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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4850 Collections and/or Records:

Fall / Toronto Small Press Group, The ; curry jw ; Nichol bp ; Dean M ; lopes d ; Smith J ; Power N ; Swede G ; Laba M ; Truhlar R ; Riddell J ; UU D ; Barwin G ; Dutton P ; Barbour C., 1992

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Identifier: CC-01481-1514
Scope and Contents

The three copies in the Sackner Archive differ in the binding (string spine vs. stapled) and the color of the paper stock used for the cover. The cover was designed by jw curry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Familiar Strangers: The 68th Annual Competition: Photographs / Bernstein A ; Prince D., 1993

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Identifier: CC-11032-11247
Scope and Contents

Audrey Bernstein incorporated an image of Sonya Sackner-Bernstein in her work. Douglas Prince used ancient Roman lettering in the photograph the Sackners purchased from the exhibition. Both artists were awarded The Print Club Selections Award. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Family Portrait 1976-1979: Baby Ruth & Richard / Richard C.., 1983

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Identifier: CC-03280-3329
Scope and Contents

This card was addressed to John Pyros. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Fantasm and Fiction: On Textual Envisioning / Schwenger, Peter ; Birkerts S ; Blake W ; Burroughs WS ; Calvino I ; Gass W ; Greenaway P ; Isou I ; Lemaitre M ; Phillips T ; Sabatier R ; Derrida J ; Sawka J ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA ; Calvino I., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33028-34650
Scope and Contents This text is part of a series entitled "Cultural Memory in the Present." Schwenger analyzed and developed the the theme relating to literary visualization of texts in the following chapters: Possessed by Words. Dream Book, Seeing the Forest for the Trees, Painters of Reading, Framing the Fantasm, and A Politics of Visualization. In Painters of Reading, Schwenger describes the works of Tom Phillips and the Lettrists, Maurice Lemaitre, Isador Isou and Roland Sabatier. The word "fantasm" is taken from French psychoanalysis and can be applied to a range of visualizations. In English, fantasm is both ghost and image in the mind. Therefore mental image, dream, fantasy and hallucination are all involved in the experience of reading and writing fiction. In his acknowledgements, Schwenger writes, "a grant from Mount St. Vincent University allowed me to spend a week at the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry in Miami Beach, in pursuit of what became Chapter 4 of...
Dates: 1999

[Favorite Anything] / Farber, Michael., 1987

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Identifier: CC-13040-13332
Scope and Contents

A mixture of found toys and toy fragments and other objects with printed phrases is densely built into this work. Texts present in this work include among others, "Don't Save Junk Mail," "Stop Sweat," Never Go Running," "Wise Up Ignorance." The letters are printed in the same upper case font and probably derive from texts printed or letraset assembled specifically for this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Fearless Fred / Furnival, John., 1970

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Identifier: CC-13306-13607
Scope and Contents

This print is one of two printed on papercard, the other is printed on translucent paper. The image is a pentagram with text, lines and semiotic symbols within it. The text deals with an announcer's comment on the performance of the horse, Fearless F in steeplechase racing. The lines suggest the route of the race. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Fearless Fred / Furnival, John., 1970

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Identifier: CC-13307-13608
Scope and Contents

This print is one of two printed on translucent paper, the other is printed on papercard. The image is a pentagram with text, lines and semiotic symbols within it. The text deals with an announcer's comment on the performance of the horse, Fearless F in steeplechase racing. The lines suggest the route of the race. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Femail Series (Stamps B&W 3/82), 1982

 Item — Box 324: [Barcode: 31858072490901]
Identifier: CC-21901-22313
Scope and Contents

Names of preeminent women correspondence artists are cited. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Femail Series (Stamps B&W 3/82), 1982

 Item — Box 324: [Barcode: 31858072490901]
Identifier: CC-21056-21465
Scope and Contents

Names of preeminent women correspondence artists are cited. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Festival de Fort Boyard / Chopin, Henri; Bertini, Gianni; Bertini G; Wolman G; Dufrene F; Blaine J; Furnival J; Gysin B; Houedard DS; Beguier S., 1967

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Identifier: CC-20693-21095
Scope and Contents

The original portfolio was discarded owing to water damage sustained in an accident and its frontpiece collaged to this replacement portfolio; no damage occurred to the prints. Seven copies hos commerce were given to each of the contributors. This festival was also printed as a smaller format exhibition catalogue. Copies of the exhibition catalogue with the same title are also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

festival dei popoli / Gruppo '70., 1967

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Identifier: CC-52096-73212
Scope and Contents This booklet was rubberstamped near the title page and back cover with Lamberto Pignotti's name and address - presumably his copy. Also, several addresses in this booklet are struck through with black ink but still readable. The booklet was printed in conjunction with the "Prima Rassegna Internazionale del Cinema Sperimentale" held in Florence Italy in February 1967. Several pages deal with the history of gruppo '70, viz., Gruppo '70 began officially in Florence in May 1963, with an international meeting about the subject "Art and Message." The group's name refers to the near future of the year 1970; it was composed of poets, painters and composers, who, aware of the phenomena of contemporary mass communications, tried to make art of the moment by placing their works in a technologic mass-society. Many theoretical problems of theirs were concerned with this aspect of the problem, and actually another international meeting, promoted by Gruppo '70 dealt with the theme "Art and...
Dates: 1967

Festival Internacional de Poesia Viva, First (Second Presentation) / Fernando Aguiar, curator ; Vigo EA ; Higgins D ; Kempton K ; Blaine J ; Heidsieck B ; Papp T ; Bentivoglio M ; Nannucci M ; Xerra W ; Ori L ; Lora-Totino A ; Maggi R ; Adler J ; Claire P ; Aguiar F ; Aragao A ; Hatherly A ; Pimenta A ; Olbrich JO ; Groh K., 1988

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Identifier: CC-13034-13326
Scope and Contents

Second presentation of the First International Festival of Live Poetry (first exhibition catalogue is also held by the Sackner Archive). This exhibition included selected originals and photographs from the first exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Festival Internacional de Poesia Viva, First (Second Presentation) / Fernando Aguiar, curator ; Vigo EA ; Higgins D ; Kempton K ; Blaine J ; Heidsieck B ; Papp T ; Bentivoglio M ; Nannucci M ; Xerra W ; Ori L ; Lora-Totino A ; Maggi R ; Adler J ; Claire P ; Aguiar F ; Aragao A ; Hatherly A ; Pimenta A ; Olbrich JO ; Groh K., 1988

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Identifier: CC-13035-13327
Scope and Contents

Second presentation of the First International Festival Of Live Poetry (first presentation also held by Sackner Archive) held one year after the initial exhibition. This exhibition included selected originals and photographs of the first exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

FFK / Andryczuk, Hartmut., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27089-27563
Scope and Contents

Andryczuk made this drawing with ink on patterned wallpaper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996