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Furnival, John, 1933-

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1933-05-29-

Found in 424 Collections and/or Records:

The Dawn of the Age of Leisure, 1975

 Item — Folder 59: [Barcode: 31858072537933]
Identifier: CC-34082-35762
Scope and Contents

The completed text reads, "Wych Countree has the Elm Disease?" The outlines of world-wide countries are flying around a sky with a setting sun as if they were leaves. Four human figures are drawn encased in grids. The Archive has two other unsigned copies of this print; this is the only copy that is folded. This print is depicted in Furnival's "Lost For Words" (2011) page 61. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

The Dawn of the Age of Leisure / Furnival, John., 1975

 Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]
Identifier: CC-54727-990161
Scope and Contents

The completed text reads, "Wych Countree has the Elm Disease?" The outlines of world-wide countries are flying around a sky with a setting sun as if they were leaves. Four human figures are drawn encased in grids. The Archive has three other unsigned copies of this print. This print is depicted in Furnival's "Lost For Words" (2011) page 61. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

The eccentric monk and his typewriter / Rawsthorn, Alice; Houedard DS; Furnival J; Wright E; Morgan E., 2012

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Identifier: CC-55764-9999308
Scope and Contents

This article (page 9) about Dom Sylvester Houedard deals with the book launch of "Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter" (2012) by Occasional Papers at the South London Gallery in December 2012. The Sackners were present at this event and Marvin Sackner lectured on visual works that Houedard made before his well known typed concrete poems. One of the two illustrations in this article was the property of the Sackner Archive. The newspaper was mailed to the Sackners along with a thank you card by Sara [de Bondt] and Antony Hudek, the owners of Occasional Papers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

The Eiffel Tower, 1995

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-13314-13615
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint on different paper (Arches 88) of the same print from the sixties -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

[The Eiffel Tower] / John Furnival., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-12238-12462
Scope and Contents

This is an extra copy of a poem object that also is included on Revue Ou No.30-31. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[The Eiffel Tower] / John Furnival., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-12238-12462
Scope and Contents

This is an extra copy of a poem object that also is included on Revue Ou No.30-31. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

The Erik Satie Road-Sign, second version / Furnival, John; Moore, A. Doyle., 1974

 Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]
Identifier: CC-13300-13601
Scope and Contents

A red, triangular road sign in printed over two staves of music by Satie with the expression "Le colonel est la!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

The Fall of the Tower of Babel, 1995

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-13290-13591
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint on different paper (Arches 88) of the same print of the sixties. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

The Locative and Vocative Case / Furnival, John., 1995

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Identifier: CC-13185-13486
Scope and Contents

The box was made from wooden fragments of commercial shipping crates that were printed or stenciled with the names of commercial products. A large surface of one lid is the actual tympan from the letterpress at Bath College with residuals of colored inks from student mistakes; the title is stenciled onto it. Inner surfaces of the box have been collaged with paper labels and stenciled with words, who? & where? in different languages. The box holds Furnival prints such as the Nailsworth series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

The Lucidities / Williams, Jonathan ; Furnival, John., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-27769-28897
Scope and Contents

Two semi-realistic prints on gold foil and two on silver foil by Furnival are laid into the book. Comments on each of his poems are placed by Williams at the bottom of each page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

The Lucidities / Williams, Jonathan ; Furnival, John., 1967

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Identifier: CC-27770-28898
Scope and Contents

Two semi-realistic prints on gold foil and two on silver foil by Furnival are laid into the book. Comments on each of his poems are placed by Williams at the bottom of each page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

The Odd Shower / Furnival, John; Williams, Jonathan., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-28538-29820
Scope and Contents

A beautifully rendered drawing of a rain storm seen through a double window. The view is probably from the Furnivals' English house. Part of a series of eight prints in collaboration with Jonathan Williams, "St Swithin's Swivet." This print is depicted on page 44 of Furnival's book "The Locative-Vocative Cases" (2012). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

The Only Good Luddite Is a Dead Luddite , 1963

 Item — Folder 58: [Barcode: 31858072537925]
Identifier: CC-13229-13530
Scope and Contents

Luddites were bands of workers in England (1811-1816) organized to destroy machinery under the belief that its use diminished employment. Ned Luddite, an 18th century Leicestershire worker originated the idea. Furnival depicts a man's body flattened by a Rube Goldberg like machine with numbers streaming from upper pipes of the machine. Stored in Odds & Sods. Depictd in Furnival's "Lost for Words" (2011 page 138. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

[The Road of Excess] / Furnival, John., 1970

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Identifier: CC-13222-13523
Scope and Contents

The wall text reads, "The road of Excess leads to the Palace of (Wisdom) Willesden. Arbeit Macht Frei!. Shed! Shed! Don't Vote." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

The Spice Cupboard (1687) / Williams, Jonathan; Furnival, John., 1987

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Identifier: CC-32204-33758
Scope and Contents

This is designated Jargon Society Card No.21. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The Spirit Is Breathing: Documentation / Furnival, John., 1991

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Identifier: CC-10838-11048
Scope and Contents

This is the background material of the many languages used by Furnival for his standing screen, "The Spirit is Breathing." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Spirit Is Breathing / John Furnival., 1991

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Identifier: CC-10775-10985
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. This screen of three hinged panels and a moveable panel of the letter "A" with recto-verso imagery is written in several languages with text alluding to the title. The five vowel sounds, especially the "A" are incorporated as major features of the design because vowels are the "only letters in the alphabet that represent sound made by breathing alone." The "A" is made prominent because it symbolizes creation. This standing screen is depicted in Furnival's "Lost For Words" (2011) on page 83. However, it is mislabeled as "Vowel Screen" (1986). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Watts Memorial Chapel-Compton-Surrey first Published in The Architectural Review, 1961 / Furnival, John., 1998

 Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]
Identifier: CC-30121-31519
Scope and Contents

This is a reprinting of the first commercial print that Furnival made after his graduation from the Royal Academy of Art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

The Yewdales / Furnival, John., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-13171-13472
Scope and Contents

This print from the Nailsworth series depicts a cottage in the town where the author W.H. Davies lived. The latter glowers from the doorway. In The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

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Concrete poetry 109
Visual art 78
Visual poetry 71
Picture poetry 67
Documentation 55