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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4858 Collections and/or Records:

Homage to Sound Poetry, 1980

 Item — Box Oversized Baroni, Vittore: [Barcode: 31858072491123]
Identifier: CC-22040-22456

Homenatge a Lucis Fontana / Barbat/H., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-21776-22187
Scope and Contents

Fontana is a metro stop in Barcelona and also is the name of the artist who slashes the canvase in his paintings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Hommage a Kurt Schwitters / Trinkewitz, Karel; Sackner MA; Sackner RK., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-01397-1430
Scope and Contents

Trinkewitz attached two panels of found papers and papercards from magazines, books and advertisements etc., cut to the size of match book covers, to a board collaged with an undecipherable, linear fragmented text with bold typefaces. These elements include images of Schwitters, Trinkewitz, Kolar, beautiful women, envelopes, receipts, maps, magazine pages, stamps etc. The verso has a signature dated 1984 at the Visual Poetry Conference in Saarbruchen, Germany. A photocopied group photographic portrait depicts Ruth and Marvin Sackner among poets at a visual poetry conference held in Sarrbrucken, West Germany in 1984. This work was exhibited in the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, in January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Hommage a Mallarme, 1993

 Item — Folder 39: [Barcode: 31858072459997]
Identifier: CC-13183-13484
Scope and Contents

Depicts title of Mallarme's poem, Un Coup de Des, along with images of dice. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Hommage a Russolo / Segay, Serge., 1996 - 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-61633-10004095
Scope and Contents

Taken from pete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996 - 1997

Hommage to Hans Bellmer / Biro, Jozsef., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-22585-23011
Scope and Contents

The image on this card is the body of a male bodybuilder with a face of an attractive young woman overlaid with Hungarian texts formed with letraset. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Horrendo Man I / Torres, Edwin., 1984 - 2012

 Item
Identifier: CC-53725-12978
Scope and Contents

Torres wrote to the Sackners that the drawing for this print was a calligraphic comic made with black & red india ink, rapidograph pen, x-acto blade, enamel coated glossy paper, glue. It depicts meticulously precise letterforms with minimally rendered characters in freeform angles offset by geometrics.The text was inspired by rap music, H-Man is a superhero-Buddha fighting war with peace in sound bites as follows. Look...it's Horrendo Man. "Amma break yo face!" "Amma break yo case!" Just wait now, fellas! "Amma git'ma gun!" "Ammo keel ya!" Hey mates, don't gestulate... you gotta R.B. so just postulate! Amma king a calm, that's no brag-a-dag, bro! Chill, you mutual quads, you facin' Horrendo! -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984 - 2012

Horrendo Man II / Torres, Edwin., 1984 - 2012

 Item
Identifier: CC-53726-642804
Scope and Contents

In a communication to the Sackners, Torres states that this print is a calligraphic comic made by scanning the original drawing that used black & red india ink, rapidograph pen, x-acto blade, enamel coated glossy paper, and glue with meticulously precise letterforms with minimally rendered characters in freeform angles offset by geometrics. The text was inspired by rap music, H-Man meets his villain BauBug with a cryptic "to be continued" at the end. Horrendo Man meets Bau-Bug. Don't be callin' me no louse. Amma froma BauHouse. Amma muncha people,too! Bau-Bug is afta you! "Translate the slate, Jack...that bug is wack!" Hey mates, constructivate, Moholy-Nagy's no holy fate! This Mister Motown's onna motel kick. He's an overgrown Geometric. "Pardon me, Si Cumference...go drug yo jug. If radiance could fly, it be I...Bau-Bug!" 2-B Scene -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984 - 2012

Hot Bird Mfg: Ten From Nice. No.14/Mar / John Evans., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-09148-9329
Scope and Contents

Edited by Ray DiPalma. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991