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Found in 110 Collections and/or Records:

momento mori, 1988

 Item — Box 329: [Barcode: 31858072490950]
Identifier: CC-23192-23630
Scope and Contents The work was based on a copy-art installation by Baroni for the "Ear Nerve" festival in Naples, Italy held in September 1988. Wikipedia: A memento mori (Latin 'remember that you will die is an artistic or symbolic reminder of the inevitability of death. Popular belief says the phrase originated in ancient Rome: as a Roman general was parading through the streets during a victory triumph, standing behind him was his slave, tasked with reminding the general that, although at his peak today, tomorrow he could fall, or "” more likely "” be brought down. The servant is thought to have conveyed this with the warning, "Memento mori.".It is further possible that the servant may have instead advised, "Respice post te! Hominem te esse memento! Memento mori!": "Look behind you! Remember that you are but a man! Remember that you'll die!", as noted by Tertullian in his Apologeticus. The thought came into its own with Christianity,whose strong emphasis on divine judgment, Heaven, Hell, and the...
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

momento mori, 1988

 Item
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

Morte di Joseph Beuys , 1986

 Item — Box 329: [Barcode: 31858072490950]
Identifier: CC-22213-22635
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) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Multiplicazione 2, 1967

 Item — Folder 21: [Barcode: 31858072459807]
Identifier: CC-13060-13355
Scope and Contents

Consists of 12 rows of lower case "a" half printed upside down and half cut in two in a grid-like fashion resembling a postage stamp sheet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
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 / Luigi Ferro

Murmurios Acerca de um Soneto, 1986

 Item — Folder 10: [Barcode: 31858069877912]
Identifier: CC-26206-26669
Scope and Contents

This work is reproduced in Mendes de Sousa & Ribeiro: Antologia da Poesia Experimental Portuguesa: Anos 60 - Anos 80, 2004, a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- 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) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

MUSSIO ED 912 Posters (Situazione No. 9): Come, 1967

 Item — Folder 26: [Barcode: 31858072459856]
Identifier: CC-14155-14460
Dates: 1967
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 / ED 912 / Situazione

Ne Pas Plier, 1985

 Item — Box 329: [Barcode: 31858072490950]
Identifier: CC-21709-22120
Dates: 1985
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

Nocturns, 2010

 Item
Identifier: CC-50975-72053
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

Nothing , 1971

 Item — Folder 72: [Barcode: 31858072538071]
Identifier: CC-42183-44187
Scope and Contents

The letters ooooooo in white on a black background transform in a series of the same word length of letters into the word 'nothing' and then fragment into parts of letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

[O] , 1995

 Item — Box 313: [Barcode: 31858072490794]
Identifier: CC-27185-27660
Scope and Contents

The main image is a purple triangle penetrating a large black letraset "O." This is reminiscent of a Malevich suprematist painting. -- 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) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

On a Nuclear Day, 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-29696-31071
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 / Oversized

Pagina 1979, 1979

 Item — Folder 30: [Barcode: 31858072459898]
Identifier: CC-15985-16320
Scope and Contents

This drawing has an appearance of an abstract train in a landscape or seascape. -- 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) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Pain tings?, 2002

 Item — Folder 43: [Barcode: 31858072460011]
Identifier: CC-38949-40885
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) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Piecemeal Part One, 1988

 Item — Box 333: [Barcode: 31858072491024]
Identifier: CC-22912-23348
Scope and Contents

Introduction by Harry Polkinhorn. Cover design by Bob Grumman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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) / BOOKS

Piecemeal Part Three, 1988

 Item — Box 333: [Barcode: 31858072491024]
Identifier: CC-21539-21950
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) / BOOKS

Poem, 1962

 Item
Identifier: CC-33409-35048
Scope and Contents

This is a textural collage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1962
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 / Oversized

Politics, 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-30611-32050
Scope and Contents

This wall piece consists of the word POLITICS, made of wooden letters, placed at the top of a surface of chaotic, fragmented, interlocked, wooden letter shapes. -- 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) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / Oversized

PRES , 1992

 Item — Box 313: [Barcode: 31858072490794]
Identifier: CC-61614-10004074
Scope and Contents

Taken from pete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

pulling stain, 1999

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-37598-39455
Scope and Contents

This print is housed in a brown paper portfolio with "House Press" and its logo silkscreened onto it along four other prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999
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

R, 1999

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-37597-39454
Scope and Contents

This print is housed in a brown paper portfolio with "House Press" and its logo silkscreened onto it along four other prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999
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

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