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Visual poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 822 Collections and/or Records:

Archive of Du meme auteur, 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-52877-74015
Scope and Contents

Includes a photocopy of Mallarme's Un Coup de Des (1914), -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Arms Trade, 1996

 Item — Box 608: [Barcode: 31858073143558]
Identifier: CC-28295-29472
Scope and Contents Vamp & Tramp Internet: "Handmade paper from shredded paper currency with rag pulp including clothing from the victims named. Handset types used include Stymie, Clarendon, Baskerville, and Neuland. Metal relief engravings and woodcuts created for the images and printed by John Risseeuw at his Cabbagehead Press in Tempe, Arizona. Signed and numbered by the artist. Risseeuw created a piece about the world arms trade, printed on paper made from clothing of victims of armed conflict and recycled currency from the top 10 arms-exporting nations. John Risseeuw, Content-Specific Handmade Paper in Prints and Artist Books: "I started with an appropriate quote about arms sales, then printed a list of the top ten arms exporting nations between 1990 and 1994. The U.S. was (and is to this day), to my regret, the top exporter by far. I began a list of arms sold as well as some woodcut and engraved images. Inside the piece, the facts continue about the value of arms sold, the list of arms, and...
Dates: 1996

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

[Artwork for Ciaran Carson's Opera et Cetera: into the aluminium blimp basket], 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-28328-29507
Scope and Contents

This is a colored drawing that was intended for Ciaran Carson's book of poems, Opera et Cetera, Wake Forest Press, 1996, but not utilized in the printed edition. The printed page is Carson's poetry. Carson's book is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

[Artwork for Ciaran Carson's Opera et Cetera: these are night's Northern wars], 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-28330-29509
Scope and Contents

This is a gouache drawing that was intended for Ciaran Carson's book of poems, Opera et Cetera, Wake Forest Press, 1996, but not utilized in the printed edition. The text is from Carson's poetry. Carson's book is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Augen Blicke Wort Erinnern: Begegnungen mit Carlfriedrich Claus, 1999

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Identifier: CC-33815-35481
Scope and Contents

This book edited by Gerhard Wolf consists of essays, photographs and reproductions of artworks contributed by several of Claus' friends as a memorial to his death, June 28, 1998. The loose print, a reproduction done in 1979, is placed between pages 58 and 59. The accordion pamphlet by Pierre Garnier is placed at page 80. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Avec Son Ecriture, 1987

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Co-Cu: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-18820-19198