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Solt, Mary Ellen

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1920-07-08 - 2007-06-21

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Robert Lax and Concrete Poetry / Lax, Robert ; Solt ME ; Gomringer E ; DeCampos H ; Furnival J ; Finlay IH ; Cobbing B ; Nichol bp ; bissett b., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-07312-7456
Scope and Contents

In an introductory essay, Mary Ellen Solt traces concrete poetry historically and analyzes spcifically the work of Lax as related to Eugen Gomringer, Augusto De Campos and Ian Hamilton Finlay. Michael Basinski and Robert Bertholf provide an essay on "Zines," a generic term for a self-generated, cheaply produced (folded and stapled photocopied sheets), radically independent magazine. The exhibition included works of 167 international, concrete and visual poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

San Marcos Review. No.2/Fall / Gene Frumkin, David Johnson, editors ; DeCampos H ; Lifshin L ; DeCampos A ; Solt ME ; Blake W., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-53283-100005
Scope and Contents

This issue includes a section on Brazilian concrete poetry that includes English translations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

The Peoplemover, 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-39679-41638
Scope and Contents

This book is a political drama that utilized concrete poetic posters as the props. The theme is the Nixon era of political discontent with civil rights and the Vietnam war. A copy of the prints for the out of doors protest are also held by the Sackner Archive. This poetry performance piece written by Solt, a leader of the concrete poetry movement,was composed in reaction to the anger and frustration she was feeling in 1968 due to the Vietnam War and the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy. First performed by Donald Bell's experimental design class at Indiana University on August 7, 1968, the piece expanded after each performance incorporating Solts's poetry as well as additional bits of random dialogue creating a "dadaesque" multimedia art piece involving a projection screen and audience participation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

The Peoplemover / Solt, Mary Ellen., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-58810-65825
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive also holds the book that describes the basis for the prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970