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Visual poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 239 Collections and/or Records:

Dashes Variation & Pentade, 1965

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]

Der Geklonte Sammler, 2002

 Item — Box 152: [Barcode: 31858072459302]
Identifier: CC-39417-41369
Scope and Contents

Consists of portraits of 11 art and book arts collectors, including Marvin Sackner who is depicted as a flying airplane. The documentation sheet is attached inside the box top. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

discarded poem 1, 1995

 Item — Box 340: [Barcode: 31858072491255]
Identifier: CC-60841-10003696
Scope and Contents

Taken from pete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

discarded poem 2, 1995

 Item — Box 340: [Barcode: 31858072491255]
Identifier: CC-60842-10003697
Scope and Contents

Taken from pete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Drug - store, 2000

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Identifier: CC-35045-36769
Scope and Contents

This is a complex drawing dealing with a stylized white faced, portrait of a pharmacist working at a counter next to a bed that has bottles placed on its top surface. There is no vanishing point of three dimensionality. Shelves with colored bottles are placed at the top of the drawing along with a pair of white curtains painted with a red cross. Written and printed text surround the image in a chaotic fashion. The paper was made from cardboard egg crate carton material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

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

Ersichtlichkeiten: Internationale Visuelle Texte der 90er, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-28411-29654
Scope and Contents

After a brief introductory essay, Schmidt depicts the works of book artists from several countries by depicting a one or two black & white photographs of their work, one to a page. Marvin Sackner selected and contributed the photographs for the section on American book artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

[Esto No Es Una Pipa/Cap], 1988

 Item — Box 153: [Barcode: 31858072459294]
Identifier: CC-16542-16895
Scope and Contents

Object contains a book on Magritte, a pipe, and a wax foot covered with the word "cap" which means head in Catalan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Ex Libris, 1981

 Item — Box 256: [Barcode: 31858072458254]
Identifier: CC-49025-70063
Scope and Contents

A photographic reproduction of this work is depicted in Miccini's "Caro Oggetto," a book also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

figura/partitura, 1983

 Item — Box 622: [Barcode: 31858072461092]
Identifier: CC-38501-40409
Scope and Contents

This exhibition was curated by Giovanni Fontana. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Formulazioni Non - A, 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-48786-69820
Scope and Contents

The loose sheet that comprises the text reproduces the pages of the original titled book as approximately 5 cm x 4 cm images of the original book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972