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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6393 Collections and/or Records:

[I was a trophy wife], 1992

 Item — Folder 30: [Barcode: 31858072459898]
Identifier: CC-15717-16046
Scope and Contents

The piece has writing on it in two places, reading, "I was a trophy wife" and "After us the savage god."

Dates: 1992

Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Visual Primer, 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-10947-11159
Scope and Contents

Perhaps the best treatment accorded to the life and work of a concrete poet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Ian Hamilton Finlay and the Wild Hawthorn Press 1958-1991 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Cockburn K., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-11836-12057
Scope and Contents

Includes comments by Finlay on his poem, "Acrobats." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Ian Hamilton Finlay / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Bann S., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-11724-11942
Scope and Contents

The introductory essay by Stephen Bann deals with Finlay's belief in the decline of innovation in concrete poetry in the seventies and his own shift toward classicism. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

ian hamilton finlay - from the book of onomasticons 2.1 (011268) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Finlay IH., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56285-9999723
Scope and Contents

The title of this piece "book of onomasticens" (Houedard's imaginary book?) is derived from onomastics that means the study of the origins and forms of proper names or the study of the origins and forms of terms used in specialized fields. The Sackner Archive holds one book dealing with this subject, Michael Temple's The Name of the Poet: Onomastics and Anonymity in the Works of Stephane Mallarme." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

ian hamilton finlay - from the book of onomasticons 2.2 (011268) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Finlay IH., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56643-10000042
Scope and Contents

The title of this piece "book of onomasticens" (Houedard's imaginary book?) is derived from onomastics that means the study of the origins and forms of proper names or the study of the origins and forms of terms used in specialized fields. The Sackner Archive holds one book dealing with this subject, Michael Temple's The Name of the Poet: Onomastics and Anonymity in the Works of Stephane Mallarme." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

ian hamilton finlay - from the book of onomastikens [2.3] (051268) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Finlay IH., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56633-10000032
Scope and Contents

The title of this piece "book of onomastikens" (Houedard's imaginary book?) is derived from onomastics that means the study of the origins and forms of proper names or the study of the origins and forms of terms used in specialized fields. The Sackner Archive holds one book dealing with this subject, Michael Temple's The Name of the Poet: Onomastics and Anonymity in the Works of Stephane Mallarme." This may have been part of a letter to Ian Hamilton Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

ian hamilton finlay - from the book of onomastikens (011268) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Finlay IH., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-55104-59774
Scope and Contents

The title of this piece "book of onomastikens" (Houedard's imaginary book?) is derived from onomastics that means the study of the origins and forms of proper names or the study of the origins and forms of terms used in specialized fields. The Sackner Archive holds one book dealing with this subject, Michael Temple's The Name of the Poet: Onomastics and Anonymity in the Works of Stephane Mallarme." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

ian hamilton finlay - from the book of onomastikons 2.4 (051268) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Finlay IH; Albers J., 1968

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Identifier: CC-56634-10000033
Scope and Contents

The title of this piece "book of onomastikens" (Houedard's imaginary book?) is derived from onomastics that means the study of the origins and forms of proper names or the study of the origins and forms of terms used in specialized fields. The Sackner Archive holds one book dealing with this subject, Michael Temple's The Name of the Poet: Onomastics and Anonymity in the Works of Stephane Mallarme." Houedard has drawn three designs for the mongram IHF in the lower left corner. This page appears to be the second page ot a typewrite rpoem with the saame title and identified by RKS & MAS as 2.3. It is signed luv silvester formed by an assay of dense, typed dashes. This may have been part of a letter to Ian Hamilton Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

ian hamilton finlay - from the book of onomastikons (011268) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Finlay IH., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56056-9999506
Scope and Contents

Three typed blocks of letters are typed to using the letters a-h-m-l-t-n-f-n-l-y and i-a-a-i-e-i-a.The verso has the phrase work sleeves written in graphite and nicholas & Fiona [Logsdale] written in green ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Ian Hamilton Finlay in Context - The Barbarian Press Collection / Exhibition of Concrete and Visual Poetry / English, William ; Ableman P ; Verey C ; Butler B ; Clark TA ; Sharkey JJ ; Bann S ; Bielski A ; bissett b ; Bory JF ; Breakwell I ; Bremer C ; Buck P ; Cheek C ; Chopin H ; Claus CF ; Cobbing B ; Cockrell S ; Cook S ; Cox K ; Cutts S ; DeCampos A ; Duncalf S ; Fencott PC ; Finch P ; Finlay IH ; Furnival J ; Gappmayr H ; Gardner I ; Gibbs M ; Gomringer E ; Gosewitz L ; Grice F ; Griffiths B ; Guglielmino G ; Hapkemeyer A ; Haury M ; Higgins D ; Hodgkiss P ; Hollo A ; Houedard DS ; Jandl E ; Jenkins P ; Johnson N ; Knowles C ; Kostelanetz R ; Lax R ; Lloyd A ; Long R ; Lucie-Smith E ; Maciunas G ; Matti L ; Mayer P ; McCarthy U ; McCarthy C ; Meyer T ; Mills N ; Mills S ; Musgrove K ; Mycroft D ; Nesso G ; Nettelbeck FA ; Nuttall J ; O'Huigin S ; Oliver D ; Parfitt W ; Pinney M ; Quarrell R ; Radin B ; Reese M ; Riddell A ; Roth D ; Ruhm G ; Sackett C ; Sarenco ; Sheppard R ; Torok K ; Turnbull G ; Villers B ; Ward JP ; Wickham-Smith S ; Williams E ; Williams J ; Wilson I ; Winkfield T., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-47668-68686
Scope and Contents

This catalogue has served as a reference to the Sackner Archive for pricing a large number of Finlay's and Cobbing's concrete and visual poetic works as well as several other poets' works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Ian Hamilton Finlay: Prints, 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-52159-73278
Scope and Contents

Prudence Carlson wrote the essay for this catalogue. The Sackners attended this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

[ian hamilton finlay; tree deer] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-56076-9999523
Scope and Contents

This poem depicts six constrllations of 'tree/deer.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

ICA Bulletin. No.135/May / Houedard DS ; Roth D ; Chopin H ; Reinhardt A., 1964

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Identifier: CC-41820-43815
Scope and Contents

This issue depicts two typewriter art pieces by Dom Sylvester Houedard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

ICA Bulletin. No.172-173/Aug- / Paik NJ ; McLuhan M ; Schmidt P ; Chiari G ; Furnival J ; Brown E ; Mehrotra AK ; Bory JF ; Friedeberg P ; Ratz M ; Ono Y ; McCarthy C ; Stern A ; Finlay IH., 1967

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Identifier: CC-41854-43849
Scope and Contents

This issue reprints "Woodcuts on Paper" by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra published by Gallery Number Ten. It also reproduces two prints and relates the background of Ian Hamilton Finlay's "13 eavelines," which were sent to John Furnival's daughter Eve as postcards on thirteen consecutive days by students in Furnival's Bath Academy of Art class. These were susequently made into prints and bound as a portfolio in an edition of 50 copies. The Sackner Archive holds this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967