Typewriter art
Found in 854 Collections and/or Records:
Brown Mask Book / Edie Ellis., 1987
Each page is shaped like a head and the features are cut, collaged or ripped. Corrugated pages alternate with paper pages and on the latter, a poem is typed in the shape of eyes, nose and mouth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Business Education World: Typewriter Pictures. / Various Artists., 1940
Several images were cut from pages of this periodical by the Sackners and pasted onto papercard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Butterfly / Stacey, Flora., 1898
This first work of typewriter art appeared in The Phonetic Journal October 15, 1998 page 662. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[butterfly with red o's] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963
Poem is folded to resemble the shape of a butterfly with red and black markings produced by typing. This work was removed from a page of Furnival's "Liber Amicorum 1964-1984," a book held by the kner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Caracteres IBM / Mairey, Francoise., 1977
This brochure advertises the various typefaces available and IBM locations in France. The cover by Mairey consists of a typing of yellow and green A's . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[card to john sharkey - john willett writes] (July 19640) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Willett J; Basara R., 1964
This typed message continues "mrs sharkeys book is EXCELLENT" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Card to Ruth & Marvin [Sackner] (21 SEPT.93) / Andre, Carl., 1993
Andre has typed seven lines of periods in an off center strip. This card is missing from Andre box-AK. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Card to Ruth & Marvin [Sackner] (23 OCT.93) / Andre, Carl., 1993
Andre writes about his exhibition at Paula Cooper's Gallery that he is "very happy that the show will travel to Europe. My audience is so much larger & more responsive there. You must feel about as lonely in America as I do." He also discusses his recent surgery and dreaws of stone crab claws. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Carpet / Kempton, Karl., 1977
Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispu, California. Exhibition was curated by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
celtic wheel of taranis (150469) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969
Typed black slashes delineate the image of a sphere with a tail-like appendage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
chakravartin / wordwomb (080367 & 090367) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967
This work consists of two poem dated a month apart.' Wordwomb' is composed using all five vowels. 'Chakravartin' is composed using apostrophes and parehtheses. Wikipedia: Chakravartin is a term used in Indian religions for an ideal universal ruler, who rules ethically and benevolently over the entire world. Such a ruler's reign is called sarvabhauma. It is a bahuvrīhi, literally meaning "whose wheels are moving", in the sense of "whose chariot is rolling everywhere without obstruction". It can also be analyzed as an 'instrumental bahuvrīhi: "through whom the wheel is moving" in the meaning of "through whom the Dharmacakra ("Wheel of the Dharma) is turning" (most commonly used in Buddhism and Hinduism). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
CHANCE AND SOLITUDE / Mott, Michael., 1971
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.
Chemins: des occlusives velaires, plus constructives alveolaires. sourdes u sonores en 93 / Chopin, Henri., 1993
The letter 'x' is used to form the image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.