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Optical image

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 344 Collections and/or Records:

Mobius Poem: Being a Four Dimensional Concrete Poetry Happening / Don Gray., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-43831-45927
Scope and Contents

This work is also designated twowindows folio V. The concrete poem is printed on a Mobius strip. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Moire (291065) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-08878-9054
Scope and Contents

Houedard used a grid of 4 L's to produce moire patterns. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

moire typestract pome 6 for john furnival (091263) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-09829-10023
Scope and Contents

This optical poem was created by typing overlying slashes. It was removed from a page of Furnival's "Liber Amicorum 1964-1984," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

moonblase - 3 crescent increscent (100467) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-09856-10050
Scope and Contents

This work appears to be a preparatory sketch for a sculpture. It is formed from typed dashes and @ characters. This work was exhibited in Force Fields: phrases of the kinetic held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona in 1999 and the Hayward Gallery London in 2000. The work was selected by the Curator, Guy Brett. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Moonstrips Empire News Volume 1 / Paolozzi, Eduardo; Wittgenstein L; Duchamp M; Picabia F., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-29926-31315
Scope and Contents Various paper stocks were used for the prints, viz., Centurian, Ferndown, Fibrex, Flexicover, Kendal and Soho cover boards, All British Cartridge, Astralux cast coated boards, and clear Acetate. According to Diane Kirpatrick (Eduardo Paolozzi, New York Graphic Society, 1969), the work was conceived as a giant file of text and image collages from the artist's voluminous collection. Each viewer is invited to 'edit' the book by experimenting with various arrangements of the sheets in the box. Paolozzi was concerned in this book between the relationship of Kitsch to technology. The color combinations of the inks are elegant with prodigious use of gold, silver, and copper metal inks. The moulded plexiglas box has a Dayglo pink color (other copies had this color or bright yellow or bright green). The images include movie stills and strips, There are several prints that include scientific, industrial, weather, and news photography. Images include graphs, advertisements, art...
Dates: 1967

[m's over w's] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-56070-9999517
Scope and Contents

Typing m's over w's wil produce a solid square as depicted in this piece -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

mt + / Mairey, Francoise., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-59584-10002661
Scope and Contents

Card No.12 was scanned into record. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Necker Cube / Bok, Christian., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-31737-33249
Scope and Contents

The poem is laid out on graph paper using straight lines to form the letters and image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

[negative one] (270267) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-08666-8839
Scope and Contents

The arrangement of lines in this composition forms a rectangle with one truncated side of clear space. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Nero=Black / Nannucci, Maurizio., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-57597-67418
Scope and Contents

The word, 'nero' is repetitively typed to form an optical image composed of an open box that is black where the typed letters cross. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

NRG. No.5 / Karl Kempton., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-38347-40247
Scope and Contents

This issue was edited by Dan Raphael. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977