Visual art

[Letter to Jean-Paul Curtay] / Cole, David., 1981

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Identifier: CC-60557-10003451

Scope and Contents

The text is superimposed on surrealistic figures drawn by Cole. Cole praises Curtay's sound poetry performance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

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(unprocessed)

[Letter to John Furnival 7 vi 68] / Valoch, Jiri; Novak L., 1968

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Identifier: CC-29894-31281

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Valoch requests loan of Furnival's Pisa/Tower, Eiffel Tower, and two quadrats for an exhibition in Brno, Czeckoslovakia. He furnishes two small ink drawings to indicate the quadrats he wants sent to him. He mentions that he has written an article about Furnival's poster-poems in a Czech periodical, svetova literatura. He encloses new poems and two small prints to Furnival. -- 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(unprocessed)

[Letter to John Furnival On Verso of Poster Announcing Salone Internazionale Dei Giovani] / Buri, Samuel; Furnival J; Rickey G., 1966

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Identifier: CC-22307-22730

Scope and Contents

Text on poster written by Guido Ballo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

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(unprocessed)

[Letter to John Pyros] / Craigie, Peter M.., 1984

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Identifier: CC-17984-18354

Scope and Contents

Discusses selling books at bookfair and laments time taken away from creative art process to do framing, matting, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

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(unprocessed)

[Letter to Wally Depew and Linda Bandt] / Forney, Darrell., 1995

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Identifier: CC-58151-10001404

Scope and Contents

The letter describes Forney's recent activities. Stored in Depew box. -- 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: Various Formats(unprocessed)

[Letter to Wally Depew] / Gibbs, Michael., 1973

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Identifier: CC-50984-72062

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Gibbs indicates that he is sending him issues of Kontexts 4 that includes pieces by Wally and Linda Depew. Gibbs also inquires about his poems that he submitted for publication in Dust. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

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(unprocessed)

[Letter to William Jay Smith] / Balthazar, Julius., 1996

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Identifier: CC-24184-24636

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Requests information for a catalog on the book, "Marine," done in collaboration with Smith, which was purchased by the Sackner Archive. The edges of the letter, written on brown paper, have been painted with abstract markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

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(unprocessed)

Lettera Aperta / Mattioli, Giorgio., 1990

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Identifier: CC-05821-5931

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: Catalogs (unprocessed)

Letters From A Craneskin Bag / Phillips, Tom., 1979

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Identifier: CC-60255-52376

Dates: 1979

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(unprocessed)

Letters to the Great Dead: Mr.J. Atkinson Grimshaw confers with his friend / Furnival, John., 1995

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Identifier: CC-56141-9999584

Scope and Contents This work is partially printed and partially hand-colored.The text reads,"Mr. J. Atkinson Grimshaw confers with his friend, the Butterfly of Battersea Reach, as to the proportions of mastic to copal in the constitution of Noctournal Sauce" Wikipidia: John Atkinson Grimshaw (6 September 1836 "“ 13 October 1893) was a Victorian-era artist, a "remarkable and imaginative painter" known for his city night-scenes and landscapes. His early paintings were signed "JAG," "J. A. Grimshaw," or "John Atkinson Grimshaw," though he finally settled on "Atkinson Grimshaw." Grimshaw's primary influence was the Pre-Raphaelites. True to the Pre-Raphaelite style, he created landscapes of accurate colour, lighting, vivid detail,and realism. He painted landscapes that typified seasons or a type of weather; city and suburban street scenes and moonlit views of the docks in London, Leeds, Liverpool, and Glasgow also figured largely in his art. His careful painting and skill in lighting effects meant that he...

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: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Lettre / Corfou, Michel., 1989

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Identifier: CC-17417-17782

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: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Lettres d'Argile / Koraichi, Rachid., 1997

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Identifier: CC-35616-37361

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This book, titled "Letters of Clay," illustrates and describes the large vessels decorated with Koraichi's signature calligraphic 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: Books (unprocessed)