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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4861 Collections and/or Records:

Axle. No.43/Dec / Murphy P., 1997

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Identifier: CC-29991-31382
Scope and Contents

Peter Murphy contributed four visual poems that consisted of photographic images with arrows, abstract marks, or building signs. In an essay "Private Correspondence: Visual Poetry, Its Viewing and Discourse," he mentions how few original visual poems are seen by the public. Most are seen as reproductions in magazines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

[B] / Broel, Elisabeth., 1992

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Identifier: CC-23587-24032
Scope and Contents

This collage has the shape of a leaf. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Bab(B)-El-On / Wood, Reid; Altemus R., 2006

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Identifier: CC-45984-48690
Scope and Contents

Each print consists of a photocopied colored mage of a visual poem. Reed Altemus is the publisher of Live Matter. Reid Wood is aka State of Being in the mailart network. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Babel / Penn, Cheryl., 2013

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Identifier: CC-57957-10001215
Scope and Contents

The images of the pages are reproductions of collages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2013

Babel / Secunda, Arturo., 1975

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Identifier: CC-02218-2258
Scope and Contents

This print depicts a mountain-like, expressionistic image composed of stenciled letter and number forms with splattered black ink. In a letter to the Sackners, Secunda remarks that the image was influenced by Schwitters' sound poems, the randomness of the works of Cage, Beckett, Albee and Stein, as well as the Theatre of the Absurd. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Bad Breath Babble / Baroni, Vittore., 1991

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Identifier: CC-23447-23891
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. The center image of each assemblage depicts a standing man, viz., a silhouette with mint candies collaged over upside-down black lungs, a 3-dimensional model of clear, hollow plastic filled with c butts and mints, and a red plastic model with a hole in the chest for the heart surrounded by black pigment. Calligraphic and letraset messages along with related objects and images reinforce the antisocial and antihealth habit of smoking. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Balance Poem / Shiomi, Mieko., 1965

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Identifier: CC-55206-65627
Scope and Contents The collage elements were made from cut black paper. This work or anything similar to it is not listed in the Silverman's catalogue, "Fluxus Codex." Internet: Mieko Shiomi grew up in a musical family and received a classical musical education at an early age. She began to study musical theory and music at the State University of the Arts in Tokyo in 1957. In 1960, together with Takehisa Kosugi and others, she founded the group Ongaku (Music) and began to extend the radius of her own music to include improvisation and action. The group received stimulus from performances by artists such as John Cage, La Monte Young and George Brecht, who visited Tokyo in the early 60s. As from 1963, Shiomi had contact to Yoko Ono; through her, she got to know George Brecht's events, adopting the term "event" to describe her own works. On the invitation of George Maciunas in 1964, Shiomi went to New York, where she took part in the Fluxus events taking place there. Shiomi's events are characterised...
Dates: 1965

Bank Manager / Phillips, Tom., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28525-29805
Scope and Contents

This print, which depicts a portrait overlaid by calligraphic poetic text, was reproduced from a drawing by Phillips in conjunction with the Dual Muse exhibition held at the Washington University Art Museum in November 1997. The Sackner Archive lent several works to this exhibition and also attended a symposium which took place there. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Bank of Fun / Baroni, Vittore, editor ; Ciani, Piermario, editor ; Angelo L ; Baroni V ; Bates K ; Ciani P ; Cohen R ; Dogfish ; Echaurren P ; Mancusi T ; Wood R., 2003

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Identifier: CC-41585-43575
Scope and Contents

One of the publisher's names, FUN, stands for Funtastic United Nations. The banknotes are fake currencies issued by made-up countries. The book documents the history of artists' currencies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Bar-Bar / Hubaut, Joel., 1988

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Identifier: CC-09252-9433
Scope and Contents

This work consists of 40 separate drawings based on Hubaut's home town of Bar Fleur , France and Barcelona, Spain where he completed several art projects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988