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Mathematical poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 336 Collections and/or Records:

Arabics / Noel, Ann., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-05562-5669
Scope and Contents

The pages of this book consist of different arrangements and typefaces of the numbers 0-9, each page depicting a single number variation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Archetype Press: Isms: A Typographic Book of Theories. No.30a/Fall / Gloria Kondrup, editor., 2002

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Identifier: CC-52842-73980
Scope and Contents

The page that defines "Materialism" contains an actual collaged dollar bill. The word "God" is cut out and pasted several inches from the dollar bill. A row of small letterpress $$$$$$$'s is next to the word 'God." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Art-Rite: Artists' Books. No.14/Win / E. deAk, W. Robinson, editors ; Andre C ; Acker K ; Carrion U ; Brown R ; Kostelanetz R ; Logemann J ; Schneemann C ; Truck F ; Weiner L ; Katz L ; Kosuth J ; Cavellini GA ; Frank P ; Dittmar R ; Denes A., 1977

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Identifier: CC-26809-27279
Scope and Contents

Peter Frank describes his experience working with Rolf Dittmar in curating the Artist Bookworks section of Documenta 1977. The cover consists of a text-based work by Carl Andre. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Berkeley Horse, The: The Day. No.10/Apr / LeRoy Gorman., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-22693-23127
Scope and Contents

Produced by David UU. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Berkeley Horse, The: The Day. No.10/Apr / LeRoy Gorman., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-22694-23128
Scope and Contents

Produced by David UU. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Big Numbers / Pie (TT) O/AKA Pi O ; thalia., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-53084-74230
Scope and Contents

This book consists of a wide range of Pie O's poems that often are spinkled with an Australian dialect. The pages from his visit to America on a Guggenheim fellowship deals with his political views as an anarchist. He dedicated this book to Thalia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Book 6: 1 2 3 4 5 6 / Depew, Wally., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-15162-15483
Scope and Contents

Most of the letters of the words and numbers have been formed from stencils. According to Depew, the left-sided blank page should be counted as a page since the bleed-through from the overlead right-side page can also be reas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Book 10: The Number Book 1 / Depew, Wally., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-53087-74233
Scope and Contents

The pages depict stencilled, large numbers from 1 to 0(10), printed one to a page as a progression, e.g., 1 (one page), 2 (two pages), 3 (three pages), 4 (four pages), etc. In this respect, the progession is analogous to Richard Kostelanetz's Accounting (1973) except that the progressions of all the numbers are printed on a single page rather than multiple pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Book 19: Number(ed) Book [collaged cover] / Depew, Wally., 1970

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Identifier: CC-53082-74228
Scope and Contents

The printed numbers from the mechanical counter have a span of 19 digits. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Book 19: Number(ed) Book [rubberstamped cover] / Depew, Wally., 1970

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Identifier: CC-53085-74231
Scope and Contents

The printed numbers from the mechanical counter have a span of 19 digits. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Book of Ten / Zinnes, Harriet., 1981

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Identifier: CC-40887-42864
Scope and Contents

The numbers from one to ten are set in a concrete poetic format opposite each page of verse about that specific number. The frontispiece is by Philip Carey and the ten type collages are by Stuart McCarty III. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Book of Ten / Zinnes, Harriet., 1981

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Identifier: CC-41034-43015
Scope and Contents

The numbers from one to ten are set in a concrete poetic format opposite each page of verse about that specific number. The frontispiece is by Philip Carey and the ten type collages are by Stuart McCarty III. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

canvas for two performers / Fernbach-Flarsheim, Carl., 1965

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Identifier: CC-12832-13119
Scope and Contents

The artist has typed "letters to be spoken, whispered, or mumbled, numbers to be sung, played or varied in any way from rendition of the letters." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965