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Typewriter art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 837 Collections and/or Records:

echec (checkmate) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-56280-9999718
Scope and Contents

Houedard types that his work is a "monument to che guevara erected by the glosterode construction co ltd." The typed blocks of four varying symbols are presented on the top of the page with documentation and lists for the construction of the piece and its operation. Houedard notes on the bottom of the page "this ode was composed for a projected che commemt expo at the lisson gallery." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Ecritures (Lettrisme). No.1 / Maurice Lemaitre, editor ; Lemaitre M., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-13618-13921
Scope and Contents

One hundred copies of the ordinary edition of this periodical were distributed free to students of the U.E.R. Saint-Charles and an unspecified number with an original work by Lemaitre were sold to benefit them. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Editions Ottezec: Passementeries. No.4 / Henri Chopin ; Ruhm G., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-13568-13871
Scope and Contents

This copy contains all the original typings for the edition, the manuscript text with corrections, and a copy of the printed trade edition. Each of the pages and typings are seperate entries into the database. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

eeau: troisieme exercice grave aigu sue canson ingres / Mairey, Francoise., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-59148-10002269
Scope and Contents

This typing is created with the accented letters eeau. There are no errors on this page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

[eight cubes] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-43529-45602
Scope and Contents

This untitled carbon copy typing is composed of a cube sliced into eight parts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

[eight paralellograms formed with slashes] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-09451-9638
Scope and Contents

This page also depicts two blue parallelograms and a partial one in the top left corner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

[eight parallel lines] (010270) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-56336-9999759
Scope and Contents

Each line is composed with dashes and is double typed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

El Moro Rock / Mott, Michael., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-58575-10001801
Scope and Contents

The artist composed the work on an Olympia Splendid 99. In a personal communication to Marvin Sackner in 2013, Mott stated that the his typewritings were inflenced by Margaret, his first wife's (died in 1990) weavings plus reading on knots, quipu, etc and not by reading Monk's Pond that he was unaware of until the 1980s. He further mentioned that he employed "various degrees pf pressure to give variations and life to the work." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Enluminure / Chopin, Henri., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-16991-17347
Scope and Contents

The eight typed poems reproduced in this book are based upon the numbers 1984 from the book by George Orwell; the original typings are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

entropy wires / Morin, Gustave., 2015

 Item
Identifier: CC-62367-10004166
Scope and Contents

Original page from the Clean Sails book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2015

Essaer om Bror Barsk ech andra dikter / Johnson, Bengt Emil ; Cage J., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-34635-36336
Scope and Contents

A single typewriter poem is reproduced on each page of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964