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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4850 Collections and/or Records:

GP (Georges Perec) / Getzler, Pierre., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-30210-31613
Scope and Contents

The image printed on heavy paper depicts the face of Georges Perec surrouded by letters, numbers, circles and a grid. The original print was made in 1982. This copy was made at a later, unknown date. Stored in Perec box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Grafemas / Hamburger, Alex., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-09804-9998
Scope and Contents

Grapheme is defined as a "single graphic sign composed by different graphic traces that permit the visual understanding of the words in the written language, just as the phonemes allow the acoustic understanding in the oral language. Term created in the north-American linguistics, with a more rigorous and wider designation than letter since it also encompasses the diacritics, ideograms and punctuation dots." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Great Men - Series # 2, 1980

 Item — Box 324: [Barcode: 31858072490901]
Identifier: CC-22214-22636
Scope and Contents

Duplicates printed on different colored papers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Greek village by Syrakus, 1960

 Item
Identifier: CC-51586-72685
Scope and Contents

This collage is depicted in the Adolf Hoffmeister1902-1973 edited by Karel Srp on page 238. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

Greetings / Jackman, Sandra., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-30853-32301
Scope and Contents

Painted and found collages are arranged with found text that reads, "From time to time - the mountain - tints - scattered from the clouds - perform - melodies - too slow to tell." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Grigio quan Nero / Mussio, Magdalo., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-54361-55170
Scope and Contents

Magdalo Mussio (1925"“12 August 2006) was an Italian author, artist, animator and editor. A native of the Tuscany town of Volterra, Magdalo Mussio served during the 1960s as the editor of several Italian cultural publications, including Marcatrè and was widely throughout his country's art gallery circuit. He was also the creative artist behind a number of animated films, including Reale dissoluto, I ragazzi di Theresi, Il potere del drago and Umanomeno and published several books detailing his life and work and uniting his own creative writings with what has been described as an archaeology of images in a sweetly melancholic mixture. Among his best-known titles are In practica, Praticabili per memoria concreta and Il fastidio delle parole. Magdalo Mussio died after a lengthy illness in the year of his 81st birthday. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

groaning, 2010

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-51995-73097
Scope and Contents

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. Although the pages are photocopied, the composition was made with a combination of ink jet printing and rubberstamping. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Gronk Final Number Series: Write Me an Adventure. No.2 / bill bissett., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-36253-38043
Scope and Contents

Each page of this book reproduces a collage made from newspapers and magaziines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Gronk Flash Series: Exposure. No.4 / jw curry ; Nichol bp., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-36848-38681
Scope and Contents

Cover was designed by bp Nichol. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Gronk Intermediate Series: Broken Mandala. No.2 / Steve McCaffery., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-36868-38701
Scope and Contents

Each page was composed in a photocopier and has the same phrase "complete charges from" obsessively repeated and overprinted. In some pages, this is combined with abstract marks, in others with images such as an eye or a standing gorilla. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Gronk Intermediate Series: Sensations of the Retina. No.15 / Bob Cobbing., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-10248-10451
Scope and Contents

One copy has a green acetate cover, the other a blue one. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Gronk: MAPS: a different landscape. No.8 / Steve McCaffery., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-36933-38766
Scope and Contents

Probably published in an edition of 400 copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Gronk: RUSH: what fuckan theory: a study uv language. No.8 / bill bissett., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-30401-31820
Scope and Contents

The edition size was probably between 300 - 400 copies. On this copy, the word "RUSH" is rubberstamped on the cover. A duplicate has the label "Rush" and a simple line drawing of a landscape. Derek Beaulieu in "seen of the crime" views this work as an early seminmal work of conceptual writing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972