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Letter picture

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 270 Collections and/or Records:

Ken Cox Memorial / the sun-cheese wheel-ode; a double-rolling- gloster memorial forkencox [white background] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Wright E., 1968

 Item — Folder 35: [Barcode: 31858072459948]
Identifier: CC-53335-100045
Scope and Contents

This copy has a white background onto are which printed colored letters dictated by the analysis on the verso. William Allen comments: "Dom Sylvester's memorial to the artist Ken Cox, who died in November 1968 after a tragic accident. This double-sided print was printed at the Compton Press, Salisbury, in orange and green on yellow stock. The verso side of the print features silkscreen, together with the title and date. Recto, printed in black, contains the full length title "Ken Cox Memorial/Sun-Cheese wheel-ode, a double-rolling-gloster memorial for kencox" and the complex workings of Houedard's Consonant and Vowel System, as well as acknowledging Semi-Bold Flaxman by Edward Wright. The letters K- E- N- C- O- X are missing from the composition - reflecting the loss of the artist. Less than 300 prints were produced on white, pink and yellow stock." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Ken Cox Memorial / the sun-cheese wheel-ode; a double-rolling- gloster memorial forkencox [yellow background] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Wright E., 1968

 Item — Folder 35: [Barcode: 31858072459948]
Identifier: CC-53334-100044
Scope and Contents

This copy has a yellow background onto are which printed colored letters dictated by the analysis on the verso. William Allen comments: "Dom Sylvester's memorial to the artist Ken Cox, who died in November 1968 after a tragic accident. This double-sided print was printed at the Compton Press, Salisbury, in orange and green on yellow stock. The verso side of the print features silkscreen, together with the title and date. Recto, printed in black, contains the full length title "Ken Cox Memorial/Sun-Cheese wheel-ode, a double-rolling-gloster memorial for kencox" and the complex workings of Houedard's Consonant and Vowel System, as well as acknowledging Semi-Bold Flaxman by Edward Wright. The letters K- E- N- C- O- X are missing from the composition - reflecting the loss of the artist. Less than 300 prints were produced on white, pink and yellow stock." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

le ciel (021165), 1965

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-56012-58906

Le Coeur à gaz, 1946

 Item — Box 614: [Barcode: 31858072461001]
Identifier: CC-55605-64906
Scope and Contents Wikipedia: The Gas Heart or The Gas-Operated Heart[1] (French: Le Cœur à gaz) is a French-language play by Romanian-born author Tristan Tzara. It was written as a series of non sequiturs and a parody of classical drama"”it has three acts despite being short enough to qualify as a one-act play. A part-musical performance that features ballet numbers, it is one of the most recognizable plays inspired by the anti-establishment trend known as Dadaism. The Gas Heart was first staged in Paris, as part of the 1921 "Dada Salon" at the Galerie Montaigne.In The Gas Heart, Tzara's appears to have aimed at overturning theatrical tradition, in particular the three-act play, which resulted in the suggestion that the text is "the greatest three-act hoax of the century". American literary historian David Graver, who compares The Gas Heart with Le Serin muet, a play by Tzara's friend Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, notes of the two texts that, together, they "pulverize the elements of conventional...
Dates: 1946

Letraset, 2010

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-50821-71899
Scope and Contents

This publication depicts Beaulieu's letraset collages including Untitled (2010), a work held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Letter Cube, 1975

 Item — Box 178: [Barcode: 31858072459468]
Identifier: CC-52478-73605
Scope and Contents

A single large letter is collaged onto one of the six surfaces of the cube, e.g., L,W, E , F, U, and R but they do not form a word in any adjacent sequence. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Letter from Kythera, 1994

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: D: [Barcode: 31858072491370]
Identifier: CC-29812-31191
Scope and Contents

The photocopied black & white image depicts a nude frontal view of a woman emphasizing her pubic hair. The white portion of the print is filled in with dense typed letters that do not have any linguistic meaning. Kythera aka Cerigo is a Greek island in the Mediterranean which had a temple of Aphrodite in antiquity. Presumably, Diotallevi is pointing out that language doesn't matter in a Temple of Love. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

[letterpress prints], 2014

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Be-Bir: [Barcode: 31858072491172]
Identifier: CC-59710-10002767