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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 865 Collections and/or Records:

Controlling Time, 2010

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-51989-73091
Scope and Contents

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

[Coup-Gramme], 1987

 Item — Box 318: [Barcode: 31858072490778]
Identifier: CC-33491-35140
Scope and Contents

This print appears to have been made for a periodical since the verso depicts two works by other artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Cristoforo Returns, 1992

 Item — Folder 17: [Barcode: 31858072459765]
Identifier: CC-23480-23925
Scope and Contents

Poem deals with 500th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America. Included in a plastic envelope as "7 Assorted Pieces." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Cure AIDS, 1993

 Item — Box 305: [Barcode: 31858072460953]
Identifier: CC-09543-9733
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The poem object and envelope are heart shaped. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Curriculum Vitae, 1998

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: D: [Barcode: 31858072491370]
Identifier: CC-36532-38333

d.a. levy Pages, 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-31274-32745
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In his essay, Karl Young describes d.a. levy in his any facets e.g. spiritual poet, warrior against repression and conformity, quiet scribe and nihilist non-conformer. This web site for levy notes that the only existing critical text published about his life and works is Ingrid Swanberg's "Zen Concrete and etc." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: 10 Aug 1977 Dante's Heads 1 , 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 84: [Barcode: 31858072538410]
Identifier: CC-61432-10003959
Scope and Contents

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. A text of this image reads, "Semiramis & Dido & Cleopatra & Helen of Troy & Achilles & Paris & Tristan Und Isole De & Romeo and Juliet & Anna Karenina & Emma." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: After Rilke. Stage Proof, 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 84: [Barcode: 31858072538410]
Identifier: CC-61424-10003951
Scope and Contents

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Bathers in Pitch , 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 84: [Barcode: 31858072538410]
Identifier: CC-61421-10003948
Scope and Contents

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: [boat of dreams] , 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 86: [Barcode: 31858072538436]
Identifier: CC-61429-10003956
Scope and Contents

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. A Humument text of this image reads, "falter / drop / fall" "silent, lost / and helpless / sailing" "boat of dreams, and / lost / fear" "boat which is the dream / wreck Come / in" "for / none / return / from the Chance / in themselves / contained" -- Source of annotation: CEND.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Brunetto Study, 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 85: [Barcode: 31858072538428]
Identifier: CC-61415-10003942
Scope and Contents

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Canto III [bitter boating], 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 85: [Barcode: 31858072538428]
Identifier: CC-36711-38528
Scope and Contents

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. This print illustrates the canto in which Dore depicts Charon rowing a boat in the river Acheron in a lake with Phillips' comments from A Humument with the words, "bitter boating." This work was shown at the Sackner Archive during Art Basel Miami December 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Canto IV , 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 83: [Barcode: 31858072538402]
Identifier: CC-36714-38531
Scope and Contents

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. The print depicts a bust of Dante with a Humument text that begins, " six now, - with him there, the foremost in Europe - that poets of poets..." This work was shown at the Sackner Archive during Art Basel Miami December 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Canto V , 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 86: [Barcode: 31858072538436]
Identifier: CC-36730-38553
Scope and Contents This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. This print depicts intertwined figures suggesting sexual intercourse. Part of A Hument page has been collaged onto the print with a poem that reads, "all the time -For all the time - a curse for ever! - a tissue of interlacing twofold consciousness - ourselves united - passion all the time." Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. Tom Phillips altered this image in Canto V in his final version of the Inferno such that the calligraphic text was eliminated, the background was changed from black to gray and pink, a giant phallus with balls was depicted, and only the Humument text without...
Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Canto XIII (II), 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 86: [Barcode: 31858072538436]
Identifier: CC-36713-38530
Scope and Contents

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. The Humument text of this print reads, " master -- if these trees could talk, what hard observations were in that ache of wood." This work was shown at the Sackner Archive during Art Basel Miami December 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1979