Furnival, John, 1933-
Dates
- Existence: 1933-05-29-
Found in 424 Collections and/or Records:
Thornsbury Arts Festival: An Easter Eggshibition, 1977
To Catch a White Man By His Manifesto [incomplete set] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester, editor; Students of Bath Academy; Furnival J., 1967 - 1968
Cover of original portfolio is incomplete because of water damage. Printed by John Furnival. To Catch a Whiteman by His Manifesto' is a portfolio containing experimental typography and concrete poetry made by Dom Sylvester Houedard and his students from Bath Academy of Art. The names of the ten students involved are; Stephen Lowndes, Sue Hudson, Liz Kelly, Jenny Osborne, Angus Davis, Erica Grice, Noelle Stewart, Alan Hext, Paul Ansell and Melody Craig. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Tokyo Concrete Poetry & Spatialisme / ASA ; Garnier P ; Garnier I ; Gerz J ; Bory JF ; Furnival J ; Finlay IH ; Ulrichs T ; Arias-Misson A ; Niikuni S., 1969
Totentanz 1 / Furnival, John., 1965
The image is of a couple ballroom dancing with three other dancing couples in the background. The drawing is surrounded by a border of four inked lines with the word Syndrome written in the left border. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Tower of Pisa, 1995
The poem is formed by dense clusters of words and letters except for the arches that are formed by lines to provide the shape and tilt of the Tower of Pisa. The subject matter deals in part with nations who have held the tower during its existence, e.g., France, Germany, and Italy. The print is silkscreened onto Arches 88 paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Tower of Pisa , 1965
The poem is formed by dense clusters of words and letters except for the arches that are formed by lines to provide the shape and tilt of the Tower of Pisa. The subject matter deals in part with nations who have held the tower during its existence, e.g., France, Germany, and Italy. This unsigned print is depicted in black on page 36 of Furnival's book "Lost for Words" (2011). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Tower of Pisa] / Furnival, John., 1973
This panel depicts a component of Furnival's tower works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Tower of Pisa / Furnival, John., 1965
The poem is formed by dense clusters of words and letters except for the arches that are formed by lines to provide the shape and tilt of the Tower of Pisa. The subject matter deals in part with nations who have held the tower during its existence, e.g., France, Germany, and Italy. This print is depicted in red in one image and black in another image on page 36 og Furnival's book "Lost for Words" (2011). The Sackner copy is printed in blue ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Traveller's Joy - Glendower - W.H. Davies / Furnival, John., 1993
This is from the Nailsworth series and depicts a cottage there in which W.H. Davies lived the last part of his life. Furnival in a letter to the Sackners indicates that "Davies was a very grumpy old bloke, except when it came to children and animals, when he sprang to life." In The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Tree] / Furnival, John., 1959
Depicts image of a tree that is stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Troughs of Low Pressure / Furnival, John., 1994
Depicts a stormy looking landscape as part of a series of 11 prints on meteorlogical expressions in Cumbria in collaboration with Jonathan Williams. In The Vocative and Locative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Two Female Nudes] / Furnival, John., 1953
Sketches of female nudes. Stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Two Fingers & Black Mass] / Furnival, John., 1965
Two finger-like objects point at a black circular mass. Stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Two Gargoyles] / Furnival, John., 1970
Depicts simplified line drawings of the gargoyles. Stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Un Noyer peut en cacher un autre! / Furnival, John., 1997
The print depicts a drawing of a tree barren of leaves with a single bird's nest, presumably in the Furnival's house in southern France. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Unfolding Poem / Furnival, John., 1967
This piece is printed in green ink and opens with complex folds. This print is depicted in Furnival's "Lost for Words" (2011) page17. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Unfolding Poem / Furnival, John., 1967
[Untitled] / Furnival, Astrid ; Furnival, John., 1984
This catalog features John Furnival's Fifty-one Towers of Babel and the A-to-Z of Consumerville, works held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Verbal Hothouse: Symbols to Stories / Drucker J ; Brown B ; Genin A ; Robinson BL ; Hutchins E ; Seille G ; Jess ; Badura M ; Barron S ; Phillips T ; Kriwet F ; Jackman S ; Kolar J ; Cortot J ; Guerryam A ; Hartmann W ; Isou I ; Rose P ; Furnival J ; Hubaut J ; Horndeski G., 1994
This exhibition was curated by Kate Rawlinson and Wallace Harper with works from the Sackner Archive. It was structured into four groups of visual/verbal works: ideograms, alphabets, words and stories. Drucker provided an outstanding introductory critical essay to the works in the exhibition despite being able to work with photographic reproductions only. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Via Delorosa and Letter to John Bennett] / Furnival, John; Chopin H; Weaver M; Morgan E; Cameron C., 1964
The letter on the verso of this photograph indicates that two of Chopin's items can be discounted. Also, Furnival mentions that Mike Weaver was upset with Edwin Morgan for not giving him more credit for his "image" article in a talk that he gave. The photograph depicts a constructivist drawing by Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Concrete poetry 109
- Visual art 78
- Visual poetry 71
- Picture poetry 67
- Documentation 55
- Calligraphic text 23
- Shaped poetry 20
- Letter picture 18
- Conventional poetry 17
- Minimalist poetry 17
- Alphabetical text 15
- Critical text 13
- Found poetry 13
- Typewriter poetry 12
- Colored text 11
- Visual/verbal 11
- Artist book 10
- Political poetry 9
- Portrait 9
- Fragmented text 8
- Labyrinth 8
- Permutation 8
- Aphorism 6
- Exhibition review 6
- Typewriter art 6
- Conventional fiction 5
- Optical image 5
- Reference text 5
- Correspondence art 4
- Map 4
- Mathematical poetry 4
- Neo-Dada 4
- Repetitious text 4
- Text over text 4
- Abstract markings 3
- Anagram 3
- Artist book (citation) 3
- Constellation 3
- Conventional non-fiction 3
- Neologism 3
- Reversal poem 3
- Semiotic poetry 3
- Sound poetry 3
- Typography 3
- Architecture 2
- Bibliography 2
- Biography 2
- Constructivism 2
- Emblem poetry 2
- Illustrated book 2
- Manifesto 2
- Music score 2
- Artist book (mass produced) 1
- Bath Academy of Art -- Students 1
- Bauhaus 1
- Book review 1
- Cartoon 1
- Conceptual art 1
- Conceptual text 1
- Cubism 1
- Dada 1
- Diagram 1
- Exhibitions 1
- Fluxus 1
- Futurism 1
- Game 1
- Ideogram 1
- Illustrated book (citation) 1
- Illustrated book (limited edition) 1
- Kabbalah 1
- Minimal art 1
- Mirror writing 1
- Pop-up 1
- Prints 1
- Punctuation poem 1
- Surrealism 1 + ∧ less