifier: CC-36848-38681
Scope and Contents

Cover was designed by bp Nichol. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Gronk Intermediate Series: Broken Mandala. No.2 / Steve McCaffery., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-36868-38701
Scope and Contents

Each page was composed in a photocopier and has the same phrase "complete charges from" obsessively repeated and overprinted. In some pages, this is combined with abstract marks, in others with images such as an eye or a standing gorilla. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Gronk Intermediate Series: Sensations of the Retina. No.15 / Bob Cobbing., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-10248-10451
Scope and Contents

One copy has a green acetate cover, the other a blue one. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Gronk: MAPS: a different landscape. No.8 / Steve McCaffery., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-36933-38766
Scope and Contents

Probably published in an edition of 400 copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Gronk: RUSH: what fuckan theory: a study uv language. No.8 / bill bissett., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-30401-31820
Scope and Contents

The edition size was probably between 300 - 400 copies. On this copy, the word "RUSH" is rubberstamped on the cover. A duplicate has the label "Rush" and a simple line drawing of a landscape. Derek Beaulieu in "seen of the crime" views this work as an early seminmal work of conceptual writing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Gronk: There Were Dreams. No.4 / Barbara O'Connelly., 1967

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Identifier: CC-36262-38052
Scope and Contents

The visual poems consist of line drawings of a female nude with integrated handwritten text. This copy has the rubberstamped :grOnk S2 N4 on the lower right side of the title page. The book is also listed as Ganglia's Concrete Poetry Series No.4 without the rubberstamped identification. Barbara O'Connelly is the wife of D.r. Wagner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Gronk: Untitled. No.8 / John Riddell., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-36272-38062
Scope and Contents

Usually published in an edition of 400 copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Grunes Erlangen, 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-15150-15471
Scope and Contents

The pages were printed from writings and collages of newspaper and periodical clippings in which the word, grun (meaning green in English) was mentioned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Guaranto Guartare, 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-36519-38320
Scope and Contents

The pages consist of three identical photographs that depict abstracted eyes and calligraphic markings/text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991