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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Dorothy's Umbrellas / Furnival, John, editor ; Bailey P ; Furnival A ; Furnival J ; Houedard DS ; Meyer T ; Phillips T ; Davies H., 1971

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Identifier: CC-36214-38001
Scope and Contents

This group exhibition was held at Nottingham Testival, Bristol Arts Centre and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Tom Phillips contributed "The Singing Mushroom: Poem for John Cage" and a page from "A Humument" both of which are reproduced in color in the catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Dorothy's Umbrellas / Furnival, John, editor ; Bailey P ; Furnival A ; Furnival J ; Houedard DS ; Meyer T ; Phillips T ; Davies H., 1971

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Identifier: CC-13137-13434
Scope and Contents

This group exhibition was held at Nottingham Testival, Bristol Arts Centre and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Tom Phillips contributed "The Singing Mushroom: Poem for John Cage" and a page from "A Humument" both of which are reproduced in color in the catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Logos and Ikon on Equal Terms/Painting Incorporates Writing / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Furnival J; Metzger G; Johns J., 1967

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Identifier: CC-09692-9885
Scope and Contents

Notes dealing with the relation of words to painting, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Map Is Not the Territory, The: Part 1 / Furnival J ; Greenaway P ; Kenny C ; Hiller S ; Kent J ; Willats S ; England J ; Callan J ; Druks M ; Herbert A ; Langlands & Bell., 2001

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Identifier: CC-42911-44954
Scope and Contents

John Furnival's print, "Woful Dane Bottom," that deals with the small town that the Welsh poet W.H. Davies spent the last years of his life is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Notions and Notations / Cobbing, Bob; Furnival J; Houedard DS; Cox K; Claire K; Claire P; Williams E., 1979

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Identifier: CC-17596-17963
Scope and Contents

Cobbing concludes in this essay, visual (concrete) poetry can be heard, smelt, has colours, vibrations whereas sound poetry dances, tastes, has shape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Robert Lax and Concrete Poetry / Lax, Robert ; Solt ME ; Gomringer E ; DeCampos H ; Furnival J ; Finlay IH ; Cobbing B ; Nichol bp ; bissett b., 1991

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Identifier: CC-07312-7456
Scope and Contents

In an introductory essay, Mary Ellen Solt traces concrete poetry historically and analyzes spcifically the work of Lax as related to Eugen Gomringer, Augusto De Campos and Ian Hamilton Finlay. Michael Basinski and Robert Bertholf provide an essay on "Zines," a generic term for a self-generated, cheaply produced (folded and stapled photocopied sheets), radically independent magazine. The exhibition included works of 167 international, concrete and visual poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Selected Works of the Last Twenty Years / Furnival, John ; Martin H ; Zurbrugg N ; DellaGrazia P., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35500-37237
Scope and Contents

The catalogue mentions that Furnival's works are held by the Sackner collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

[Untitled] / Furnival, Astrid ; Furnival, John., 1984

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Identifier: CC-12237-12461
Scope and Contents

This catalog features John Furnival's Fifty-one Towers of Babel and the A-to-Z of Consumerville, works held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Verbal Hothouse: Symbols to Stories / Drucker J ; Brown B ; Genin A ; Robinson BL ; Hutchins E ; Seille G ; Jess ; Badura M ; Barron S ; Phillips T ; Kriwet F ; Jackman S ; Kolar J ; Cortot J ; Guerryam A ; Hartmann W ; Isou I ; Rose P ; Furnival J ; Hubaut J ; Horndeski G., 1994

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Identifier: CC-00914-938
Scope and Contents

This exhibition was curated by Kate Rawlinson and Wallace Harper with works from the Sackner Archive. It was structured into four groups of visual/verbal works: ideograms, alphabets, words and stories. Drucker provided an outstanding introductory critical essay to the works in the exhibition despite being able to work with photographic reproductions only. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Visual Poetries / Houedard, Dom Sylvester ; Furnival J ; Brett G ; Medalla D., 1971

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Identifier: CC-31366-32843
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts a detail of a portrait of Houedard by John Furnival. The exhibition catalogue lists 50 works by Houedard including eight plastic laminate poems. The introductory essay was written by Guy Brett. There are also extracts from Houedard's writings and a letter to David Medalla printed in the catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971