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Visual poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 239 Collections and/or Records:

[Letter to Karl] / And, Miekal., Unknown

 Item — Box 315: [Barcode: 31858072490836]
Scope and Contents

And relays his recovery from tsetse syndrome, flu, and bone chip in his ankles to Karl. He also describes his surprise at Hoffberg's book exhibit and announces the release of Anti-Isolation.

Dates: Unknown

L'Immagine di un Segno, 1986

 Item — Box 622: [Barcode: 31858072461092]
Identifier: CC-16794-17149

Little Snail, 2003

 Item — Box 287: [Barcode: 31858072460680]
Identifier: CC-41142-43123
Scope and Contents

The paper tape contains the poem "little snail / inch by inch / climb Mount Fuji!" this object was a holiday gift to the Sackners -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Livre Impubliable: Concerto, 1975

 Item — Box 318: [Barcode: 31858072490778]
Identifier: CC-25894-26355
Scope and Contents

Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispo, California, an exhibition curated by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Livre Impubliable: Premiers Approches De La Ville, 1975

 Item — Box 318: [Barcode: 31858072490778]
Identifier: CC-25896-26357
Scope and Contents

Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispo, California, an exhibition curated by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Livre Impubliable: Premiers Approches De La Ville, 1975

 Item — Box 318: [Barcode: 31858072490778]
Identifier: CC-25897-26358
Scope and Contents

Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispo, California, an exhibition curated by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Livre n 1, 1985

 Item — Box 191: [Barcode: 31858072459617]
Identifier: CC-06669-6788
Scope and Contents

The blocks can be viewed as a whole in the plexiglas case or removed and arranged by the viewer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Lone Ranger, 1984

 Item — Box 614: [Barcode: 31858072461001]
Identifier: CC-07875-8028
Scope and Contents

This print depicts five eye masks with different configured eye openings and captions. It was exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispu, California, an exhibition curated by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Man from Red, 2000

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Identifier: CC-35654-37403
Scope and Contents

This drawing depicts three stylized reddish-brown male nude figures placed over text for the outside two figures and on gold paint for the center figure. The top has the numbers 1 to 7 written in a horizontal row. The paper was made from cardboard egg crate carton material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Mary Rudolf's Chromosomes, 1972

 Item — Box 634: [Barcode: 31858072491313]
Identifier: CC-17787-18157
Scope and Contents

This poem with the appearance of a film sequence in the form of a grid, was published in Second Aeon No.15, 1972. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Mercato Del Sale: Poesia Visiva: Un No Alla Poesia. Oct / Luciano Ori., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-37764-39643
Scope and Contents

In the duplicate of this work, the print is inscribed 'prove/ d'stampe." The same print in this folder was also printed with large white borders and signed in an edition of 100 copies; the latter is held by the Sackner Archive and catalogued under the artist's name. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

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