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Typewriter art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 866 Collections and/or Records:

[Abstract Spiral] (261066) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-09831-10025
Scope and Contents

This a circularly shaped pop-up piece with typed red slashes forming a spiral. It is also removed from a collage onto a page of Furnival's "Liber Amicorum 1964-1984," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Abyss for Dessert 1 / Morin, Gustave., 2015

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Identifier: CC-62365-10004164
Scope and Contents

Original page from the Clean Sails book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2015

Abyss for Dessert 2 / Morin, Gustave., 2015

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Identifier: CC-62366-10004165
Scope and Contents

Original page from the Clean Sails book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2015

Acquaintance With Celestials / Mott, Michael., 1971

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Identifier: CC-06284-6399
Scope and Contents

The artist composed the work on an Olympia Splendid 99. In a personal communication to Marvin Sackner in 2013, Mott stated that the his typewritings were inflenced by Margaret, his first wife's (died in 1990) weavings plus reading on knots, quipu, etc and not by reading Monk's Pond that he was unaware of until the 1980s. He further mentioned that he employed "various degrees pf pressure to give variations and life to the work." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

[Aerial View Building] (260569), 1969

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Identifier: CC-08875-9050
Scope and Contents

This complex, dense, aerial view of buildings was achieved by typing only slashes and minus signs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

And London Underground Paris Metropolitan New York Subway / Chopin, Henri., 1980

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Identifier: CC-18042-18412
Scope and Contents

The images consist of maps of respective transportation systems altered by overtyping. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

And the Devine Gentleman / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1981

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Identifier: CC-09839-10033
Scope and Contents

This geometric image formed by typing the letter "l" and a slash is a Christmas card to the Furnivals. It is stored within an opened envelope collaged onto a page of Furnival's "Liber Amicorum 1964-1984," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

andor series / Beaulieu, Derek., 2013

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Identifier: CC-57648-10000915
Scope and Contents

These prints were made by progressive enlargements of an original typewriitten 'a & i.' Beaulieu in prints #2-5 focused on enlargements of the 'a.' Emmett Williams' 'A-Journey' (1979) utilzed xerox enlargaments of the letter 'a' but at much less resolution and starting wit a typeset 'a.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2013

[anhalfmoon] / Sharkey, John J.., 1969

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Identifier: CC-57214-10000541
Scope and Contents

The complete title is "anhalfmoon for james joyce." The poem is typed in the shape of a half moon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Anonymous Us. No.9/Jun., 1984

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Identifier: CC-25741-26201
Scope and Contents

Edited by Leroy Gorman, this periodical contains poems written by high school students. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

any colour you like as long as its blacklisted / Morin, Gustave., 2015

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Identifier: CC-62359-10004157
Scope and Contents

Original page from the Clean Sails book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2015

apollinaire soul-ladder to twin elysian sky (250369) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

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Identifier: CC-56287-59750
Scope and Contents

Houedard has typed "for dsw" (identity?) at uppper left dide of this work/ -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

[Apples] (140164) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

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Identifier: CC-09830-10024
Scope and Contents

Depicts a cluster of what appears to be five apples. It was removed from a page of Furnival's "Liber Amicorum 1964-1984," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Arbormundi / Zend, Robert., 1982

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Identifier: CC-29945-31336
Scope and Contents Internet: Robert Zend (1929-1985) was a Poet, Philosopher, Multi-media artist. A published author in his homeland of Hungary by 1956, he fled to North America during the communist takeover. He used to say that his first five years living in Toronto were 'wretched', but that the next twenty he 'felt like a man without a home'. He had no immediate audience for his Hungarian books and he could not yet write fluently in English. He once wrote, "Budapest is my homeland, Toronto is my home. In Toronto I am nostalgic for Budapest. In Budapest I am nostalgic for Toronto. Everywhere else I am nostalgic for my nostalgia." Evenutally Zend did find his place in Toronto, publishing several books of poetry and humor, including From Zero to One (1973), Beyond Labels (1983) and Oab (published posthumously, 1986). He was often linked with Canada's literary elite, having friendships with and the admiration of the likes of Margaret Atwood and Northrop Frye. Glenn Gould called him "Canada's most...
Dates: 1982

[architectural tower] 720119 / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1972

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Identifier: CC-56446-59732
Scope and Contents

A blue typed tower with a roof-like extension is the centered typing. A small vertical column is left center. Both are within a red typed line. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972