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Found poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 900 Collections and/or Records:

Everybody Needs American Excess, 2001

 Item — Box 317: [Barcode: 31858072490844]
Identifier: CC-37271-39117
Scope and Contents

Andryczuk's title substitutes "American Excess" for the "American Express" credit card designation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Everybody Needs American Excess / Hartmut Andryczuk., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-37271-39117
Scope and Contents

Andryczuk's title substitutes "American Excess" for the "American Express" credit card designation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Evidence: The Art of Candy Jernigan / Jernigan, Candy ; Close C., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-34632-36333
Scope and Contents

This book, edited by Laurie Dolphin, duplicates and reflects the work and life of artist Candy Jernigan who died at age 39 years. She was also the ex-wife of Phillip Glass, the musical composer. Chuck Close contributed the forward. The book is divided into sections consisting of evidence of travel, urban evidence, worldwide evidence, mathematical evidence, evidence of food, landscapes, natural evidence, psychological evidence and rejectamenta. This book mainly reproduces pages from her notebooks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Exact Solutions, 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-31019-32480
Scope and Contents

The background paper is a page from a mathematical text. Ruthven highlighted certain phrases in a style reminiscent of Tom Phillips' "A Humument." Six exacto blades and one feather are pinned like specimens to the bottom of the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Exer-Rest / Sackner, Ruth., 2009

 Item
Identifier: CC-50266-71333
Scope and Contents

The drawing emerged on the papercard sheet protecting a series of calligraphic texts on flip charts handwritten by Ruth Sackner for a presentation delivered by Marvin Sackner on his Exer-Rest platform bed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Expressive Mail / Tipping, Richard Kelly., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-01609-1644
Scope and Contents

This is a collage of a U.S. postal envelope whose text has been altered with the same typeface in order to provide a new designation, a genre commonly utilized by Tipping. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

[Eye Collage], 2008

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: A-Ba: [Barcode: 31858072491164]
Identifier: CC-50528-71599
Scope and Contents

The labels are shaped like square cartoon bubbles and contain the first names of visual poets and the last names as descriptive verbs of their work. The center collage consists of lips, a map and sphere-like object which altogether resemble an eye. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Eyeccupied NY / Brandstifter., 2012

 Item
Identifier: CC-54255-643144
Scope and Contents

The pages reproduce views of NYC in commercial postcards that have been altered by the artist by addition of pictograms of eyes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

[Favorite Anything] / Farber, Michael., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-13040-13332
Scope and Contents

A mixture of found toys and toy fragments and other objects with printed phrases is densely built into this work. Texts present in this work include among others, "Don't Save Junk Mail," "Stop Sweat," Never Go Running," "Wise Up Ignorance." The letters are printed in the same upper case font and probably derive from texts printed or letraset assembled specifically for this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Field Report 2004, 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-43964-46075
Scope and Contents

K. Frank Jensen contributes an essay dealing with his mail art archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004