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Imaged Words and Worded Images / Kostelanetz, Richard, editor ; Beste G ; Bory JF ; Bridgewater P ; Burckhardt K ; Cage J ; Sumsion C ; Chryssa ; Clyne H ; Cobbing B ; Coffin P ; Copley W ; Cunningham M ; Dunn D ; Federman R ; Furnival J ; Hausmann R ; Hollander J ; Houedard DS ; Indiana R ; Jacoby R ; Kaprow A ; Kostelanetz R ; Kriwet F ; Lax R ; Lubalin H ; Morgan E ; Nichol bp ; O'Gallagher L ; Oldenburg C ; Phillips MJ ; Phillips T ; Price J ; Solt ME ; Stern G ; Williams E., 1970

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Identifier: CC-37077-38918

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Scope and Contents

In this book, pages 115, 126, 133, 140, 244, 323, and 334 of Tom Phillips' "A Humument" are reproduced in black and white.In his introduction, Kostelanetz defines the title of his book: A new art necessarily demands a new name, and the art of incorporating word within image has recently inspired a spate of new names "calligrams," "concrete poetry," "ideograms," "pattern poems," "concretism." They all are intended to identify artifacts that are neither word nor image alone but somewhere or something between. Since each of the terms in actual usage defines a particular strain of word-image art, there is a need for a more general yet discriminating term. My choice is "word-imagery," which encompasses the two major genres of the form"”imaged words and worded images. The distinction depends upon whether word or image is the base. In imaged words, a significant word or phrase is endowed with a visual form, so that language is enhanced through pictorial means. In worded images, in contrast, language fills an image, embellishing the shape through linguistic means so that a picture of, say, an ice-cream cone filled with words offers an experience considerably different from that of a cone without words. The difference is the difference between visually laying out a poetic nugget (imaged words) and making pictures with words and letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1970

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 hard cover book (101 pages) in dust jacket) ; 25.3 x 20.3 x 1.5 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

ref shelf visual/verbal

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: New York : Outerbridge & Dienstfrey. Nationality of creator: American. General: Number of duplicates: 1. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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