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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 865 Collections and/or Records:

Bonjour, Monsieur Kolar! , 1984

 Item — Folder 72: [Barcode: 31858072538071]
Identifier: CC-22379-22802
Scope and Contents

This exhibition honoed Jiri Kolaron the occasion of his 70th birthday. Poster reproduces work from the catalogue published by Galerie Pragxis, held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Book 1980, 1980

 Item — Box 327: [Barcode: 31858072490943]
Identifier: CC-22251-22673
Scope and Contents

The front cover on yellow paper stock has words, "baroni & pachetti" rubberstamped and the back cover "Book 1980." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

[Book box with magnifying glass], 1998

 Item — Box 152: [Barcode: 31858072459302]
Identifier: CC-32294-33856
Scope and Contents

A worn binding of Plato's book, "Republic The Statesman" was remade as a container for an assemblage of booklets, scrolls, wooden rods, gauze and ancient printed texts. The lid of the box contains an inset, ornate magnifying glass through which a portion of the interior box can be viewed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Book of Elevations, 1994

 Item — Box 333: [Barcode: 31858072491024]
Identifier: CC-31571-33067
Scope and Contents

Each of the pages depicts a reproduction of a handwritten visual poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Border(ed) , 1989

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-22701-23135
Scope and Contents

Basmajian (30 September 1950 "“ 25 January 1990) was a Canadian poet and author. Born in Beirut, Lebanon to Armenian parents, Basmajian emigrated to Canada when he was seven years old. He was a founder of the Canadian Poetry Association, co-founder of Old Nun Publications (with Ted Plantos), and was a member of the Parliament Street Library poetry group. The Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award, given annually to a Canadian poet, was established in his memory. The contest ran from 1996-2008. In 1986, he was attacked with a knife and robbed while he was driving a taxi. His right lung was punctured when a robber stabbed him. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Bouffe-Merde, 1968

 Item — Folder 31: [Barcode: 31858072459906]
Identifier: CC-19836-20223
Scope and Contents

Central image is a portrait of Charles De Gaulle flanked by word columns utilizing the repetitive typed word, bouffe (comic), and merde in a fragmented fashion near the portrait. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Brache di Gutenberg, Le: Cronaca e Storia: Edizioni Rare, 1989

 Item — Box 334: [Barcode: 31858072491032]
Identifier: CC-22641-23072
Scope and Contents

Curated by Luciano Caruso and Sonia Puccetti. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Brache di Gutenberg, Le: Cronaca: La Geometria dei Sentimenti. No.1 , 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-22207-22629
Scope and Contents

Edited by Luciano Caruso and Sonia Puccetti. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Breath, 1991

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31858072459393]
Identifier: CC-26042-26504
Scope and Contents

This drawing was commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. The poet drew circular shapes with symmetrical and irregular borders encapsulating the words, "breath, breathing, and respiro," as an attempt to portray the physical qualities of a breath as a visual image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Breathing #2, 1991

 Item — Folder 54: [Barcode: 31858072537883]
Identifier: CC-09069-9248
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. The background of this work is rubberstamped multiple times, "In Out," and found printed texts and images are collaged onto the rubberstamping. The collage is enclosed by a plastic laminate. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

[Bridge] , 1994

 Item — Folder 49: [Barcode: 31858072537834]
Identifier: CC-16147-16490
Scope and Contents

The top half of this print is a photograph of a bridge over a body of water. The bottom half is the same scene rendered in the repeated words brisa (breeze), abatido (downcast), abismo (abyss), abajo (under), barato (cheap), alejar (move away) - themes related to suicide. The calligraphic text is rendered by computer typeface. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Broadside No.9: Germany, 1993

 Item — Folder 73: [Barcode: 31858072538089]
Identifier: CC-34958-36673
Scope and Contents

The print depicts a stylized broken arm with a fractured Swatstika arm band with the hand aflame. The smoke from the fire consists of a political address in 1993 set in bold type by Helmut Kohl, the leader of Germany dealing with solving the world's problems with money. This overlays a text with fainter type dealing with protection of the environment. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

[Business], 1983

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: D: [Barcode: 31858072491370]
Identifier: CC-35579-37323

Butterfly-display case, 1969

 Item — Box 183: [Barcode: 31858072459534]
Identifier: CC-49082-70120
Scope and Contents

This work consists of single words pinned to a masonite surface. The words are in the German language that when translated to English consist of autumn, to feel, today, to see, children, to live, a little, and quicker, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969