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Letter picture

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1208 Collections and/or Records:

A Collection of Fine Prints: [Y Y with Circle] / Depew, Wally., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-55068-99893
Scope and Contents

The suite of 28 prints/drawings are stored in one single folder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

A-Journey / Williams, Emmett., 1979

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Identifier: CC-56962-62936
Scope and Contents These prints, depicted as reproductions in this issue, were shown in a show entitled Generations and Continuities (1979-1980) held at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University.At the opening of the exhibition Yo-Yo Ma himself performed Incidental Music for Yo-Yo Ma, playing a Bach unaccompanied suite, accompanied by the late Ivan Tcherepnin making waves of electronic distortion to match the progressive complexity of the score. There were five suites of serigraphs shown in the exhibition - Eros, Shakespeare's XXXth, A-Journey, Impressions of Japan and Incidental Music for Yo-Yo Ma were produced by Edition Noël at Harvard in 1979-1980. All of them are based on experiments in the electrostatic distortion and generation of texts and images. To oversimplify: I used the Xerox 3100 duplicating machine at Leverett House, Harvard University, as a creative tool to perform tasks that makers, buyers and users of such machines used to consider (a) a misuse of sophisticated...
Dates: 1979

A Lingua Concreta / Eerdekens, Fred ; Frank P., 1990

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Identifier: CC-13548-13851
Scope and Contents

The artist made seemingly abstract metal and wooden sculptures which when properly lit cast shadows of concrete poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

a novel a / Brannen, Jonathan., 1991

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Identifier: CC-42716-44735
Scope and Contents

The text is a single letter 'a' with slash marks. it was first published by Horses & Magpies Press in 1971. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

A R / lefler, Peggy., 1996

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Identifier: CC-60822-10003677
Scope and Contents

Taken from pete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

A Secretary Tries to Say "So-Long" (Asttss-l) / Burke, Herbert., 1990

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Identifier: CC-23125-23563
Scope and Contents

This is the second edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

[A V M A] / Nikonova, Rea., 1990

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Identifier: CC-60809-10003663
Scope and Contents

Taken from pete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

A Winter Song, 1994

 Item — Box 213: [Barcode: 31858072459310]
Identifier: CC-03113-3161
Scope and Contents

Includes poems by Eileen Mathias ("In the Wood") and F. Ann Elliott ("The Snow") that are illustrated by illuminations of the letters of the title of this book, one to a page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

AAA / Nichol, bp., 1986

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Identifier: CC-52066-73168
Scope and Contents

According to jw curry in room 3o2 books 10D catalogue 2007, about 20 to 25 copies were printed to be included in Curvd H&Z card series but this did not materialize and perhaps only five copies survived. This copy is one of the five. A modificationof the piece appeared in Industrial Sabotage #39. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

A/'AH / Beaulieu, Derek ; Nichol bp., 1999

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Identifier: CC-36084-37861
Scope and Contents

The drawing in this book consists of a three dimensional 'A' that becomes an 'H'. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

ABC, 1977

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Identifier: CC-33952-35624
Scope and Contents

This collage depicts part of a printed alphabet and random placement of stencilled letters that appear to have been burnt from the paper by means of the sun through a lens. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

ABC: The Aleph Beth Book / Nichol, bp., 1971

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Identifier: CC-30430-31850
Scope and Contents

Each page consists of a picture of a single letter design that is bordered by a red frame. All the letter pictures have a brief caption except for the letter 'E'. Letter pictures for 'Y' and 'Z' are ommitted. The caption for 'A' reads Poetry Being At A Dead End Poetry and for 'B' Dead. Having Accepted This Fact We Are. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

[ABR] / Kozol, Myroslav., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28122-29281
Scope and Contents

The print includes the calligraphic letters 'A' & 'B' &'R' arranged perhaps in the shape ot a cathedral. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997