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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4850 Collections and/or Records:

Springs / Mark, Enid., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-05982-6096
Scope and Contents

The book is based on the words and residence of Jackson Pollock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

[Square] / Pawel Petasz., 2002

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Identifier: CC-39702-41664
Scope and Contents

The compact disk contains several jpg files that depict Petasz's recent collages. The pages of the booklet consist solely of folded envelopes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

[Square] / Pawel Petasz., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-39702-41664
Scope and Contents

The compact disk contains several jpg files that depict Petasz's recent collages. The pages of the booklet consist solely of folded envelopes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

St. Art: The Visual Poetry of bpNichol / Nichol, bp ; Dutton P ; Caruso B ; McElroy G., 2000

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Identifier: CC-43383-45445
Scope and Contents

This exhibition and catalogue were curated and written by Gil McElroy. The exhibition dealt with Nichol's early concrete and visual poetic works. Most of these works were done in the 1960's and early 1970's. He died at age 44 years in 1988. Paul Dutton and Barbara Caruso contribute essays on their collaborations with Nichol. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Stamp Grid #1 / Tompkins, Betty., 2008

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Identifier: CC-49187-70227
Scope and Contents This image is formed by rubberstamping the words kiss and smooch over each other with dense center slit-like image suggestive of a woman's pubis. Fuck Paintings Interview by Christina Voss for the online magazine, F/lthyGorgeousTh/ngs (2011). Betty Tompkins paints gorgeous photorealistic works of art on a monumental scale, all explicit, detailed images of penetration, masturbation, and the female genitalia. Her first Fuck Painting was created back in 1969, and after a group show in the early 1970's, they were more or less left untouched by critics and dealers, seemingly due to their visual content. In 2003, the Centre Pompidou acquired Fuck Painting #1, and since then, there's been a new appreciation for the power, poignancy, and sheer beauty of her work. A note on their size: small works of art reproduce fairly well online, but there's no way to reproduce the impact of a monumental work of art here, so I'm going to ask you to imagine the size. Many of these canvases are larger...
Dates: 2008

Stamp of approval / Beckstrom, Maja ; Helmes S ; Cohen R., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42262-44268
Scope and Contents

This article is a review of an exhibition at the Minnesota Center for the Book Arts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Stamps B.W.9/1980, 1980

 Item — Box 270: [Barcode: 31858072460573]
Identifier: CC-22121-22538
Scope and Contents

Titled "Mama," "Dada," "Poesia Visiva," "Ghost Post," and "Visual Stamp-Poem." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Stamps of Many Lands / Wheatley, Steve., 1979

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Identifier: CC-44500-46650
Scope and Contents

Wheatley's stamps are visual poems on the country of origin, e.g., the Polish stamp depicts an image of telephone poles, the Bhutan stamp - ladies boots, the Grenada stamp - hand grenade. Made in the style of a stamp album with 16 mock stamps, one to each leaf. The stamps illustrate a play on words-Taiwan-the stamp illustrates a tie. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979