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Typewriter art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 790 Collections and/or Records:

[eight cubes] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-43529-45602
Scope and Contents

This untitled carbon copy typing is composed of a cube sliced into eight parts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

[eight paralellograms formed with slashes] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-09451-9638
Scope and Contents

This page also depicts two blue parallelograms and a partial one in the top left corner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

[eight parallel lines] (010270) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-56336-9999759
Scope and Contents

Each line is composed with dashes and is double typed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

El Moro Rock / Mott, Michael., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-58575-10001801
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

Enluminure, 1984

 Item — Box Oversized Chopin, Henri: [Barcode: 31858072491297]
Identifier: CC-16991-17347
Scope and Contents

The eight typed poems reproduced in this book are based upon the numbers 1984 from the book by George Orwell; the original typings are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

entropy wires / Morin, Gustave., 2015

 Item
Identifier: CC-62367-10004166
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 2015

Essaer om Bror Barsk ech andra dikter / Johnson, Bengt Emil ; Cage J., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-34635-36336
Scope and Contents

A single typewriter poem is reproduced on each page of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Exclamation! / Chopin, Henri., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-19540-19923
Scope and Contents

Chopin uses a dazzling number of different typewriter inks in this composition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Festival de Fort Boyard / Chopin, Henri; Bertini, Gianni; Bertini G; Wolman G; Dufrene F; Blaine J; Furnival J; Gysin B; Houedard DS; Beguier S., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-20693-21095
Scope and Contents

The original portfolio was discarded owing to water damage sustained in an accident and its frontpiece collaged to this replacement portfolio; no damage occurred to the prints. Seven copies hos commerce were given to each of the contributors. This festival was also printed as a smaller format exhibition catalogue. Copies of the exhibition catalogue with the same title are also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967