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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4858 Collections and/or Records:

One of the Most Important Even If Unfortunate Things about Breathing Is That It Allows Us to Speak / jw curry., 1991

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Identifier: CC-18909-19287
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing Exhibition." A human silhouette painted on a panel silently points out a chest x-ray to another figure to emphasize the physiologic importance of breathing. Behind the door, a telephone is placed adjacent to a network of printed and handwritten, torn and fragmented texts appearing as a gigantic speech bubble (reminescent of a cartoon) to suggest babble, dependent on breathing, eminating from many telephone communications. The contrast is a metaphor for the title of this work. Five of the images show the current istallation as doors leading to one of the Sackners bathrooms, the sixth shows the original free standing installation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

[one] / Tylova, Barbora Toman., 2010

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Identifier: CC-52915-74055
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The work consists of photographs of plexiglas I's that increase in size as they descend. Each "I" is filled with different objects: colored paper clips, selections of printed texts, pills, earth and grass etc. This piece was a gift of Barbora Tylova when she did research in the Archive for her Ph.D. and for an article about the archive to be published in a Czech journal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Openings Press Card Series: News. No.15 / Phil Hemmings., 1978

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Identifier: CC-38137-40031
Scope and Contents

This card depicts a photograph of a chimney with a wind vane in which the directional letters line up to spell "N E W S." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Openings Press Card Series: Three Telegrams. No.3/Nov / Tom Phillips., 1968

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Identifier: CC-38125-40018
Scope and Contents

The image on this card is identical to the one in the first edition of "A Humument." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Opera recenti / Francia, Claudio., 2001

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Identifier: CC-43372-45434
Scope and Contents

This catalogue depicts collages, assemblages, and objects made by Francia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Opere Dal 1974 Al 1996 / Arias-Misson, Alain ; Dachy M., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27588-28665
Scope and Contents

The works depicted in this exhibition catalogue are part of the Theatre Box series of the mid 1970's to the current pyramid works of 1996. The Sackner Archive purchased a "Pyramid ecstasy exercizes" plexiglas sculpture that is similar to those illustrated in the catalogue. Marc Dachy provided an introductory essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Opere dal 1974 al 1996 / Arias-Misson, Alain ; Dachy M., 1996

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Identifier: CC-30029-31423
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive holds a plexiglas box in the "Pyramid Ecstasy Exercizes" series of 1996 similar to the one pictured on the catalogue cover. Marc Dachy contributed a biographical essay tracing the poetic works of Arias-Misson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

[Oraletica Analectica] / Biro, Jozsef., 1998

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Identifier: CC-30883-32335
Scope and Contents

Collage depicts fragmented images of nude women engaged in sexual intercourse as well as clothed portraits of a man and woman overlaid with Hungarian text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Order Chaos / McCarthy, Steven., 1991

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Identifier: CC-06767-6886
Scope and Contents The printing of this book is described by the author on the two unbound pages; a Canon color copier was utilized.Internet: Steven McCarthy has an MFA in design from Stanford University (a joint program of the departments of art and mechanical engineering), and a BFA in sculpture and drawing from Bradley University. Since 1998, he has been a professor of graphic design at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus. For nine years prior, he was on the faculty of Northern Kentucky University.Steven's graphic design work has been published in Graphis Poster, the American Institute of Graphic Arts annual, HOW, Page and in Provocative Graphics: The Power of the Unexpected in Graphic Design, among others. His creative work has been in over one hundred and ten juried and invitational exhibitions.His artist's books are in some prestigious collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria & Albert, the Banff Centre in Canada, the Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete...
Dates: 1991