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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4850 Collections and/or Records:

Horrendo Man I / Torres, Edwin., 1984 - 2012

 Item
Identifier: CC-53725-12978
Scope and Contents

Torres wrote to the Sackners that the drawing for this print was a calligraphic comic made with black & red india ink, rapidograph pen, x-acto blade, enamel coated glossy paper, glue. It depicts meticulously precise letterforms with minimally rendered characters in freeform angles offset by geometrics.The text was inspired by rap music, H-Man is a superhero-Buddha fighting war with peace in sound bites as follows. Look...it's Horrendo Man. "Amma break yo face!" "Amma break yo case!" Just wait now, fellas! "Amma git'ma gun!" "Ammo keel ya!" Hey mates, don't gestulate... you gotta R.B. so just postulate! Amma king a calm, that's no brag-a-dag, bro! Chill, you mutual quads, you facin' Horrendo! -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984 - 2012

Horrendo Man II / Torres, Edwin., 1984 - 2012

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Identifier: CC-53726-642804
Scope and Contents

In a communication to the Sackners, Torres states that this print is a calligraphic comic made by scanning the original drawing that used black & red india ink, rapidograph pen, x-acto blade, enamel coated glossy paper, and glue with meticulously precise letterforms with minimally rendered characters in freeform angles offset by geometrics. The text was inspired by rap music, H-Man meets his villain BauBug with a cryptic "to be continued" at the end. Horrendo Man meets Bau-Bug. Don't be callin' me no louse. Amma froma BauHouse. Amma muncha people,too! Bau-Bug is afta you! "Translate the slate, Jack...that bug is wack!" Hey mates, constructivate, Moholy-Nagy's no holy fate! This Mister Motown's onna motel kick. He's an overgrown Geometric. "Pardon me, Si Cumference...go drug yo jug. If radiance could fly, it be I...Bau-Bug!" 2-B Scene -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984 - 2012

Hot Bird Mfg: Ten From Nice. No.14/Mar / John Evans., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09148-9329
Scope and Contents

Edited by Ray DiPalma. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

How to Imagine: A Narrative on Art and Agriculture / Baruchello, Gianfranco ; Martin, Henry., 1983

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Identifier: CC-23262-23701
Scope and Contents

The drawing was done by Gianfranco Baruchello. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

How to Make a Humument / Schwenger, Peter; Phillips T., 1994

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Identifier: CC-02811-2854
Scope and Contents

This is the manuscript of a talk on Tom Phillips' "A Humument" delivered by Schwenger before The Modern Language Association in a session that dealt with "Peritext" - all that surrounds a text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Howdy[CR]Howdy! / Jackman, Sandra., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34472-36169
Scope and Contents

The card consists of several small drawings of people encountered during the Sandra Jackman's visit to the Prado Musem in Madrid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

HPY BIRTHDAY Ruth Sackner / Helmes, Scott., 2001

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Identifier: CC-46725-49455
Scope and Contents

Each card was sent to Ruth Sackner at a different time and with a single letter in random order. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Human Documents: Tom Phillips's Art of the Page / Phillips, Tom ; Sackner MA ; Traister D., 1993

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Identifier: CC-39116-41058
Scope and Contents

The exhibition was curated by Daniel Traister who contributed a critical essay. Marvin Sackner wrote the preface, "Humumentism": The Works and Ideas of Tom Phillips. Sackner coined a word, "Humumentism" to signify the art form of Tom Phillips, one that intregrates humanistic activities through individual creative thought that falls outside the current popular conception of artistic presentations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993