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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6506 Collections and/or Records:

[Untitled] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-48481-69510
Scope and Contents

This exhibition was designed by Ian Hamilton Finlay and Pia Simig and took place at Tate St. Ives from March 23 to June 30, 2002. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

[Untitled] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Costley R ; Bann S ; Hincks G., 1977

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Identifier: CC-12526-12753
Scope and Contents

The catalogue was designed by Ron Costley. It includes a long critical introduction by Stephen Bann focusing on Finlay's contributions to concrete poetry and his swing toward neo- classicism in the picture poems carried out by inscriptions on stone plaques in the garden. The catalogue also has a reprinting of Finlay's "A Wartime Garden." The illustrations depict several unique stone, neon, and glass sculptures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

[Untitled] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Mayer HJ ; Kellein T., 1990

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Identifier: CC-11771-11990
Scope and Contents

Exhibition was curated by Thomas Kellein. Layout design was done by Hansjorg Mayer. The cover depicts a picture poem, "Homage to Modern Art." The catalogue is a retrospective of Finlay's ouevre. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

[Untitled] / Gerchman, Rubens., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-09935-10132
Scope and Contents

This was Gerchman's first one-man exhibition in the USA. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

[Untitled] / Gerchman, Rubens ; Oiticica H., 1973

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Identifier: CC-36306-38096
Scope and Contents Internet: "Rubens Gerchman (10 janvier 1942, Rio de Janeiro - 29 janvier 2008, Sao Paulo) est un peintre et sculpteur bresilien influence par l'art concret et neoconcret. Rubens Gerchman (born January 10, 1942, Rio de Janeiro January 29, 2008) was a Brazilian painter and sculptor. He was heavily influenced by concrete and neoconcrete art. Many of Gerchmans works are paintings based on populist themes and his political beliefs, which followed those of neoconcrete artists. His sculptures with letters, stem from concrete poetry. Gerchman studied at the Rio de Janeiro School of Fine Arts. In the 1960s, his work focused on mass culture. He used faces clipped from news photos, but unlike Andy Warhol, who used infamous celebrity, he used images of anonymous individuals. These faces would be reproduced as multiple painted images in a comic-strip style. In the late 1960s, Gerchman devoted his interest to urban isolation and alienation. He produced boxes and containers destined to be opened...
Dates: 1973

[Untitled] / Groh, Klaus., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27782-28912
Scope and Contents

The collage, which is typical of Groh's style, consists of several rhomboidal shaped strips of paper with printed German texts stapled to blue colored paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Untitled Illustrations / Kriwet, Ferdinand., 1976

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Identifier: CC-62076-57195
Scope and Contents

Might be titled Geld wortwörtlich dargestellt, Mappe mit 6 Original-Grafiken: 1. "EXIM", 2. "PLUS", 3. "Weltwaehrung", 4. "Transfer", 5. "Pay" und 6. "Roll Over", Baldreit WEB 2010 priced it at $665. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Untitled / Ives, Norman., 1976

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Identifier: CC-38118-40011
Scope and Contents

The collage consists of fragments of paper with varied typographic fonts. Norman Ives was the printer for Josef Albers in the United States. This collage was purchased prior to the establishment of the Sackner Archive in 1979. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

[Untitled] / Kassak, Lajos., 1971

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Identifier: CC-31843-33361
Scope and Contents

This catalogue reproduces seven of Kassak's "picture portraits" that have the appearance of concrete poems. The silkscreened pages depict reproductions of Kassak's constructivistic artworks, in color and black & white. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971