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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

4 Sails / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Wright, Ed., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-11935-12158
Scope and Contents

This print in a yellow color folds outward to the shapes of sails with the name of the ship printed in an experimental typographic style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

4 Sails / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Wright, Ed., 1966

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Identifier: CC-11936-12159
Scope and Contents

In this example of the work, all three varients in the colors, red, blue and yellow (each was published in 250 copies) are included. In addition, a duplicate yellow print is also held by the Sackner Archive. The folder provides a book-like appearance to the work. Index books indicated that is is unlikely that 250 copies were produced. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

4 Sails / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Wright, Ed; Lucas, J.W.., 1969

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Identifier: CC-11892-12114
Scope and Contents

On this proof copy of a card depicting a photograph of Finlay's sandblasted glass sculpture with a nautical scene in the background, Finlay wrote instructions to "add stand-shadow" to the bottom of the final copy. Finlay also wrote the name of Ed Wright on the verso and indicated that sand blasted should be one word. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

4 Sails / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Wright, Ed; Lucas, J.W.., 1969

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Identifier: CC-11934-12157
Scope and Contents

This is a photograph of a sandblasted text, glass sculpture overlying a nautical scene. The photograph was made by J.W. Lucas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

4 Sails / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Wright, Ed; Lucas, J.W.., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-57722-10000975
Scope and Contents

Thsi is the final copy of a photograph of Finlay's sandblasted glass sculpture with a nautical scene in the background. It includes all the corrections made on the proof copy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

A Gala Exhibition / Cobbing, Bob; Houedard DS; Cox K; Wright E; Verey C; Furnival J; Finlay IH; Morgan E; Gerz J; Chopin H; Garnier P; Gette PA; Logue C; Lucie-Smith E., 1969

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Identifier: CC-19507-19890
Scope and Contents

Cobbing mentions that nearly a thousand items were included in this exhibition that took place over one month's period which thirty thousand people attended un London's Royal Festival Hall.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Cancion Amereida / Wright, Edward., 1969

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Identifier: CC-48367-69393
Scope and Contents

This scroll consists of single lower case letters of three to five letters in each word. The first three are ama (landlady), eme (m), and noe (Noah). Several other words in the vertical text are made up. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

extinct i / compartments / Houedard, Dom Sylvester ; Barker, Audrey ; Wright E ; Cox K., 1967

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Identifier: CC-09394-9580
Scope and Contents The Hoiuedard exhibtion presented 26 plastic poems, 26 typewriter poems, and 13 one sided plastic laminated poems with titles. None of these Houedard poems were titled. Gu ardian Obituary for Audrey Barker: Audrey Barker, who has died aged 69, was an inspiration to the development of the young as artists, especially through her work and thoughts about people with disabilities. She was born in West Ham, in London's docklands, and during the second world war was evacuated to a farm where she contracted tuberculosis from untreated milk. This led to crippling bone damage and eight years in hospital. She missed much formal education, but she read avidly, gaining a scholarship to East Ham Grammar School for Girls in 1944, later attending Walthamstow School of Art (1950-55) and then Leicester College of Art for a teacher training year. She exhibited her paintings widely from 1953 in group shows such as Young Contemporaries, the Royal Academy summer shows, the New English Art club and...
Dates: 1967

Good Luck Katrina (Etruscan Text) / Edward Wright., 1969

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Identifier: CC-53865-642911
Scope and Contents

This work consists of a thin, flexible dull, steel sheet onto which is embossed an Ontario Canada 1960 automobile license plate and Etruscan letters. It is stored against the wall below the "Something is Missing" work by Kevin Carter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Good Luck Katrina (Etruscan Text) / Edward Wright., 1969

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Identifier: CC-53865-642911
Scope and Contents

This work consists of a thin, flexible dull, steel sheet onto which is embossed an Ontario Canada 1960 automobile license plate and Etruscan letters. It is stored against the wall below the "Something is Missing" work by Kevin Carter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

[Letter to John Furnival] / Bann, Stephen; Clyne H; Wright E; DeSilva D; Mayer HJ., 1967

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Identifier: CC-22275-22697
Scope and Contents

Bann discusses Furnival organizing transportation of "Clyne" constructions, vowel screens, three columns, Ed Wright's "Four Sails" glass, "Ajar" wooden construction, "Ark/Arc" in plastic...[and] column with "Wave/Wave" to Nottingham, and the possibility of using Mayer's "Ampersands" for a wall or outdoor display. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Opening: Finally A Valentine. No.1/Jan / Louis Zukovsky ; Edward Wright ; John Furnival., 1965

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Identifier: CC-38076-39966
Scope and Contents

Zukovsky's poem reads, "There is a heart - has no complaint - better a-part - than faint - so the faintest - part of it - has no complaint - a part." Furnival illustrated it with concrete poems and Edward Wright did the typography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Stitch In Time Saves Nine / 1 st2tch 3n t4m5 s6v7s n8n9 / Wright, Edward., 1969

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Identifier: CC-54539-62732
Scope and Contents

The purple numbers from 1 to 9 replace the vowels in the words.The letters are pink colored. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

the pattern/ el simulacro 1 / Wright, Edward., 1973

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Identifier: CC-54531-989993
Scope and Contents

The poem includes faint graphite markings, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

the pattern/ el simulacro 2 / Wright, Edward., 1973

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Identifier: CC-57163-10000492
Scope and Contents

The poem includes faint graphite markings, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973