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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 860 Collections and/or Records:

Hommage a Mallarme, 1993

 Item — Folder 39: [Barcode: 31858072459997]
Identifier: CC-13183-13484
Scope and Contents

Depicts title of Mallarme's poem, Un Coup de Des, along with images of dice. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Humument Cartoon, 1970

 Item — Folder 76: [Barcode: 31858072538352]
Identifier: CC-54487-52437
Scope and Contents

The print reads:" One man in the dusk is so much like another." - angel, it was Bill - instantly, "Instantly!" the shortest. - it is large saving yourself the delicacy - open the suction miss Gott! - Have no scruple in using me on you; no one depends on your tools, and begin about it. Bobby you pesth - "Irma! Irma!" under his breath, - let him die doctor in another sofa. - we got an intellectual silenced - then, never God! pain wince." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

[Humument Page 20: Six Variations] , 1986

 Item — Folder 76: [Barcode: 31858072538352]
Identifier: CC-46300-49022
Scope and Contents

The print depicts deconstructed images all involving women. The texts read from image on left to right and top to bottom, "(1) a course in Sussex; (2) a photograph of a curious muse; (3) constant to the subject - the subject extended - he talked and his range came - pursuing the subject; (4) fair sex in various capitals - the politics show; (5) came across a picture of flesh; and circles - The Art revelation; (6) her, smiling her last. - they were Europe." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

ideas of god, 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-48340-69365
Scope and Contents Catherine Foc exhibition review at MOCA GA: Over the course of her long, fecund career, Ruth Laxson has honed a unique language rooted in her fascination with forms of communication. Letters, words, hieroglyphics, mathematical symbols, equations, Braille, computer acronyms, typefaces, handwriting, pictures: the Atlanta artist uses these elements as abstract shapes, allusive imagery "” and content. Text is as important as image, be it straightforward sentences and phrases or wordplay: the puns, anagrams and lists through which she gets at more elusive meanings than linear language allows.The parameters of her subject matter and worldview are, you might say, microcosmic.* Laxson's take on enduring themes "” love, sex, power and their manifestation in relationships, feminism, war, politics and philosophy "” all are nested in perception of matter, space and time shaped by the teachings of Georgia Tech physics professor David Finkelstein and her own ruminations about God. Her works are...
Dates: 2008

il bacio / poesia visiva, 1969

 Item — Box 611: [Barcode: 31858072460854]
Identifier: CC-52622-73758
Scope and Contents

The poem features a music score by Robert Schumann with a couple kissing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Il Contesto, 1980

 Item — Folder 2: [Barcode: 31858072459401]
Identifier: CC-13058-13353
Scope and Contents

Consists of a small drawing (u.l.) mapping "il luogo dell'espeimento," an empty graph (l.l.), and 4 circles tracing mente, logica and mito (r.). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

il silenzio scritto, 1993

 Item — Box 340: [Barcode: 31858072491255]
Identifier: CC-28892-30217
Scope and Contents

The book is also designated as collana di poesie e prosa new series 29. The illustrations were done by Kiki Francheschi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Il Teatro Della Parola, 2011

 Item
Identifier: CC-52760-73897
Scope and Contents

The exhibition by Lora-Totino consisted of 48 works, one depicted on each page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

Individuelle Alfabete, 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-27080-27554
Scope and Contents

Cover was designed by Rea Nikonova. Includes an introduction by Andryczuk and an essay by Pierre Garnier on constructivistic poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995