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Visual poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 794 Collections and/or Records:

Main de Nadjib #2, 1982

 Item — Folder 12: [Barcode: 31858069877862]
Identifier: CC-22851-23287
Scope and Contents

Author is also known as Mahjoub Ben Bella. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Mama Dada, 1980

 Item — Box 324: [Barcode: 31858072490901]
Identifier: CC-21761-22172
Scope and Contents

Duplicates printed on different colored papers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Man?, 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-06064-6178
Scope and Contents

This collage profile of a stylized human body alludes to multiple physical malfunctions from "bald" to "cough" to "corns" clipped from newspaper ads. The figure is standing on a base which states "Under capitalism...medicine is a commodity and a business. Disease is a commodity of capitalism. Under capitalism, the businesses and institions of capitalism need disease as merchandise to do business with, to make money, to sell medicine. Fidel Castro - January 8, 1969." This poem was published in Mayer's "earmouth" 1972 and in Delo, 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Man from Red, 2000

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Identifier: CC-35654-37403
Scope and Contents

This drawing depicts three stylized reddish-brown male nude figures placed over text for the outside two figures and on gold paint for the center figure. The top has the numbers 1 to 7 written in a horizontal row. The paper was made from cardboard egg crate carton material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Man Wat, 1984

 Item — Folder 4: [Barcode: 31858072459427]
Identifier: CC-36487-38284
Scope and Contents

According to Boshoff, this drawing shows "organic, interwoven sentences that have something to do with the inflection of words and the construction of sentences." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Manhattan / Furnival, John., 1973

 Item — Folder 39: [Barcode: 31858072459997]
Identifier: CC-54811-990241
Scope and Contents

The images of this print are depicted as a standing screen on pages 46-47 in Furnival's book "Lost for Words" (2011). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Marcel Broodthaers, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-22245-22667
Scope and Contents

The book by Broodthaers, "Un Coup De Des Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard: Image" that is held by the Sackner Archive is reproduced . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Marcel Broodthaers, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-62057-123456789
Scope and Contents

The book by Broodthaers, "Un Coup De Des Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard: Image" that is held by the Sackner Archive is reproduced . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Mary Rudolf's Chromosomes, 1972

 Item — Box 634: [Barcode: 31858072491313]
Identifier: CC-17787-18157
Scope and Contents

This poem with the appearance of a film sequence in the form of a grid, was published in Second Aeon No.15, 1972. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Mathemaku for Pete Spence, 2001

 Item — Box 336: [Barcode: 31858072491115]
Identifier: CC-37492-39345
Scope and Contents

Grumman gave this print to the Sackners during his visit to the Archive in June 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

MCCARTHY/C ED 912 Posters (No Series, No. 8): Telegram from Vietnam, 1967

 Item — Folder 26: [Barcode: 31858072459856]
Identifier: CC-14144-14449
Scope and Contents

The image of American fighting soldiers has been over-printed with the US Army death notification telegram forms. Signature of the previous owner, Bob Cobbing, is on the verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967