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Visual/verbal

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

[Cut Page from Notebook] / Furnival, John., 1962

 Item
Identifier: CC-13243-13544
Scope and Contents

On the left is half of a poem; the remainder of the page is a geometric drawing. Stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1962

[Drawing for Watts Chapel] / Furnival, John., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-13215-13516
Scope and Contents

A rendering from a stained glass window with four saintly figures, flowers and the motto "The Word Was with God" from the Watts Chapel at Compton, Surrey. Stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Ikon Logos - Word as Image / Robert Browning, curator ; Frisch J ; Carroll L ; Apollinaire G ; Marinetti FT ; Duchamp M ; Sabatier R ; Indiana R ; Kriwet F ; DeCampos A ; Furnival J ; Gomringer E ; Finlay IH ; Arakawa ; Dienst KP ; Schuldt ; Ashmore R ; Baranik R ; Benes BL ; Blum J ; Finster H ; Garcez P ; Goldstein H ; Gordon B ; Hartmann W ; Johnson M ; Lederman SB ; Mendel M ; Rosen K ; Spero N ; Stevens M ; Thatcher R ; Tompkins B ; Vater R ; Vicuna C., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-54069-57571
Scope and Contents

The catalogue began with an historical introduction to text based works and included reproduced images of 20th century artists whose works are held by the Sackner Archive such as Apollinaire, Marinetti, Sabatier, Indiana, Kriwet, Augusto de Campos, Furnival, Finlay, Gomringer, Klaus-Peter Dienst, and Schuldt. The exhibition itself featured several artists whose works are held by the Sackner Archive, viz., Barton Lidice Benes, Howard Finster, Werner Hartmann, Stephanie Brody Lederman, Betty Tompkins, Regina Vater -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Lady Midnight / John Furnival; Astrid Furnival., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-10738-10947
Scope and Contents

This sculpture serves as a support for Astrid Furnival's knitted sweater "Un Coup de Des." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Lady Midnight / John Furnival; Astrid Furnival., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-10738-10947
Scope and Contents

This sculpture serves as a support for Astrid Furnival's knitted sweater "Un Coup de Des." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

L'Eau Bleue Du Ciel / Furnival, John., 1961

 Item
Identifier: CC-56601-500315
Scope and Contents

This print is reproduced on page 6 of John Furnival's book, 'Lost for Words' (2011). Nicole Rabetaud contributed a piece to P.O.T.H. No.13. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1961

[Page from Sketchbook] / Furnival, John., 1962

 Item
Identifier: CC-13244-13545
Scope and Contents

Depicts a simplified drawing of a landscape along with a weather forcast. Stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1962

[Shakespeare, His Maze] / Furnival, John., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-13225-13526
Scope and Contents

The calligraphic text at the bottom of the work reads, "Shakespeare, his maze, His Queen, the Lord Southampton, & the dark lady, with the gestures of Rhetorick." Each of the above mentioned is pictured in the print. Several of these elements are present in the drawing on wooden board held in the Sackner Archive. Stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Shakespeare, His Maze / Furnival, John., 1978

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Identifier: CC-13332-13633
Scope and Contents

The maze is composed of large letters in which the Lord of Southampton, the dark lady and the Queen are standing. A portrait of Shakespeare is drawn within a pyramid. Beneath that is an alphabet of hand signs. The imagery is taken from the drawing, "The Dark Lady" that is held by the Sackner Archive. This print is depicted on page 84 of Furnival's book "The Locative-Vocative Cases" (2012) -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Yes We All Read and Reek of Papers / Furnival, John., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-13294-13595
Scope and Contents

This print that has been printed in green (for the environment?) depicts a photograph of a woman with the caption "not mama grandmama" and text that deals with concerns for killing of whales. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967