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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6515 Collections and/or Records:

Vibration Concrete Poem (D) / Malina, Jaroslav., 1970

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Identifier: CC-50402-71470
Scope and Contents From the Internet: Recognized as one of the most influential theater designers in the world, Jaroslav Malina is a pioneer of "action design," using non-traditional materials and techniques to transform the stage. In an exhibition in 2009, more than 65 works of art including his lyrical, layered paintings along with set-design models and posters from the mid-1960s to the present were present. Born in Prague in 1937, Malina studied at Charles University and the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He has served as a faculty member at universities in the United States, Japan, Finland and Great Britain, and as the general commissioner of the Prague Quadrennial (International Theatre Design and Architecture Exposition). In recent years his designs for operas have been staged in Germany and Italy. His work is represented in the collections of Prague's National Gallery, National Museum, Museum of Decorative Arts, Museum of Czech Music and the Theatre Institute. In the United States, his...
Dates: 1970

Vidavidavi / De Campos, Augusto., 1967

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Identifier: CC-15757-16088
Scope and Contents

The translation of the poem from the Portuguese: vida - life / da - of / ve - i saw /vivi - i lived / vivida - lived.alive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Videogram of Unity / Gibbs, Michael., 1971

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Identifier: CC-50558-71630
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive also holds the original drawing of this print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Videogram of Unity / Gibbs, Michael., 1972

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Identifier: CC-50983-72061
Scope and Contents

The top four letter blocks read the top half of BODY and the bottom half of MIND . The middle four letter blocks are BODY and MIND over each other. the botton four letter blocks read half of MIND on the top and BODY on the bottom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Vieux Voeux / Blaine, Julien., 2001

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Identifier: CC-35707-37458
Scope and Contents

The poems consist of word play on "arriver and aller," meaning to come and to go. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

violette / Garnier, Pierre., 1970

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Identifier: CC-50391-71459
Scope and Contents

This poem was printed in Garnier's Prototypes (1965) and also reproduced in black and white in Garier's "Oeuvres poetiques 1 (1950-1968), page 215. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Visao Vision E. M. de Melo e Castro 1961-1972, 1975

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Identifier: CC-38656-40566
Scope and Contents

This book presents a sampling of the different approaches to concrete poetry and visual art employed by De Melo e Castro. There are several rubberstamped poems reproduced in this book including one in color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Visao Vision E. M. de Melo e Castro 1961-1972 / De Melo e Castro, E.M. ; Xisto P., 1972

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Identifier: CC-15145-15466
Scope and Contents

Larry Wallrich, to whom this book was inscribed, was a British/Canadian bookdealer from whom the Sackners purchased a substantial amount of concrete/visual poetic works in 1979-1980. This book presents a sampling of the different approaches to concrete poetry and visual art employed by De Melo e Castro. There are several rubberstamped poems reproduced in this book including one in color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Visible Visions: The Selected Poems of Douglas Barbour / Barbour, Douglas ; Nichol bp ; Kroetsch R., 1984

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Identifier: CC-22197-22619
Scope and Contents

Introduction and editing by Smaro Kamboureli and Robert Kroetsch. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Visitation 2nd Edition, 2007

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Identifier: CC-47287-50030
Scope and Contents

The pages consist of variations on small o's forming the letter 'H.' This book was originally published in 26 lettered copies for the "On the H orizon" celebration in memory of bp Nichol held at Emily Carr College, Vancouver, September 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Vispo Auf Deutsch: An Anthology of Verbo-Visual Art in German / Hill, Crag, editor ; Grumman, Bob, editor ; Jaschke G ; Schwarz C ; Scherr D ; Adrian M ; Warnke U ; Weber FJ ; Rautenberg A ; Holzbauer S ; Franzobel ; Widhalm F ; Zauner H ; Kilic I ; Huber C ; Herbst W ; Holzinger W ; Daniel P ; Kock P ; Laiber M ; Stummer H ; Sackner MA., 1995

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Identifier: CC-27760-28883
Scope and Contents

These poems from Austrian and German poets are generally concrete in style. In the foreword, Grumman acknowledges the financial support of the Sackners. Poems with interesting ideas include Schwarz's cow poem in which the letters are arranged to form the shape of a cow, Daniel's Hebrew letter poems and Warnke's concrete poem, mistakediscussion, in which this word is printed in 17 horizontal rows with one incorrect letter that is close to the correct spelling cancelled across a diagonal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Vispo Auf Deutsch: An Anthology of Verbo-Visual Art in German / Hill, Crag, editor ; Grumman, Bob, editor ; Jaschke G ; Schwarz C ; Scherr D ; Adrian M ; Warnke U ; Weber FJ ; Rautenberg A ; Holzbauer S ; Franzobel ; Widhalm F ; Zauner H ; Kilic I ; Huber C ; Herbst W ; Holzinger W ; Daniel P ; Kock P ; Laiber M ; Stummer H ; Sackner MA., 1995

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Identifier: CC-09876-10072
Scope and Contents

These poems from Austrian and German poets are generally stylistically concrete. In the foreword, Grumman acknowledges the financial support of the Sackners. Poems with interesting ideas include Schwarz's cow poem in which the letters are arranged to form the shape of a cow, Daniel's Hebrew letter poems and Warnke's concrete poem, mistake discussion, in which this word is printed in 17 horizontal rows with one incorrect letter that is close to the correct spelling cancelled across a diagonal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995