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Visual poetry

 Subject

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 822 Collections and/or Records:

Haut, 1980

 Item — Box 81: [Barcode: 31858072538253]
Identifier: CC-22046-22462
Scope and Contents

Each of the varicolored collages contains a baby's bib and is attached to the box by a ribbon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Heartfelt, 1998

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-29509-30874
Scope and Contents

This is a heart-shaped, purple felt, object filled with aromatic spices that was mailed to the Sackners for Valentine's day. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / CORRESPONDENCE

Hera Oons, 1998

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-31724-33236
Scope and Contents

The drawing is done on a page from a book on mushrooms and includes printed drawings of mushrooms and a caption. One of the mushrooms in the drawing is titled, "Scleroderma verrucosum." The title and subject of Sackner's first published medical book was "Scleroderma," a disease of humans and unrelated to the mushroom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Heraldic Text, 2001

 Item — Folder 10: [Barcode: 31858069877912]
Identifier: CC-38920-40851
Scope and Contents

The drawing depicts a grid of Heraldic emblems with micrographic writing around each of them. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Hermes-Satie Hat, 1988

 Item — Box 45: [Barcode: 31858072460839]
Identifier: CC-22797-23232
Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Peter Bailey

Histoire d'E, 1988

 Item — Box 339: [Barcode: 31858072491248]
Identifier: CC-21391-21802
Scope and Contents

The introduction to the book was written by Francis Pohl. The theme is the letter "E" which has been a favorite icon of the artist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

[HO + GO]2 = It, 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-37436-39289
Scope and Contents

This book is Laxson's view of the impact of a nuclear explosion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

Homage to Leatherface, 1988

 Item — Box 329: [Barcode: 31858072490950]
Identifier: CC-21906-22318
Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Hommage a Mallarme, 1993

 Item — Folder 39: [Barcode: 31858072459997]
Identifier: CC-13183-13484
Scope and Contents

Depicts title of Mallarme's poem, Un Coup de Des, along with images of dice. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / John Furnival

household word arranger, 1999

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-34199-35884
Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / SMALL BOOKS

Household Word Arranger, 1999

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-35995-37762
Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / SMALL BOOKS

Humument Cartoon, 1970

 Item — Folder 76: [Barcode: 31858072538352]
Identifier: CC-54487-52437
Scope and Contents

The print reads:" One man in the dusk is so much like another." - angel, it was Bill - instantly, "Instantly!" the shortest. - it is large saving yourself the delicacy - open the suction miss Gott! - Have no scruple in using me on you; no one depends on your tools, and begin about it. Bobby you pesth - "Irma! Irma!" under his breath, - let him die doctor in another sofa. - we got an intellectual silenced - then, never God! pain wince." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

[Humument Page 20: Six Variations] , 1986

 Item — Folder 76: [Barcode: 31858072538352]
Identifier: CC-46300-49022
Scope and Contents

The print depicts deconstructed images all involving women. The texts read from image on left to right and top to bottom, "(1) a course in Sussex; (2) a photograph of a curious muse; (3) constant to the subject - the subject extended - he talked and his range came - pursuing the subject; (4) fair sex in various capitals - the politics show; (5) came across a picture of flesh; and circles - The Art revelation; (6) her, smiling her last. - they were Europe." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

I Forgot My Flesh over the Slicer Machine, 1984

 Item — Folder 41: [Barcode: 31858072460003]
Identifier: CC-23531-23976
Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

I. Score: Impossible Score, 1989

 Item — Box 341: [Barcode: 31858072491263]
Identifier: CC-23870-24318
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

[I was Thinking about Oxmail], 1987

 Item — Box 341: [Barcode: 31858072491263]
Identifier: CC-23890-24338
Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

ideas of god, 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-48340-69365
Scope and Contents Catherine Foc exhibition review at MOCA GA: Over the course of her long, fecund career, Ruth Laxson has honed a unique language rooted in her fascination with forms of communication. Letters, words, hieroglyphics, mathematical symbols, equations, Braille, computer acronyms, typefaces, handwriting, pictures: the Atlanta artist uses these elements as abstract shapes, allusive imagery "” and content. Text is as important as image, be it straightforward sentences and phrases or wordplay: the puns, anagrams and lists through which she gets at more elusive meanings than linear language allows.The parameters of her subject matter and worldview are, you might say, microcosmic.* Laxson's take on enduring themes "” love, sex, power and their manifestation in relationships, feminism, war, politics and philosophy "” all are nested in perception of matter, space and time shaped by the teachings of Georgia Tech physics professor David Finkelstein and her own ruminations about God. Her works are...
Dates: 2008
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

il bacio / poesia visiva, 1969

 Item — Box 611: [Barcode: 31858072460854]
Identifier: CC-52622-73758
Scope and Contents

The poem features a music score by Robert Schumann with a couple kissing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Luciano Ori

Il Contesto, 1980

 Item — Folder 2: [Barcode: 31858072459401]
Identifier: CC-13058-13353
Scope and Contents

Consists of a small drawing (u.l.) mapping "il luogo dell'espeimento," an empty graph (l.l.), and 4 circles tracing mente, logica and mito (r.). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Il Pino di Napoli , 1989

 Item — Folder 55: [Barcode: 31858072537891]
Identifier: CC-21569-21980
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES