Concrete poetry

Scope and Contents The word "pressures" is repeatitively written in the image. The Passdoor (Sebastopol CA) website Edith Kallman (1926-2014) was unique in her approach, using the repetition of words in a calligraphic style to create intricate patterns. Her spirals and grids offer us personal and social messages that vanish into graphic images. "Such words and phrases as: Obsessive, Pressures, And On and On, serve as titles...the words stimulate viewer participation and experience." Edith was influenced by the abstract expressionist painters of the 50"s and 60's, and contemporary artists of her time: Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Adolph Gottlieb, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still. You can see their influence in her use of color fields and gestural brush strokes. In the early 70"s she developed her own style, which challenged the aesthetic establishment of her times. She was highly influenced by the Graffiti Art movement...

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

Writing Series: Private Musings / Kallman, Edith., 1989

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Identifier: CC-37187-39031

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This drawing is a 4 x 2 grid that provides a "sampler" of Kallman's calligraphic and visual styles. The single phrase of the title is used exclusively in all the panels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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

Writings for the Oulipo / Monk, Ian ; Perec G ; Mathews H ; Adair G., 2006

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Identifier: CC-49412-70457

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Ian Monk has been a translator of Georg Perec's books. Monk contributes a chapter of analysis of Gilbert Adair's translation of Perec's "A Void. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

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

wroclawska poezja konkretna / Michal Bieganowski, curator ; Bocian M ; Jez Z ; Kolasinski G ; Drozdz S ; Koryzna H ; Kosinska M ; Kozlowski B ; Makarewicz Z ; Michnik B ; Przytocki J ; Szutowski W., 1978

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Identifier: CC-00681-697

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Each print consists of a two poems, one printed recto and the other verso on papercard stock. -- 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

WZ / Powell, David., 1991

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Identifier: CC-04345-4426

Dates: 1991

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

X / Gussago, Maria Ferraro., 1975

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Identifier: CC-10066-10265

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

Xadrez de Estrelas, 1976

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Identifier: CC-14876-15189

Dates: 1976

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

Xaipe: Seventy-One Poems / cummings, e.e.., 1950

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Identifier: CC-20623-21025

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This is the second printing of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1950

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

[xeoxox x2] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-55350-9999098

Dates: 1968

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

Xerolage: Assassin. No.37 / Andrew Topel., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44338-46487

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Each page reproduces a single concrete poem. The Sackner Archive also holds the manuscript for this work which has 40 pages of poems. Twenty-six poems were used for this issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

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