Visual poetry

Breathing #2, 1991

Item — Folder 54: [Barcode: 31858072537883]

Identifier: CC-09069-9248

Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. The background of this work is rubberstamped multiple times, "In Out," and found printed texts and images are collaged onto the rubberstamping. The collage is enclosed by a plastic laminate. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Breathing / Mittendorf, Henning; Mittendorf, Angela., 1992

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Identifier: CC-06268-6383

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Theme deals with meditative properties of breathing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Breathing / Saunders, Robert., 1990

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Identifier: CC-02222-2262

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Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. The drawings are arranged as a grid, 4 across and 5 down. Each drawing contains the same repetitive, printed text without spacing between words as a background, viz. "breathing just one more lung of air next to the bone he squeezed me so hard I thought my ribs would break breathe OK OK." The collage elements include letters, lines, abstract images, text from the background, and reproductions of animals and plants. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Breathing / Saunders, Robert., 1990

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Identifier: CC-02223-2263

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Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. The drawings are arranged as a grid, 4 across and 5 down. Each drawing contains the same repetitive, printed text without spacing between words as a background, viz. "breathing just one more lung of air next to the bone he squeezed me so hard I thought my ribs would break breathe OK OK." The collage elements include letters, lines, abstract images, text from the background, and reproductions of animals and plants. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Bride's Sephirot / Gaard, Frank., 1976

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Identifier: CC-53306-60715

Scope and Contents These two drawings are Gaard's riff on the Kabbalist "Tree of Life." The first drawing has the title written in the upper left hand corner and the second drawing Frank Gaard's signiture in the lower right hand corner. Exhibitied at Gaard's retrospective at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN in 2012. The frames were made by the museum. Wikepedia: The ten Sephirot are a step-by-step process illuminating the Divine plan as it unfolds itself in Creation. They are fully found in the Medieval Kabbalah texts, such as the central work in Kabbalah, the Zohar. The Hebrew etymology of their names in Kabbalah is understood to refer to the nuanced aspects of meaning of each Sephirah. This direct connection between spiritual and physical creations and their Hebrew names, reflects the theology in Kabbalah that Creation is formed from the metaphorical speech of God, as in the first chapter of Genesis. Kabbalah expounds on the terms of the Sephirot. In the first complete systemisation of...

Dates: 1976

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

[Bridge] , 1994

Item — Folder 49: [Barcode: 31858072537834]

Identifier: CC-16147-16490

Scope and Contents

The top half of this print is a photograph of a bridge over a body of water. The bottom half is the same scene rendered in the repeated words brisa (breeze), abatido (downcast), abismo (abyss), abajo (under), barato (cheap), alejar (move away) - themes related to suicide. The calligraphic text is rendered by computer typeface. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Brieflandschaft / Rehfeldt, Robert., 1977

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Identifier: CC-62571-47733

Dates: 1977

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Bright Idea / Nancy Dwyer., 1991

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Identifier: CC-46831-49565

Dates: 1991

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

British Columbia Monthly, The. No.3/Apr / Gerry Gilbert, editor ; UU D ; Gilbert G., 1981

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Identifier: CC-21936-22348

Dates: 1981

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

Broadside #7:[Books That Have Been Banned] / Wayzgoose Press; Joyce J; Dante; Miller H., 1992

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Identifier: CC-00469-481

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Lists authors whose books have been burned or banned from Confusius to the present. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Broadside No.9: Germany, 1993

Item — Folder 73: [Barcode: 31858072538089]

Identifier: CC-34958-36673

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The print depicts a stylized broken arm with a fractured Swatstika arm band with the hand aflame. The smoke from the fire consists of a political address in 1993 set in bold type by Helmut Kohl, the leader of Germany dealing with solving the world's problems with money. This overlays a text with fainter type dealing with protection of the environment. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Broadside: Star for Emmett Williams. No.2 / Barbara Caruso., 1990

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Identifier: CC-23458-23902

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Edited by Barbara Caruso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

[Brow] / Berry, Jake., 1990

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Identifier: CC-23880-24328

Dates: 1990

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Buchobjeckt / Deisler, Guillermo., 1992

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Identifier: CC-15188-15509

Dates: 1992

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Buchstaben Sind Nomaden - Bruchstaben Sind Monaden: Letters Are Nomads - Splitters Are Monads / Daniel, Peter ; Jabes E ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Schmidt B., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31049-32511

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Two works held by the Sackner Archive are depicted: "Letter Heap [Accumulation of consonants]" and "The Unbreakable Yud [Letter Isolation]." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)