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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6506 Collections and/or Records:

Typo-Strukturen: E / Buchwalder, Ernst., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-40811-42787
Scope and Contents

The letter E is repeated in clusters of four creating a cross-like image in five rows. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Typoaktionen / Mayer, Hansjorg ; Dohl R., 1967

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Identifier: CC-06306-6421
Scope and Contents

A limited edition portfolio consisting of prints of the the subject matter in this book designated "Typoaktionen 2" (1976) is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Typogramme 1 / Gosewitz, Ludwig., 1962

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Identifier: CC-27275-27832
Scope and Contents

Each print depicts a typewriter poem formed by a square grid of punctuation signs, parentheses and carats designed in a complex arrangement. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1962

Typogramme / Hoesselbarth, Kai., 1988

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Identifier: CC-09333-9519
Scope and Contents

The poem depicts a bow and arrow with the bow formed from the word "mehrheit" repeated three times. the arrow is formed from the word "andersdenkende." Mehrheit means majority and andersdenkende dissident in English. The arrow pierces the bow and drips red drops of blood. the verso depicts a fragment of another shaped poem. Hosselbarth or Hoesselbarth is now known as Kai Selbar. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Typogramme / Hoesselbarth, Kai., 1992

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Identifier: CC-27644-28726
Scope and Contents

The concrete poems in this portfolio are printed with contemporary typefaces sans serif. Hosselbarth or Hoesselbarth is now known as Kai Selbar. The Sackner Archive holds two copies of this portfolio. In this one, the portfolio is covered with brown fabric and the cover print has a blue background. In the other copy, the portfolio is covered with black fabric and the cover print has a black background. The images of the prints are identical but there are minor differences in color registration on some of them. The number of artist proof copies is unknown. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Typogramme / Hoesselbarth, Kai., 1992

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Identifier: CC-39061-40999
Scope and Contents

The concrete poems in this portfolio are printed with contemporary typefaces sans serif. Hosselbarth or Hoesselbarth is now known as Kai Selbar. The Sackner Archive holds two copies of this portfolio. In this one, the portfolio is covered with black fabric and the cover print has a black background. In the other copy, the portfolio is covered with brown fabric and the cover print has a blue background. The images of the prints are identical but there are minor differences in color registration on some of them. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Typogramme / Stankowski, Anton ; Heissenbuttel H., 1985

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Identifier: CC-02342-2382
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a concrete poem, generally of one or two words, in bold typeface. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Typograms / Bridgwater, Patrick ; Indiana R ; Mon F ; Williams E ; Apollinaire G ; Mallarme S ; Roth D ; DeCampos A ; Gomringer E ; Furnival J ; Mayer HJ ; Finlay IH ; Graham Ri., 1968

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Identifier: CC-21401-21812
Scope and Contents

The introduction was written by Rigby Graham. This book is stored with Jos C. Brilliantes book, "Sonnets in Concrete volume one." Bridgewater in other publications also spelled his name as Bridgwater. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Typographycs / Keller, Ronald., 1994

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Identifier: CC-08151-8312
Scope and Contents

Consists of handset, metal type, alphabetical texts with ornaments printed on different composition papers utilizing such typefaces as Helvetica, Bembo, Caslon, Centaur, Garamond, Bernhard Gothic Light, Modern Roman, News Gothic, Plantin, Chandelier, Cheltenham, Traftin, Packard, and Puritan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

U Temp est Us, 1991

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Identifier: CC-02421-2461
Scope and Contents

The work consists of two flat panels of green colored plexiglas that enclose a clear panel held together by four plastic housings for disposable hypodermic needles. Seagram placed large, paper-cut, black and white, letters of varied size onto the clear plexiglas panel to form the text. It begins "U Tempest Us Nota Wit Ut Tel A Vision Air Y... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Uber das Ablesen von Tauben [Vol.5] / Bohmler, Claus., 1983

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Identifier: CC-21367-21778
Scope and Contents

A book of text and images dealing with color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Uber die Elefantin 'Mucke!' / Dieckhoff, Artur Hans-George., 1987

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Identifier: CC-15390-15714
Scope and Contents

This is the second edition of the book first published in an edition of 30 copies in 1978. Its theme is the Elephant. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Uber: "Lab-Art ist" / Schmidt, Burghart ; Neville Plaice, translator ; Daniel P ; Derrida J., 1993

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Identifier: CC-27671-28756
Scope and Contents

The book reprints an in depth lecture delivered by Schmidt on the occasion of Peter Daniel's exhibition of Lab-Art. He states that Daniel's subject matter is located between literature and pictorial art. In reviewing Daniel's Ein Sof, a Kabbalistic book, and Lab-Art, Schmidt traces the development of the awareness of language since the nineteenth century, relating the influence of Ferdinand Saussure and his emphasis on phonetics, Walter Benjamin and Jaques Derrida and their theories of language. In relation to Daniel's use of collage, Schmidt quotes the Kabbalah concerning the origin of letters, "He [God] outlined them, dug them out, weighed them, combined and transposed them."The print, Lab-Art, An open manifesto, designed by Daniel, that is held by the Sackner Archive, is reproduced in the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Uberschriften / Nasshan, Reinhold, editor ; Herbst Wo ; Hafner J ; Bernhard O ; Zitzmann P ; Zapf H., 2001

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Identifier: CC-52433-73559
Scope and Contents

This book depicts examples of the work of five Nurnberg letterpress publishing houses based upon the typoraphy of Hermann Zapf. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

(Uh..One & Uh..Two) Random Sightings, 2001

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Identifier: CC-48654-69686
Scope and Contents

Some of the pages inside untitled(1964) were based upon images used for levy's 6 cleveland prints (renegade press, 1964). There were 5 copies produced probably each one different from the other. This edition reprints copy #2. Reprints: Book 14T (1966), The Para-Concrete Manifesto (1966), Untitled (include pages from 6 Cleveland Prints, 1964), and the envelope, mailed originally to Ian Hamilton Finlay, with the holograph address reproduced here and contains The Egyptian Prayer Wheel (1966). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001