Religious poetry
Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Ark 44, The Rod of Aaron
Item — Folder 75: [Barcode: 31858072538337]
Collection OUt: Immaculate Contraception. No.00 , 1971
Item — Folder 79: [Barcode: 31858072538386]
Identifier: CC-35922-37686
Scope and Contents
The print depicts a photograph of a seated pope with collaged elements of a female torso in the opening of the papal robe and the body of nude ancient stature pointing his arm at the pope's forehead. A paper doily is collaged below the papal image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1971
From the jeux theologiques - 1949 on, 1963
Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55432-59767
Gate Gate Gate, 1966
Item
Identifier: CC-48696-69728
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
momento mori, 1988
Item
Reality Stinks! , 1967
Item
Identifier: CC-07194-7335
Scope and Contents
Most of the text deals with Buddhist themes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1967
[Saint Benedict 2], 1953
Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55322-9999071
[Saint Benedict 3], 1953
Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55324-9999073
The Immaculate Conception, 1954
Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-09836-10030
Scope and Contents
This depicts two nuns holding hands while lying in bed; It is collaged onto a page of Furnival's "Liber Amicorum 1964-1984," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1954
Ying-Yang Cube, 1968
Item — Folder 77: [Barcode: 31858072538360]
Identifier: CC-55695-9999281
Scope and Contents
This iks the lay-out for assembling the poem in its cubic shape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
1968