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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6467 Collections and/or Records:

What I Did This Summer / Number Seventeen., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44090-46208
Scope and Contents

Number Seventeen is a design study in NYC. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

What. No.7/Nov-Dec / Kevin Connolly, Jason Sherman, editors ; Smith J ; Ross S ; Nichol bp ; curry jw ; Drumbolis N., 1986

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Identifier: CC-52196-73317
Scope and Contents jw curry contributes an article dealing with the bibliographic details of Gronk. Nicky Drumbolis writes about jw curry's printing methods in an article summarizing Industrial Sabotage Issues 1-38 and other issues of his handwork as follows. "Making things with type and paper is for some people an irresistible temptation. One guy gets a job, buys an old press, some type, and all the etceteras, goes about making what he can, nice things. The other guy, street poet, bums an Atlas Office Printing Outfit #3 from someone, scrounges up some paper, begins by setting his own lines. This is the same thing -compulsive. In seven years, John Curry, with the sometime help of Peggy Lefler, has produced 376 different things. Most of them have been handset and handstamped using various rubber types. After the initial series of 13 pieces begun in Vancouver in 1978, most of them his own poems, Curry decided to explore the technic of the medium publishing the work of other writers-to date, over 100....
Dates: 1986

What Speaking the Language Tells the Japanese / Kerr, Thomas., 1989

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Identifier: CC-07789-7942
Scope and Contents

Consists of head and shoulders portrait made up of calligraphic texts to illustrate letter to the editor. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

What's So Big About Green?, 1973

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Identifier: CC-20934-21343
Scope and Contents

A concrete poem is printed on the wax paper page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Wheatabixy (from AEthel) / Mancini, Donato., 2009

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Identifier: CC-49535-70583
Scope and Contents

This is a unique print of fluorescent pink ink on Arches cream paper. The rest of the edition consisted of 4 prints on Stonehenge warm white paper, 3 on Stonehenge grey and 3 on Stonehenge cream. The print was commissioned by the Sackners after having read Mancini's book "AEthel." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

When the Osage Orange / Huth, Geof., 1986

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Identifier: CC-09041-9219
Scope and Contents

The duplicate copy is stored in the Geof Huth box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

When Word's Meaning Is in Their Look / Cotter, Holland; Drucker J; Hirschman J; Wolf A; McVarish E; Straus A; Bernstein C; Bee S; Scher P; Seagram B; Freeman B; Goswell J; Licko Z; Fella E; Ligorano N; Reese M; Burke B; Lehrer W; Meador C; Laxson R; Kellner T; Weiner L., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31028-32489
Scope and Contents

Cotter reviews "The Next Word" at the Neuberger Museum of Art to which the Sackner Archive lent 25 books and pictures. Several of the works from the Archive are specifically described in the article including a manuscript by Jack Hirschman, a drawing by Anne Wolf, Emily McVarish's pasted-up words locked inside a metal frame, Paula Scher's "Opinionated Map: Central and South America" in which every inch on the Southern Hemisphere that is jammed with critical annotationt. "Elsewhere, the printed text, often taking a cue from advertising, comes to the fore. Blair Seagram's 'U Temp est Us' uses a sleek sans-serif type, offbeat spacing and shifting character sizes to hide phrases within other phrases." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

When You Wear What You Say / Smith, Roberta., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28380-29576
Scope and Contents

Ms. Smith reviews the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum titled "Wordrobe," which "delves into the different ways that language has infiltrated clothing, or what the show's curator, Richard Martin, calls the reconciliation of textile and text." The article depicts two examples, viz., Pauline Trigere's "Trigiere Coat" from 1973 and a 1990 wool jersey dress by Christian Francis Roth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Whisper Piece / Cobbing, Bob., 1969

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Identifier: CC-20837-21245
Scope and Contents

Designated Writers Forum Folder 6. This copy has Cobbing's handwriting across the prints whereas aother copy held by the Sackner Archive does not. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Whisper Piece / Cobbing, Bob., 1969

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Identifier: CC-59736-10002792
Scope and Contents

Designated Writers Forum Folder 6. Two of the prints are stored in a binder containing typewriter poems. This copy does not have Cobbing's handwriting across the prints. Another copy held by the Sackner Archive does. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Whississippi / Cobbing, Bob., 1969

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Identifier: CC-17603-17971
Scope and Contents

Designated writers forum pamphlet number two. "Whississippi" written in London and recorded in Stockholm, is the fourth part in a series of whisper pieces consisting of a vocal interpretation of typewriter-picture poems based of the letters in the words "whisper piece." It was read by two voices (Kersten M. Lundberg & Bob Cobbing) and then manipulated in the recording studio. The maquette for this work is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

White Blossom in a Strong Wind / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 2000

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Identifier: CC-42861-44902
Scope and Contents

The etching or woodcut black and white image on the card cover by Hincks appears to be a scene taken from Finlay's Little Sparta garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

White Box / Breuer, Theo., 1998

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Identifier: CC-32942-34558
Scope and Contents

Also designated Wohnzimmersonderheft 17 1/2. Each page depicts a reproduction of a photocopied collage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

White Noise / Gorman, LeRoy., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32925-34541
Scope and Contents

Theme of each poem relates to "snow." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999