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Correspondence art

 Subject

Staff Only

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 170 Collections and/or Records:

Congress Yourself, 1996

 Item — Box 327: [Barcode: 31858072490943]
Identifier: CC-24193-24645
Scope and Contents

The cover is a postcard of the Acapulco Hotel, the Baroni family hotel where Vittore works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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) / BOOKS

[Contact Document Exchange], 1993

 Item — Box 615: [Barcode: 31858073143871]
Identifier: CC-07997-8153
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Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Rora and Dobrica Kamperelić

CVAA Envelopes, 1986-1987

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: A-Ba: [Barcode: 31858072491164]
Scope and Contents

5 mail art envelopes addressed to Marvin Sackner. Return address CVAA in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Dated between 1986 and 1987.

Dates: 1986-1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / Oversized A-C

dark cloud, 2010

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-52000-73102
Scope and Contents

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. The poems intermingle Bennett's calligraphic, stylized words with printed texts by McMurtagh. -- 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

Dear Marvin,, 1986

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Baroni, Vittore: [Barcode: 31858072491123]
Identifier: CC-21659-22070
Scope and Contents

The recto depicts a collaged, torn, fragmented 50 lira bill surrounded by fragmented letraset letters. The verso contains a message to Marvin Sackner regarding his activities. -- 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) / Vittore Baroni

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)

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

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

Ecriture de Claude Nougaro, 1988

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Co-Cu: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-17415-17780
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) / Oversized A-C

Ecriture de Fred, 1988

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Co-Cu: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-17416-17781
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) / Oversized A-C

Ecriture de J.R., 1987

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Co-Cu: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-18824-19202
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) / Oversized A-C

Ecriture d'Iris Clert, 1988

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Co-Cu: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-17414-17779
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) / Oversized A-C

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

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 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

[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