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Steen, Vagn

 Person

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

Ant - hill, ant - words, ant - special workers / Steen, Vagn., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-40644-42618
Scope and Contents

This work was printed by Magnus Sandberg. It depicts a cluster of written words arranged in the shape of a hill. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Be Thirteen One Three / Steen, Vagn., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-28176-29339
Scope and Contents

Steen separated the components of the letter "B" so that it equals the number thirteen or one and three. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

[Card to Ann & Emmett Williams] / Steen, Vagn; Noel A; Williams E., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-40647-42621
Scope and Contents

The verso of the card is Steen's offset poem "the poem begins here." The message from Steen to Williams deals with the time of arrival in New York from a Copenhagen flight. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Digte? / Steen, Vagn., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-39764-41727
Scope and Contents

This was Steen's first published book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

[Letter to Ann & Emmett Williams March 18, 1970] / Steen, Vagn., 1979

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Identifier: CC-40658-42632
Scope and Contents

Steen describes his vacation in the Bahamas after his visit with Emmett Williams in NYC. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Locherbuch / Steen, Vagn., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-40649-42623
Scope and Contents

There is a torn hole in the center of each page that is present throughout the whole booklet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Mane / Steen, Vagn., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-28172-29335
Scope and Contents

Mane in English = conjure and Mane with accent over 'a' = moon. Steen utilizes opened and closed parenthesis and a circle over the 'a' of "mane" to suggest cycles of the moon related to the word "conjure." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

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