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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6393 Collections and/or Records:

Arts & Letters / Austin, Tom; Sackner RK; Sackner MA; Lemaitre M; levy da ; Lissitzky E., 1992

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Identifier: CC-26482-26951
Scope and Contents

Austin writes that "by turning their home into a museum, collectors Ruth and Marvin Sackner have made concrete and visual poetry more like household words." The article and interview concisely defines and describes the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

As Is or with / curry, jw., 1985

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Identifier: CC-19701-20088
Scope and Contents

curry drew the word "received" three times in different fragmented forms.The poem was published by Gronk/Psycho Potato. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

As Is or with / curry, jw., 1984

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Identifier: CC-19715-20102
Scope and Contents

The drawings were traced from the second design sketches. The work was later published as grOnk Random Number Series 3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

As Is or with [First Design Sketches] / curry, jw., 1984

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Identifier: CC-19712-20099
Scope and Contents

This a page torn from P. R. Mack & Son rubberstamp catalog modified by felt pen ink additions that served as the original idea for the completed work later published as "As Or Is With," grOnk Random Number Series 3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

As Is or with [Second Design Sketches] / curry, jw., 1984

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Identifier: CC-19713-20100
Scope and Contents

These are the first working drawings placed on a page with curry's abandoned attempt to develop a catalog for Curvd H&Z publications. This work was published as grOnk Random Number Series 3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

As Is or with [Working Drawing] / curry, jw., 1984

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Identifier: CC-19714-20101
Scope and Contents

The drawing was traced from the second design sketches. The work was later published as grOnk Random Number Series 3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Asia Asia / Pie (TT) O/AKA Pi O., 1994

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Identifier: CC-04705-4794
Scope and Contents

In this book, Pie (TT) O selects a Chinese ideogram and alters it so it becomes a recognizable English word or visual image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Asia / Biro, Jozsef ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 2005

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Identifier: CC-48586-69617
Scope and Contents

It is stated that this edition was sponsored by Ruth and Marvin Sackner. Biro recounts a tour through the far east with poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

asphodel: ode for james russell lowell* (091266) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

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Identifier: CC-56031-9999483
Scope and Contents

This is an "ode for james russwll lowell" of the Asphodel Bookshop in Cleveland.The poem reads, 'hallucinogenitalia,' suggesting a mocking of the police action.The text at the bottom of the page reads,"arrested 011266 by narcotics agents under a secret indictment by the county grand jury for possession & distribution of obscene poetry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Astrid Furnival: Ariadne's Thread / Moxham, Bernard, editor ; Furnival J ; Phillips T ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 2014

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Identifier: CC-59813-10002866
Scope and Contents

Box is labeled Bernard Moxham. He is the editor of this volume of Astrid Furnival's knitted works. The contents include Ruth Sackner photographed wearing the sweaters " Un Coup de Des" and "Be Fruitful and Multiply." Marvin Sackner is photographed wearing "Samuel Beckett - Breath." Also photographed and in the Sackner Archive are"Satie Sat At Tea" and "The Garden." All these works were photographed by Barbara Bollini. Astrid's wall hanging work "Roses Arose" is in the collection of Sara Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014