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Typewriter art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 837 Collections and/or Records:

Main Calm Line (220171) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-56590-9999995
Scope and Contents

Also designated poemcard 1. Signed cards with houedard's first name are rare. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

main calm line [for Poetry Review Cover Volume 62 No.3] (22/01/71) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1971

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Identifier: CC-33072-34697
Scope and Contents

This typing consists of a complex optical image formed with underline marks. It constituted the design for the cover of Poetry Review Volume 62 No.3, a periodical also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Mandala #1 (after C.G. Jung) / Cook, Geoffrey., 1980

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Identifier: CC-18810-19187
Scope and Contents

This poem is reproduced in Cenizas No.18, a periodical held by the Sackner Archive. The word and its letters are typed repetitively to form the shape of a mandala. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

mandala of directional buddhas & consorts (300167) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-56135-58926
Scope and Contents

There are eight typed red opened boxes composed of slashes, dashes and apostrophes.Ther are also two clusters of period dots. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Masques D'Ecrit: Le Theatre de L'Ecriture, 1986

 Item — Box 178: [Barcode: 31858072459468]
Identifier: CC-05852-5962
Scope and Contents

The sculpture is a plastic an opened plastic cylinder that contains a face from hand crumpled paper with typed letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Mathemaku for Beethoven / Grumman, Bob., 1999

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Identifier: CC-34071-35751
Scope and Contents

The word "understanding" is typed repeatedly in four variations on a sky blue background. The top of the pages contain a blue colored rectangle, a division mark, and the words, "the sky," The fourth sheet also says "explainability" and contains a line of music and minimal poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Message of the Toilet Paper / Barsky, Vilen., 1982

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Identifier: CC-32411-33984
Scope and Contents

The photograph depicts the object, "Botschraft einer Toilettenpapierrolle," a work held by the Sackner Archive. The pages provide the Russian and German texts that were printed onto the toilet paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Messages from a Typewriter / Rothfork, John., 1980

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Identifier: CC-58129-10001380
Scope and Contents

The selections of this book are classified according to the following topics: Bus and Beasts, Levitation Practice, the "a" s, Words & Allusions, Landscapes, Bananas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Metacubus (1/12/77), 1977

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Identifier: CC-21156-21565
Scope and Contents

Klaus Basset was born in 1926 and died in 1996. This drawing is reproduced in his book held by the Sackner Archive, "Ein Leben in Zeichen." In this book, it is dated 1977/1983 and shows minor differences from the original. This typing (1/12/77) and the prepatory drawings (30/11/77) and (29/11/77) are framed together. This work was purchased from the Modern Art Gallery in Vienna and mrked the first typewriter piece purchased by the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

mimeo killed the radio scar / Morin, Gustave., 2015

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Identifier: CC-62362-10004161
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 2015

Mit Schreibmaschine 1923-29 2nd Modified Edition / Werkman, Hendrik Nicolaas., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47540-68548
Scope and Contents

This is a pirated edition of Werkman's typings published by derek beaulieu. The paper stock has a smoother feel than the 1st edition that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Mit Schreibmaschine 1923-29 / Werkman, Hendrik Nicolaas., 2006

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Identifier: CC-44660-46824
Scope and Contents

This is a pirated edition of Werkman's typings published by derek beaulieu. The paper stock has a rougher feel than the 2nd edition that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

model of 16-phase poemultiple: a full octogram / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-08691-8864
Scope and Contents

This poem, made up of 23 images, is composed of words, periods, and dashes. This work was reproduced in the Dom Sylvester houedard book edited by Nicola Simpson, "Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter: The Life and Work of Dom Sylvester Houedard" and is stored in the binder labeled DSH London 2012. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Moire (291065) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1965

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Identifier: CC-08878-9054
Scope and Contents

Houedard used a grid of 4 L's to produce moire patterns. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

moire typestract pome 6 for john furnival (091263) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-09829-10023
Scope and Contents

This optical poem was created by typing overlying slashes. It was removed from a page of Furnival's "Liber Amicorum 1964-1984," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Monastero de Montserrat, 1935

 Item — Box Ahe-Alt: [Barcode: 31858072490802]
Identifier: CC-58665-10001900
Scope and Contents

This reproduction was provided to the Sackner Archive by Fernando Alcolea who scanned the image from Spanish ESPASA CALPE Universal Enciclopedia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1935