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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

Poem Machines and Other Book Works / Lijn, Liliane., 1998

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Identifier: CC-30486-31911
Scope and Contents

The brochure is the exhibition catalogue. The article is a reprint from the journal Leonardo by Liliane Lijn entitled "Body and Soul: Interactions between the Material and the Immaterial in Sculpture." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Poem-Painting Buttons Signs Flags 1966-1977 / Kriwet, Ferdinand., 1967

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Identifier: CC-62063-57177
Scope and Contents

According to Barbara Moore, there were two versions of this book, one with gallery information that served as an exhibition catalogue and the other without such information as in this copy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Poem / Print / Kriwet, Ferdinand., 1964

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Identifier: CC-33959-35631
Scope and Contents

This copy differs from the other one in the Archive in that it is dry mounted to white cardboard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

POEM - TAKISTRUCT (or BIRHOPAL TAKISTRUCT (281164) & POEM - THE A & H DE CAMPOS BROS (061264) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Takis; DeCampos A; DeCampos H., 1964

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Identifier: CC-55822-59680
Scope and Contents

Houedard has typed two poems a week apart on the same page. He utilized a complex mathematical procedure to arrive at this performance poetry presentation, much like the workings of Oulipo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

poema hecho para omar rayo / Goeritz, Mathias., 1968

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Identifier: CC-60570-10003464
Scope and Contents

The image on a CD was given to the Sackner Archive by Klaus Peter Dencker. Omar Rayo Reyes (20 January 1928 "“ 7 June 2010) was a renowned Colombian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and plastic artist. He won the 1970 Salón de Artistas Colombianos. Rayo worked with abstract geometry primarily employing black, white, red and yellow. He was part of the Op Art movement. Rayo's work shows that geometric art is as much a part of the past as it is of the future. He used traces of the past to discover new ways to present visual and geometric sketches. One of his most celebrated exhibitions was carried out in the National Room of the Museum of the Palace of fine arts of Mexico, titled "20 years, 100 works: Omar Rayo." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Poema Visual: O En Lase / Deisler, Guillermo., 1977

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Identifier: CC-14593-14905
Scope and Contents

Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispu, California, an exhibition curated by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Poema Vociferado / Stubbing, N.H. (Tony)., 1950

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Identifier: CC-35040-36761
Scope and Contents Newton Haydn Stubbing composed concrete poems according to his widow, Yvonne Hagen Stubbing [internet Tate Gallery] in the late forties and early fifties both in English and Spanish such as the example here but no other examples were found on the internet. He may have been influenced by Mathias Goeritz with whom he knew in the School of Altamira, Spain in 1949-1950. England & Co. internet: Newton Haydn (Tony) Stubbing was born in England (1921-1983) but spent much of his life abroad. Firstly, in the late 1940s and '50s in Spain and France, where he began to develop as an artist; then, in later life, he lived between London and America. His hand-print paintings of the 1950s and '60s were the first to earn him an international reputation "“ Sir Herbert Read chose one as the final image in his influential book A Concise History of Modern Painting, published in 1960. These atmospheric paintings, often on a large scale, were made with Stubbing's hands "saturated like a living...
Dates: 1950

Poemas Inventionists / Adrian, Marc ; Blackout, Moucle., 1958

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Identifier: CC-24466-24918
Scope and Contents

First published as 20 signed copies in Paris in 1958. This edition was published in Hamburg as 50 signed copies in 1972. This copy is designated as unsigned withour a tirage being furnished. Adrian is a sculpture and Blackout a film maker. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958

P.O.E.M.A.S.: Poemas em A. No.33 especial / Fernando Aguiar ; Brossa J., 1997

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Identifier: CC-32665-34251
Scope and Contents

This small booklet of letter poems is dedicated to Joan Brossa. They all contain the letter A in various sizes, typefaces, and fragmentations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997