Biography

Scope and Contents This book is one of 1000 copies in English, another 1000 copies were printed in Spanish. Wikipedia: Werner Mathias Goeritz Brunner (1915-1990) was born in Danzig, Germany (now in Poland) and died in Mexico City). After spending much of the 1940s in North Africa and Spain, Goeritz and his wife, photographer Marianne Gast, immigrated to Mexico in 1949. Some books state that he was Jewish, others Protestant.In Mexico, he did commisions for churces and synagogues. Mathias Goeritz spent his childhood in Berlin. Goeritz received a doctorate in art history from Berlin's Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universitat, now known as the Humboldt University of Berlin in 1940. During the course of his studies, Goeritz also trained as an artist at the Kunstgewerbe- und Handwerkerschule Berlin-Charlottenberg (Berlin-Charlottenberg School of Arts and Crafts), where he studied drawing with German artists Max Kaus and Hans Orlowski. Upon completion of his doctorate, Goeritz worked at Berlin's Nationalgalerie...

Dates: 2014

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

[Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year], 2008

Item — Box 334: [Barcode: 31858072491032]

Identifier: CC-50002-71061

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The loose sheet is a letter to Belsey's family and friends noting that he has retired from Cardiff University in Philosophy, completed a Master's degree in Typography and Graphic Communication at Reading University and expects to be "busier than ever, reading and writing in both philosphy and typography." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

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

Neil Baldwin Man Ray Collection

Collection

Identifier: MsC1276

Scope and Contents The Neil Baldwin Man Ray Collection contains photographs, research notes, and correspondence pertaining to Dr. Neil Baldwin’s biography (Man Ray: American Artist) and documentary (Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde) of the artist. This collection is made up of seven series: photographs; critiques, features, reviews; Man Ray biography; Naomi Siegler Savage; interviews; and Man Ray documentary. The series and folders indicate Baldwin’s original organization. As a result, some folders, particularly those within the PHOTOGRAPHS series, contain duplicate materials.The first series includes photographs by Man Ray and other. Photographs includes images of Man Ray, pictures that Man Ray took, pictures of Man Ray’s art objects, reproductions of his drawings and paintings, as well as photographs from Neil Baldwin’s trips to Paris in 1984 and 1986. Of note, the folder “Man Ray and his works, c. 1916-1952” includes pictures of...

Dates: 1920-2002

Found in: University of Iowa Special Collections

Noel Berlin Verona Conz, 2009

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Identifier: CC-49949-71008

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Ann Noel, the wife of Emmett Williams dedicated this book "In memory of Emmett Williams with whom I shared the adventures described in this visual diary from a part of our life together." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

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 / Ann Noël

Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter, 2012

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Identifier: CC-55568-9999192

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The Sackner Archive lent the majority of the typewriter and plastic poems for this publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

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

Nowoczesnosc od czasu postmodernizmu, 2000

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Identifier: CC-35764-37521

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The book was edited by Piotr Rypson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

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

Oyvind Fahlstrom on the Air - Manipulating the World, 1999

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Identifier: CC-42051-44052

Scope and Contents

This book deals mainly with Fahlstrom's literary and poetic works. It includes a reprinting of his manifesto for Concrete Poetry ( 1953). -- 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 (processed) / BOOKS

Pocket Calculator Poems, 1988

Item — Folder 17: [Barcode: 31858072459765]

Identifier: CC-22070-22486

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One print has a hand calculator glued to it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / Vittore Baroni

poems of life & death, 2003

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Identifier: CC-41737-43729

Scope and Contents Pie o provides a wonderful biography of Jas Duke and selects additional poems to those reprinted from Duke's "poems of life and death." The accompanying compact disc is Jas Duke reading poems from the latter. thalia (internet); Jas H. Duke was born in Ballarat, Australia in 1939. Son of two schoolteachers, Irish-Scottish ancestors. His family moved to Melbourne in the 1950s. He worked as a draftsman/ a laboratory assistant/ a technical writer and dreamed of becoming a chess champion (didnt quite make it). As a substitute he read every book that he could find. In the 60's he became an Anarchist. Wrote short stories, and was desperately looking for a way to break-out! Went to England via the U S of A, where he circulated in the politico-psychedelic underground. In England he sought the commraderie of Freedom Press; met Ted Kavanagh, Cohn Bendit, Yoko Ono, and Raoul Hausmann. Jas became a political activist, and an actor who appeared in many underground movies by filmmaker Jeff Keen....

Dates: 2003

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

Rolywholyover: A Circus, 1993

Item — Box 287: [Barcode: 31858072460680]

Identifier: CC-28811-30126

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The prints are photographic reproductions of some of the works in this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

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

Selected Works of Konrad Bayer, 1986

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Identifier: CC-22739-23174

Dates: 1986

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 / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

Selections, 2012

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Identifier: CC-58434-10001652

Scope and Contents Harriet Staff reviewed the book in Poetry News November 28, 2012: Ian Hamilton Finlay's new book, Selections (UC Press 2012), edited with an introduction by Alec Finlay, has been reviewed over at Booktryst. Alastair Johnston writes of Finlay's later-life recognition, noting that "[a]mong the most fatal accolades one can achieve is to be called "greatest living' anything." What follows is his poetic work in biographical context, down to the garden art (the post also includes great photos of Finlay's early books and ephemera; and links to other concrete poets and related resources): This new book compacts much of his writing into one volume. His early poems are mostly negligible, but the odd memorable line occurs ("The dancers inherit the party"-- also the title of his first book of poems). Glasgow Beasts is a charming series of childlike verses written in broad Gleskae dialect. (Finlay's early battles with the dole come off like an episode of Rab C Nesbit.)In 1963, Finlay began to...

Dates: 2012