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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 865 Collections and/or Records:

Dashes Variation & Pentade, 1965

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]

David/Norman Press (Letter to Shit Magazine), 1986

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Co-Cu: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-20025-20415
Scope and Contents

Reviews international small press scene. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

dbqp: Visualizing Poetics, 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-42571-44586
Scope and Contents

Huth describes his visit to the Sackner Archive on April 13th in the section titled "Home Sweet Museum." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

[Dear Marvin] / Bennett, John M.., 1983

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Be-Bir: [Barcode: 31858072491172]
Identifier: CC-20910-21319

dedo , 1992

 Item — Box 313: [Barcode: 31858072490794]
Identifier: CC-61612-10004072
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1992

Delivre II Printers Sample, 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-24205-24657
Scope and Contents

Print was reproduced from a unique collage commissioned by the Sackner Archive. Barron writes specific instructions to the printers on both margins of the proof. This is the second proof run by the printers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Delivre II Proof , 1988

 Item — Folder 80: [Barcode: 31858072538394]
Identifier: CC-24204-24656
Scope and Contents

Prints were reproduced from a unique collage held by the Sackner Archive. This proof, according to the artist, is the penultimate proof run "before the real thing." Includes specific instructions for changes to the printer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Demonstration, 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-09880-10076
Scope and Contents

This complex collage, an illustration for Jules Verne's "Aound the World in Eighty Days," depicts a parade and a mob scene with American voting slogans and company names. The main image was cut from an engraving done around 1900. An exhibition catalogue of Kolar, Mesens, Schwitters & Hoffmeister at Grosvenor Gallery, st that Hoffmeister "...was the first artist to use typography as a total compositional medium regardless of the meaning of the actual words, concentrating on the purely visual image." Wescher (Collage 1968) wrote that he was the grand master of collage. This collage is depicted in Adolf Hoffmeister This collage is not depicted in the Adolf Hoffmeister book 1902-1973 edited by Karel Srp on page 283. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Der Geklonte Sammler, 2002

 Item — Box 152: [Barcode: 31858072459302]
Identifier: CC-39417-41369
Scope and Contents

Consists of portraits of 11 art and book arts collectors, including Marvin Sackner who is depicted as a flying airplane. The documentation sheet is attached inside the box top. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Der Wochenhit, 1971

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: D: [Barcode: 31858072491370]

Dictionnaire des Methodes, 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-30036-31430
Scope and Contents

Consists of representative examples of the different types of Kolar's collages. Gilbert Lascault wrote a critical essay at the end of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991