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Abstract markings

 Subject

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:

A Humument Fragment: death? is this the sunshine?, 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-60256-10003258
Scope and Contents

The text reads "death? - is this not the sunshine? - lacing, playing a vagrant quesion- to elbow aside his own death - soon a sick shadow passed the air - elbow the probability." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

A Humument p85 Variation III , 1977

 Item — Folder 86: [Barcode: 31858072538436]
Identifier: CC-54451-52457
Scope and Contents

The prints have been removed from the folder and placed in a mat, two to a mat. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. Items were removed from matting and were returned to the original folder. Added: CEND.

Dates: 1977
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

A Humument Page 233 (print) , 2007

 Item — Folder 87: [Barcode: 31858072538444]
Identifier: CC-47484-68481
Scope and Contents

The poem reads, "Her man - free and tender days of Poetry - pay day of happiness; and love - Tickets ready - for Liverpool and expectancy - the glimmering shores of yesterday receding." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

A World A Word A Poem, 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-10378-10581
Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

aaaaaa..., 1969

 Item — Box 312: [Barcode: 31858072490828]
Identifier: CC-26185-26648
Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

[Abstract Figures], 1964

 Item — Folder 20: [Barcode: 31858072459799]
Identifier: CC-35940-37704
Scope and Contents

This print depicts five amorphous shapes filled with dense black abstract markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / Cozette de Charmoy

[Abstract Images with Clocks], 1964

 Item — Folder 20: [Barcode: 31858072459799]
Identifier: CC-35944-37708
Scope and Contents

This print depicts two architecturally-like shapes that have dense abstract markings, line drawn faces and clocks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / Cozette de Charmoy

Accumulator of Networking Spirit , 2001

 Item — Box 324: [Barcode: 31858072490901]
Identifier: CC-38988-40925
Dates: 2001
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Activity\Within a Cloud , 1977

 Item — Folder 68: [Barcode: 31858072538022]
Identifier: CC-00673-689
Dates: 1977
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

[Alumination] , 1987

 Item — Box 341: [Barcode: 31858072491263]
Identifier: CC-23887-24335
Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Art In Vain, 2010

 Item — Box 324: [Barcode: 31858072490901]
Identifier: CC-51884-72985
Scope and Contents

The label on the envelope reads, "this image will disappear if exposed to light." Ths images of the photograms appear to be abstract objects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

[Bird], 1988

 Item — Box 341: [Barcode: 31858072491263]
Identifier: CC-23853-24301
Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Blindrawings, 1987

 File — Folder 14: [Barcode: 31858072459732]
Identifier: CC-21835-22246
Scope and Contents

Automatic drawings - the first six in a series of one hundred. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / Vittore Baroni

Blotches, 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-37209-39053
Dates: 2001
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / SMALL BOOKS

Brainsuck, Vol. 2, No. 2: Concrete, 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-23494-23939
Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PERIODICALS / NON-COMMERCIAL AND ARTIST PERIODICALS

Call & Response, 2005

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-44618-46781
Dates: 2005
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Carved Erosion , 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-31572-33068
Scope and Contents

A minimalist poem (many of which have a concrete poetic sensibility) is printed one to each page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

[cccc], 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-40389-42360
Dates: 2002
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / SMALL BOOKS

CERVELLI Letters Mapes, 1960

 Item — Folder 31: [Barcode: 31858072459906]
Identifier: CC-19351-19734
Scope and Contents ItInternet:Italian artist Enrico Cervelli (1927-1961)is best remembered now for being Artistic Director on the 1954 Federico Fellini film La Strada. However, he also had an impressive painting career in the 1950s and 1960s, with solo shows at Galleria Numero in Florence in 1955, Galleria Pogliani in Rome in 1961 and the Grosvenor Gallery, London in 1966. A 1960 review by Michel Strauss in the art magazine The Burlington - of an exhibition of Cervelli's work at London's Savage Gallery - described the artwork as calligraphic transpositions of ancient propitiatory rites as presented by the peasants of the Abruzzi region. Cervelli was interpreting ancient rites and symbols in a very modern context. The review described his technique as watercolour, gouache, ink and gold leaf pressed down with sealing wax and Strauss, later to be head of Impressionist & Modern Art at Sotheby's, said the combination of shapes and colours represented "the best of abstract traditions". There is some...
Dates: 1960
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED

CHRISTIE Homage to Ligeti/Organization and Chaos, 1981

 Item — Folder 34: [Barcode: 31858072459930]
Identifier: CC-19412-19795
Dates: 1981
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED

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