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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2969 Collections and/or Records:

BREATH, 1990

 Item — Box 193: [Barcode: 31858072459633]
Identifier: CC-23365-23807
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. Each sculptural element consists of a single letter of the word "BREATH." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

Breath, 1991

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31858072459393]
Identifier: CC-26042-26504
Scope and Contents

This drawing was commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. The poet drew circular shapes with symmetrical and irregular borders encapsulating the words, "breath, breathing, and respiro," as an attempt to portray the physical qualities of a breath as a visual image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

[Breath] / Lohr, Helmut., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-07394-7538
Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

breathhtaerb / Sloy., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-34330-36025
Scope and Contents

This drawing consists of the handwritten word, breath and its mirror image repeated in three columns. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Breathing Exercises / Mary Lee Adler Ataie; Shahreyar Ataie., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-26194-26657
Scope and Contents

The collaborating artists poetically describe their work as follows: "Earth lungs, collapsing from excess, coughing clouds of acid rain, weeping sterile lakes." The background text on breathing exercises is taken from "The Complete System of Self-Healing" by Dr.S.T.Chang. Tao Te Ching writings on the outer rim of the support read "Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind rest at peace. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

Breathing Exercises / Mary Lee Adler Ataie; Shahreyar Ataie., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-26194-26657
Scope and Contents

The collaborating artists poetically describe their work as follows: "Earth lungs, collapsing from excess, coughing clouds of acid rain, weeping sterile lakes." The background text on breathing exercises is taken from "The Complete System of Self-Healing" by Dr.S.T.Chang. Tao Te Ching writings on the outer rim of the support read "Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind rest at peace. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

Breathing / Mittendorf, Henning; Mittendorf, Angela., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-06268-6383
Scope and Contents

Theme deals with meditative properties of breathing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Breitenbrunn: Arbeit 74/75. / Siegfried J. Schmidt., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-02459-2499
Scope and Contents

Includes poem in large, vertically elongated type face, "I am a working hypothesis." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Brew Moon / Jan Baker., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-24001-24451
Scope and Contents

This is a napkin designed and lettered by Jan Baker as an advertisement for a beer brewery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

Bring a Candle and a Friend, 1994

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-24002-24452
Scope and Contents

This is an invitation to a party given by Jan Baker for her new house. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / CORRESPONDENCE

Brogliaccio Sive Liber de Broliis, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27680-28768
Scope and Contents

This book is a reprint of a unique artist book done by Caruso in 1977 in Firenze; its pages are uncut. It was published on the occasion of an exhibition by Caruso entitled, "Caso di Giorgione" held in Castelofranco Veneto, Treviso, Italy in 1996. The pages of the book reproduce a written text which appears to be documented on a printed foldout from the front cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

Bruits / Jeanjean, Anne-Marie., 2009

 Item
Identifier: CC-49712-70765
Dates: 2009
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Buch / Gerz, Jochen., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-35540-37280
Scope and Contents

This book is designated No.782 in Gerz's Catalogue Raisonne Volume III. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Building a world of his own / Bouwt zijn universum / van Genk, Willem., 2010

 Item
Identifier: CC-59723-10002780
Dates: 2010
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Bulletin: No.3 (Apollinaire) / Ex Libris ; Apollinaire G ; Survage L., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-13940-14245
Dates: 1982
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

Bulletin: No.11 (Recent Acquisitions) / Ex Libris ; Apollinaire G ; Hausmann R ; Hugnet G ; Marinetti FT ; Werkman HN ; Duchamp M., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-13874-14179
Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Catalogs

Burning Dog / Bennett, John M.., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-20909-21318
Dates: 1983
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Burnt Book / Katz, Leandro., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-07948-8102
Scope and Contents

Reproductions of representative pages of an artist book by Katz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Burnt Book / Katz, Leandro., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-07953-8107
Scope and Contents Reproductions of representative pages of an artist book by Katz. Burnt Book is dedicated to the memory of the uncountable codices burned by Friar Diego de Landa, in Mani, Yucatán in June 1562, as part of a series of autos-da-fé carried out under his orders. In Account of the Affairs of Yucatán, a document written in part as a brief to defend himself before the Council of Indies, de Landa recounts: "These people [the Maya] also used certain glyphs or letters in which they wrote down their ancient history and sciences in their books; and by means of these letters and figures and by certain marks contained in them, they could read about their affairs and taught others to read about them too. We found a great number of these books in Indian characters and because they contained nothing but superstition and the Devil's falsehoods, we burned them all; and this they felt most bitterly and it caused them great grief." Burnt Book, made five hundred years after the first voyage of Columbus...
Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Burnt Matches: Burnt Matches of Lamps / Tozik, Andrey., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35783-37540
Scope and Contents

The drawing consists of four lines of handprinted Russian letters at the top and four lines along the right side. There are images of six twisted burnt matches of diminishing size at the lower left corner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

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