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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Geshreibene Gesichter: Joseph Beuys / Schwaiger, Gernot; Beuys J., 1983

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Identifier: CC-36941-38774
Scope and Contents

The print depicts a portrait of Beuys through a text that is handwritten in darker and lighter lines to form the image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Geshreibene Gesichter: Marcel Proust / Schwaiger, Gernot; Proust M., 1983

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Identifier: CC-36942-38775
Scope and Contents

The print depicts a portrait of Proust through a text that is handwritten in darker and lighter lines to form the image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Goethe / Schwaiger, Gernot., 1988

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Identifier: CC-57607-10000880
Scope and Contents

The print depicts a portrait of Goethe through a text that is handwritten in darker and lighter lines to form the image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

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