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Folder 58

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Contains 5 Results:

The Only Good Luddite Is a Dead Luddite , 1963

 Item — Folder: 58
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

Claude Has Come into the Garden, 1974

 Item — Folder: 58
Identifier: CC-13292-13593
Scope and Contents

Depicts a drawing of Claude Debussy standing at the front of a labyrinth, with architectural renderings at the left, parts of Debussy's music in the clouds, and a bat in storm clouds at the top right. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Tower of Pisa , 1965

 Item — Folder: 58
Identifier: CC-54809-420239
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1965

World Wall One - Miami Beach , 2014

 Item — Folder: 58
Identifier: CC-58582-10001808
Scope and Contents

The Sackners contributed the coral rock to John Furnival's stone wall collection in his home garden in Stroud. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014

Real I Sing, 1974

 Item — Folder: 58
Identifier: CC-13321-13622
Scope and Contents

A large grainy photographic portrait of Eric Satie is the center image with the words "Real I" drawn in three dimensions at the top and "Sing" at the bottom. The title can also be pronounced "realizing." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974