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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6393 Collections and/or Records:

Be Thirteen One Three / Steen, Vagn., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-28176-29339
Scope and Contents

Steen separated the components of the letter "B" so that it equals the number thirteen or one and three. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Bean Structure [OM] / Finch, Peter., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-12814-13101
Scope and Contents

The photograph shows several sculptured letter O's balanced on M's. The title, bean structure, references the Hindu word "om" intoned during meditation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Beauty in Breathing, The / Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Baroni V ; Barron S ; Broel E ; Cahun C ; Clausen T ; curry jw ; Dupont A ; Ely T ; Furnival J ; Goldsmith K ; Hubaut J ; Huth G ; Jackman S ; Laffoley P ; Lemaitre M ; Miglietta E ; Phillips T ; Presser E., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-23373-23815
Scope and Contents

The catalogue was written and the exhibition curated by Marvin Sackner. The viewing took place over a five day period at the Annual Meeting of the American Thoracic Society/American Lung Association in Miami Beach. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

bedepequ, 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-14661-14974
Scope and Contents

Each page is a print depicting geometric arrangements of the letters listed in the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Beethoven Today / Cobbing, Bob., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-17468-17834
Scope and Contents

Cobbing created repeticious text variations on the title "Beethoven Today" by forming poems in either a circular or quadrangular arrangement. The pages have yellow and orange color -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Beethoven Today / Cobbing, Bob., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-19973-20361
Scope and Contents

Cobbing created tautologic variations on the title "Beethoven Today" by forming poems in either a circular or quadrangular arrangement. Al the pages are printed on white paper stock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Before After Birth Death, 1988

 Item — Box 58: [Barcode: 31858072538576]
Identifier: CC-10330-10533
Scope and Contents

Four wooden, pie-shaped panels painted BEFORE AFTER in black are hinged to the circular wood base painted DEATH BIRTH in red. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Begin Again / Houedard, Dom Sylvester ; Furnival J., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-34231-35919
Scope and Contents

This catalogue is another smaller version of a larger catalogue with eight pockets for poems that is also held by the Sackner Archive. It lists the titles of 193 poems without illustrations. No.132 negro organ, a reversal poem is held by the Sackner Archive as is 1.mind/ache and 54.porn/shop, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Beijing / Tipping, Richard Kelly., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-01684-1720
Scope and Contents

This is a photograph of the sculpture held by the Sackner Archive. The text reads "machine guns against jeans and sneakers." It is carved into the stone which is positioned vertically like Chinese text as a reference to Tennimen Square. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Beispiel / Mayer, Peter., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-06594-6713
Scope and Contents

The permutation component of the poem is composed from "spiel." The corners of the card are rounded. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Belles Lettres Workbook: 1979-2003 (Belles Lettres) / Ernst, Kathy., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-41533-43523
Scope and Contents

This workbook outputted from a computer database describes projects that have and have not been realized. Several projects depict preparatory sketches, others text descriptions only, and others the completed work. Some projects belong to additional themes and are repeated in this series of books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Belles Lettres Workbook: 1979-2003 (Boox) / Ernst, Kathy., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-41540-43530
Scope and Contents

This workbook outputted from a computer database describes projects that have and have not been realized. Several projects depict preparatory sketches, others text descriptions only, and others the completed work. Some projects belong to additional themes and are repeated in this series of books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Belles Lettres Workbook: 1979-2003 (Clothes, Quilts, Fiber, and Cloth) / Ernst, Kathy ; Cole D ; Bennett JM., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-41535-43525
Scope and Contents

This workbook outputted from a computer database describes projects that have and have not been realized. Several projects depict preparatory sketches, others text descriptions only, and others the completed work. Some projects belong to additional themes and are repeated in this series of books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003