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Abstract markings

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1080 Collections and/or Records:

Expire - Expressly / Cross, Doris., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-18884-19262
Scope and Contents

Cross altered the pages of Webster's 1913 edition of the dictionary leaving "found words" to comprise a new poetry. In this sense, her work is similar to the artistic process employed by Tom Phillips in his book, A Humument. In this print, the page defining the word, "expire" has been altered by covering most of the words with images having indistinct features of human faces, perhaps to symbolize the vanishing of life. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Familiar Signs / Adler, Jeremy., 1987 - 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-27501-28552
Scope and Contents

Adler has used red, yellow and black colors to create an abstract alphabet formed from inked, constructivistic-like, line drawings on each of the pages of this leaflet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987 - 1994

Feel / Platt, Michael., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-04525-4612
Scope and Contents

The drawing consists of abstract markings and the word "FEEL," which is depicted in negative typeface, a contradiction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

First Collaboration: Introduction, 1995

 Item — Folder 19: [Barcode: 31858072459781]
Identifier: CC-24133-24585
Scope and Contents

Baroni indicates on a collaged printed element that this work arose from daily visits with his son, Giovanni, over a week's time to a public park near his home. Giovanni asked Vittore to take photographs of various scenes in the park. Vittore wrote t he composed texts on his PC as a subsequent chain of thought process remembering this experience. Giovanni did some wild scribblings with crayons which Vittore arranged as part of a 9 panel grid in three collages, together with photographs and texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Fisches Nachtgesang: "das Tiefste Deutsche Gedicht" Eine Interpretation / Brown, Daniel W.; Morgenstern C; Gomringer E., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-22378-22801
Scope and Contents

Manuscript is accompanied by a letter written in German by Brown dated June 11, 1976 explaining his method of interpreting Christian Morgenstern's "Fisches Nachtgesang." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Flatland 25-35, 2007

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-47301-50044
Scope and Contents

Beaulieu made this book by tracing a line to each letter of Abbott's book "Flatland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007