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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6393 Collections and/or Records:

Counter-Blast, 1969

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Identifier: CC-06791-6910
Scope and Contents

This is a parody of Wyndham Lewis' magazine "Blast," with its contents dealing with communication and the Information Age. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Country Life. No.29/July / Finlay IH., 1996

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Identifier: CC-28389-29596
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts a stone sculpture in the garden of Ian Hamilton Finlay. It illustrates a statement of Saint Just, which is carved on nine rocks, "Paths to enlightenment in a garden of ideas." An essay within this magazine by Alan Powers entitled "The Sparta of the North," describes the poet's garden in Lanarkshire as one of the significant creations of our time. He states that Finlay recreated a poetic, classical garden as a place of beauty, and a journey of the mind; complex schemes of iconography provide entertainment and painted a moral. The essay is illustrated with nine colored photographs. The Sackners visited the garden with their daughter Sara in 1980. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Courants d'Air sur le Chemin de Ma Vie 1916-1921 / Crotti, Jean ; Villon, Jacques., 1941

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Identifier: CC-62765-16820
Scope and Contents The etchings were made by Villon and the text based upon 1920's text written by Crotti. Born in Bulle, Switzerland, Crotti first studied painting in Munich when he was eighteen, and after a year under Jules Lefevre at the Academie Julian in Paris, he abandoned formal instruction. He exhibited regularly at the Salon des Independants beginning in 1908, at the Salon d'Automne from 1910 and Salon des Tulliers in 1927. The critical event of his artistic career was his arrival in June 1915 in New York, where he worked closely with Marcel Duchamp, joined the New York Dada group, and met Picabia. Crotti produced mechanical drawings, wire constructions, and collages on glass and metal. Returning to Paris in 1919, he married Suzanne Duchamp. Together in July 1921 they launched a new movement, Tabu-Dada (apparently inspired by Picabia), which Crotti described as the expression of "Mystery...That which cannot be seen...That which cannot be touched." In Crotti's Tabu work, spheres and sectors...
Dates: 1941

Covent Garden Broadsheet: Beethoven Today. No.1, 1971

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Identifier: CC-18728-19102
Scope and Contents

Designated Broadsheet No.1. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

[Cover Design for can't afford no Kodak Instamatik Instamatik Vol.2] / curry, jw., 1980

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Identifier: CC-19716-20103
Scope and Contents

This is the original cover design for Vol.2 that was not used for the final publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

[Cover Design for Richard Truhlar's 7 Portraits - Ra] / curry, jw; Truhlar R., 1981

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Identifier: CC-19860-20248
Scope and Contents

This was published in Curvd H&Z No.89, 1981. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

[Cover Design for Richard Truhlar's Ten Sephardic Translations] / curry, jw., 1983

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Identifier: CC-19729-20116
Scope and Contents

This was published in can't afford no Kodak Instamatik Instamatik Vol.2. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

[Cover Design for steven smith's W] / curry, jw., 1981

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Identifier: CC-19861-20249
Scope and Contents

Published in Curvd H&Z No.110, 1981. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Coveringdeertrackswithwords / Dougherty, Jay ; Pollock J., 1984

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Identifier: CC-15490-15816
Scope and Contents

The author has has had his work publshed in Small Press Review No.184-185 (1988) and No.186-187 (1988) as well as BOOG No.53 (1984). The text over text piece depicted in this record iks a riff on an abstract expressionist painting by Jackson Pollack. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

crane - in memoriam edith sitwell (011266) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

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Identifier: CC-33052-34677
Scope and Contents

The shape of the poem is formed by the words of the title. This work was reproduced in the Dom Sylvester houedard book edited by Nicola Simpson, "Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter: The Life and Work of Dom Sylvester Houedard" and is stored in the binder labeled DSH London 2012. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Cranes, I Said / Gallo, Philip., 1989

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Identifier: CC-09963-10161
Scope and Contents

New Year's Greeting 1990 from Granary Books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Crepuscule / Chopin, Henri., 1955

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Identifier: CC-19764-20151
Scope and Contents

This is the original of a typing which appears as page 3 of Chopin's book, "Le Repas" and also in "Le Dernier Roman du Monde." Crepuscule in English means dusk. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1955

Crevice/Map / Johanknecht, Susan; Newson, Jenifer., 1984

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Identifier: CC-08332-8495
Scope and Contents

The text on one side, MAP, describes the contour of an imagined terrain in concrete poetic terms while the text on the other side, CREVICE, describes female anatomy in visual poetic terms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Cried and Measured / Young, Karl., 1977

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Identifier: CC-38316-40213
Scope and Contents

The poems are based on lists of names in the Aramaic writings of the Jews of Elephantine, Egypt. There is also an essay about the Elephantine Jews, an island in the Nile river at Egypt's southern border who lived in that place in the fifth century B.C. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Cried and Measured / Young, Karl., 1977

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Identifier: CC-38317-40214
Scope and Contents

The poems are based on lists of names in the Aramaic writings of the Jews of Elephantine, Egypt. There is also an essay about the Elephantine Jews, an island in the Nile river at Egypt's southern border who lived in that place in the fifth century B.C. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977