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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 340 Collections and/or Records:

Concrete Poet, 1968

 Item — Folder 59: [Barcode: 31858072537933]
Identifier: CC-12467-12694
Scope and Contents

This is a critical essay with illustrations of Finlay's work by Douglas Eadie. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Concrete Poetry: An exhibition in four parts / Alvin Balkind, curator ; Johnson R ; Duchamp M ; Finlay IH ; Mayer HJ ; bissett b ; Mon F ; Varney E ; Williams E ; Nichol bp ; Chopin H ; Roth D ; Houedard DS ; Albert-Birot P ; Niikuni S ; DeVree P ; Furnival J ; Kosuth J ; Sharkey JJ ; Cobbing B ; levy da ; Bann S ; Bremer C ; Burkhardt K ; Copithorne J ; Cremer S ; DeSa A ; Ferro L ; Garnier P ; Gilbert G ; Ginzburg C ; Goeritz M ; Gomringer E ; Grunewald JL ; Gutierrez JdeLuxan ; Hirsal J ; Kaprow A ; Kearns L ; Kitasono K ; Kriwet F ; Lee-Nova G ; Mayer HJ ; Mayne S ; Nake F ; Nauman B ; Oldenburg C ; Novak L ; Ono Y ; Ruhm G ; Scobey P ; Steen V ; Vasarely V ; Viccinelli P ; Wiener O ; Westermann H ; Belloli C., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-19839-20227
Scope and Contents

The exhibition consisted of four sections: 1) Ray Johnson collages; 2) Michael Morris concrete/constructivist drawings; 3) international concrete poems and 4) film and tapes of sound poetry. Michael Rhodes traces the historic roots of concrete poetry from 1897 to 1964. Edwin Varney contributes an illustrated, critical essay defining concrete poetry that is expressed in concrete poetic terms. Ian Hamilton Finlay and Stephen Scobie collaborate with an essay on definitions of concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Concrete Poetry as a Test Case for a Nominalistic Semiotics of Verbal Art / Vos, Eric ; Ulrichs T ; Finlay IH ; Bann S ; Gomringer E ; DeCampos A ; Williams E ; Higgins D ; Kolar J ; Ruhm G ; Bremer C ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Claus CF ; Steiner W., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-00792-811
Scope and Contents

This is Vos' doctoral thesis. He mentions that the Sackner and Sohm Archives are excellent sources for reseach on the international concrete poetry movement. He critically reviews definitions of concrete and visual poetry proposed in the past. He relies heavily on the material written by Siegfried J. Schmidt and Nelson Goodman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Concrete Poetry / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-11715-11933
Scope and Contents

Brief notes of explanation are provided for several of the poems in this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Concrete Poetry / Lucie-Smith, Edward; Apollinaire G; Schwitters K; Garnier P; Finlay IH; Morgan E; Rimbaud A., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-35946-37710
Scope and Contents

This a critical text dealing with issues after the exhibition, "Between Poetry and Painting" at the ICA in London 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Concrete Poetry, Works on Paper from the Collection of Stanislaw Drozdz / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Rypson P., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34988-36707
Scope and Contents

This catalogue depicts a wide range of Finlay's poems on cards and prints along with several critical analytic essays. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Concrete Words and Earthy Images / Ingleby, Richard; Finlay IH; Finlay S., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33779-35444
Scope and Contents

This is a review of a photographic exhibition of Ian Hamilton Finlay's garden in Little Sparta at the Portrait Gallery. The reviewer describes the garden as arguably one of the great art works of art ever made on Scottish soil. "Certainly, it's the greatest ever made of Scottish soil - the realisation of one man's vision of a classical garden in the midst of an untamed land." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Country Life. No.29/July / Finlay IH., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-28389-29596
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts a stone sculpture in the garden of Ian Hamilton Finlay. It illustrates a statement of Saint Just, which is carved on nine rocks, "Paths to enlightenment in a garden of ideas." An essay within this magazine by Alan Powers entitled "The Sparta of the North," describes the poet's garden in Lanarkshire as one of the significant creations of our time. He states that Finlay recreated a poetic, classical garden as a place of beauty, and a journey of the mind; complex schemes of iconography provide entertainment and painted a moral. The essay is illustrated with nine colored photographs. The Sackners visited the garden with their daughter Sara in 1980. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Designed Words for Designed Worlds: The International Concrete Poetry Movement, 1955-1971 [A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy] / Hilder, Jamie ; Finlay IH ; DeCampos A ; Nichol bp ; Pignatari D ; DeCampos H ; Chopin H ; Roth D ; Williams E ; McLuhan M ; Fiore Q ; Bory JF ; Burda V ; Knowles A ; Gomringer E ; Hirsal J ; Grogerova B ; Azeredo R ; Grunewald JL ; Gappmayr H ; Garnier I ; Garnier P ; Mon F ; Solt ME ; Fernbach-Flarscheim C ; Andre C ; Mayer HJ ; Graham D ; Acconci V ; Sarenco ; Sharkey JJ ; Ferro L ; Thomkins A ; Scobie S ; Blaine J ; McCaffery S ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Watson S ; Fahlstrom O ; Dohl R ; Arp H ; VanDoesburg T ; Bill M ; Weaver M ; Kostelanetz R ; Phillips T ; Weiner L ; Ruscha E ; Cage J ; MacLow J ; Isou I ; Houedard DS ; Furnival J ; Bann S ; Bowler B ; Klonsky M ; Cook G ; Scobie S ; Chopin H ; DeVree P ; Grunewald JL ; Goldsmith K ; Kotz L ; Flynt H ; Art & Language ; LeWitt S ; Kosuth J ; Smithson R ; Graham D ; Siegelaub S ; Rosler M ; Cordeiro W ; Drucker J ; Kitasono K., 2010

 Item
Identifier: CC-52892-74030
Scope and Contents In this thesis, Hilder provides new concepts and arguments about the genesis of concrete poetry backed up by a serious interpretation and collation of published material. He relies heavily on critical texts in three full length books written in English, Liselotte Gumpel's "Concrete Poetry" from East and West Germany (1976), David Seaman's Concrete Poetry in France (1981) and Caroline Bayard's The New Poetics in Canada and Quebec. All are held by the Sackner Archive.Hilder "argues that the critical gaps in concrete poetry criticism, both contemporaneous and subsequent to the concrete poetry movement, have fallen into (1) the national fallacy: the attempt to read an international movement within a national framework; (2) the ancient fallacy: the attempt to link concrete poetry with visual poetry and word imagery dating back to ancient cultures; (3) the theoretical fallacy: the attempt retrospectively to read onto concrete poetry the post-structuralist theories of language that...
Dates: 2010

Dim Wim in His Crazy Windmill / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-12141-12365
Scope and Contents

The poem is presented in the shape of a windmill. Wim refers to Wim Meulenlamp, the co-author of the book "Follies a National Trust" which was antagonistically critical of Finlay's Temple Garden. The poem rhymes Dim and Wim. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

dsh for ihf: po po poem (220863) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Finlay IH., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-56078-9999525
Scope and Contents

This poem with consists of repititions of "po po po. Its significance is unclear. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Earthship / Ian Hamilton Finlay; Alistair Cant., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-12477-12704
Scope and Contents

Nineteen cards printed with text at their bottom edge were bent into a curved shape and stapled together. This poem object can be positioned in different configurations to create the image of a ship that in Finlay's vision might be adapted for travel on land. The text includes such words as "fin, bow, number, sail, etc." as locations for the various aids to make this "Earthship." The cardboard box has a few waterstains but the poem object is undamaged. According to Paul Robertson (catalogue: he patted), only 25 of these poem objects might have been actually made with the printed box. 3 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Earthship / Ian Hamilton Finlay; Alistair Cant., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-12477-12704
Scope and Contents

Nineteen cards printed with text at their bottom edge were bent into a curved shape and stapled together. This poem object can be positioned in different configurations to create the image of a ship that in Finlay's vision might be adapted for travel on land. The text includes such words as "fin, bow, number, sail, etc." as locations for the various aids to make this "Earthship." The cardboard box has a few waterstains but the poem object is undamaged. According to Paul Robertson (catalogue: he patted), only 25 of these poem objects might have been actually made with the printed box. 3 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Echoes Series: D.H. Lawrences Autumn Rain as G.Apollinaire's Il Pleut / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Apollinaire G., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-12964-13256
Scope and Contents

Finlay laid out D.H. Lawrence's poem, "Autumn Rain" in the style of Apollinaire's Il Pleut. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995