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Optical image

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 344 Collections and/or Records:

Inclusion / Etheredge IV, Lee., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-38970-40907
Scope and Contents

The work was typed with an IBM electric wheelwriter, typewriter onto Japanese paper. -- 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: Various Formats

[incomplete pyramid] (210467) (proof copy) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-56749-10000125
Dates: 1964
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

[inverted pyramids] (060467) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-56236-9999681
Scope and Contents

The two images are created totally with slashes. -- 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: Various Formats

[I's on Black] / Sharkey, John J.., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-56710-10000096
Scope and Contents

This piece is the photographic negative of Sharkey's I's on White. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

[I's on White] / Sharkey, John J.., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-56709-10000095
Scope and Contents

This piece contains two blocks of over-typing of I's on a field of single I's. It also is damaged with two holes within the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

jetzt ist hier / Clahsen, Peer., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-31934-33459
Scope and Contents

The text of each page is progressively rotated clockwise to produce an optical effect by the overlap through the transparent cellophane. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Kinetic Writing / Richard Kostelanetz., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-43971-46082
Scope and Contents

There is sound on this DVD. These videopoems were produced from 1985-1989. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Audiovisual Materials

Kinetic Writing / Richard Kostelanetz., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-43971-46082
Scope and Contents

There is sound on this DVD. These videopoems were produced from 1985-1989. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Audiovisual Materials

klankteksten ?konkrete poezie visuele teksten Exhibition: Concrete Poetry - First Uses of the Term. No.159 / Anonymous., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-59285-10002390
Scope and Contents

This sheet was placed on the wall with adhesive tape as the introduction to the most important exhibition of concrete poetry in its time. Burkhardt's biography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Periodicals

klankteksten ?konkrete poezie visuele teksten Exhibition: piece 1966. No.87b / Shoji Yoshizawa., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-38399-40304
Scope and Contents

This poster was hung in the most important exhibition of concrete poetry in its time. The numbering scheme used to classify the posters is based upon the pages of the exhibition catalogue with the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Periodicals

Kosmicka Geometrie / Vyletal, Jan ; Valoch J., 2010

 Item
Identifier: CC-51494-72592
Scope and Contents

Jiri Valoch contributed an introductory essay for the exhibition. -- 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: Exhibit Catalogs

Kykafrikaans: Page 22 / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-56667-10000062
Scope and Contents This is a page from the manuscript for the only typewritten, concrete poetry book published in South Africa. Boshoff achieved optical effects by weighting the density of typewritten letters in different portions of the poem through overtyping and creating diagonals by placement of the same letter in that direction. Includes an optical effects poem in a circular shape achieved by formating typewritten fragments in the manner of Houedard. Missing page 87. This work was purchased from Tony Zwicker after the Sackners met Boshoff in 1996 in Zwicker's Grammercy Park loft. It was exhibited at Miami Art Museum during the Global Conceptualism show. Boshoff in "word forms and language shapes 1975 - 2007" writes the following: The first edition of this work is an anthology of concrete poetry published by Uitgewery Pannevis, which was founded by Markus de Jong. During its short existence it focused on printing alternative Afrikaans literature. The book comprises black and white reproductions...
Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Kykafrikaans: Page Unnumbered / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-57651-10000918
Scope and Contents

This is a page from the manuscript for the only typewritten, concrete poetry book published in South Africa. However, it was not published in the final version of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

[L and cube slash and dash] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-57871-10001123
Scope and Contents

A large L shaped figure and a smaller cube are composed of slashes and dashes. This typing was acquired from Charles Cameron. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

l + / Mairey, Francoise., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-59511-10002587
Scope and Contents

Cards No.8 - 12 were scanned into record. Some signatures are dated 2000. First card dated 2001 but signed on the last card as 2002. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Various Formats

La Suite de l'Histoire: Metaphysique 90 / Chopin, Henri., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-18995-19374
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: Various Formats

Lanf of Scoundrels / Doctorovich, Fabio; Bennett, John M.., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-29055-30394
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: Various Formats

Last Trax / Ciani, Piermario., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-16465-16818
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: Various Formats

Latin American Art in Miami Collections / Presser E ; Trasobares C ; Cruz-Diez C ; Riveron E ; Soto J ; Gonzalez-Torres F ; Jaar A ; Kuitca G ; Solar X., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-07563-7708
Scope and Contents

Elena Presser's "Breathing In and Breathing Out" depicted in the catalogue, was borrowed from the Sackner Archive; it was originally commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing Exhibition." "Physichromie" by Carlos Cruz-Diez, a gift of the Sackners to the Lowe Museum was also exhibited. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

l'ecriture a l'endroit / Chopin, Henri., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-20565-20962
Scope and Contents

Includes reproductions of seven typewriter poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Booklets

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