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Letter picture

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1208 Collections and/or Records:

Margin Release / Forget, Carol., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-12278-12502
Scope and Contents

Each card has typewiter poem composed with punctuation marks, numbers or letters. No words are present in these poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Masques D'Ecrit: Le Theatre de L'Ecriture, 1986

 Item — Box 178: [Barcode: 31858072459468]
Identifier: CC-05852-5962
Scope and Contents

The sculpture is a plastic an opened plastic cylinder that contains a face from hand crumpled paper with typed letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Memories of a Thousand Years / Milani, Giorgio., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-29484-30849
Scope and Contents

This catalogue was printed on the occasion of Art Miami '98. It reproduces assemblages of wood typefaces presented as letter pictures and concrete poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Memory Piece / Gerz, Jochen., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-27450-28498
Scope and Contents

This work is reproduced in Annoncenteil Arbeiten auf/mit Papier, Luchterhand, 1971. Perhaps this is the E and M remembered from the word 'MEMORY.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Metaux / Perec, Georges; Boni, Paoli., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-28753-30060
Scope and Contents

The short poems by Perec were done in 1976-1977 and are presented in their original format and in addition, in a form compacting the poems without spaces between the words creating a grid of 14 x 14 letters. A letter picture, consisting of one large capital letter and clusters of smaller letters, is printed on a page facing the intaglio colored prints by Boni. The letters are taken from the words in the first line of Perec's poem. The prints incorporate abstract components, letters, and fragments of words and numbers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Mira Schendrl / Schendel, Mira., 2013

 Item
Identifier: CC-60106-10003126
Scope and Contents

Thie exhibition depicted one Cadernos (1970s) of nine leaves with letraset and graphite. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2013

Missing Pages: Idaho & the Book / Day L ; Trusky T ; Castle J., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-06611-6730
Scope and Contents

This exhibition that was curated by Tom Trusky deals with books related by content or author to Idaho. Provides biography and reproduction of the bookworks of James Castle (1899-1977), an illiterate deaf mute who made artist books with visual/verbal content from an early age until his death. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Modom: Industrial Fetish. No.2 / Jake Berry., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-06372-6489
Scope and Contents

The metal object is the letter, "E." Stored with Jack Berry publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Modom. No.6 / Mike Miskowski., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-06374-6491
Scope and Contents

Stored with Jack Berry publications. Edited by Jake Berry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988