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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6469 Collections and/or Records:

You You / Saroyan, Aram., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-58787-65153
Scope and Contents

his image was printed by Brice Marden. Saroyan received a $5,000 grant from NEA to produce this print and FOUR other minimalist, concrete poems. This grant prompted William Proxmire, senator from Wisconsin, to award his Golden Fleece Award to the National Endowment for the Arts as one of the most outrageous examples of slap-your-forehead misappropriations. In his book "an/thology of pwoermds" Geof Huth writes the following: "I began to write pwoermds after becoming entranced by Saroyan's eyeye. The simple beauty of that poem haunted me, even though (and maybe because) the poem began as a typographical error of Saroyan's and it took a friend of his to point out to him its signficance (Solt, Concrete Poetry, 57)." This print was redone in 1989 as a silkscreen orint in 1989 in an edition of 150 with a priceof $1,000 on the internet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Your Poetry Hits Us Like a Ton of Concrete / Wisenberg, Sandi; Riveron E., 1983

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Identifier: CC-00271-279
Scope and Contents

This article was the published results of the "First and Last living Today Concrete and Visual Poetry Contest." It followed an article in the Miami Herald about the Sackner collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Ypudu, Anagrammiste: Jaunes Violets / Dupuy, Jean., 1987

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Identifier: CC-15616-15944
Scope and Contents

By following Dupuy's numbering system, the painting entitled Jaune Violet (painted in yellow and violet) changes to J'envoie saluts (I Send greetings). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Yud: Ur-Buchstabe; The Unbreakable Yud / Peter Daniel., 1993 - 1994

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Identifier: CC-27720-28825
Scope and Contents

The Hebrew letter "Yud" (Y) which means hand, has a numerical value of 10 (equivalent to the ten digits). However, the work is engraved with the number "925" and "LAB-ART." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993 - 1994

Yud: Ur-Buchstabe; The Unbreakable Yud / Peter Daniel., 1993 - 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-27720-28825
Scope and Contents

The Hebrew letter "Yud" (Y) which means hand, has a numerical value of 10 (equivalent to the ten digits). However, the work is engraved with the number "925" and "LAB-ART." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993 - 1994

YYEL Yellow / Edmonds, Tom., 1965

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Identifier: CC-14201-14507
Scope and Contents

The artist described the original work, a 30" x 30" acrylic on duck, as a sound poem painting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

YYK 1 / jw curry., 1987

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Identifier: CC-19862-20250
Scope and Contents

The cover of this empty matchbook is rubberstamped with "E's." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

YYK 1 / jw curry., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-19862-20250
Scope and Contents

The cover of this empty matchbook is rubberstamped with "E's." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

YYK 2 / jw curry., 1987

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Identifier: CC-19221-19604
Scope and Contents

The cover of this empty matchbook is rubberstamped with "E's." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

YYK 2 / jw curry., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-19221-19604
Scope and Contents

The cover of this empty matchbook is rubberstamped with "E's." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Zanurennia v samotnist' (Immersion in solitude) / Miroshnychenko, Mykola., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-31740-33252
Scope and Contents

The poem is dated 11.12.1976. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Zapp: Censored, 2011

 Item — Box 136: [Barcode: 31858072457843]
Identifier: CC-52055-73157
Scope and Contents

The smaller box contains postcards that Sloy and Nic mailed to the Sackners after the box was sent. The book is an exhibition catalogue from the Oregon Artists Series in which both artists were included. It is slipped into the larger box. All the cards deal with censorship. The box came from tony colomona who was the drummer for the band, "plug," that sloy managed in the 1990s. The box was from deen castronovo's Zappo's shoe box, with his name on the inside of the censored box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011