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Breathing Thoughtful Breath, 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-09175-9356

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Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. A diptyche of computer generated prints display a young girl on the left holding a bouquet of flowers in an outdoors environment and a listing of archaic quotations on breathing on the right, including among others "from the healthy breath of morn... down and out breath... breathing thoughtful breath... last breath he drew in... clothed with his breath... breathe not his name... waste of breath the years behind...this present breath may buy..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1990

Creator

Extent

2 items : 2 prints (laser printed) in [frame (wood, plexiglas)] ; 44 x 28 cm (each print), 52 x 70 x 3 cm (in frame)

Language of Materials

English

Original Sackner Archive Location

1904 storage

Custodial History

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

Materials Specific Details

Published: Eugene, Oregon : [Publisher not identified]. Signed by: Craig Hickman (l.l.). Nationality of creator: American. Copies: About 1 total copies.

Processing Information

Added by: CONV; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

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

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