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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 4875 Collections and/or Records:

[Cover No.702] / Suarez Londono, Jose Antonio., 1996

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Identifier: CC-29418-30783
Scope and Contents

The front cover reproduces a work by Londono that incorporates text and image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Cows/Clouds / Atchley, Dana., 1971

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Identifier: CC-25715-26175
Scope and Contents

The lower third of these prints depict cows whose shapes and positions are repeated in the words of the text above. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Cratilismo: O Artista Ingles e a Palavra / Gerald Forty, curator ; Breakwell I ; Furnival J ; Houedard DS ; Phillips T ; Instone J ; Leverett D., 1979

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Identifier: CC-18745-19119
Scope and Contents This is the catalogue for the XV Sao Paulo Bienal. The title was also termed 'Cratylus.' The cover design was taken from a painting by Tom Phillips. In this catalogue, Hiouedard made the following comments: Dom Sylvester Houedard was born on the island of Guernsey. He studied at Jesus College Oxford and in 1949 joined the Benedictine Abbey at Prinknash in Gloucestershire; he was ordained as priest in 1959. He was a pioneer of British concrete poetry and regularly contributed to magazines and exhibitions from the early 1960s until his death. He became literary editor of the Jerusalem Bible in 1961, and founded the Gloucestershire Ode Construction Company in 1967. One copy is stored as a reference text, the other alphabetically on the shelf. "During 1945 I realised the typewriter's control of verticals and horizontals, balancing its mechanism for release from its own imposed grid, (and) offered possibilities that suggested (I was in India at the time) the grading of Islamic...
Dates: 1979

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

Creazione Del Verbo: Fluxare / Ferlinghetti, Lawrence ; Hendricks G ; Severi R., 2005

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Identifier: CC-51720-72820
Scope and Contents

This book is stated to be a limited edition but the tirage is not provided. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Criptogrammi e Scritture Etrusche / Fedi, Fernanda ; Ferri G ; Isgro E ; Accame V ; Munari B ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 1996

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Identifier: CC-29784-31162
Scope and Contents

Mention is made that the Sackner Archive holds works by Fedi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Cristoforo Returns, 1992

 Item — Folder 17: [Barcode: 31858072459765]
Identifier: CC-23480-23925
Scope and Contents

Poem deals with 500th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America. Included in a plastic envelope as "7 Assorted Pieces." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Cross-Canada Writers' Quarterly. No.3-4 / Ted Plantos, editor ; curry jw ; Copithorne J ; Nichol bp ; Gorman L ; Basmajian S ; UU D ; bissett b ; Evason G ; lefler P ; Wah F ; Riddell J ; Shikatani G ; Power N ; Truhlar R., 1987

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Identifier: CC-20774-21179
Scope and Contents

Includes several essays on the historic beginnings of Canadian concrete, visual, and sound poetry. The Archive for the essay by jw curry, Defying Linear Deification... is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Crossing the Sea of Ink / Seille, Genevieve ; Cardinal R., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34955-36670
Scope and Contents In these paintings, more vivid colors begin to appear in Seille's work. Roger Cardinal contributes a particularly sensitive essay about Seille's personality. On the WEB, Roger Cardinal's essay: If writing remains one of our most cherished modes of communication, then it is because we associate the effort of transcribing words onto paper with a genuine desire for clarity and contact. Often of course, a person's handwriting is ungainly or crabbed, yet we still attribute purpose to its markings. Messages matter to us, and we are seldom blase when we trip over a phrase in a loved one's postcard and struggle to disentangle the scrawl letter by letter. What we cannot decipher, we gawp at in bemusement. Such bemusement remains an essential ingredient in the artmaking of Geneviève Seille. As a child at school, she fell in love with the sensation of her nib scudding across the paper during handwriting classes. "It was a magical moment", she recalls, "the quiet only interrupted by the...
Dates: 2000

Crossroads / Essaydi, Lalla., 2008

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Identifier: CC-48788-69822
Scope and Contents

The artist photographs Arabic people in their native garments and overlays Arabic calligraphy over their bodies and in the background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Cruciverba / Guillot, Anna., 1986

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Identifier: CC-10054-10253
Scope and Contents

The text is written on painted white crumpled paper mounted on wooden board. The lower portion has typed text in Italian and English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Cure AIDS, 1993

 Item — Box 305: [Barcode: 31858072460953]
Identifier: CC-09543-9733
Scope and Contents

The poem object and envelope are heart shaped. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993