Letter picture

Scope and Contents Quinn commenting about his art to Marina Cain from whose gallery this work was purchased states the following. "After having worked with letterforms for a number of years, I started investigating organizational structures and latched on to two things: hiearchy and the space between reading and seeing. The E is simply a way to borrow the organization of a language. In a way, text is cleaned of one single overt meaning and becomes a pure Language. It's just an abstraction. But E? I did notice that it is placed on the top of each seeing-eye chart of every optometrist's office in the United States. And it's the most commonly used letter in the English language...the list goes on." The passage from "Moby Dick" for this piece is taken from Chapter 35, The Mast-Head. The three mast-heads are kept manned from sun-rise to sun- set; the seamen taking their regular turns (as at the helm), and relieving each other every two hours. In the serene weather of the tropics it...

Dates: 2009

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

Characters / Butella, Alan., 1997

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Identifier: CC-36167-37946

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Twenty stamp designs are miniature figures composed of letters, punctuation marks and mathematical symbols in varying styles and typefaces. The backgrounds of the figures are repetitive, optical colored typographic designs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

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

CHE / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-56505-9999909

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The drawing consists of a grid of 16 lines using the letters of the name CHE [Guavara]. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

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

[CHE with Notations] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-56506-9999911

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This drawing onsists of a grid of 16 lines using the letters of the name CHE [Guevera]. It also has three diagrams and several lines of Houedard's instructions.A note in Houedard's handwriting on the right side of the page reads "echec / beytil ode by the gloster ods construction company in memory of CHE GUEVARA." The Sackner Archive also holds a similar drawing without the added notations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

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

Chimera, La. No.2/Mar / Maria Teresa Schiavino, Roberto Lombardi, Claudio Forziati, editors ; Gordon C ; Strada G ; Aliotis A ; Burgaud C ; Aguiar F ; Schiavino MT ; Caignard R ; Sassu A., 2003

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Identifier: CC-48578-69609

Dates: 2003

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

Chimera. No.5/Spr., 1983

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Identifier: CC-16942-17298

Dates: 1983

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

Chirac's Paint-By-Numbers Apocalypso, 1995

Item — Folder 17: [Barcode: 31858072459765]

Identifier: CC-24120-24572

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The image of an explosive cloud formed by a dense collage of letraset numbers originates from a letraset formed word whose base spells "MuRuaONEY." This word may be a combination of two elements, Money and URUA, with the latter being an unidentified acronym. The image and its caption refer to the hard political policies in 1995 recommended for the French Welfare State by Chirac, the French president. The collage is one of a series designated by Baroni as 8 Unrelated Pieces for the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / Vittore Baroni / 8 Unrelated Pieces for the Sackner Archive

[Christmas and New Year Greeting to David W. Harris on Postcard of Untitled Poem] / Bory, Jean-Francois; Harris DW., 1968

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Identifier: CC-23337-23778

Dates: 1968

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

Circo (Mar/Bless) / Huth, Geof., 1986

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Identifier: CC-61570-59881

Dates: 1986

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

Citazione Rimbaldiana / Merante, Angelo., 1990

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Identifier: CC-06261-6376

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In this drawing, the Sackners thought that the central image was a woman's face. It was created with a combination of micrography, hieroglyphics and realistic markings representing hair. *WEB 1998: Angelo Merante: The face in the center of work is a portrait of young Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud (based on iconography of his times) and not the portrait of a woman (although Paul Verlaine was surprised when, seeing the face of this young poet, noted the perfect ovoidal shape in his face. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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