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Visual/verbal

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2127 Collections and/or Records:

Cubist Prints/Cubist Books , 1983

 Item — Folder 65: [Barcode: 31858072537990]
Identifier: CC-18736-19110
Scope and Contents

Portrays Apollinaire as rendered by Louis Marcoussis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Curriculum Vitae VII B / Phillips, Tom., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-04838-4931
Scope and Contents This work is a varient of Curriculum Vitae VII which was exhibited in the Phillips retrospective at the Royal Academy in London 1992. Phillips' use of "Words-words! Make me a rose" in this painting is derived from page 353 in the original and first revised edition of "A Humument." The poetic autobiographic statement of Phillips' elementary school days was composed by Phillips himself. The underlying text of Phillips' poem depicts the word "Llareggub." In 1954, the BBC broadcast Dylan Thomas's play Under Milk Wood, apparently unaware of the fact that the name of the fictional Welsh town Llareggub described in the play was an ingenious literary back-slang creation, namely, "bugger all" spelled backwards. The taboo nature of "bugger" is marked by the fact that Brophy and Partridge felt it necessary to dash the word in their 1931 compilation of military slang. Up until 1934, one could be fined or imprisoned for saying or writing "bugger" and has even been called "one of the most...
Dates: 1987

Curvd H&Z: Card #64: Herm's Inkling Seed. No.373/Dec / Arthur Cravan., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-19514-19897
Scope and Contents

Also designated card #64. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Curvd H&Z: Card #104: DEED. No.466/Jun / jw curry., 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-51931-73032
Scope and Contents

The images for the two cards have the general lay-out but differ in content and color scheme. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Curvd H&Z: Card #104: DEED. No.466/Jun / jw curry., 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-51932-73033
Scope and Contents

The images for the two cards have the general lay-out but differ in content and color scheme. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

[Cut Page from Notebook] / Furnival, John., 1962

 Item
Identifier: CC-13243-13544
Scope and Contents

On the left is half of a poem; the remainder of the page is a geometric drawing. Stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1962

Dal Decollage alla Nuova Immagine / Rotella, Mimmo ; Restany P., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-27379-28418
Scope and Contents

This catalogue was edited by Pierre Restany. It includes reproductions of three handwritten sound poems that are similar in layout and content to those held by the Sackner Archive. The reproduction of one of these poems entitled "Vertimila anni avanti Cristo" is virtually identical to the poem held by the Sackner Archive entitled "Twenty Thousand Years Before Christ," which is its English translation. Most of the reproduced works in this book consist of decollages. Rotella died in January 2006. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Dal Decollage alla Nuova Immagine / Rotella, Mimmo ; Restany P., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-30251-31655
Scope and Contents

This catalogue was edited by Pierre Restany. Includes reproductions of two handwritten sound poems that are similar in layout and content to those held by the Sackner Archive. Most of the reproduced works in this book consist of decollages. Rotella died in January 2006. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Danny Doughboy / Private World., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-03951-4026
Scope and Contents

Submitted as entry for Homage To The Mad Diarist exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984