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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 67 Collections and/or Records:

13 Variations / Williams, Emmett., 1965

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Identifier: CC-37687-39561
Scope and Contents

This work is also designated Mat Mot No.6. The piece consists of six words written by Gertrude Stein, "when this you see remember me," a color assigned to each word. Each print doubles the number of words from the previous plate such that in the final print the 24,516 words fuse together. The work was made by handstamping the work on 72 plates, and the integrated result visible only after 78 operations of the color press. The stamping was done at full speed to achieve the fusion of words, not the spreading of color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

A Life in Flux - and Vice Versa / Williams, Emmett., 2007

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Identifier: CC-46687-49417
Scope and Contents

This is a memorial exhibition who was born on April 4 1925 and died on February 14 2007. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

A Valentine for Noel: Four Variations on a Scheme / Williams, Emmett., 1973

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Identifier: CC-40895-42872
Scope and Contents

The Something Else Press and Edition Hansjorg Mayer copies of the book are identical. The four sections of the book are entitled, IBM, Ego Hego Shego, Soldier, Fete and Duchampetre. "Noel" refers to Williams' wife, Ann Noel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

A Valentine for Noel: Four Variations on a Scheme / Williams, Emmett., 1973

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Identifier: CC-40896-42873
Scope and Contents

The Something Else Press and Edition Hansjorg Mayer copies of the book are identical. The four sections of the book are entitled, IBM, Ego Hego Shego, Soldier, Fete and Duchampetre. "Noel" refers to Williams' wife, Ann Noel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz (Alphabet Poem) / Williams, Emmett., 1963

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Identifier: CC-48358-69384
Scope and Contents This poem was included in several Fluxus boxes. There is no reference to Emmett Williams as an author of the scroll. AbeBooks: Printed scroll of 3 conjoined sheets of buff-colored laid stock, rolled as issued. 2217 x 58 mm. (ca. 87 1/4 x 2 3/8 inches). A fine copy. "A Fluxus printing of "abcedfghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz,' also called "Alphabet Poem,' was usually included in "Fluxus 1" and "Fluxkit.' This work was first published by Verlag Kalender, the publishing house of Bernd Ebeling and Hansjoachim Dietrich, Wuppertal, West Germany, ca. 1961. They also published "Kalender Rolle,' a survey of avant-garde art in 1961 and again in 1962. Printed on a long scroll, their form influenced several Fluxus publications, such as "Fluxus Preview Review'" (Jon Hendricks, in Fluxus Codex). Williams' "An Opera' was issued in the same format, and distributed in the same way. Only the alphabet poem itself appears on the scroll; there is no credit to Williams, nor any publication information. -- Source...
Dates: 1963

An Anthology of Concrete Poetry [Reprint] / Williams, Emmett, editor ; Arias-Misson A ; Chopin H ; Cobbing B ; DeCampos A ; DeVree P ; Fahlstrom O ; Finlay IH ; Furnival J ; Gomringer E ; Gysin B ; Hansen A ; Houedard DS ; Kolar J ; Kriwet F ; Bremer C ; Nannucci M ; Solt ME ; Mayer HJ ; Kitasono K., 1967 - 2013

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Identifier: CC-58254-10001494
Scope and Contents

This book was the inspiration for the founding of the Sackner Archive and includes poems byh 70 poets.. Emmett Williams was born in 1925 and died in February 2007. The images include pages from the book alonmg with comparable originals ad scans from the Sackner Archive used for a lecture at Perez Art Museum Miami on January 18th 2014 in conjunction with the Primary Information publishfrs of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967 - 2013

An Anthology of Concrete Poetry / Williams, Emmett, editor ; Arias-Misson A ; Chopin H ; Cobbing B ; DeCampos A ; DeVree P ; Fahlstrom O ; Finlay IH ; Furnival J ; Gomringer E ; Gysin B ; Hansen A ; Houedard DS ; Kolar J ; Kriwet F ; Bremer C ; Nannucci M ; Solt ME ; Mayer HJ ; Kitasono K., 1967

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Identifier: CC-00351-359
Scope and Contents

This book was the inspiration for the founding of the Sackner Archive and includes poems byh 70 poets.. Emmett Williams was born in 1925 and died in February 2007. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

An Opera / Williams, Emmett., 1963

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Identifier: CC-43838-45934
Scope and Contents

A note in Fluxus Codex indicates that this work was included in several Fluxus assemblage boxes and also sold separately. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Autumn / Mayer, Hansjorg, editor ; Roth D ; Williams E ; Hamilton R ; Duchamp M ; Thomkins A ; Wewerka S ; Ranier A ; Latham J ; Phillips T ; Dohl R ; Lax R., 1992

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Identifier: CC-38153-40047
Scope and Contents

Different parts of Tom Phillips' poster print, "Benches" are collaged onto the covers of the catalogues. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

[Card to Emmett Williams] / Merton, Thomas; Williams E., 1968

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Identifier: CC-30788-32234
Scope and Contents

This card of December 10, 1968, eight days before Merton's death, was typed by Patrick Hart, secretary to Thomas Merton. He gives permission to Williams to use poems in a forthcoming anthology that was never published. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Concrete Poetry: A Teacher's Guide / Michael Warshaw; E Williams; ME Solt; D Pignatari., 1970

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Identifier: CC-45975-48681
Scope and Contents

This performance video is the reading of nine poems from Emmett Williams' "An Anthology of Concrete Poetry." Using a musical background, and interpretive photography, the emphasis is on the visual aspect of the words and not on the linguistic. The film was donated to the Anthology Film Archives and transferred to DVD in 2006. According to 2006 media standards, the film should be considered quaint, historic and dated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Concrete Poetry: A Teacher's Guide / Michael Warshaw; E Williams; ME Solt; D Pignatari., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-45975-48681
Scope and Contents

This performance video is the reading of nine poems from Emmett Williams' "An Anthology of Concrete Poetry." Using a musical background, and interpretive photography, the emphasis is on the visual aspect of the words and not on the linguistic. The film was donated to the Anthology Film Archives and transferred to DVD in 2006. According to 2006 media standards, the film should be considered quaint, historic and dated. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970