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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1131 Collections and/or Records:

L'Art en Transit, no. 5: Depanne Machine recontre Julien Blaine, Clstrphbie, 1994

 Item — Box 124: [Barcode: 31858072458163]
Identifier: CC-16095-16438
Scope and Contents

The object consist of colored plexiglass letters suspended with a plexiglass hook. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Laugh Scream 1, 1985

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-54990-236790
Scope and Contents

The paper base for this drawing is a sketchbook page. The disjointed lettering between the Laugh and Scream is reminiscent of the some of the paintings by Tim Rollins + K.O.S. and Didier Mutel's book, "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Laugh Scream 2, 1985

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-54992-23678
Scope and Contents

The paper base for this drawing is a sketchbook page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Laugh Scream 3, 1985

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-54991-12567
Scope and Contents

The paper base for this drawing is a sketchbook page. The disjointed lettering between the Laugh and Scream is reminiscent of the some of the paintings by Tim Rollins + K.O.S. and Didier Mutel's book, "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Laut und Luise , 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-37318-39169
Scope and Contents

The poems in this book are mainly sound poems from made-up words. The afterward consists of an essay about Jandl's work by Helmut Heissenbuttel. There are slight differences in the layout of the poems and their order in this edition compared to its second publication in 1971. For example, the same poem on pages 194 and 195 of this edition (1966) is laid out on page 190 in the second edition (1971). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Laut und Luise, 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-37320-39171
Scope and Contents

The poems in this book are mainly sound poems from made-up words. The afterward consists of an essay about Jandl's work by Helmut Heissenbuttel. There are slight differences in the layout of the poems and their order in this edition compared to its first publication in 1966. For example, the same poem on page 190 of this edition is laid out over facing pages 194 and 195 in the first edition (1966). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

lauter scherben: Texte Zeichnungen Chronik , 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-55270-9999032
Scope and Contents

This book provides a sampling of Scherstjanoi's oeuvre from 1982-2008. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Lay-Out: Can I Borrow Yr Living Room ; 3 Locales, 1982

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Co-Cu: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-43189-45246
Scope and Contents

This is the lay-out for a poster announcing a poetry reading that was curry's first. curry and essary's contributions to the poster were photocopied fragments and Dudley's an ink drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Lay-Out: Curvd H&Z No.166 In and Out of Print, 1991

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Co-Cu: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-43197-45254

[Layout Curvd H&Z in Print], 1986

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Co-Cu: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-54680-990120

Le Petit Peignot: Dictionnaire de Mots-Images, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-29115-30460
Scope and Contents

Peignot provides examples of word-images along with comments in an alphabetic listing. He uses alterations of letter spacing and boldness of the Futura typeface, repetition of letters, anagraphic presentation, variations in the arrangement of letters, mirror imaging, and punctuation marks to enhance and visually define the meaning of words. The poems are related to those found in another book published by Peignot in the same year, Toutes les Pommes se Croquent. Both books are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Le Spatialisme En Chemins, 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-10540-10744
Scope and Contents

This is an inclusive historical survey from 1963-1968 of the concrete/spatialistic poetry composed by the authors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Lecture for Bob Cobbing's Exhibition "Make Perhaps this Out Sense Of Can You" / Sackner, Ruth; Abess M; Sackner MA; Goldsmith K; Traister D; O'Sullivan M; Cheek C; Bernstein C; Joris P; Celan P., 2007

 Item — Box 386: [Barcode: 31858072461514]
Identifier: CC-48182-69206
Scope and Contents

Ruth Sackner delivered this lecture at the opening of Bob Cobbing's Exhibition "Make Perhaps this Out Sense Of Can You." It focused on the relation of Mathew Abess, the curator of the exhibition and the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Lecture for Eyear, 1964

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-09695-9888
Scope and Contents

Houedard in his introduction states that this is the first lecture (concrete poetry) delivered in the English speaking world. He presents an extensive critical analysis of Gomringer's poems including "Avenidas," "Silencio,"etc. and DeCampos poetry. Calligrammes were inspired by Mallarme's "Un Coup De Des" as well the music of Webern. He discusses the basis for Ultra-Lettrisme and Sound Poetry and provides a chronology for Sound Poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964