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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 806 Collections and/or Records:

A Humument Fragment: Artwork for Ciaran Carson's Opera et Cetera: monsieur art sage, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-28329-29508
Scope and Contents

This is a mainly an ink hatched drawing that was intended for Ciaran Carson's book of poems, Opera et Cetera, Wake Forest Press, 1996, but not utilized in the printed edition. The text is from A Human Document by Mallock. Carson's book is also held by the Sackner Archive. This small fragament contains the following poem: "monsieur art sage monsieur h - dix-huit luding I heard him claim our name - ch - hc - reve omph enderi St ! - tribute to h - ink beau-payin you with his tongue wit." The protagonist in this poem, H C, is Henri Chopin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

A Humument Fragment: death? is this the sunshine?, 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-60256-10003258
Scope and Contents

The text reads "death? - is this not the sunshine? - lacing, playing a vagrant quesion- to elbow aside his own death - soon a sick shadow passed the air - elbow the probability." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

A Humument Fragment: Just take Goethe, or Horace Duke, 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-04440-4524
Scope and Contents

The text reads "Just take Goothe or Horace Duke - to show poetic life - no example, with music of Sir Walter Wellington - what a trifling locamotive - a butterfly gives meaning to miles of industry --poetry --let mego." The image is three silhouetted figures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

A Humument p85 Variation III , 1977

 Item — Folder 86: [Barcode: 31858072538436]
Identifier: CC-54451-52457
Scope and Contents

The prints have been removed from the folder and placed in a mat, two to a mat. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. Items were removed from matting and were returned to the original folder. Added: CEND.

Dates: 1977

A Humument Page 20 (print), 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-33358-34997
Scope and Contents

The image of this print appears to be fragments of a British flag. The poem reads, "searching for the complete extreme picture - he had lately done enumerated horse flesh; and water billiards - English Art." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

A Humument Page 59, 1980 - 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-54408-989921
Scope and Contents

The poem reads " A most magnificent kind of woners catalogue - DOCUMDNT the universe; and vanish - doumenti--libri----multa--admirandi! - at his bedside - all the reading of the thing with the stamp of art. tp ms and rs." Here Phillips is prising the Sackners' catalogue of their collection of concrete and visual poetry(1986) for which he also designed the cover. The same poem with a different image as a print with only 'tp' for Hansjorg Mayer publications catalogue is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980 - 1986

A Humument Page 233 (print) , 2007

 Item — Folder 87: [Barcode: 31858072538444]
Identifier: CC-47484-68481
Scope and Contents

The poem reads, "Her man - free and tender days of Poetry - pay day of happiness; and love - Tickets ready - for Liverpool and expectancy - the glimmering shores of yesterday receding." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

A Humument Sixth Revision Page 53 , 2005 - 2011

 Item
Identifier: CC-56044-9999495
Scope and Contents

The poem reads "the gallery of a hundred years of a thousand is in every street - art in the street covered deep with pictures vivified". Includes part of a map cut out. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005 - 2011

A Humument Supplement: Variations of Page 85 II & III [see at the sea] & [all of them] (2 prints), 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-54456-989942
Scope and Contents

One of the prints depicts most of the lines obliterated with brown paint and the other one with white paint. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

A Life in, 1994

 Item — Box 272: [Barcode: 31858072460938]
Identifier: CC-32946-34563
Scope and Contents

The text of the scroll reads, "A life in hate Haiti fear Rwanda death Bosnia anger America prejudice." The words are printed in varied size typefaces. The background images depict human figures walking within an African landscape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

[Abstract Figure with Calligraphic Mass], 1966-1967

 Item — Folder 32: [Barcode: 31858072459914]
Identifier: CC-35935-37699
Scope and Contents

The drawing depicts a large almost round, unidentifiable mass of densely pack words and letters, numbers and marks written in varied styles. A hanging abstract figure is placed adjacent to this mass. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966-1967

Agentzia Blatt: Untitled. No.1, 1970

 Item — Folder 10: [Barcode: 31858069877912]
Identifier: CC-28138-29301
Scope and Contents

Letters, numbers and punctuation marks of varied font sizes appear to be falling, in a random arrangement, from the upper right hand corner of the print until reaching a circle filled with the photograph of a large group of people. The circle appears to represent a magnifying glass. The interpretation of this image is unclear. The duplicate copy is folded. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Agentzia: In Concreto, No. 2, 1968

 Item — Folder 2: [Barcode: 31858072459401]
Identifier: CC-26045-26507
Scope and Contents

Includes folded posters, Jochen Gerz, Blatt-Nr.1: Untitled and Julien Blaine, Blatt-Nr.4. The poster by Gerz is included in Agentzia 2 but is catalogued separately. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Aggregat K, 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-35301-37035
Scope and Contents

This collection of reproductions of a work first published in 1987 accompanies "Zwischen dem Einst und dem Einst." The dimensions of the prints in this folder are much smaller than the originals. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993