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Soupis Graficke Tvorby Z Let 1961 - 1993 / Ovcacek, Eduard., 1993

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Identifier: CC-27694-28783

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Scope and Contents

Ovcacek was one of the founding members of the Czech movements of concrete poetry and Lettrisme in the 1960's, and was an initiator of "Lettristic Photography." His work was inspired by letters, pictogrammes, symbols of zoomorphy and anthropomorphy, ideograms and the human figure. He used letter symbols as a medium of artistic and semantic meaning. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1993

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 soft cover book (69 pages)) : illustrations (mostly color) ; 28 x 21.1 x .6 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

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Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Sevcik, 1997.

General

Published: Ostrava, Czechoslovakia : Galerie Vytvarneho Umeni. Nationality of creator: Czechoslovakian. General: About 800 total copies. General: Added by: RED; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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