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Typewriter art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 837 Collections and/or Records:

Gratte-Ciel N* 116 / Chopin, Henri., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-18700-19073
Scope and Contents

The English translation of the title is skyscraper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

great cultural revolutionary medical pekinese protest stove (250569) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

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Identifier: CC-55105-59744
Scope and Contents

This typing caotures the feeling of a revolution or motion with a grouping of parentheses resembling a cloud of smoke eminating from a large block of slashes and dashes in front of a second constructivistic block. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

[green periods] / Mairey, Francoise., 1973

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Identifier: CC-59353-10002441
Scope and Contents

The periods line up such that the marks appear like several necklaces from top to bottom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Gronk: a selection from Carnival. No.2 / Steve McCaffery., 1970

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Identifier: CC-36937-38770
Scope and Contents

Probably published in an edition of 400 copies. McCaffery provides an excellent summary of the construction of this modified version of an early section of carnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS REVIEWS HIS ARMY FIRST VIEW / Mott, Michael., 1971

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Identifier: CC-58039-10001290
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 the reading of 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." Wikipedia: Gustav II Adolf (9 December 1594 "“ 6 November 1632, O.S.); widely known in English by his Latinized name Gustavus Adolphus, or as Gustavus Adolphus the Great (Swedish: Gustav Adolf den store, Latin: Gustavus Adolphus Magnus, a formal posthumous distinction passed by the Riksdag of the Estates in 1634); was the King of Sweden from 1611 to 1632 and is credited as the founder of Sweden as a Great Power (Swedish: Stormaktstiden). He led Sweden to military supremacy during the Thirty Years War, helping to determine the political as well as...
Dates: 1971

Hamburg - Typings, 1988

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Identifier: CC-56763-10000138
Scope and Contents

This book was edited by Ulrich Dorrie and Holger Priess. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

[hanging blue ball] (020667) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-56257-59711
Scope and Contents

A typed blue ball is hanging on the left center of the page surrounded by a red typed box. The right side of the page depicts a large geometrical image composed of slashes and dashes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[hanging blue ball carbon copy] (020667) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-56258-59712
Scope and Contents

This copy does not have the red typed box surrounding the ball as in the original typing.There are also carbon blurs on the left side of the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Henri et Jean / Chopin, Henri., 1977

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Identifier: CC-19780-20167
Scope and Contents

The large letters H and J, standing for Henri and Jean, celebrate the 25th wedding anniversary of the Chopins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

HERALDIC ORDERS FOR THE COMPUTER CATHEDRAL / Mott, Michael., 1971

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Identifier: CC-58038-10001289
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 the reading of Monk's Pond that he was unaware of until the 1980s. He further mentioned that he employed "various degrees of pressure to give variations and life to the work." Mott mentionsthat this piece was to pay a tribute to one of his favorite painters of Church Interiors, Pieter Jamsz Saenredam.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Homage to Pierre Albert-Birot, for "Les femmes pliantes" / Chopin, Henri., 1975

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Identifier: CC-19765-20152
Scope and Contents

Three impressions of this print, published in Ruby Editions Portfolio 1, were superimposed on each other. The Ruby Edition Portfolios are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975