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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

Miami Beach More Than a Million Poems, 1986

 Item — Box 83: [Barcode: 31858072538287]
Identifier: CC-04626-4713
Scope and Contents

This sculpture contains forty words hand printed in ink on the sides of ten wooden square blocks. Each block, that can rotate on a wooden dowel through hand movement, measures 11.4 x 11.4 x 2 cm. The words selected by Phillips for each block are: Modernism, Miami Beach, Moonlight, Memory - Inspires, Indulges, Identities, Ignores - Ambiguous, Amorous, Artistic, Abstract - Madness, Mythology, Miracles, Moments - Idiotically, Inwardly, Ineptly, Intensely - Brainless, Backward, Bohemian, Beautiful - Egoists, Emotions, Erections, Eccentrics - Always, Artfully, Already, Absurdly - Confuse, Clarify, Complete, Celebrate - History, Heartache, Happiness, Hysteria. The first letter of each block vertically spells Miami Beach.Illustrated in "Works and Text 1992 " on page 110. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Preparatory Drawing For Marvin & Ruth Sackner Artchive Of Concrete And Visual Poetry Painting / Phillips, Tom., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-46253-48974
Scope and Contents

This drawing consists of the layout for the text of Phillips' painting for the "Sackner Artchive." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Preparatory Sketches for Marvin & Ruth Sackner Artchive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Painting / Phillips, Tom., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-60180-52473
Scope and Contents

This drawing documents Phillips' process that resulted in the fromation of the signature painting commissioned for the Sackner Archive.It ultimately was designed with 90 small paintings. The sketches of the layout led to Phillips' creation of the word Artchive that becomes a mesostic with the lettters placed vertically down the center of the painting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Sei Lirici della Poesia Visuale Internazionale / Arias-Misson A ; Carrega U ; Claus CF ; Finlay IH ; Phillips T ; Takahashi S., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-39500-41457
Scope and Contents

Exhibition was curated by Gillo Dorfles and Alain Arias-Misson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

some pages of A HUMENT....a humument. No. 8 / Phillips, Tom ; Furnival J., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-60243-10003249
Scope and Contents

In pencil on the front of the folder Phillips has written "We were going to make a portfolio with John Furnival but abandoned the idea...this was the crude start...note the alterntative name at this stage!" Printed on the folder is "some pages of a Human Document A HUMENT....a humument".This print is a proof of Plakat 8. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Twenty Years of British Art from the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Michael Prebble, curator ; Phillips T ; Adler J ; Christie J ; Cobbing B ; Finlay IH ; Furnival J ; Furnival A ; Houedard DS ; King R ; Lewty S ; Langlands B ; Bell N., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-01102-1131
Scope and Contents

Cover depicts "Artchive" painting by Tom Phillips, which is held by Sackner Archive. Introdutory essay by Clive Phillpot. Exhibition curated by Michael Prebble. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Well-Collected / Rice, Robin; Finlay IH; Phillips T; Seille G; Sackner MA; Sackner RK., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-03593-3658
Scope and Contents

This is a review of "Personal Choice: Selections from Four Penn Alumni Collections" at the ICA at the University of Pennsylvania in which selections from the Sackner Archive were included. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993