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Typewriter art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 837 Collections and/or Records:

Wingdom / Keith, Bill ; Garnier P ; Grumman B., 1993

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Identifier: CC-08061-8221
Scope and Contents The poems have the appearance and sound quality of Rap Concrete Poetry like those composed by Kenneth Goldsmith.Wikipedia: William "Bill" Keith (January 20, 1929 -- September 1, 2004) was an American artist who began his artistic life as a painter, but moved into photography and visual poetry. His visual poetry ran a full gamut from calligrams inspired by Apollinaire and other early 20th Century French poets to Lettrisme to the Minimalism and Op Art of the 1960s.As his work developed, Keith concentrated increasingly on African and African-American themes and sources. This development toward African roots and branches led away from the Roman alphabet and more toward the store of iconography and symbolism from Egypt to South Africa to the American diaspora. Consequently, Keith developed graphic techniques suggested by textiles, wood carvings, bronze casts, ceramics, and other indigenous arts.An example of Keith's recreation of the substance of his visual style and the very nature of...
Dates: 1993

Words and Images/Those Writing Machines/Typewritten Art and Concrete Poetry / Marvin Sackner, curator ; Bauermeister M ; Burciaga J ; Dupont A ; Fahlstrom O ; Kluge J ; Knapp D ; Lurie S ; MacLow J ; Noel A ; Presser E ; Macia C ; Riveron E ; Andre C ; bissett b ; Broel E ; Chopin H ; Corfou M ; Burda V ; Houedard DS ; Cook G., 1989

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Identifier: CC-00353-361
Scope and Contents

This catalogue consists of the listings of two exhibitions, viz., "Typewritten Art and Concrete Poetry" drawn solely from the Sackner Archive, and "Words and Images" from the Sackner Archive and other collections. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

wrecking ballzark, th: Film Strip. No.58 / Karl Kempton., 1983

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Identifier: CC-40592-42565
Scope and Contents

This booklet is also listed as Curvd H&Z No.245. The pages consist of typewritten 'o's' in a grid that proceeds from the top of the page to the bottom as the pages are flipped. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

[Xerox Poems], 1982

 Item — Box And-Andre: [Barcode: 31858072490810]
Identifier: CC-26046-26508
Scope and Contents

The original typing reproduced on page 21 is held by the Sackner Archive. These poems were not photocopied by Carl Andre. With letter from Jonas Mekas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

X~O / Goeritz, Mathias., 1968

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Identifier: CC-60566-10003460
Scope and Contents

The image on a CD was given to the Sackner Archive by Klaus Peter Dencker. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

[YA YA YA for Charles] (040764) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Cameron C., 1964

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Identifier: CC-57870-10001122
Scope and Contents

The centered typing has two vertical lines of M's and m's emerging from a cloud of densely typed B's surrounded by four YA's. Charles is Charles Cameron. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

yonimindlotus (290367) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

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Identifier: CC-56200-9999644
Scope and Contents

This page is typed solely with dashes in subtle circular shapes with a distinctive blank circular space in the center of the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Zeotrope / Parritt, Simon., 1974

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Identifier: CC-57716-10000971
Scope and Contents

All the works in this book, one to a page, were composed with an Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Ziffernkontakte, 1976

 Item — Box 330: [Barcode: 31858072490968]
Identifier: CC-20875-21284
Scope and Contents

Also designated as Buch 2. In this book, all the images on 18 of the pages are formed from typewritten numbers. Klaus Basset was born in 1926 and died in 1996. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976