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Found poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 115 Collections and/or Records:

A CH'I LIN, 1967

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-07659-7804
Scope and Contents

The recto is a clipping cut from a publication of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the verso has a drawing of a beattle and an Egyptian eye by levy. The verso is hand labeled "postcard." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Alexande, Thortr, Srenate und Micael: A short story, 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-37379-39232
Scope and Contents

The text is composed of reproductions of labels made with a label-making machine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Apollo Amerika, 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-37394-39247
Scope and Contents

Kriwet documents events around the time of the Apollo space shot to the moon in 1969 as well as the space shot itself as an artist scrapbook. He uses newspaper and periodical clippings and also altered them in the form of decollage as integral to the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Art on the Grill, 1995

 Item — Folder 17: [Barcode: 31858072459765]
Identifier: CC-24117-24569
Scope and Contents

Image consists of "fingerprinted' penises placed on page to form the word "ART." Twelve identical, commercial labels, have been collaged onto the print, "Made Fresh in the Sausage Shop, Hot Italian Style..." The print constitutes one of a series of 8 Unrelated Pieces for the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Bread and Water, 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-27880-29019
Scope and Contents

Alison Knowles analyzed the cracks on the bottom crusts of her home-made breads and discovered a universe of rivers, Matching each crack in the crust to a river pattern, she created palladium prints with river image, literary passages and text fragments. Henry Martin, in his introductory text, describes this book as an "experience." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Captions from Animals Looking at You, 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-31455-32945
Scope and Contents

Gallo exactly reproduced the title page, table of contents, and page numbers of an original book by Paul Eipper. He then removed all else except the captions that once accompanied the photographs of wild animals. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981