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Correspondence art

 Subject

Staff Only

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 79 Collections and/or Records:

death the outcome, 2010

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-51992-73094
Scope and Contents

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. -- 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Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

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Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Destinataire Paris / Cobbing, Bob., 1987

 Item — Box 395: [Barcode: 31858072461597]
Identifier: CC-17446-17811
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 POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / 1980s / 1987

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Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

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Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Endre Tót

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 POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Vittore Baroni

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 POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

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

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 POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

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 POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Ginny Lloyd

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 POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

[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 POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Mike Dyar

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 POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

It's In the Box, 1997

 Item — Box 209: [Barcode: 31858072460169]
Identifier: CC-28564-29850
Scope and Contents

The box includes representative booklets, cards, and objects made by Collins, some for other mail art publications. A neck tie has a sewn label, Christian Boltanski (rather than Christian Dior). An accompanying typed pamphlet lists the publication where these works appeared along with the tirage. -- 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 POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Patricia Collins

Klang: Suoni Contemporanei, 2009

 Item — Box 209: [Barcode: 31858072460169]
Identifier: CC-50818-71896
Scope and Contents

This exhibition was curated by Vittore Baroni and the booklets were edited by BAU. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009
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 POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Vittore Baroni

L'arte va all'attacco, 1995

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Baroni, Vittore: [Barcode: 31858072491123]
Identifier: CC-28869-30191
Scope and Contents

The background for the collage is a photocopied newspaper article that describes Baroni's mail art activities. -- 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 POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Vittore Baroni

Lego-15, 2008

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-49396-70441
Scope and Contents

Participants were requested to artistically or poetically interpret three pages of a Lego patent (1961) that was provided to them by Beaulieu. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008
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 POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Letter to Carl Loeffler, 1981

 Item — Box 607: [Barcode: 31858073143541]
Identifier: CC-18877-19255
Scope and Contents

In response to Loeffler's request for a critical essay for his "Book on Correspondence Art" Crozier describes what it would be like to receive work from his colleagues in the mail art network. The narrative mentions over 450 names, all listed in alphabetical order. Mentions "Marvin Sackner who is the only non-artist in here or is he now..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.


Vittore Baroni, Robert Filliou, Bill Gaglione, Edgardo Antonio Vigo, William Xerra, Nicholas Zurbrugg, Lon Spiegelman, Marvin A. Sackner, Takako Saito, Eugenio Miccini, Clemente Padín, and Richard Kostelanetz are some of the names associated with this letter.

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) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Robin Crozier

[Letter to Ruth and Marvin], 1990

 Item — Box 268: [Barcode: 31858072460599]
Identifier: CC-16575-16928
Scope and Contents

Object consists of pant's pocket mounted on cardboard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990
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 POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Lettre Suit, 1993, 1983 - 1991

 Item — Box 164: [Barcode: 31858072458189]
Identifier: CC-00857-876
Scope and Contents

The folded letters were printed in an edition of 650 in 1983-1991 and mailed to the Sackner Archive in separate envelopes by Edition Despalles, the distributor for Atelier des Grames, but the cassette that holds them is made upon request. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993; 1983 - 1991
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 POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Anik Vinay