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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Lebennlaufe / Schwaiger, Gernot ; Adorno T ; Artaud A ; Beckett S ; Joyce J ; Leger F ; Stein G ; Breton A ; Paik NJ ; Pound E ; Ranier A ; Thomas D ; Tinguely J., 1983

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Identifier: CC-36403-38195
Scope and Contents Each page is a calligraphic portrait of a prominent person in the arts and sciences accomplished through texts that are handwritten in darker and lighter lines to form the image.Wikipedia: Gernot Schwaiger (24 January 1952 in Kassel ) is a German visual artist, lithographer, draftsman and sculptor. He first trained as a bookseller . Then he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kassel, and received a scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . He completed his studies with the work of art school graduating designers and art degree as a sculptor and painter. In 1983, its existing only from black and white illustrations book CVs . His work through a repeatable sequence. First, he researched the CV of mostly already deceased personality. Then he hand-written resume of the model . Finally, he writes with black color again on the resume, but changed so the font size, font width and font thickness that one out of the text, the portrait can perceive. The drawings were as...
Dates: 1983

Men of Letters & People of Substance / de Vicq de Cumptich, Roberto ; Prose F ; Joyce J ; Kafka F ; Vonnegut KJr ; Nabokov V ; Bowles P ; Beckett S ; Burroughs WS ; Proust M ; Updike J., 2008

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Identifier: CC-50440-71508
Scope and Contents

The first half of this book consists of portraits of famous men and women that are created by the author in specific and appropriate fonts. The second half of the book, People of Substance, the author combines type ornaments and icons to suggest a face with singular attributes like fear, passive, nice and money. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

No.217: One Hundred Rare Books / Ursus Rare Books ; Baudelaire C ; Beckett S ; Delaunay S ; Maurus H ; Stein G ; Cendrars B., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34462-36159
Scope and Contents

The works listed in this catalogue and held by the Sackner Archive include the following: "Prose du Transsiberien" by Sonya Delaunay and Blais Cendrars,and "De laudeibus sanctae crucis opus" by Hrabanus Maurus. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Supplementary List T / Joseph the Provider ; Hoyem A ; Beckett S ; Carroll L ; Clark T., 1982

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Identifier: CC-28050-29206
Scope and Contents

The cover drawing is by Tom Clark. "Shaped Poetry" published by Arion Press, which is listed, is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982