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Mathematical poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 336 Collections and/or Records:

Merriest Christmas Ever to, / Depew, Wally., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-53127-74279
Scope and Contents

The two cards display differences in the typefaces of the messages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969
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

Mots 1949-1998 / Villegle, Jacques., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-53312-100030
Scope and Contents

This card was an invitaion for an exhibition of Villegle's work in the gallery. The paper envelope that it was mailed in is stored in drawer cards/ -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999
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

My days as pebbles in a stream are many-coloured: what is the last one: [1114444], 1998

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Identifier: CC-31278-32749
Scope and Contents

The center section of the drawing is stamped with repetitive numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4. The sides have column-like ink drawings and the corners list the letters W E I N. An abstract, design and dripped paint are positioned over the right side of the numbers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998
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

[my dear peter (schmidt)] (051168) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Schmidt P., 1968

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Identifier: CC-08625-8797
Scope and Contents On the first page Houedard wrote, "thank you for the invitation to your show - wish i cld have manged it all best sounds good" At the bottom of page three Houedard wrote, "typed in haste - unchecked - i fear with a slip or two - sent the with unslipt luvs" -s. Pages 2 & 3 of this letter are based upon an onomastikon that is a book, list, or vocabulary of names, especially of people. Wikipedia: Peter Schmidt (17 May 1931 "“ 22 January 1980) was a Berlin-born British artist, painter, theoretician of color and composition, pioneering multimedia exhibitor and an influential teacher at Watford College of Art. He was part of a generation of art school teachers in the 1960s and 1970s that had great impact on some students who later went on to work in art and music. He worked with Hansjörg Mayer, Brian Eno, Mark Boyle, Dieter Roth and had associations with Russell Mills, David Toop and Tom Phillips. the Sackner Archive holds one work by Schmidt, The Thoughts Behind the Thoughts", an...
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

New Math / Damrauer, Craig., 2009

 Item
Identifier: CC-52852-73990
Scope and Contents

This work was edited by Ed Ruscha. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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

Nice / Sloy; Nic., 2011

 Item
Identifier: CC-52427-73552
Dates: 2011
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

Nietzsche's Brolly Broadsheet: Mathemaku for Ezra Nr.2. No.87/Oct / Bob Grumman., 2009

 Item
Identifier: CC-49392-70437
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: Periodicals

Nietzsche's Brolly Broadsheet: Mathemaku in Praise of Persephone. No.90/Oct / Bob Grumman., 2009

 Item
Identifier: CC-49391-70436
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: Periodicals

Non Additive Postulations & Other Poems / Helmes, Scott., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-39414-41366
Scope and Contents

The poems in this book are presented as mathematical equations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Books

Number Poems / Mills, Neil., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-38216-40112
Scope and Contents

This is an unsigned copy; the first 25 copies were signed and numbered. Mills states that these poems are meant to be read aloud. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Number Poems / Weiss, Irving., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-56593-9999998
Scope and Contents

According to Weiss' introduction, these poems consist of a "sequence of visual poems and word-only poems based on our familiar numbering system." Weiss constructs the poems as imaginative forms or as abstract ideas; they attempt to establish close connections between numeration and imagination. The Sackner Archive also holds the manuscript for this book. -- 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: Books

Number Poems / Weiss, Irving., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-30761-32207
Scope and Contents

According to Weiss' introduction, these poems consist of a "sequence of visual poems and word-only poems based on our familiar numbering system." Weiss constructs the poems as imaginative forms or as abstract ideas; they attempt to establish close connections between numeration and imagination. The Sackner Archive also holds the book based upon this manuscript. -- 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

Number Score for 2 Voices Copy Number One / Mills, Neil., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-47691-68709
Scope and Contents

Designated Writers Forum Score No. One. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Number Score for 2 Voices: Maquette] / Mills, Neil., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-47690-68708
Scope and Contents

Designated Writers Forum Score No. One. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970
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

Numbers 2 / Kostelanetz, Richard., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-37082-38924
Dates: 1977
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

Numbers Bookmobile / Wolf, Anna ; Schapiro, Miriam., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-58053-10001299
Scope and Contents

The book structure was done by Anna Wolf in her typical style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Numbers / Caruso, Barbara., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-16623-16977
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

[Numbers] / Depew, Wally., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-55141-77665
Scope and Contents

The original purchase price of each print was $2.The measurements of the varying sized prints are for the largest one. -- 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

[numbers] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

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Identifier: CC-56659-10000054
Dates: 1969
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

Numbers in Images: Illuminations of Numerical Meanings / Bing, Ilse., 1976

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Identifier: CC-20931-21340
Scope and Contents Ilsa Bing was a famous German photographer in the 1920's. Bing's fame spread to New York by 1932 when the art dealer Julien Levy started to collect her work. Bing was included in Levy's exhibition "Modern European Photography: Twenty Photographers", in 1932. She was first invited to New York in 1936 by the author Hendrik Willem van Loon. Following her return to Paris, examples of Bing's work were selected by Beaumont Newhall for the landmark 1937 photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Bing and her husband were sent to internment camps in France in 1939. When she was released in 1940 she sailed for the United States, and settled in New York. For many years, like a number of European refugee artists, Bing's European fame did not follow her to post-war New York. Only in 1977 did her rediscovery begin. The Art Institute of Chicago presented her work in the landmark show "Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection", and gradually a steady stream of exhibitions,...
Dates: 1976
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

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