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Typewriter art

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 837 Collections and/or Records:

The Cosmographical Lobster [Deluxe Edition] / Chopin, Henri ; Jean Chopin, translator., 1976

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Identifier: CC-16988-17344
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The French edition was published by Review OU in 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

The Darker Birds The Lighter Sky / Mott, Michael., 1971

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Identifier: CC-06285-6400
Scope and Contents Best-selling novelist, biographer, editor, poet, and essayist, Michael Mott, who was also twice writer-in-residence at the College of William and Mary, first in 1978-79 and again in 1985-86, is one of those rare writers"”a genuine "man of letters" who has succeeded in every genre he has tried. Born and educated in England to an English lawyer and American sculptor, he first began publishing poetry in 1948. His most recent book of poems, The World of Richard Dadd, won the Robert E. Lee & Ruth I. Wilson Poetry Book Award. Mott's first novel, The Notebooks of Susan Berry, was a best-seller in England and was published by MacMillan in the United States. His second novel, Helmet and Wasps, was a critical success in both England and the United States. He has also published two novels for young adults, Master Entrick and The Blind Cross. Mott served as poetry editor for the prestigious Kenyon Review from 1966 to 1970. In 1974 Jimmy Carter presented him with a Governor's Award for his...
Dates: 1971

The Doggerel Diamond / Morin, Gustave., 2015

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Identifier: CC-62355-10004152
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Original page from the Clean Sails book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2015

the duke of chou's wind machine / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1972

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Identifier: CC-09459-9646
Scope and Contents This typing consists of a grid-like, symmetrical, line-drawn image that was formed with red underline and dash marks. Internet: The Duke of Chou (twelfth century B.C.) is regarded as one of the greatest statesmen in Chinese history. Also known as the Yellow Emperor, he is considered to be the architect of the Chou dynasty and the true founder of the Confucian tradition. Confucius looked to the Duke for his model and believed it was his mission to reestablish the principles and culture of the early Chou era, considered to be a golden age. The Duke of Chou was a legendary figure whose life is surrounded in the mists of ancient history, though accounts of his personal life and achievements do remain. The Duke of Chou is credited with the writing of the I Ching and with the founding a new form of classical Chinese music. Some historians also credit him with the founding of traditional Chinese medicine. In addition, he was instrumental in the invention of the calendar and forms of...
Dates: 1972

the escargot regatta / Morin, Gustave., 2015

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Identifier: CC-62372-10004171
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 2015

The Fire & Wind Rods / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1965

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Identifier: CC-55899-9999366
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The first two lines of the poem reads "worshipped in honour of ousioos (inventor of furcoats) / & samen roumes (inventor of the twiggy hut). The text of the poem accompying the typed image is not understandable owing to words foreign to English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

The Message is Lost and the Sender / Mott, Michael., 1971

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Identifier: CC-58577-10001803
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The artist composed the work on an Olympia Splendid 99. In a personal communication to Marvin Sackner in 2013, Mott stated that his typewritings were influenced 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." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

The Pearl / Morin, Gustave., 2015

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Identifier: CC-62351-10004148
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 2015

The Plastic Typewriter / Dutton, Paul., 1993

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Identifier: CC-56900-10000265
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This copy published by Underwhich Editions and Writers Forum has a glossy heavy paper cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

The Plastic Typewriter / Dutton, Paul., 1993

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Identifier: CC-16114-16457
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This copy published by Underwhich Editions and Writers Forum has a glossy heavy paper cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

The Plastic Typewriter / Dutton, Paul., 1993

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Identifier: CC-16115-16458
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This copy published by Writers Forum and Underwhich Editions has a plain heavy paper cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

the rose / Cameron, Charles., 2013

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Identifier: CC-58065-10001311
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Composed on an IBM Selectric typewriter that was originally typed 1966 and now retyped 2013. Cameron comments that this poem was originally typed as a gift for Elizabeth Taylor, when she turned out in support of campaign for Edmund Blunden as Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1966. I was a young Oxford poet favored by the young don Francis Warner at the time, he was, if I recall, the one leading the campaign for Blunden, and introduced me to Elizabeth Taylor at a pub. Pleasant, if hazy, memories. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2013

the sainte-larme of vendome (100171) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1971

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Identifier: CC-56384-9999800
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The title refers to a book "Les Voyages de Sainte Larme de Vendome." A large blue typed cube appears filled with a red constructive form created by slashes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Thirty Three Blind Mice / Morin, Gustave., 2015

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Identifier: CC-62376-10004189
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 2015

[three 3-D hexagons] (120167) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-08738-8912
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Blue typed slashes and dashes make up the 3-D hexagons forms on columns of apostrophes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[three cylinders] (060367) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-56133-9999577
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The entire composition is typed with slashes creating the cylinders. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Three Forms for Marvin and Ruth / Chopin, Henri., 1985

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Identifier: CC-19770-20157
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This work was composed at the Sackner Archive during a sound poetry and typewriterart as a performance to all attendees by Chopin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

[three parallelograms stacks] (300167) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-56134-9999578
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This page consists of one complete tower typed with slashes and dashes, a second stacked paralleogram half off the page and a third 2D single typed parallelogram. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[three spirals (2)] (110467) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-56494-9999898
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The image consists of three increasingly larger spirals laid out as a diagonal pattern and formed from @ characters. The Sackner Archive holds another copy done on the same day with minor differences in the typewriting; dsh's signiture is located at u.r. rather then u.l, as in this version. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967