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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6506 Collections and/or Records:

Variationen zu Ernst Jandl: Ja Ja / Muller, Richard ; Jandl E., 1993

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Identifier: CC-06517-6636
Scope and Contents

Consits of the repetitions of the word "yes" in 18 languages printed with one language on a page and arranged in the shape of a Brancusi sculpture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Various Relations / Nishiho, Hiroaki., 1986

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Identifier: CC-51086-72167
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Noshino documents the meaning of the ideograms in English on the verso of the drawing. The accompanying image shows the drawing and documentation as a composite. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Vaughan Concrete Vaughan Papers No.13 / Draper, Ronald, editor ; Fraser D ; Edmonds E., 1968

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Identifier: CC-15731-16060
Scope and Contents This is a compendium of typewriter poems composed by students in a summer course at Leicester University in the year of publication.One of the students waas Ernesr Edmonds, later an international expert on Human-Computer Interaction who specialises in creative technologies for creative uses. He was one of the first to predict the value of iterative design and a very early advocate of iterative design methods and Agile software development. He founded the ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference series and was part of the founding team for the ACM Intelligent User Interface conference series.Edmonds studied Mathematics and Philosophy at Leicester University. He has a PhD in logic from Nottingham University, is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He has nearly 300 refereed publications in the fields of human-computer interaction, creativity and art and was a pioneer in the development of practice-based PhD programmes....
Dates: 1968

Ver Ter Ser / De Melo e Castro, E.M.., 1968

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Identifier: CC-15305-15628
Scope and Contents

This book is also designated Separada da Revista Contravento No.2, probably signifying that this book was a supplement to the periodical. It includes a reproduction of the poet's most well known concrete poem, "Pendulo." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Verbotetture: Architetture di Parole Nello Spazio della Pagina, 2001

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Identifier: CC-35918-37682
Scope and Contents

Verbotecture is a neologism meaning a construction of words in the space of the page. This book is an anthology of previously published works of Lora-Totino dating from 1966 to 1998 They "identify with Concrete Poetry, but with the need of an accurate relation among the semiotic-graphical values and the meaning of the poem." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Verbum Parola Mot Word / La Rocca, Ketty., 1966

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Identifier: CC-37425-39278
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This piece, reproduced in yellow letters on a blue background, was the front piece in the catalogue of La Rocca's works at Galleria Carini, 1989. The photograph verso is rubberstamped, "ketti la rocca, via de serrogli 66, firenze" and hand dated '66. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Vergessen Versprechen / Gerz, Jochen., 1968

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Identifier: CC-27455-28503
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The two German words that mean in English 'forget & promises' are printed in right side up and in reverse right side down. Thus, the poem is read, 'forget promises - promises forget.' This typing is designated No.492 in Gerz's Catalogue Raisonne Volume III. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Verisimilitude / spence, pete ; Aisbett, Bev., 1987

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Identifier: CC-35538-37278
Scope and Contents

The one word poems in this book consist of words that have the letter, 'v.' The poems are handwritten and the 'v' is often written in a visual way to bring out the sense of the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Verklarte Nacht / UU, David., 1965

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Identifier: CC-48433-69460
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This poem first appeared in the book, "Gideon Music," when the poet was writing under the name of David W. Harris. It was inspired by the music of Schonberg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Vernetzung / Daniel, Peter., 1992 - 1993

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Identifier: CC-27723-28828
Scope and Contents

Daniel utilized mostly letraset Hebrew letters of various size and typographic syles to create an abstract composition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992 - 1993

Veronicavan / Forrest, Veronica ; McCarthy, Cavan., 1967

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Identifier: CC-11400-11616
Scope and Contents The concrete poems were composed solely by Cavan McCarthy in this catalogue. The 'Poem for Veronica'is one of a series based upon the names of people McCarthy had met. This poem uses the letter groups 'ver' 'on' 'a.' Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947--1975) was a poet and a critical theorist. She grew up in Glasgow, Scotland. She studied at the Universities of Liverpool and Cambridge, and later taught at the Universities of Leicester and Birmingham. Her critical study Poetic Artifice: A Theory of Twentieth-Century Poetry was published by Manchester University Press in 1978. Her poetry collections included Identi-kit (1967), the award-winning Language-Games (1971) and the posthumous On the Periphery (1976). Subsequent gatherings of her work include Collected Poems and Translations (1990) and Selected Poems (1999). A further Collected Poems, minus the translations, was published in 2008 by Shearsman Books in association with Allardyce Book. Forrest-Thomson died tragically in April 1975...
Dates: 1967