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Furnival, John, 1933-2020

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1933-05-29-

Found in 431 Collections and/or Records:

Regional News, 1978

 Item — Folder 78: [Barcode: 31858072538378]
Identifier: CC-13262-13563
Scope and Contents

The drawing is dominated by the listing of four silkscreened words listed from top to bottom, viz., Norther, Easter, Wester and Souther. Wide colored lines in a meandering fashion like unwound, tangled tape from a casette cross, encircle and go under the four directional words. The caption below these words reads, Regional News: one line the shortest distance between two points bing the prettiest. On the right side, Furnival draws in graphite, Paris c'est beauborg n'est pastiche. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

R.E.M. Period / Furnival, John., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-13138-13435
Scope and Contents

This book reproduces segments from Furnival's standing screens as well as presenting an anti-Vietnam war collage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Robert Lax and Concrete Poetry / Lax, Robert ; Solt ME ; Gomringer E ; DeCampos H ; Furnival J ; Finlay IH ; Cobbing B ; Nichol bp ; bissett b., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-07312-7456
Scope and Contents

In an introductory essay, Mary Ellen Solt traces concrete poetry historically and analyzes spcifically the work of Lax as related to Eugen Gomringer, Augusto De Campos and Ian Hamilton Finlay. Michael Basinski and Robert Bertholf provide an essay on "Zines," a generic term for a self-generated, cheaply produced (folded and stapled photocopied sheets), radically independent magazine. The exhibition included works of 167 international, concrete and visual poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Rowden (Bronowski's) Cottage, Nailsworth / Furnival, John., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-13191-13492
Scope and Contents

This print is part of the Nailsworth series and depicts Bronowski, a famous art-populariser in the fifties, who as a Polish Jew escaped from the Nazis; he worked as a scientist in England. The Furnivals lived in this cottage prior to moving to Rooksmoor. Stored in the Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Sam Palmer / Furnival, John., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-13283-13584
Scope and Contents

Caption for a line drawing of Sam Palmer (identity?) lying on Salisbury Plain (Stonehedge) in the night and "cogitating whether the moon is Fulvous (tawny), Gibbous (whether the moon is more than half full) or Fulgurant (flashing like lightening). This drawing is stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

[Saturn J Mar] / Furnival, John., 1968

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-13301-13602
Scope and Contents

The print on translucent paper lists a circular stream of words, printed in different colors, that relate to celestial bodies. These float over the second print that depicts a large silver globe with latitude and longitude lines. Disintegrating silver capital "V's and other letterforms on the outer border of the globe provide an visual effect that it is spinning. The printing on this work is unusually sophisticated and might have been done in collaboration with A. Doyle Moore, a master printer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

[Seated Nude Woman] / Furnival, John., 1955

 Item
Identifier: CC-13234-13535
Scope and Contents

Nude female figure is depicted seated on a wooden chair. Stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1955

[Seated Nude Woman] / Furnival, John., 1955

 Item
Identifier: CC-13235-13536
Scope and Contents

Nude female figure is depicted seated on a bed. Stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1955

Selected Works of the Last Twenty Years / Furnival, John ; Martin H ; Zurbrugg N ; DellaGrazia P., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-35500-37237
Scope and Contents

The catalogue mentions that Furnival's works are held by the Sackner collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Self-portrait in a Teapot / Furnival, John; Vince, John., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-13181-13482
Scope and Contents

In The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Self-portrait in the Glaze of a Teapot (1) / Furnival, John; Vince, John., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-13179-13480
Scope and Contents

In The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Self-portrait in the Glaze of a Teapot (2) / Furnival, John., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-13180-13481
Scope and Contents

In The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

[Semper Impermeabile] / John Furnival., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-29442-30807
Scope and Contents

This fabric crest with the image of an open umbrella was designed by Furnival probably for his Dorothy series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

[Semper Impermeabile] / John Furnival., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-29442-30807
Scope and Contents

This fabric crest with the image of an open umbrella was designed by Furnival probably for his Dorothy series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

[Seven Ancient Greek Ladies] / Furnival, John., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-13240-13541
Scope and Contents

Furnival has collaged seven female figures in Greek-like garments to a background of abstact markings stepping around a central large eye. The shape of the paper is a septagon. Stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Seventy Seventies for Eugen Gomringer / Furnival, John., 1993

 Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]
Identifier: CC-13174-13475
Scope and Contents

Depicts the number "70" seventy times with different typefaces and sizes and overlays as homage to Gomringer's 70th birthday. In The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Seventy Sixty Fifty Not Out! Well Played, Sir!, 1999

 Item — Folder 59: [Barcode: 31858072537933]
Identifier: CC-33470-35114
Scope and Contents

The print, done in commemoration of Jonathan Williams' 70th birthday, shows him playing cricket. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

[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

 Item
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

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Concrete poetry 112
Visual art 78
Visual poetry 71
Picture poetry 67
Documentation 55