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Found poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 900 Collections and/or Records:

[Smith Paint Co.] / John Furnival., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-13289-13590
Scope and Contents

An image on this painter's cap found by Furnival during his sabbatical year at Anderson Foundation in Rosewell was re-invented on his screen "Fifty-one Towers of Babel" commissioned by the Sackner Archive. Specifically, the American eagle, perfectly rendered, holds a can of paint in one talon and a paint brush in the other with the found phrase from the cap "Paint-Up America" in a banner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

[Smith Paint Co.] / John Furnival., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-13289-13590
Scope and Contents

An image on this painter's cap found by Furnival during his sabbatical year at Anderson Foundation in Rosewell was re-invented on his screen "Fifty-one Towers of Babel" commissioned by the Sackner Archive. Specifically, the American eagle, perfectly rendered, holds a can of paint in one talon and a paint brush in the other with the found phrase from the cap "Paint-Up America" in a banner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Some/Thing: A Vietnam Assemblage. No.3/Win / Jerome Rothenberg, David Antin, editors ; Warhol A ; Ginsberg A ; Blackburn P ; Owens R ; Rothenberg J ; Hollo A ; MacLow J ; Berge C ; Schwerner A ; Bukowski C ; Malanga G ; Jess ; Higgins D ; Antin D ; Bly R ; Duncan R ; Schneeman C., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-29722-31099
Scope and Contents

Andy Warhol designed the cover that consists of a yellow and black silkscreen, gummed, perforated, 12 stamps sheet entitled "Bomb Hanoi." Also, this issue has a photograph of a facing pages paste-up by Jess. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Sounds That Arouse Me / Porter, Bern ; Melnicove M., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-04773-4863
Scope and Contents

Edited and with an introduction by Mark Melincove. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Specimen (February 7, 1968) / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56868-10000232
Scope and Contents

Three collaged statements about Sylvester are collaged on a card, wrapped in plastic and taped. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Specimen (February 7, 1968) / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56868-10000232
Scope and Contents

Three collaged statements about Sylvester are collaged on a card, wrapped in plastic and taped. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

S'Poire, 2001

 Item — Box 131: [Barcode: 31858072457884]
Identifier: CC-39101-41040
Scope and Contents

The sculpture consists of two objects: a large wooden pear (poire in French) and four wooden fonts of apostrophe and S mounted as a cube and also painted white. The pear is placed on top of the cube. The title of the work is read as the French word "espoir" meaning "hope" in English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Spring, 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-44610-46773
Scope and Contents

In this book, Goldsmith transcribes one year's worth of daily, sixty-second weather reports broadcast on a New York City AM radio station. The engravings have been described by Siena as visual algorithms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

spring / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56858-10000223
Scope and Contents

Four strands of thread serve as a hanger for this piece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

spring / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56858-10000223
Scope and Contents

Four strands of thread serve as a hanger for this piece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Staatsexamen: 81 Sprachbeobachtungen 3rd Edition / Gloor, Beat., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-58035-10001286
Scope and Contents

Gloor's "State Exam" provides a cross section of the language around the turn of the century, as it arises in advertising for companies and institutions, in journalism and in the literature, uses, and passes away. The texts consist of found objects arranged. They have grown by combining, citation and collages. Beat Gloor deals with the language, the words and the letters. "I have written down: from newspapers and on television, by old masters and young savages, with colleagues and companies on the Internet and at the carnival, short, with strangers and with myself» -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Steak + Potatoes / Sackner, Sara., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-59863-10002918
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

Steak Retardant, 2008

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-48600-69631

Stone Tones / Claire, Paula., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-20033-20423
Scope and Contents

Designated Folders #15. These poems represent Claire's first studies in utilizing abstract images from nature as the basis for sound poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974