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Mathematical poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

65th Birthday, 1998

 Item — Folder 39: [Barcode: 31858072459997]
Identifier: CC-29728-31105
Scope and Contents

This print was made to celebrate John Furnival's 65th birthday. The print depicts each year of his life as a colored number in a chaotic arrangement with overlays. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

105 posbL resons 4t ;; of thot or d ;; of doze hu undRst&, 2010

 Item — Box 620: [Barcode: 31858072461076]
Identifier: CC-54697-990134
Scope and Contents

The completed title reads "105 possible reasons of thought or, the sadness of those who understand." The inside paper cover prints a surreialistic story about Alan Turing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

A Number Progression (Wump Ertater) 1st Ed / Cobbing, Jennifer Pike., 1970

 Item — Box 386: [Barcode: 31858072461514]
Identifier: CC-17455-17821
Scope and Contents

Designated Writers Forum Folder 8. Each papercard sheet depicts a single stencilled, printed number, from 1 to 10, with 2 to 10 having repetitive overlays. The author is also known as Jennifer Pike and is the wife of Bob Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

A Number Progression (Wump Ertater) 2nd Ed / Cobbing, Jennifer Pike., 1990

 Item — Box 635: [Barcode: 31858072464757]
Identifier: CC-17452-17817
Scope and Contents

Designated Writers Forum Folder 8. Each sheet depicts a single stencilled, printed number, from 1 to 10, with 2 to 10 having repetitive overlays. This second edition differs from the first in that the collaged element on the envelope is blue rather than yellow and the loose sheets are photocopied and have larger dimensions. The author is also known as Jennifer Pike and is the wife of Bob Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Arabics, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-05562-5669
Scope and Contents

The pages of this book consist of different arrangements and typefaces of the numbers 0-9, each page depicting a single number variation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Big Numbers , 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-53084-74230
Scope and Contents

This book consists of a wide range of Pie O's poems that often are spinkled with an Australian dialect. The pages from his visit to America on a Guggenheim fellowship deals with his political views as an anarchist. He dedicated this book to Thalia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Cymbols, 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-49906-70964
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts an image in color or black & white that recapitulates Noel's visual ideas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Erosglifico, 1982

 Item — Box 271: [Barcode: 31858073143376]
Identifier: CC-21797-22208
Scope and Contents

Object is made from Polaroid photograph case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

four carden peoms for ian & sue [finlay] (151064), 1964

 Item — Box 643
Identifier: CC-56420-58838
Scope and Contents

The title was probably not miss-typed by Houedard with carden for garden and peom for poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Ken Cox Memorial / the sun-cheese wheel-ode; a double-rolling- gloster memorial forkencox [white background], 1968

 Item — Folder 35: [Barcode: 31858072459948]
Identifier: CC-53335-100045
Scope and Contents

This copy has a white background onto are which printed colored letters dictated by the analysis on the verso. William Allen comments: "Dom Sylvester's memorial to the artist Ken Cox, who died in November 1968 after a tragic accident. This double-sided print was printed at the Compton Press, Salisbury, in orange and green on yellow stock. The verso side of the print features silkscreen, together with the title and date. Recto, printed in black, contains the full length title "Ken Cox Memorial/Sun-Cheese wheel-ode, a double-rolling-gloster memorial for kencox" and the complex workings of Houedard's Consonant and Vowel System, as well as acknowledging Semi-Bold Flaxman by Edward Wright. The letters K- E- N- C- O- X are missing from the composition - reflecting the loss of the artist. Less than 300 prints were produced on white, pink and yellow stock." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Ken Cox Memorial / the sun-cheese wheel-ode; a double-rolling- gloster memorial forkencox [yellow background], 1968

 Item — Folder 35: [Barcode: 31858072459948]
Identifier: CC-53334-100044
Scope and Contents

This copy has a yellow background onto are which printed colored letters dictated by the analysis on the verso. William Allen comments: "Dom Sylvester's memorial to the artist Ken Cox, who died in November 1968 after a tragic accident. This double-sided print was printed at the Compton Press, Salisbury, in orange and green on yellow stock. The verso side of the print features silkscreen, together with the title and date. Recto, printed in black, contains the full length title "Ken Cox Memorial/Sun-Cheese wheel-ode, a double-rolling-gloster memorial for kencox" and the complex workings of Houedard's Consonant and Vowel System, as well as acknowledging Semi-Bold Flaxman by Edward Wright. The letters K- E- N- C- O- X are missing from the composition - reflecting the loss of the artist. Less than 300 prints were produced on white, pink and yellow stock." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

L'Ave/Cesar, 1986

 Item — Box 636: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-18654-19026
Scope and Contents

Collage has the shape of an egg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

My days as pebbles in a stream are many-coloured: what is the last one: [1114444], 1998

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Identifier: CC-31278-32749
Scope and Contents

The center section of the drawing is stamped with repetitive numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4. The sides have column-like ink drawings and the corners list the letters W E I N. An abstract, design and dripped paint are positioned over the right side of the numbers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Planet Saturn, 1968

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-13302-13603
Scope and Contents

This black and white print has mathematical symbols, magic squares and words in which one or more of the stylized letters are printed in reverse, upside down. The central image depicts a 4 x 4 grid of numbers, letters and symbols. This is surrounded by a rectangular border of words, suggestive of Saturn's ring (?) that include "Yahweh, Demon, Sazel, Aziel, Spirit, Saturn, Planet." The words "Sazel and Aziel" are not listed in the dictionary. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968