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Correspondence art

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 151 Collections and/or Records:

déjà - vu, 1998

 Item — Box 268: [Barcode: 31858072460599]
Identifier: CC-44063-46179
Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

Der Neue Dadaismus In Nordamerika, 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-53594-60461
Scope and Contents

This book was written for a PhD thesis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979
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

Dodo not Dada, 2005

 Item — Box 327: [Barcode: 31858072490943]
Identifier: CC-44460-46609
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) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

Dokuments Make Me Calm: prelude of mail art, 1971

 Item — Box 622: [Barcode: 31858072461092]
Identifier: CC-49485-70531
Dates: 1971
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS / Endre Tót

Envoi Postal du 7-3-77 / Norguet, Francois., 1977

 Item — Box 626: [Barcode: 31858073143905]
Identifier: CC-05589-5696
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)

E.O.N. Archive Share-Piece, 1996

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Baroni, Vittore: [Barcode: 31858072491123]
Identifier: CC-28659-29959
Scope and Contents Baroni explains this work in Arte Postale! No.74. He relates that he discovered mail art in 1977 and estimates that he exchanged a total of 32,850 mail art pieces. Since he found that he had insufficient space in his house to manage this material, he devised a scheme to turn the archive into a series of modular art pieces, ready to be hung flat or stored as an art book. The 32,850 mailings divided by 24 gives 1368 share-pieces, each arranged on a signed and numbered modular panel that includes 24 mail art letters tied with a red ribbon from the Ethereal Open Network (E.O.N.), a big color sticker with an enlarged networker statement (all different), a photo of the E.O.N. archive files, and one original mail art piece. The envelopes are tied with a ribbon and hot sealed in a plastic transparent folder, then mounted on a ready-to-hang cardboard folder. This finished product differs from Baroni's original description, viz., the sticker is absent and the letters are tied with a blue...
Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS / Vittore Baroni

eternity sontikue, 2010

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-52001-73103
Scope and Contents

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. Each page depicts three elements, e.g., a single outline of a large letter by McMurtagh that is embellished with adjacent small calligraphic markings by Bennett and a printed text by one of the poets below. -- 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) / BOOKS / SMALL BOOKS

Fe - Mail - Art, 2001

 Item — Box 306: [Barcode: 31858073143608]
Identifier: CC-39418-41370
Scope and Contents

The artist's stamps are rubberstamped and handcolored. Van Sebroeck's works are stored in Luc Fierens box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

Fernando Aguiar, 1992

 Item — Box 313: [Barcode: 31858072490794]
Identifier: CC-26379-26846
Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / CORRESPONDENCE

[Filing Cabinet - Fragmented Text], 1998

 Item — Box 329: [Barcode: 31858072490950]
Identifier: CC-41434-43419
Dates: 1998
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

Five Envelopes Started l978 Completed l984 , 1984

 Item — Box 324: [Barcode: 31858072490901]
Identifier: CC-21637-22048
Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

Forgotten Heroes of Networking Series - Wallace Berman & Semina Magazine , 2010

 Item — Box 324: [Barcode: 31858072490901]
Identifier: CC-51068-72149
Scope and Contents

Baroni writes "A triumph of the do-it-yourself esthetic, Semina is a fragmentary guidebook to alternative modes of thinking, living, and art-making..." -- 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

Garden Heart, 1995

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-24089-24541
Scope and Contents

The words "garden heart" are printed on a fragment of heart-shaped green paper enclosed within a plastic bag along with fragments of dried leaves and flowers. The object is a thank you expression from Baker on her visit to the Archive. -- 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) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

Gina Lotta Post: Doris Boris Issue, 1986

 Item — Box 613: [Barcode: 31858072460995]
Identifier: CC-06924-7047
Scope and Contents

Doris Boris was an Austrian pop singer who moved to San Francisco to assume a neo-expressionist painterly career. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS / Ginny Lloyd

groaning, 2010

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-51995-73097
Scope and Contents

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. Although the pages are photocopied, the composition was made with a combination of ink jet printing and rubberstamping. -- 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) / BOOKS / SMALL BOOKS

hand carved, 2010

 Item — Box 173: [Barcode: 31858072459252]
Identifier: CC-51575-72674
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) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

[Heart Sculpture], 1997

 Item — Box 205: [Barcode: 31858072460110]
Identifier: CC-28760-30067
Scope and Contents

Mike Dyar writes on his note that "this was a collaboration between Ray Johnson & myself. He sent me this as a drawing & asked me to sculpt & cast it in plaster." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS / Mike Dyar

Hit Alley, B&W, No. 6 / Ackerman, Al; Baroni, Vittore., 1982

 Item — Box 624: [Barcode: 31858073143889]
Identifier: CC-25590-26048
Dates: 1982
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed)

Homage to George Lott, 1997

 Item — Box 327: [Barcode: 31858072490943]
Identifier: CC-29133-30478
Scope and Contents

George Lott was an American soldier in WWII whose wounding in battle was published by Life magazine. Because of this publicity, he received over 3000 letters. Baroni's homage consists of collaging two paper, addressed envelopes from mail he received to each of 10 pages and both covers and adding band-aids or adhesive tape to them. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997
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

Hoohoohobos Fortuitous Logos, 1987

 Item — Box 350: [Barcode: 31858072490869]
Identifier: CC-23280-23719
Scope and Contents

Author is also known as buZ blurr. -- 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) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

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