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Archive for The Boy's Alphabet Book / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Paterson, Dave; Nichol bp; Breger U; Harvey M; Tammes D., 1971 - 1976

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Identifier: CC-12798-13084

Scope and Contents In 1971, Finlay sends letters to Michael Harvey, Udo Breger, and bp Nichol (Nichol letter not in Archive) asking assistance in publishing A Boy's Alphabet Book based upon photographs of his toy airplane, glider and ship models to be accompanied by a poem for each letter of the alphabet. He selects Diane Tammes as the photographer for this project and 3 of her b&w photographs are included in this Archive. Nichol replies in June 1973 that Coach House Press may be interested in publishing the book. Nichol replies to Finlay in July 1973 indicating that plans for publishing the book by Coach House Press are still progresing. Finlay replies that he is still looking for a photographer to do the images and brings up the Fulcrum Press legal battle. Nichol acknowledges receipt of the manuscript and photographs (Dave Paterson) in Nov 1974. Finlay replies that he is pleased with its acceptance. Archive contains three manuscripts for the text, designated first shot, second shot and third...

Dates: 1971 - 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

Archive of Correspondence: [Letter from Houedard to Cinicolo](741126): list of letters used for reversal poems / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Cinicolo 3, Donato., 1975

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Identifier: CC-57522-10000808

Scope and Contents

The drawing is appended to the letter of the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

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

Ark, 1996

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Identifier: CC-27658-28741

Scope and Contents

The first section of this long poem was originally released as ARK, The Foundations 1-33, North Point Press, 1980. Johnson died in 1998 and his obituary, printed in the New York Times, is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS / Books moved to alpha

Art and the Alphabet / Kent C ; Delaunay S ; Indiana R ; Isou I ; Kindersley D ; Munari B ; Charlip R., 1978

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Identifier: CC-24847-25300

Scope and Contents

Contains examples of alphabets from languages other than English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Art and the Sea Project / Crozier, Robin; Rainer, Dick., 1981

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Identifier: CC-19228-19611

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: Various Formats

Art / Depew, Wally., 1986

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Identifier: CC-51117-72202

Scope and Contents

Includes list of words in alphabetical order incorporating "art" or "-art." The reading gives a contemporary Rap poetry sound. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

Art / Depew, Wally., 1986

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Identifier: CC-15112-15430

Scope and Contents

Includes list of words in alphabetical order incorporating "art" or "-art." The reading gives a contemporary Rap poetry sound. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

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

Art Renegade / Baroni, Vittore., 1980

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Identifier: CC-21737-22148

Dates: 1980

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

Artistic Alphabets / Nelson, Julius., 1948

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Identifier: CC-58163-10001416

Scope and Contents

These depict five sets of alphabets using slashes. dashes and parentheses marks. The letter 'x' was formed in only one of the five alphabets that used the 'M's' over 'Ws' letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1948

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

Aspects of Art: A Painter's Alphabet / Phillips, Tom., 1997

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Identifier: CC-27759-28882

Scope and Contents Tom Phillips has created a discourse based on seventeenth and eighteenth century masterpieces in the collection at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Desmond Shawe-Taylor writes that Phillips is "the ideal creative commentator, an artist of bewildering range and imagination and a writer of elegance and insight. His text is full of surprises; or as he puts it 'chance and risk are at the heart of the artistic enterprise.' He opens up the experience of art, exploring the overlap between creating and responding. the clarity of the writing masks the complexity of the issues. Tom Phillips's questioning leads in a daunting variety of directions, but this is an essential journey of discovery for those who believe in life beyond the label."The alphabetical structure of the book, where each letter of the alphabet is drawn with poetry from "A Humument," involves the topics of Abstraction, Beauty, Conservation, Detail, Education, Frame, Grammar etc. as related to specific paintings in the Dulwich....

Dates: 1997

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

Aspects of Art: A Painter's Alphabet / Phillips, Tom., 1997

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Identifier: CC-32329-33894

Scope and Contents Tom Phillips has created a discourse based on seventeenth and eighteenth century masterpieces in the collection at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. Desmond Shawe-Taylor writes that Phillips is "the ideal creative commentator, an artist of bewildering range and imagination and a writer of elegance and insight. His text is full of surprises; or as he puts it 'chance and risk are at the heart of the artistic enterprise.' He opens up the experience of art, exploring the overlap between creating and responding. the clarity of the writing masks the complexity of the issues. Tom Phillips's questioning leads in a daunting variety of directions, but this is an essential journey of discovery for those who believe in life beyond the label."The alphabetical structure of the book, where each letter of the alphabet is drawn with poetry from "A Humument," involves the topics of Abstraction, Beauty, Conservation, Detail, Education, Frame, Grammar etc. as related to specific paintings in the Dulwich....

Dates: 1997

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

Aujourd'Hui le Lettrisme et l'Hypergraphie / Tapie M ; Broutin GP ; Poyet F ; Curtay JP ; Satie A ; Hachette M ; Spacagna J ; Brown G ; Altmann R ; Sabatier R ; Pomerand G., 1969

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Identifier: CC-24970-25423

Dates: 1969

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Aureole to Zingaresca / Cummins, Maureen., 1994

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Identifier: CC-20614-21016

Scope and Contents

Consists of a listing of rarely used words with brief definitions in an alphabetical order. The illustrations are keyed to the definitions that have different color types than most of the words in the listing. -- 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: Books

Autumn / Bigus, Richard., 1974

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Identifier: CC-21248-21658

Dates: 1974

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

A...Z [le in belle lettere] / Miglietta, Enzo., 1978

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Identifier: CC-61452-54855

Dates: 1978

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

Bembo's Zoo / de Vicq de Cumptich, Roberto., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34338-36033

Scope and Contents

The illustrations of the animals in this book were created using the roman letters of the Bembo font family. A NY Times Book Review article by Steven Heller is inserted loosely into the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

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