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Cobbing concludes in this essay, visual (concrete) poetry can be heard, smelt, has colours, vibrations whereas sound poetry dances, tastes, has shape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This represents a posthumous homage to Dom Sylvester Houedard from John Furnival who reprinted the poet's most famous poems and included a photographic silkscreened portrait as well as two photographs of the poet. Contains a tribute page by Marina Warner which she begins with "A letter from dom Sylvester Houedard was an archive (though always succinct), a poem (of an unusual kind), and, sometimes, a personal message of touching kindness..." Marina Warner provided an introductory essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The hands of this clock-like object each have a letter at their ends that spells, "Sylvester" after the poet Dom Sylvester Houedard. However, the arrangement of the gears which staggers the letters from ever lining up to form this word. The background creates a subtle Moire effect as the hands move across it. The clock was made by Kenelm Cox on behalf of Dom Sylvester Houedard. According to William Allen, bookseller, it was a surprise gift from Cox to Houedard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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The hands of this clock-like object each have a letter at their ends that spells, "Sylvester" after the poet Dom Sylvester Houedard. However, the arrangement of the gears which staggers the letters from ever lining up to form this word. The background creates a subtle Moire effect as the hands move across it. The clock was made by Kenelm Cox on behalf of Dom Sylvester Houedard. According to William Allen, bookseller, it was a surprise gift from Cox to Houedard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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houedard provides a critical analysis of the artistic works of Ken Cox. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Internet Virtual Museum of Modernism: Ken (Albert Richard William Kenelm) Cox was born in 1927, in Wotton Under Edge, Gloucestershire. In 1949 he enrolled at UWE Art College in Bristol, where he did first drawings and murals. During the same year he changed to Camberwell Art School where he studied painting until 1951. After leaving Camberwell, he worked as a teacher in Lasborough, Gloucestershire, and in 1955 turned towards landscape painting. From 1958 to 1962 Cox lived in London, where he taught at the Acland Burghley School and continued to do landscape paintings. With yet another relocation to The Park, Kingscote, Gloucestershire, his artistic interests shifted. He established close contacts with artists and poets, among them Dom Sylvester Houédard and John Furnival, that would shape his future work. First Wall Sculpturesemerged, along with motorized objects and sign machines (Harmonograph Drawing Machine, 1966), works that led him entirely away from painting. Increasingly,...