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Typewriter art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 135 Collections and/or Records:

Mit Schreibmaschine 1923-29, 2nd Modified Edition, 2007

 Item — Box 622: [Barcode: 31858072461092]
Identifier: CC-47540-68548
Scope and Contents

This is a pirated edition of Werkman's typings published by derek beaulieu. The paper stock has a smoother feel than the 1st edition that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Monastero de Montserrat, 1935

 Item — Box 314: [Barcode: 31858072490802]
Identifier: CC-58665-10001900
Scope and Contents

This reproduction was provided to the Sackner Archive by Fernando Alcolea who scanned the image from Spanish ESPASA CALPE Universal Enciclopedia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1935

[monks monks monks] (060963), 1963

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-57861-10001111
Scope and Contents

DSH has typed five columns with seven lines of the words 'monks' with the following different wods randomley placed: flies, poetry, work, prayer, ? , weather. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Nahoru a dolu, hloubkove basne, 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-46583-49313
Scope and Contents

The French title is "En-haut et en-bas" or "Top and Bottom,"or "High and Low." Each page is a print of Kolar's typogrammes from the 1960's. The pages are cut so that a portion of typing from the following pages become an important part of the composition. Kolar created new configurations with the typewriter that were known as "creations plastiques." The Sackner Archive holds unique typewritten pages that were bound into a unique binding by Pella Erskine Tullock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Overtyped Gradients [Black] , 2014

 Item — Box 319: [Barcode: 31858072490786]
Identifier: CC-58357-10001573
Scope and Contents

The notations to the right of the image were inspired by Julius Nelson's book "Artyping (1939-1940), a book held bythe Sackner Archive. A composite image was produced of the black and red density gradients by merging the original typings in Photoshop. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014

Overtyped Gradients [Red], 2014

 Item — Box 319: [Barcode: 31858072490786]
Identifier: CC-58358-10001574
Scope and Contents

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

rmrmrmrm, 1980

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Chopin, Henri: [Barcode: 31858072491297]
Identifier: CC-18713-19086

Rune, 1980

 Item
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
Scope and Contents

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

Small Fry / Morin, Gustave., 2015

 Item
Identifier: CC-62370-10004169
Scope and Contents

Original page from the Clean Sails book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2015

Sylvester Houedard, 1968

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-08855-9030

The Chronicles of Akhira, 1986

 Item
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

The Fire & Wind Rods, 1965

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55899-9999366
Scope and Contents

The first two lines of the poem reads "worshipped in honour of ousioos (inventor of furcoats) / & samen roumes (inventor of the twiggy hut). The text of the poem accompying the typed image is not understandable owing to words foreign to English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965