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Typewriter art

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:

Rune, 1980

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Identifier: CC-60620-56889
Scope and Contents

Pages were typed than photocopied for this limited edition stored in a Kempton box. The slipcase made by Bern Porter is unique. The variety and complexity of Kemptom's typings is a tour de force of possibilities accomplished with this device. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Scanned Mock-Up of Overtyped Gradients, 2014

 Item — Box 319: [Barcode: 31858072490786]
Identifier: CC-58359-10001575
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The notations to the right of the image were inspired by Julius Nelson's book "Artyping (1939-1940), a book held bythe Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014

The Chronicles of Akhira, 1986

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Identifier: CC-58746-10001982
Scope and Contents Karl Kempton dedicated his 12 typoglifs in this volume to the poet-author Abd al-Hayy Moore, "bringing together sacred visual expression from around the world and wedding it to like-minded expression of the Native American Peoples, primarily of the Southwest and Central Coast of California." This book is stored in Lempton's box.Internet: Moore was born in 1940 in Oakland, California, his first book of poems, Dawn Visions, was published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books, San Francisco, in 1964. In 1972 his second book, Burnt Heart, Ode to the War Dead, was also published by City Lights. He was the winner of the Ina Coolbrith Award for poetry and the James D. Phelan Award for the manuscript of poems in progress that became Dawn Visions. From 1966 to 1969, Mr. Moore wrote and directed ritual theatre for his Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company in Berkeley, California.When he became a Muslim in 1970, he took the name Abd al-Hayy, and began traveling extensively in Europe and...
Dates: 1986

[Typewriter Art], 1981

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Identifier: CC-09491-9680
Scope and Contents

The drawings are unsigned, but two packing slips accompanying the work with Jennifer Hawkins' signature have been retained. Internet: Jennifer Hawkins trained at the Canberra School of Art and now lives on the South Coast of New South Wales. She works with a range of symbols, materials, and processes to explore the human condition. Though she has been called purist, minimalist, and conceptualist, she says she just uses "whatever materials and techniques seem to make the best marriage with the idea'. She has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions and has work held in private and public collections both here and overseas. In September 2006, she won the Basil Sellers Art Prize with her work ... and on that day they shall rise up... In 2005, Quilt for a Park Bench won the Quota Rotary Art Prize at Wagga. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Ziffernkontakte, 1976

 Item — Box 330: [Barcode: 31858072490968]
Identifier: CC-20875-21284
Scope and Contents

Also designated as Buch 2. In this book, all the images on 18 of the pages are formed from typewritten numbers. Klaus Basset was born in 1926 and died in 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Zu Meiner Schreibmaschinen-Grafik / Basset, Klaus ; Frenken S ; Elfen F., 1976

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Identifier: CC-21585-21996
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The text was written by Basset. This publication is also designated as werkstatt breitenbrunn blatt 4 and was edited by Wil Frenken and Fria Elfen. Klaus Basset was born in 1926 and died in 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976