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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6395 Collections and/or Records:

No.215 / Ursus Rare Books ; Leger F ; Cendrars B ; Goncharova N ; Grosz G ; Heartfeld J ; Lissitzky E ; Ray M ; Schwitters K ; Ernst M ; Gill E ; Marinetti FT ; Benoit PA ; Warhol A ; Lavater W ; King R ; Ting W ; Ruscha E ; Baltazar J ; Kaldewey G ; Beckett S ; Sharoff S ; Steinberg S ; Burroughs WS ; Ginsberg A ; Mutel D., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-33745-35408
Scope and Contents

The items that are listed in the catalogue and held by the Sackner Archive include the following: Wendigen with cover by Lissitzky, La Fin du Monde by Leger, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde, and, Oiseaux and The Metamorphosis by Didier Mutel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

No.216: Literature / Asphodel Book Shop ; Lowell J ; levy da ; rjs ; Cook G ; Taylor K ; Kryss TL ; Blazek D ; Bukowski C ; Corita M ; Creeley R ; Griffiths B ; Snyder G ; Sukenick R., 2003

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Identifier: CC-40207-42177
Scope and Contents

The catalogue listed several paintings on paper by levy but before the Sackners could purchase them, they had been sold. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

No.279 Art & Literature (after 1945) Periodicals selected from our inventory / Benjamins, John Antiquarian Booksellers., 2008

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Identifier: CC-48662-69694
Scope and Contents

This catalogue provides a listing of several small press and avant garde magazines that are held by the Sackner Archive - a good reference source. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

No.1426: Million Volt Light-Sound Rave / Maggs Brothers ; Cobbing B., 2009

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Identifier: CC-49327-70369
Scope and Contents The annotation to the originals of nine maquettes of posters by Bob Cobbing offered for sale reads as follows. The origins and progress of London's theatrical, film andpoetic avant gardes and a significant tranche of the counterculture are traceable through these unique events posters (and one pure artwork) produced by a small and obscuregroup that emerged from the unlikely setting of suburban Hendon and Finchley. Bob Cobbing was the group's guiding spirit and founder, Britain's "major exponent of concrete, visual and sound poetry" (Guardian Obituary). He almost singlehandedly started, or at least inspired, the small DIY press revolution in Britain, founding the influential Writers' Forum, the long running "And' 'zine (copies of which are available above), and revitalising the experimental poetry scene in London in the process. Cobbing grew up in Enfield in a very strict family of fundamentalist Plymouth Brethren of hardworking signwriters (Guardian Obituary). He inherited...
Dates: 2009

Noble Truths, Beautiful Lies, & Landscape Architecture, 1993

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Identifier: CC-28910-30236
Scope and Contents

This book is a thesis dissertation for the degree of Master of Landscape Architecture, Cornell University. Its content deals almost exclusively with Ian Hamilton Finlay's spurned 1988 commission for a revolutionary garden at the former site of the Hotel des Menus Plaisirs, Versailles. Keeney describes the project and the political fall-out when the commision was withdrawn. This book is filed with Finlay material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Nodiden / Nucha, Nahl., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-38344-40244
Scope and Contents

A concrete poem is printed in varied patterns and with capital letters mostly using repetition of word 'Nodiden.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Noel Berlin Verona Conz, 2009

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Identifier: CC-49949-71008
Scope and Contents

Ann Noel, the wife of Emmett Williams dedicated this book "In memory of Emmett Williams with whom I shared the adventures described in this visual diary from a part of our life together." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009