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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4850 Collections and/or Records:

Da Lamie del Labirinto / Mussio, Magdalo., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-06658-6777
Scope and Contents

The images integrate found photographs, printed text, and rubberstampings with Mussio's calligraphy. Each image was probably reproduced from a collage. The first page of the book is missing. The cover is labeled and signed with initials of Jack Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

d.a. levy Pages, 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-31274-32745
Scope and Contents

In his essay, Karl Young describes d.a. levy in his any facets e.g. spiritual poet, warrior against repression and conformity, quiet scribe and nihilist non-conformer. This web site for levy notes that the only existing critical text published about his life and works is Ingrid Swanberg's "Zen Concrete and etc." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

dada games 1 / Danon, Betty., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-60827-10003682
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1989

dada games 3 / Danon, Betty., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-60828-10003683
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1989

Dada Moment Post / Cole, David., 1992

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Identifier: CC-20260-20657
Scope and Contents

The collaged elements of the cards include fragments taken from the Sackner Archive stationery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Dante Diary: Episodes from a Dante Memoir / Phillips, Tom., 1983

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Identifier: CC-28339-29520
Scope and Contents The theme of the print, Phillips' Dante Diary, is presented as a montage of text and images selected from the original drawings and collages. The strongest image in the upper right side of the print is a drawing of a skeletal-like head which Tom Phillips describes as "Head as House of Memory." It is fashioned of rooms twisting and turning inside a skull, reminiscent of Escher, with several running or falling figures. The head is duplicated in a much smaller version elsewhere on the print surface. Other themes pictorially and typographically represented include Dante in Brazil - Copacabana Beach, Dante a Milan and Dante in Botswana. The upper right side of the print contains architectural drawings that resemble Phillips' complex castle prints. The drawings are noted as "Seven sided house of folly." Further images include a drawing of the artist's hand writing the Italian text of the Inferno, a photograph of Tom Phillips at Dante's tomb in Ravenna, a page from "A Human Document," a...
Dates: 1983

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: 10 Aug 1977 Dante's Heads 1 , 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 84: [Barcode: 31858072538410]
Identifier: CC-61432-10003959
Scope and Contents

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. A text of this image reads, "Semiramis & Dido & Cleopatra & Helen of Troy & Achilles & Paris & Tristan Und Isole De & Romeo and Juliet & Anna Karenina & Emma." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: After Rilke. Stage Proof, 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 84: [Barcode: 31858072538410]
Identifier: CC-61424-10003951
Scope and Contents

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Bathers in Pitch , 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 84: [Barcode: 31858072538410]
Identifier: CC-61421-10003948
Scope and Contents

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: [boat of dreams] , 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 86: [Barcode: 31858072538436]
Identifier: CC-61429-10003956
Scope and Contents

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. A Humument text of this image reads, "falter / drop / fall" "silent, lost / and helpless / sailing" "boat of dreams, and / lost / fear" "boat which is the dream / wreck Come / in" "for / none / return / from the Chance / in themselves / contained" -- Source of annotation: CEND.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Brunetto Study, 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 85: [Barcode: 31858072538428]
Identifier: CC-61415-10003942
Scope and Contents

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Canto III [bitter boating], 1978 - 1979

 Item — Folder 85: [Barcode: 31858072538428]
Identifier: CC-36711-38528
Scope and Contents

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. This print illustrates the canto in which Dore depicts Charon rowing a boat in the river Acheron in a lake with Phillips' comments from A Humument with the words, "bitter boating." This work was shown at the Sackner Archive during Art Basel Miami December 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1979