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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 128 Collections and/or Records:

Robert Lax and Concrete Poetry / Lax, Robert ; Solt ME ; Gomringer E ; DeCampos H ; Furnival J ; Finlay IH ; Cobbing B ; Nichol bp ; bissett b., 1991

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Identifier: CC-07312-7456
Scope and Contents

In an introductory essay, Mary Ellen Solt traces concrete poetry historically and analyzes spcifically the work of Lax as related to Eugen Gomringer, Augusto De Campos and Ian Hamilton Finlay. Michael Basinski and Robert Bertholf provide an essay on "Zines," a generic term for a self-generated, cheaply produced (folded and stapled photocopied sheets), radically independent magazine. The exhibition included works of 167 international, concrete and visual poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Schreibmaschinenpoesie / Mautz, Kurt ; Gomringer E., 1977

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Identifier: CC-48702-69734
Scope and Contents Eugen Gomringer provided an introduction. One of the poems entitled "persilschein" that is depicted, the word is a German idiom meanung "Clean Bill of Health" The top line refers to the Nazi brown shirts who after WWII were denazified according to evidence present to the allies and now became "white shirts."Wikipedia: Kurt Adolf Mautz (* June 1st 1911 in Montigny-les-Metz , "  November 2000 in Wiesbaden ) was a German literary scholar and writer . He was the father of actor Rolf Mautz .Mautz studied German literature, philosophy and history, first from 1930 to 1933 in Frankfurt am Main, among others in the then little-known lecturer Theodor W. Adorno , from 1934 in Giessen at the Catholic priest Theodor Steinbuchel , the one there Concordat Chair for Philosophy held. "The Nazi seizure of power here seemed less noisy than being run in Frankfurt," Mautz wrote later in his novel The key Urfreund. "I ... took care about nothing but my dissertation." Mautz in 1936 with a study of Max...
Dates: 1977

SchriftBild in Collage / Gomringer, Eugen ; Schmidt, Burghart ; Daniel P., 1994

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Identifier: CC-27679-28766
Scope and Contents

The book includes essays by the authors as well as by Peter Daniel. It includes reproductions of silkscreened concrete poems on linen by Gomringer presumably published by Conz Editions. It also includes nine collages by Peter Daniel including "Vernetzung" that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Schwer Schwartz / Achleitner, Friedrich; Gomringer E., 1960

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Identifier: CC-25685-26145
Scope and Contents

This manuscript includes a letter from Achleitner to Gomringer concerning publication. Gomringer's typed note states that the manuscript was intended for inclusion in "Konkrete Poesie - Poesie Concreta" but was never published. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

Sense(d): O AS THE CONSTELLATIONS P 31 / Basmajian, Shaunt; Gomringer E., 1968 - 1986

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Identifier: CC-57360-10000678
Scope and Contents

This work refers to Gomringer's quotation of 1953 "O" as the constellations as the symbol as nothing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968 - 1986