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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4858 Collections and/or Records:

[face with tongue protruded] / Miglietta, Enzo., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-61473-10003997
Scope and Contents

Miglietta did not assign a title to this drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Facilitation Proceses So That Anything Can , 1990

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Identifier: CC-02592-2634
Scope and Contents

According to the artist, this piece was inspired by a performance on the BBC in 1975. Parts of the annoucement can be seen including an image of a mushroom and quotations "Cage Meets Thoueau" and "Looking at Music." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Factotumbook: Study of Man by Man. No.15/Apr / Kitasono Katue ; Sarenco., 1979

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Identifier: CC-10870-11080
Scope and Contents

The images in this issue are photographs of puppets dressed in newsprint. These pictures are similar in content to the photograph by Claude Cahun (1936), a work held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Fall / Toronto Small Press Group, The ; curry jw ; Nichol bp ; Dean M ; lopes d ; Smith J ; Power N ; Swede G ; Laba M ; Truhlar R ; Riddell J ; UU D ; Barwin G ; Dutton P ; Barbour C., 1992

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Identifier: CC-01481-1514
Scope and Contents

The three copies in the Sackner Archive differ in the binding (string spine vs. stapled) and the color of the paper stock used for the cover. The cover was designed by jw curry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Familiar Strangers: The 68th Annual Competition: Photographs / Bernstein A ; Prince D., 1993

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Identifier: CC-11032-11247
Scope and Contents

Audrey Bernstein incorporated an image of Sonya Sackner-Bernstein in her work. Douglas Prince used ancient Roman lettering in the photograph the Sackners purchased from the exhibition. Both artists were awarded The Print Club Selections Award. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Family Portrait 1976-1979: Baby Ruth & Richard / Richard C.., 1983

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Identifier: CC-03280-3329
Scope and Contents

This card was addressed to John Pyros. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Fantasm and Fiction: On Textual Envisioning / Schwenger, Peter ; Birkerts S ; Blake W ; Burroughs WS ; Calvino I ; Gass W ; Greenaway P ; Isou I ; Lemaitre M ; Phillips T ; Sabatier R ; Derrida J ; Sawka J ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA ; Calvino I., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33028-34650
Scope and Contents This text is part of a series entitled "Cultural Memory in the Present." Schwenger analyzed and developed the the theme relating to literary visualization of texts in the following chapters: Possessed by Words. Dream Book, Seeing the Forest for the Trees, Painters of Reading, Framing the Fantasm, and A Politics of Visualization. In Painters of Reading, Schwenger describes the works of Tom Phillips and the Lettrists, Maurice Lemaitre, Isador Isou and Roland Sabatier. The word "fantasm" is taken from French psychoanalysis and can be applied to a range of visualizations. In English, fantasm is both ghost and image in the mind. Therefore mental image, dream, fantasy and hallucination are all involved in the experience of reading and writing fiction. In his acknowledgements, Schwenger writes, "a grant from Mount St. Vincent University allowed me to spend a week at the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry in Miami Beach, in pursuit of what became Chapter 4 of...
Dates: 1999

[Favorite Anything] / Farber, Michael., 1987

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Identifier: CC-13040-13332
Scope and Contents

A mixture of found toys and toy fragments and other objects with printed phrases is densely built into this work. Texts present in this work include among others, "Don't Save Junk Mail," "Stop Sweat," Never Go Running," "Wise Up Ignorance." The letters are printed in the same upper case font and probably derive from texts printed or letraset assembled specifically for this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Fearless Fred / Furnival, John., 1970

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Identifier: CC-13306-13607
Scope and Contents

This print is one of two printed on papercard, the other is printed on translucent paper. The image is a pentagram with text, lines and semiotic symbols within it. The text deals with an announcer's comment on the performance of the horse, Fearless F in steeplechase racing. The lines suggest the route of the race. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Fearless Fred / Furnival, John., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-13307-13608
Scope and Contents

This print is one of two printed on translucent paper, the other is printed on papercard. The image is a pentagram with text, lines and semiotic symbols within it. The text deals with an announcer's comment on the performance of the horse, Fearless F in steeplechase racing. The lines suggest the route of the race. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Femail Series (Stamps B&W 3/82), 1982

 Item — Box 324: [Barcode: 31858072490901]
Identifier: CC-21056-21465
Scope and Contents

Names of preeminent women correspondence artists are cited. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Femail Series (Stamps B&W 3/82), 1982

 Item — Box 324: [Barcode: 31858072490901]
Identifier: CC-21901-22313
Scope and Contents

Names of preeminent women correspondence artists are cited. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982