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Correspondence art

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 170 Collections and/or Records:

Par Son Ecriture, 1988

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Co-Cu: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-18825-19203

Participacion, No. 6, December, 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-38580-40488
Scope and Contents

This periodical features announcements of mail art activities and political poems dealing with democratic oppression in Latin America. It is stored in the box with Padin's publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Participacion, No.1, June, 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-38381-40285
Scope and Contents

This periodical features announcements of mail art activities and political poems dealing with democratic oppression in Latin America. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Penis of Willendorf, 1997

 Item — Box 199: [Barcode: 31858072459690]
Identifier: CC-28797-30108
Scope and Contents

This sculpture was a collaborative project between Hitchcock and Dyar.The former found an eggplant in the shape of the sculpture that was cast by Dyar to make the multiple. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Poesia: Outras Escritas Novos Suportes, 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-03804-3876
Scope and Contents

Curated by Fernando Aguiar. Works reproduced in catalog by Cesar Figueiredo held by Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Probably Another Visual Poem by Vittore, 1989

 Item — Box 327: [Barcode: 31858072490943]
Identifier: CC-21566-21977
Scope and Contents

Collage incorporates mailing receipts to Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

pulate a rupture, 2010

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-51998-73100
Scope and Contents

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. Each page depicts three elements, e.g., a written word in Bennett's unique style at the top, a brief sentence by McMurtagh in the middle, and an electocardiographic tracing consistent with an acute myocardial infarction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Pushing the Envelope, 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35700-37451
Scope and Contents

Air mail envelopes, mailed to Kim Lieberman by herself, were returned from around the world from places she travelled. A chart documents the places and timing of the mailings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Random Sightings (With No One Around); letters from d.a. levy, 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-47224-49967
Scope and Contents

This book consists of letters in reproduction from d.a. levy to his friends. The originals were handwritten, typed, and mimeographed. In addition, several of levy's abstract expressionistic paintings are reproduced in color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

rmrmrmrm, 1980

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Chopin, Henri: [Barcode: 31858072491297]
Identifier: CC-18713-19086

Rolled Poem, 2002

 Item — Box 268: [Barcode: 31858072460599]
Identifier: CC-43693-45779
Scope and Contents

This edition consisted of 50 tubes covered with recycled sticker material from different networkers in the 1980s and 1990s. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Sangrarte, 1980

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: D: [Barcode: 31858072491370]
Identifier: CC-15860-16192

shut loot, 2010

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-51994-73096
Scope and Contents

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

singsingsing, 2011

 Item — Box 135: [Barcode: 31858072457835]
Identifier: CC-53210-74362
Scope and Contents

The small hand lettering on this collag reads 's i n g' from different angles. When held up to the light a second layer of writing can be seen. The top border is hand cut. The cancelled, red bordered stamps on the poem object commemorate the work of several product designers and are part of the conceptual work of sloy and nic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

Small Glass, 1982

 Item — Box 271: [Barcode: 31858073143376]
Identifier: CC-21826-22237
Scope and Contents

Box consists of Polaroid film case with photograph of Baroni. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Smoke Refrain Stickerpiece, 1995

 Item — Folder 17: [Barcode: 31858072459765]
Identifier: CC-24122-24574
Scope and Contents

Consists of a dense collage of examples of stickers sent to Baroni for his Stickerman Museum. This is one of a series of 8 Unrelated Pieces for the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995