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Typewriter art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 837 Collections and/or Records:

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

 Item
Identifier: CC-33764-35428
Scope and Contents

The image consists of three increasingly larger spirals laid out as a diagonal pattern and formed from @ characters. The Sackner Archive holds another copy (version 2) done on the same day with minor differences in the typewriting; dsh's signiture is located at u.l. rather then u.r, as in this version. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[Three Spirals] (120467) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-56249-9999693
Scope and Contents

The image consists of three increasingly larger spirals laid out as a diagonal pattern and formed from @ characters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Tippfehler / Mattes, Rudolph., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-47713-68732
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a small rectangle of typed random letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Tone Poems / Rushmer, David., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-03381-3436
Scope and Contents

These poems were conceived as "Visual Sound" and were inspired by the music of Cage, Reich and Stockhausen as well as by avant garde rock groups like "Throbbing Gristle." All utilize typewriter characters but with one exception, none have English language letters. One of the poems is entitled "(breathing)" and depicts crescendo-decrescendo like images made with the Greek letter Omega. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

tower chakra (200267) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-56158-58937
Scope and Contents

A circular tower of blue and red typed vertical elements of dashes stand on a base of red slash marks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[Triangles on map] / Hrdy, Joseph., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-50380-71448
Scope and Contents

The triangles are formed from small o's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

tunnel canaries / Morin, Gustave., 2015

 Item
Identifier: CC-62373-10004172
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 2015

[two 2-D joined hexagons & three 3-D hexagons] (120167)[CR]dash forms] (120167) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-56129-9999573
Scope and Contents

A 2D form at the page top is composed of slashes and dashes.Three 3D forms are made of typed slashes and dashes standing onf columns of apostrophes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[two cubes with inner spheres recto-verso] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-33751-35415
Scope and Contents

This work was typed on pink paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

[two juxtaposed pyramids & typed border] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-56441-9999851
Scope and Contents

The image is of two incomplete juxtaposed pyramids centered in a typed line border. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[two lines of slashes & partial cylinder] (020467) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-56252-59708
Scope and Contents

The two rows of slashes begin and end with typed E's composed of dashes. A large parial cylinder is typed over the lines.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[two partial spheres] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56282-9999720
Scope and Contents

This image is composed of 12 horizontal lines centered with a curved form of 10 lines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

[two split cubes with split section] (720118) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-08633-8805
Scope and Contents

The cubes are composed with red and blue lines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

[two staggered columns on base] (720122) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-56442-9999852
Scope and Contents

The columns are blue with red tops and the base is red. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972