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Twisting Silence , 1991

 Item — Box: 322
Identifier: CC-23541-23986

Scope and Contents

This book commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition was created utilizing a trade edition book as a support structure. Barron composed poems and utilized poems from other poets along with found text. She placed them in the layers of the book, e.g.,"Twisting silence into words, my shrouded shadow sucked deep of a breath of emptiness, to shriek into its own ear," (S.B.) "what have you done to the garden that was entrusted to you?" (A. Machado) and "Breathe in a mouthful of dust..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1991

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 book object + pages (torn, cut, collaged, glued) + object (spatula, ribbon) in camshell case (museum boars, cloth covered)) ; book object 24 x 36 x 4 cm, in case 27 x 40 x 5 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

boxed artist materials

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, a gift from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: Brooklyn, New York : [Publisher not identified]. Nationality of creator: American. General: About 1 total copies. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: RUTH.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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