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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4861 Collections and/or Records:

Bookworks 1977-1982 / Da Costa Editions ; Carrion U ; Algardi A ; Heibel A ; Agius J., 1985

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Identifier: CC-14740-15053
Scope and Contents

Juan Agius is the owner of Da Costa Editions. The Sackner Archive holds "Codice Transparente" by Alessandro Algardi and "Missing Work" by Juan Agius which are reproduced in this catalog. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Bookworks by Tom Phillips / Phillips, Tom ; Erskine-Tulloch P ; Minsky R., 1986

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Identifier: CC-04113-4192
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive lent the Dante Inferno notebooks, "Trailer," and the archival copy of "Ein Deutsches Requiem," to this exhibition. Other works such as "The Heart of A Humument" and TV Dante were subsequently acquired after the exhibition by the Sackner Archive. The text of this catalogue originates from those published by Waddington Galleries. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Border(ed) , 1989

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-22701-23135
Scope and Contents

Basmajian (30 September 1950 "“ 25 January 1990) was a Canadian poet and author. Born in Beirut, Lebanon to Armenian parents, Basmajian emigrated to Canada when he was seven years old. He was a founder of the Canadian Poetry Association, co-founder of Old Nun Publications (with Ted Plantos), and was a member of the Parliament Street Library poetry group. The Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award, given annually to a Canadian poet, was established in his memory. The contest ran from 1996-2008. In 1986, he was attacked with a knife and robbed while he was driving a taxi. His right lung was punctured when a robber stabbed him. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Born Under Leo / Morris, Stephen., 1972

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Identifier: CC-38232-40128
Scope and Contents

The tirage consisted of 25 signed and 475 unsigned copies. This book is also designated Aquila Pamphlet Poetry Two. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Born Under Leo / Morris, Stephen., 1972

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Identifier: CC-38231-40127
Scope and Contents

The tirage consisted of 25 signed and 475 unsigned copies. This book is also designated Aquila Pamphlet Poetry Two. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Bouffe-Merde, 1968

 Item — Folder 31: [Barcode: 31858072459906]
Identifier: CC-19836-20223
Scope and Contents

Central image is a portrait of Charles De Gaulle flanked by word columns utilizing the repetitive typed word, bouffe (comic), and merde in a fragmented fashion near the portrait. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Bound in Yellow. No. V / Dellafiora, David, editor., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51057-72138
Scope and Contents

The title "Bound in Yellow " is a reference to 'yellow' as a concept.Yellow was adopted by the 19th French decadent movement to indicate artifice and "immortality" and the colour was used in publication such as the "Yellow Book" periodical of the 1890s. In Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray", the book that has a major corrupting influence on Dorian is described as 'the yellow book'. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Bound in Yellow. No. V / Dellafiora, David, editor., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51066-72147
Scope and Contents

The title "Bound in Yellow " is a reference to 'yellow' as a concept.Yellow was adopted by the 19th French decadent movement to indicate artifice and "immortality" and the colour was used in publication such as the "Yellow Book" periodical of the 1890s. In Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray", the book that has a major corrupting influence on Dorian is described as 'the yellow book'. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Boxes Collages / Hamady, Walter ; Clay S ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 1990

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Identifier: CC-08956-9132
Scope and Contents

Many of the works in this catalogue incorporate images of lungs. One of the boxes in this exhibition was acquired by the Sackner Archive and the Archive is mentioned as holding works by Hamady. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Brache di Gutenberg, Le: Cronaca: Archivio-Azione. No.4 / Carmine Lubrano., 1986

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Identifier: CC-21996-22408
Scope and Contents

Edited by Luciano Caruso and Sonia Puccetti. Although the edition size is 30 copies, as with most of the artworks in this series, the book is unique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Brache di Gutenberg, Le: Cronaca: Disianza Congiuntiva. No.39 / Francesco Saverio Dodaro ; Luciano Caruso., 1985

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Identifier: CC-22139-22557
Scope and Contents

Edited by Luciano Caruso and Sonia Puccetti. The stencilled image on the white painted collage by Dodaro is a large letter "e." Caruso wrote the accompanying poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Brache di Gutenberg, Le: Cronaca: Gli arcani maggori: 22 tarocchi (Deluxe Edition). No.30 / Luciano Caruso ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 1994

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Identifier: CC-23947-24395
Scope and Contents

This book reproduces 22 drawings of Tarot cards, made in 1992-1993, that are held as suite by the Sackner Archive.Acknowledgement as to this holding appears in the colophon of this book. This deluxe edition of 12 copies includes a drawing by Caruso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994