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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4850 Collections and/or Records:

Dear Diary / Perez, Irma., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-03949-4024
Scope and Contents

Submitted as entry to Homage To The Mad Diarist exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Dear Marvin & Ruth / Jackman, Sandra., 2008

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Identifier: CC-47802-68821
Scope and Contents

This card is a response to the Jackman's visit to the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

dedo , 1992

 Item — Box 313: [Barcode: 31858072490794]
Identifier: CC-61612-10004072
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1992

Delivre II / Barron, Susan., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-23927-24375
Scope and Contents

This work, which was commissioned by the Sackner Archive, was subsequently made into a limited edition print with the same title. The main poem in the center of the work, constructed as a paper relief from clippings of newspapers and magazines with varied typefaces and dimensions, begins "I am writing a letter on the back side of a cloud." Other briefer poems are also incorporated into the work using fragments of different languages. The major visual image is a paper relief man-feathered-animal like figure with a poem as its tail. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Delivre II / Barron, Susan., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-24202-24654
Scope and Contents

The print was reproduced from a unique collage held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Delivre II / Barron, Susan., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-24203-24655
Scope and Contents

This print was reproduced from a unique collage commissioned by the Sackner Archive; a caption at the bottom of the print makes mention of this. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Delivre II Printers Sample, 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-24205-24657
Scope and Contents

Print was reproduced from a unique collage commissioned by the Sackner Archive. Barron writes specific instructions to the printers on both margins of the proof. This is the second proof run by the printers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Delivre II Proof , 1988

 Item — Folder 80: [Barcode: 31858072538394]
Identifier: CC-24204-24656
Scope and Contents

Prints were reproduced from a unique collage held by the Sackner Archive. This proof, according to the artist, is the penultimate proof run "before the real thing." Includes specific instructions for changes to the printer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

della mostro / Sanesi, Roberto ; Herbert G ; Thomas D., 1992

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Identifier: CC-50281-71348
Scope and Contents

The Sackners purchased a cube sculpture paper covered in Sanesi's typical colored calligraphy of ink and gauche from the exhibition at the Palazzo Reale in Milan in 1983 titled "Jarry e la patafisica." Sanesi was born in 1930 and died in 2002. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Demonstration, 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-09880-10076
Scope and Contents

This complex collage, an illustration for Jules Verne's "Aound the World in Eighty Days," depicts a parade and a mob scene with American voting slogans and company names. The main image was cut from an engraving done around 1900. An exhibition catalogue of Kolar, Mesens, Schwitters & Hoffmeister at Grosvenor Gallery, st that Hoffmeister "...was the first artist to use typography as a total compositional medium regardless of the meaning of the actual words, concentrating on the purely visual image." Wescher (Collage 1968) wrote that he was the grand master of collage. This collage is depicted in Adolf Hoffmeister This collage is not depicted in the Adolf Hoffmeister book 1902-1973 edited by Karel Srp on page 283. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Den Arbeitern von Kursk: ein vorlauffiges Denkmal von Wladimir Majakowski 1923 / Mayakovsky, Vladimir; Roschkow, Juri., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-45648-47847
Scope and Contents

Each of the 16 print rerproductions of the collages are stored within a folded unbound page. The German translation of the words in the collages is printed on the inside right cover of the unbound page. The photocollages reproduced in this portfolio are among the best visual poems of this era of Soviet history. The original of the montages are currently housed in the collection of the State Literary Museum, Moscow. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980