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Picture poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1790 Collections and/or Records:

Dolls of the Spirit / Drucker, Johanna., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-16197-16540
Scope and Contents

Drucker comments in her catalogue from the exhibition at Printed Matter that this book was based upon a Dutch emblem book of the same title dealing with farm implements. This book is based on transformable objects and words, e.g., knife, key, scissors, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

douce anne / Levy, Miller., 1997

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Identifier: CC-27418-28462
Scope and Contents

The painted pink paper pad gives off a pleasant, sweet scent in keeping with Levy's New Year greetings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

doves dhows / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1998

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Identifier: CC-35433-37168
Scope and Contents

The title of the poem appears on the back cover, "A winter scene is set down in six words, two of which occur twice." The poem on the front cover, doves dhows - distance dhows - drifting doves." According to the Random House Dictionary, a dhow is a sailing vessel used by Arabs on the east African, hte Arabian and the Indian coasts, generally lateen-riggedon two or three masts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Drowned fish? feather? drowned feather? fish? / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1996

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Identifier: CC-35228-36962
Scope and Contents

The poem compares the scales of a fish to a feather. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Duhring Duhring: nous etiens contre le pouvoir des mots contre le pouvoir / Wolman, Gil\aka Joseph Wolman., 1979

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Identifier: CC-52923-74063
Scope and Contents This work is depicted on pages 188-191 of Wolman's "Resume" (1981), a book held by the Sackner Archive. Ars Libri No.159 2011: This is Wolman's second artist book, published in the same year as "L'homme separe." "In October 1979, he exhibited all 64 plates of 'Duhring, Duhring,' an appropriation of Engels' Anti-Duhring' text, from which he excerpted a few words-nouns, individually enclosed in transparency mounts and arranged at regular intervals on the separate images of the heads of miscellaneous characters. In passing, they included Isou, mixed with Brezhnev and heads drawn by Wolman, thus defined by the noun associated with them, except that the photos recurred in a changed order and with different words. Once again, Wolman produced this large coloured wall fresco and a black and white version on cheap paper; a book with a tabloid or punk fanzine look about it, quite the opposite of the small edition of 150 of 'L'homme separe.' Keen for the book to be widely distributed, he...
Dates: 1979

Dung Vay / Hompson, Davi Det., 1993

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Identifier: CC-32545-34125
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a large photographic portait of Hompson that was taken by Katherine Wetzel. The caption in Vietnamese below each portrait, that is translated in English on the verso of he envelope, indicates the emotional state of Hompson at the time the photographs were made. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Duz. No.1 / Sally Alatalo, editor., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-14724-15037
Scope and Contents

Each page has a single silkscreen image and a one word caption. This magazine is a successor to Du Da also published by Alatalo. DR Books WEB 2011 annotation: With 10 leaves, screenprinted, (various colors) onto mint green vellum and railroad board covers yellow plasti-coil spiral binding; 19-1/2x14-1/2in; theme: single works with an image: "beat, punch, nail, cuff, sock, box, blow, knock, lick"; this peridocal is now known as "DUZ" (changed in 1991) was created by Sally Alatalo. Known as a "montage of visual and written signs: text, stories, photographs, drawings, and objects as varied as disposable razors. The reading of these layers of information is associative. Juxtaposition of source material, often humorous or odd, plays a big part in the magazine's production and intent. Married to the technology of printing and is influenced by off-beat design." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Early Spanish Manuscript Illumination / Williams, John., 1977

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Identifier: CC-00590-604
Scope and Contents

This book reproduces examples of Spanish illuminated manuscripts from the 7th to 11th centuries. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977