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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 136 Collections and/or Records:

Go Book: [Lope Trot Soar Jerk etc.]. No.24 / Wally Depew., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-54343-643230
Scope and Contents

As with other Depew books, the page count includes the blank side of the page, e.g., 24 leaves equals 48 pages. One letter of the title is rubberstamped with varied fonts on the lower right corner of a page and separated from it by one or more pages that depict abstract woodcut prints. The title, saunter, means to walk in a slow, relaxed manner, without hurry or effort. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: no.24 / Depew, Wally., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-57932-10001184
Scope and Contents

The rubberstamped words in this book includie lope, trot, soar, roam and spurt. There is a single abstract design. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: no.29 / Depew, Wally., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-57941-10001193
Scope and Contents

The words gambol, cavorat and twitch are rubberstamped on three single pages. The remaining pages depict abstract woodcut designs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: no.33 / Depew, Wally., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-57945-10001197
Scope and Contents

The cover is rubbersstamped with several number'3s.' The words'being a go book' are rubberstamped on one page. The words be a go book are also rubberstamped on separate pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: Walk Run. No.1 / Wally Depew., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-54320-643207
Scope and Contents

As with other Depew books, the page count includes the blank side of the page, e.g., 24 leaves equals 48 pages. The special issue numbering also included non-related booklets with different titles. Go Book 1 consisted of different arrangements of the rubberstamped words 'walk' and 'run' along with abstract woodcut prints on non-rubberstamped pages that appear to relate to the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Happy Birthday / Depew, Wally., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-53061-74207
Scope and Contents

Stored in Depew's drawings box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

is my life only black marks on white paper / Depew, Wally., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-50614-71687
Scope and Contents

Edited by Linda Bandt Depew. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

L O V E [Permutations] / Depew, Wally., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-53136-74288
Scope and Contents

This work includes permutations of the word 'LOVE' in a 2 x 2 square & 2 x 2 diamond shaped grids along with grids with missing letters or totally blank spaces. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Ladderbook Piece / Depew, Wally., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-15116-15434
Scope and Contents

Also designated PN Special Issue #27. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Laugh Scream 1 / Depew, Wally., 1985

 Item
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 / Depew, Wally., 1985

 Item
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 / Depew, Wally., 1985

 Item
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