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Found poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 900 Collections and/or Records:

teresa / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56861-10000226
Scope and Contents

The found image used by Houedard is a found portrait of Saint Teresa with her face cut out. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

teresa / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56861-10000226
Scope and Contents

The found image used by Houedard is a found portrait of Saint Teresa with her face cut out. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Test Copy / Olbrich, Jurgen., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-60358-52952
Scope and Contents

This unique book was given to 10 individuals including among others Michael Erloff, Ruth & Marvin Sackner, and Bart Boumans. I\The pages most consisted of test pages from an IBM computer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Thank You Seeds / Anonymous., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-43774-45870
Scope and Contents

The printed envelope repeatedly reads, thank you gracias danke grazie merci thank you. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

[The Ancient Mesopotamians] / Collins, Patricia., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-36569-38371
Scope and Contents

The quotation from "A History of Writing" refers to the sacred footsteps of birds. The knots resemble those footsteps. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The Beauty in Breathing / Sackner, Marvin; Sackner, Ruth., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-02455-2495
Scope and Contents

The collage was made to commemorate The Beauty in Breathing exhibition held in the Miami Beach Convention Center at the Annual Meeting of the American Thoracic Society/American Lung Association. It consisted of clippings from newspapers and magazines dealing with phrases utilizing the words, breath, breathe and breathing mounted on papercard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

The Beauty in Breathing / Sackner, Marvin; Sackner, Ruth., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-02456-2496
Scope and Contents

This print was made to commemorate The Beauty in Breathing exhibition held in the Miami Beach Convention Center at the Annual Meeting of the American Thoracic Society/American Lung Association. It consisted of clippings from newspapers and magazines dealing with phrases utilizing the words, breath, breathe and breathing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

The Beauty in Breathing / Sackner, Marvin; Sackner, Ruth., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-02457-2497
Scope and Contents

This print was made to commemorate The Beauty in Breathing exhibition held in the Miami Beach Convention Center at the Annual Meeting of the American Thoracic Society/American Lung Association. It consisted of clippings from newspapers and magazines dealing with phrases utilizing the words, breath, breathe and breathing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

The Beauty in Breathing / Sackner, Marvin; Sackner, Ruth., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-02458-2498
Scope and Contents

This print was made to commemorate The Beauty in Breathing exhibition held in the Miami Beach Convention Center at the Annual Meeting of the American Thoracic Society/American Lung Association. It consisted of clippings from newspapers and magazines dealing with phrases utilizing the words, breath, breathe and breathing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

the Bridge / Sackner, Sara., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-59866-10002923
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

The Collages of Robert M. Swedroe / Swedrow, Robert M.., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-38275-40171
Scope and Contents

Reproductions of collages made by Swedroe from 1963 to 1973 arranged thematically e.g.; memorabilia, sports, adult fantasy, business, child fantasy and religion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

The Deep Red-Brown / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-12990-13282
Scope and Contents

Finlay writes that the statement is "A likely fragment of Archilochos suggested by a sentence in Basil Greenhill's "Sailing For A Living." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

The Doctor at Home and Nurse's GuideBook, 1997

 Item — Box 212: [Barcode: 31858072459245]
Identifier: CC-29700-31075
Scope and Contents

The jars simulate anatomic specimen containers. The box is entirely collaged both on its outside and inside with texts from an old medical dictionary or compendium of medical terms. This book object was Collins' response to Marvin Sackner's sending her a copy of the exhibition catalogue, "The Beauty in Breathing." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997