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Visual poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 822 Collections and/or Records:

Miss America Is a Virgin, 1968

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-30285-31694
Scope and Contents

Collage art from magazines and newspapers mostly of thin women but also Medusa (in a circle but also top left corner where Perseus has cut off her head), Hitler (in a stamp), and two comics lower left and lower right. The words "Miss America is a Virgin" have been handwritten on newspaper and pasted on top. This collage has complex meanings in reference to its title. It was made near the date that levy committed suicide. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Mologa, 2001

 Item — Folder 45: [Barcode: 31858072460060]
Identifier: CC-38923-40854
Scope and Contents

The paper was made from cardboard egg crate carton material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Mon Alias: La Simona, 2000

 Item — Box 329: [Barcode: 31858072490950]
Identifier: CC-37551-39408
Scope and Contents

The rubberstamped words in a horizontal layout to form the lips of daVinci's appropriated Mona Lisa read, "Mona Lisa No Smile." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Mondi di parole, 1988

 Item — Box 176: [Barcode: 31858072459336]
Identifier: CC-33826-35494
Scope and Contents

A photographic reproduction appears in a catalogue of lora-totino's work, "Il teatro della parola." The latter is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Moneybox, 1982

 Item — Box 271: [Barcode: 31858073143376]
Identifier: CC-21813-22224
Scope and Contents

Each of the .50 lire coins is placed within a separate, soft, plastic compartment that are joined together. The overlaid letraset letters, one each to the eight soft plastic compartments spell out moneybox. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Monument to Television Chernobyl, 1992

 Item — Box 139: [Barcode: 31858072457926]
Identifier: CC-03577-3641
Scope and Contents

Chernobyl refers to a city in Russia in which a major nuclear accident took place. Rabascall has depicted the event by presenting the city as an ancient pyramid with four television receivers and a satellite dish on its top and letters covered with sand falling in a disorderly arrangement down the slopes of the pyramid. The latter might signify the initial concealment of the magnitude of this disaster by the Soviet government. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Motive, 2000

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Identifier: CC-35655-37404
Scope and Contents

This drawing depicts three stylized reddish-brown male nude figures placed upon text for the outside two figures and on gold paint for the center figure. The center figure holds an arrow in his right hand and a twig with leaves in his left hand. The paper was made from cardboard egg crate carton material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Motive II, 2000

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Identifier: CC-35653-37402
Scope and Contents

This drawing depicts a stylized reddish-brown male nude figure in the center with text on either side. The paper was made from cardboard egg crate carton material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Mr. Calvados, 2000

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: A-Ba: [Barcode: 31858072491164]
Identifier: CC-34304-35998
Scope and Contents

The main image of this drawing is Don Quixote on a horse. This work was shown at the Sackner Archive during Art Basel Miami December 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000