Be Joyful / Harriet Bart., 1999
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Scope and Contents
This gift to the Sackners for the millennium is a small wooden box stamped "Fragile 2000." It contains a golden egg nested in fine, spicey straw, with a red patch of silk. The loose sheet is printed with a poem " Be joyful - though you - have considered - all the facts." This work by Bart is a metaphor for the fragility of the future and its bright hope. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates
- Creation: 1999
Creator
- Bart, Harriet (Person)
Extent
0 See container summary (1 poem object: egg (gilded, plastic) + cloth + straw + sheet (printed) in box (wooden, rubberstamped); string) ; egg 7 x 5 x 5 cm, in box 8 x 10 x 8 cm
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Physical Location
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Custodial History
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Harriet Bart, 1999.
General
Published: Saint Paul, Minnesota : [Publisher not identified]. Signed by: H. Bart '99 (l.r.- b.c.). Nationality of creator: American. General: Added by: RED; updated by: MARVIN.
Topical
Repository Details
Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository
125 W. Washington St.
Main Library
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