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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 896 Collections and/or Records:

Trigram, 1972

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (3 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491347]
Identifier: CC-17765-18134

Tsjechoslovakiji II: To Jan Palach , 1968

 Item — Folder 68: [Barcode: 31858072538022]
Identifier: CC-15996-16337
Scope and Contents

The same image as I but presented in a horizontal position rather than in a vertical one. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Turismo, 1971

 Item — Folder 6: [Barcode: 31858072459443]
Identifier: CC-22632-23062
Scope and Contents

Image consists of the word "PISA" with the "I" on a tilt. Compare to Fichard Frost's "Climbing the Tower of Pisa" in his book, "Getting Drunk with the Birds." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Typescapes , 1967

 Item — Box 319: [Barcode: 31858072490786]
Identifier: CC-25345-25801
Scope and Contents

Aylward & bp Nichol co-edited Ganglia Press publications. The poems in this book are printed one to a page with a thin vertical structure of typings forming abstract images on the right side and a caption consisting of a phrase in the left lower corner. This is the author's first book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

(Uh..One & Uh..Two) Random Sightings, 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-48654-69686
Scope and Contents

Some of the pages inside untitled(1964) were based upon images used for levy's 6 cleveland prints (renegade press, 1964). There were 5 copies produced probably each one different from the other. This edition reprints copy #2. Reprints: Book 14T (1966), The Para-Concrete Manifesto (1966), Untitled (include pages from 6 Cleveland Prints, 1964), and the envelope, mailed originally to Ian Hamilton Finlay, with the holograph address reproduced here and contains The Egyptian Prayer Wheel (1966). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Ukraine Still Lives On: Visual Poems, Aphorisms, Poetical Paintings, 1994

 Item — Box 616: [Barcode: 31858072461019]
Identifier: CC-02917-2961
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive also holds the printed edition of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

[Ukrainian Concrete Poems], 1994

 Item — Box 616: [Barcode: 31858072461019]
Identifier: CC-02916-2960
Scope and Contents

Each print depicts the original poem in the Ukrainian language along with a English translation stapled to it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Un Coup de Des Jamais N'Abolira le Hazard, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-10765-10975
Scope and Contents

This work, based upon Stephan Mallarme's celebrated poem, is exhibited on a collaged, female mannequin, "Lady Midnight" by Astrid and John Furnival. The buttons on the sweater are actual dice. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Un Semantema in Piscina, 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-11437-11653
Scope and Contents

The black text is set in various colored shapes and patterns. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Untitled Plaque 2 (politeness strategies series), 2002

 Item — Box 212: [Barcode: 31858072459245]
Identifier: CC-38973-40910
Scope and Contents

The plaque reads I'm {fine. tired. awesome. The signed certificate of authentification is stored in the study small notebook. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Untitled [Woodface Type Sculpture] , 2002

 Item — Box 61: [Barcode: 31858072538543]
Identifier: CC-39060-40998
Scope and Contents

The painted white sculpture is made from varying size wooden typefaces and fonts including Art Deco arranged in a vertical column attached to a white wooden base. The artist's signature is composed of the wooden type letters on the bottom of one face of the sculpture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002