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Found poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 900 Collections and/or Records:

Field Report 2006, 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-46941-49679
Scope and Contents

The posters within the wrapper are three trimmed issues of "Point D'Ironie" No.38-40, Ryan McGiness, Richard Prince and Damian Hirst. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Field Report 2007, 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-47893-68915
Scope and Contents

The posters within the wrapper are two trimmed issues of "point d'ironie" No.42-43, Hreinn Fridfinnsson and Tobias Buche. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Fifty-One Towers of Babel / John Furnival., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-12785-13069
Scope and Contents

Furnival reproduced lessons from 51 language grammers as drawings in that language and arranged them in vertical fashions. He also included such signs as cattle brands and petroglyphs reflecting the far West influence on him during a year's sabbatical in New Mexico where this screen was executed. He recounted to the Sackners on the number of hours spent on this work - 1250 hours! This screen is depicted in Furnival's "Lost For Words" (2011) pages 50-51. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

[Fire in Cave] / Herms, George., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-28506-29785
Scope and Contents

A print of an article that was ripped from a California newspaper is centered on a black, circular background and collaged to cardboard. The headline of the article states, "Fire in Cave Imperils Historically Valuable Dung on Extinct Sloth." The letters L - O - V - E are rubberstamped in each corner of the board. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Fitted Plug / Pawson, Mark., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-04797-4888
Scope and Contents

Consists of 40 die-cut plug wiring diagrams that form almost visual poetic images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

[Five Calendars] / Lederman, Stephanie Brody., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33920-35592
Scope and Contents

Each print, that is also numbered, includes a small, collaged calendar for the years, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Five Four 'n a Door / Desko, Susan., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-16105-16448
Scope and Contents

This work consists of several found and altered books of varying dimensions dealing with real estate assembled into a single book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

flash, 2001

 Item — Box 287: [Barcode: 31858072460680]
Identifier: CC-38958-40894
Scope and Contents

The words printed on the card correspond to the actual objects in the case. They are as follows: flash (light bulb); seer (figure in yoga position); AHA (blank booklet); seek (key); sigh (beads spelling sigh); find (compass). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Flesh Mountain / Sackner, Sara., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-02311-2351
Scope and Contents

Found pages of text are interwoven on a visual background and stitched around the borders. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

[Florida] / Gunther, Thomas., 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-45076-47252
Scope and Contents

The is a card Thomas Gunther made for the Sackners while visiting Art Basel Miami Beach in 2005. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

For Adults Only (The Art Book - Passion Plays and Amourous Spells), 1996

 Item — Box 100
Identifier: CC-28807-30122
Scope and Contents Sandra Jackman writes to the Sackners that this piece was inspired by her Hungarian grandmother who always told her, "To read is to want to know." She hid candy and books in the second drawer of her bureau, where Jackman would forage. "I was grown before I realized that I had been seduced into becoming a reader. In Europe, the rabbis would drip honey on scripture written on slate for the young students to lick off after they repeated the lesson...This early freedom to investigate any form of reading material, to appease my curiosity is the inspiration for Adults Only, a book within a book. My grandmother's bureau is transformed into a dollhouse cupboard and collaged with scraps of printed matter. Its shelves are filled with treasures. This is the centerpiece for a triptych (a style usually reserved for religious images). The front left wing refers to a myth. The fellow with the flute to his lips is from a painting by Perugino. Marsyas the Satyr is showing off his talent to the God...
Dates: 1996

For Love / Vleeskens, Cornelis., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-32915-34531
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive also holds the maquette for this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

For Love / Vleeskens, Cornelis., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-42243-44249
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive also holds a copy of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

For Poets / Dunning, Stephen, editor ; Eaton, M. Joe, editor ; Glass, Malcolm, editor ; Porter B ; Gross R ; Gomringer E ; Solt ME ; Cobbing B ; Williams E ; Kostelanetz R ; Patchen K ; Morgan E ; Frohman R., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-15596-15923
Scope and Contents

This is a poetry textbook for secondary schools with the following sections: Found Poems, Image Poems, Speaker Poems, Concrete Poems, and Magic Poems. It includes questions for the reader regarding these poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Fork Shift / Byrum, John M.., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-24051-24501
Scope and Contents

The found text derives from dictionaries and encyclopedias. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995