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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 104 Collections and/or Records:

Breathing , 1991

 Item — Folder 57: [Barcode: 31858072537917]
Identifier: CC-09068-9247
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. The poem consists of two words, "In and Out." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Breathing #2, 1991

 Item — Folder 54: [Barcode: 31858072537883]
Identifier: CC-09069-9248
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. The background of this work is rubberstamped multiple times, "In Out," and found printed texts and images are collaged onto the rubberstamping. The collage is enclosed by a plastic laminate. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Breathing Thoughtful Breath, 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-09175-9356
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. A diptyche of computer generated prints display a young girl on the left holding a bouquet of flowers in an outdoors environment and a listing of archaic quotations on breathing on the right, including among others "from the healthy breath of morn... down and out breath... breathing thoughtful breath... last breath he drew in... clothed with his breath... breathe not his name... waste of breath the years behind...this present breath may buy..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Busta Celeste, 1979

 Item — Box 615: [Barcode: 31858073143871]
Identifier: CC-38172-40067
Scope and Contents

The poem deals with the theme of a dark blue sky. This work is also designated situazioni plasticoverbali No.3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Butt Wipe, 1998

 Item — Box 136: [Barcode: 31858072457843]
Identifier: CC-33248-34878
Scope and Contents

The expression "butt wipe" is written as a grid obsessively on the entire roll of toilet paper. The box was made by Sloy's husband, Nic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

[Concrete Poetry], 1978

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (3 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491347]
Identifier: CC-17696-18065
Scope and Contents

Reproductions of examples of concrete poetry; one copy printed on white and the other on yellow stock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Construyo Mi Deseo, 1999

 Item — Box 105: [Barcode: 31858073143814]
Identifier: CC-38056-39945
Scope and Contents

Warck-Meister handwrites the phrase of the title using a glue gun in a continuous path of attached letters. The translation of the title is "I construct my desire." The phrase adjacent to it and upside down reads, "I destroy your desire." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Cooper Book #1, 1989

 Item — Box 193: [Barcode: 31858072459633]
Identifier: CC-09912-10109
Scope and Contents

Pages consist of thin copper sheets. Artist has punched out small holes to form words or markings and passes black thread through the holes to form the images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Cum See Cum Sa / Anonymous., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-26906-27379
Scope and Contents

The object is a moebus strip with printed continuous text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

discarded poem 1, 1995

 Item — Box 340: [Barcode: 31858072491255]
Identifier: CC-60841-10003696
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1995

discarded poem 2, 1995

 Item — Box 340: [Barcode: 31858072491255]
Identifier: CC-60842-10003697
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1995

Documenti , 1972

 Item — Box 313: [Barcode: 31858072490794]
Identifier: CC-27117-27592
Scope and Contents

Text consists of aphorisms that all deal with the "word." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

fifty-two words, 2001

 Item — Box 151: [Barcode: 31858072458049]
Identifier: CC-39082-41021
Scope and Contents

The artist describes this book as follows. "The book consists of fifty-two pages, each with one word repeated and overlaid across the page. A symbol that represents a way of understating each word is cut out with colored papers laid under the cut-outs. Half of the pages contain a phrase related to both the word and symbol printed in a light grey. Cloth covered stiff leaf binding, laser printed text, cut pages, Japanese dyed paper." The book opens to a circular form. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001