Found poetry

Untitled: From Ridiculous Portraits / Wilson, May., 1990

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Identifier: CC-52464-73590

Scope and Contents Zoubek Internet: "A pioneer of the "Mail Art" movement of the 1950s and 1960s and a singular voice in the artistic landscape of Feminism, MAY WILSON (1905-1986) defied the accepted standards of the art world and of society, creating mixed-media works that explore the construction of gender and identity in both two and three dimensions. Born in Baltimore in 1905, Wilson's life as a suburban housewife seemed a likely fate. At the age of 42, however, she committed herself to the idea of becoming an artist, enrolling in correspondence classes in fine art and art history (anticipating the departure of her grown children). By promoting and selling her early efforts, Wilson was able to sustain a viable career as an artist. She produced what were regarded as "primitive" paintings by those in the surrounding suburban area "“ brightly colored canvases that lacked the spatial depth of Realism, reflecting the Modernist influence of Cezanne and his followers. In 1956 the artist's son, author...

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: Various Formats

Untitled: From Ridiculous Portraits / Wilson, May., 1990

Item

Identifier: CC-52465-73591

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: Various Formats

[Untitled] / Hammond, Jane., 2006

Item

Identifier: CC-62536-47690

Dates: 2006

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

[Untitled] / Muhsam, Armin., 2000

Item

Identifier: CC-41190-43173

Dates: 2000

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

[Untitled] / Sackner, Sara., 1979

Item

Identifier: CC-59862-10002917

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

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

[Untitled] / Sackner, Sara., 1979

Item

Identifier: CC-59865-10002922

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

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

[Untitled] / Sackner, Sara., 1979

Item

Identifier: CC-59871-10002928

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

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

Untitled / Sackner, Sara., 1979

Item

Identifier: CC-59872-10002929

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

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

[Untitled] / Sherri Tan., 1991 - 1993

Item

Identifier: CC-01506-1539

Scope and Contents

The collaged text on this sculpture is reminescent of the work of Jiri Kolar. The incorporation of the found steel tool that gives a visual impression of a couple copulating with a dried flower framed next to tool imparts an erotic theme to the work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991 - 1993

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

Unusual Abbreviations / Anonymous., 1980

Item

Identifier: CC-26723-27193

Scope and Contents

Each postcard has the a famous abbreviation printed on the message side and the full name of an organization in England printed on the sending side with the same abbreviation, e.g., C.I.A. = Confederation Internationale des Accordeonistes, N.A.T.O. = National Association of Temperance Officials, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

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