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Miami Beach More Than a Million Poems, 1986

 Item — Box: 83
Identifier: CC-04626-4713

Scope and Contents

This sculpture contains forty words hand printed in ink on the sides of ten wooden square blocks. Each block, that can rotate on a wooden dowel through hand movement, measures 11.4 x 11.4 x 2 cm. The words selected by Phillips for each block are: Modernism, Miami Beach, Moonlight, Memory - Inspires, Indulges, Identities, Ignores - Ambiguous, Amorous, Artistic, Abstract - Madness, Mythology, Miracles, Moments - Idiotically, Inwardly, Ineptly, Intensely - Brainless, Backward, Bohemian, Beautiful - Egoists, Emotions, Erections, Eccentrics - Always, Artfully, Already, Absurdly - Confuse, Clarify, Complete, Celebrate - History, Heartache, Happiness, Hysteria. The first letter of each block vertically spells Miami Beach.Illustrated in "Works and Text 1992 " on page 110. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1986

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 sculpture (wood, ink, felt)) ; 26 x 16 x 16 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

Current location: Boxed objects, Box 83

Original Sackner location: hallway 2nd flo

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, a gift from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: London, England : [Publisher not identified]. Nationality of creator: British. General: About 1 total copies. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: AMANDA.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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