Letter picture

Coriandoli Dragees / Eugenio Miccini., 1969

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Identifier: CC-38185-40081

Scope and Contents The two copies of this piece are identical except for different colored paper stock onto which the poems were printed. The original pieces came in a stapled plastic bag that deteriorated with time.Wikipedia: Eugenio Miccini (1925 in Florence "“ 2007 in Florence) is considered to be one of the fathers of Italian visual poetry. Graduated in Pedagogy, in 1963 he founded together with poets, musicians and painters Gruppo '70, creating the Italian term "poesia visiva" (visual poetry). Visual poetry is an art research characterized by predominance of the image on the typographical text, aimed to obtain compositions where words and images, signs and figures, are integrated without solution of continuity on the semantic plane (Dizionario della lingua italiana Devoto-Oli, Le Monnier). In Italy the Sixties have been rich of activities of Gruppo 70, starting from two meetings organized in Florence in 1963, focusing on "Art and Communication" and in 1964 "Arte and Technology", where discussion...

Dates: 1969

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

Coriandoli Dragees / Eugenio Miccini., 1969

Item

Identifier: CC-38185-40081

Scope and Contents The two copies of this piece are identical except for different colored paper stock onto which the poems were printed. The original pieces came in a stapled plastic bag that deteriorated with time.Wikipedia: Eugenio Miccini (1925 in Florence "“ 2007 in Florence) is considered to be one of the fathers of Italian visual poetry. Graduated in Pedagogy, in 1963 he founded together with poets, musicians and painters Gruppo '70, creating the Italian term "poesia visiva" (visual poetry). Visual poetry is an art research characterized by predominance of the image on the typographical text, aimed to obtain compositions where words and images, signs and figures, are integrated without solution of continuity on the semantic plane (Dizionario della lingua italiana Devoto-Oli, Le Monnier). In Italy the Sixties have been rich of activities of Gruppo 70, starting from two meetings organized in Florence in 1963, focusing on "Art and Communication" and in 1964 "Arte and Technology", where discussion...

Dates: 1969

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

Corona Mundi. No.1., 1999

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Identifier: CC-36452-38246

Scope and Contents

The drawing depicts cartoon characters along with text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

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

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS / Marshall McLuhan

[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

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Craag / Flores, Aaron., 1984

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Identifier: CC-10836-11046

Scope and Contents

Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispu, California. Exhibition was curated by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Crazy Quilt Short Story / Burke, Herbert., 1979

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Identifier: CC-22368-22791

Dates: 1979

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

Creation / Curtay, Jean-Paul., 1973

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Identifier: CC-18663-19036

Dates: 1973

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Creativity / Grumman, Bob., 1985

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Identifier: CC-60311-61101

Scope and Contents

Grumman made this one of two colllages after he visited the Sackner Artchive a day previously. In this collage, the letter 'P' ithat completes the word "POEM" s absent. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Crystallography, 1994

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Identifier: CC-24020-24470

Scope and Contents

The poems are based on the scientific structure of crystals including diamond, emerald, glass, opal. The book was given to the Sackners at the Yale University Portuguese Concrete Poetry symposium (1995) that was organized by Keith Jackson and Johanna Drucker. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

Curvd H&Z: 3 Spare Coats. No.304/Jan / Bill DiMichele ; curry jw., 1985

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Identifier: CC-19388-19771

Scope and Contents

The cover and frontpiece (a letter picture) were designed by jw curry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

Curvd H&Z: 3D-3E. No.134/May / jw curry ; Steven Smith ; Truhlar R., 1982

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Identifier: CC-18250-18622

Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by Richard Truhlar. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)

Curvd H&Z: Card #14: Solid Sleep. No.137/May / William Maki., 1982

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Identifier: CC-18331-18703

Scope and Contents

The collaged image on the card is a grid of typed z's with a blank area at the lower right corner of the grid signifying arousal. This issue is also designated th wrecking ballzark #$39. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals(unprocessed)