Conceptual text

Ganglia 5 Cent Mimeo Series: an interrupted poem/ in memorium da levy/. No.24 / Jiri Valoch., 1969

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Identifier: CC-36908-38741

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The text conists of a single overstricken word, "now," printed on the first six pages at different locations on the page. On the final page, the word, "now," is not overstricken. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Periodicals(unprocessed)

Gemma Three: White Truth Black, 1979

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Identifier: CC-28096-29255

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The text of the cards is printed in binary code. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / SMALL BOOKS

Genuine Brand Blank Verse / Nichol, bp., 1984

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Identifier: CC-50363-71431

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Consists of a blank sheet of paper with a header and a footer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

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(unprocessed)

Giuditta e Oloferne / Mennitti-Paraito, Emanuele., 1985

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Identifier: CC-05874-5984

Dates: 1985

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(unprocessed)

Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s / Luis Camnitzer, curator ; Jane Farver, curator ; Rachel Weiss, curator ; Boshoff W ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Andre C ; Antin E ; Art & Language ; Beuys J ; Boetti A ; Broodthaers M ; Cage J ; Celant G ; Darboven H ; Debord G ; Deisler G ; Duchamp M ; Ferrari L ; Flynt H ; General Idea ; Gerchman R ; Gins M ; Goeritz M ; Holzer J ; Johns J ; Kabakov I ; Katz L ; Kocman JH ; Komar & Melamid ; Kosuth J ; Kruger B ; Latham J ; Lissitzky E ; Malevich K ; Mallarme S ; Manzoni P ; McLuhan M ; Ono Y ; Perneczky G ; Opalka R ; Rauschenberg R ; Rehfeldt R ; Wolf-Rehfeldt R ; Rodchenko A ; Siegelaub S ; Stepanova V ; Todorovic M ; Tot E ; Valoch J ; Warhol A ; Wolman G ; Young L ; Claus CF ; Arakawa ; Isou I ; Bann S ; Camintzer L ; Tupitsyn M ; Valoch J ; Oiticica H ; Weiner L ; Piper A ; Rosler M ; Snow M ; Lippard L ; Parr M ; Kelly M ; Baldessari J ; Siegelaub S ; Haack H ; Filko S ; Trasov V ; Knizak M ; Merz M ; Xu B ; LeWitt S ; Koraichi R ; Filko S ; Frampton H ; Parr M ; Cha T., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32761-34353

Scope and Contents In an introductory essay, Stephen Bann writes that "artists like Willem Boshoff and Frederic Bruly Bouabre clearly demonstrate the fertility of language-based investigations on African soil: Boshoff prepared for his work with dictionaries by lengthy exercises in concrete poetry." Okwui Enwezor contributes an essay "Where, What, Who, When: A Few Notes on "African" Conceptualism." Bann adds that "Willem Boshoff's conceptual practice is an elaborate effort dedicated to the study of ignorance, that is, pushing to the point of dissolution the idea that the world is knowable. Imprisoned by South African authorities for his refusal to serve in the military (the micrographic work, Kleinpen I, was produced in prison as a way to maintain mental equilibrium)... Boshoff finds in obscure and obsolete words a way to construct a map that denies sight but empowers knowledge...His study of linguistics and Wittgensteinian philosophy led him to explore other ways of rendering words into pulsating...

Dates: 1999

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(unprocessed)

Gold & Silver Do Not Spoil / Peters, Robert., 1988

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Identifier: CC-03774-3846

Dates: 1988

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

Great Bear Pamphlet, A: Manifestos. No.8 / Dick Higgins, Emmett Williams, editors ; Ay-O ; Corner P ; Fahlstrom O ; Filliou R ; Giorno J ; Hansen A ; Higgins D ; Kaprow A ; Knowles A ; Paik NJ ; Rothenberg J ; Vostell W ; Watts R ; Williams E., 1966

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Identifier: CC-10203-10404

Dates: 1966

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

Ha!art. No.14 / Fajfer Z ; Joyce J ; Bukowski C ; Szopa L., 2003

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Identifier: CC-43129-45184

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Zajfer contibutes a poem is entitled "Seven Letters." Its Engish translation that was sent to the Sackners by Katarzyna Bazarnik is placed within this issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

Have You Been Duchamp'd? Parts 1,2, and 3 / Sutherland, W. Mark., 1989

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Identifier: CC-02889-2933

Dates: 1989

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(unprocessed)

Having Said That / Saunders, Robert., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51735-72835

Dates: 2010

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

(HE WROTE POEMS AS IF HE WERE TRYING TO CLEAR CUT THE WORLD OF POEMLESSNESS) / Depew, Wally., 1984

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Identifier: CC-53035-74179

Dates: 1984

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(unprocessed)

Head Citations / Goldsmith, Kenneth., 2003

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Identifier: CC-43201-45258

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Goldsmith provides a numbered list of a line from a popular song but altered with a malapropism, one nation under guard, invisible and play that funky music eyeball, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

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

Here Today, Gone / Helmes, Scott., 2001

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Identifier: CC-38190-40086

Dates: 2001

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(unprocessed)

Homage A Pavlov / Bory, Jean-Francois; Tinguely J; Arman; Cesar; Christo; Duchamp M; Ben; Boltanski C; Segal G; Spoerri D; Malevich K., 1972

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Identifier: CC-21273-21683

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Each line of J. Bory's poem refers to an artist by name and makes reference to a major attribute or aspect of his art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

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(unprocessed)

Homage to Mallarme / Mayer, Peter., 1987

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Identifier: CC-06596-6715

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Thus poem is subtitled, "Dictionary poem in SN." On the left side of the card, Mayer presents an English translation from a text by Mallarme, "Les Mots Anglais (1877) that deals with creation of words. For example, Mallarme states that 'sneer' and 'snake' lead a reader of English to regard the diagraph 'SN' as being sinister. He then uses 'SN' to create a layout of words with such a beginning through incorporation of the vowels, e.g., snag, snail, sneak, sneeze, snide, sniper, snob, snot, snub, snuff. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

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(unprocessed)