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Concrete poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 607 Collections and/or Records:

An Opera, 1963

 Item — Box 272: [Barcode: 31858072460938]
Identifier: CC-43838-45934
Scope and Contents

A note in Fluxus Codex indicates that this work was included in several Fluxus assemblage boxes and also sold separately. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Ana 1 - 5 / Cobbing, Bob., 1972

 Item — Box 391: [Barcode: 31858072461555]
Identifier: CC-17516-17882
Scope and Contents

This book represents a performance copy of "Spearhead" (2nd & 3rd editions held by Sackner Archive) onto which is added written and typed notes. There are five performances of "Ana." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Arabics, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-05562-5669
Scope and Contents

The pages of this book consist of different arrangements and typefaces of the numbers 0-9, each page depicting a single number variation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Archive for Stuttgart Max Planck Project / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1972 - 1978

 Item — Box 454: [Barcode: 31858072462173]
Identifier: CC-12667-12908
Scope and Contents In Sept 1972, Finlay enters into correspondence with Jurgen Brenner, a German architect, about a commission for an installation within a garden at the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart. He selects Costley as the calligrapher and artist for the preparatory drawings. He writes Brenner that he wants "free-drawn letters...as opposed to rigid typographic letters. I consider it essential that poems that people are going to see every day, are verbal/visual/decorative, rather than (as it were) merely literary." In Nov-Dec 1972, Finlay sends instructions to Costley about execution of the sculpture for the installation. The poems in English & German include tile murals, Wave/Rock, Wave, Star/Steer, Sails/Waves, and, sundials, Sea/Land. He follows this up with suggestions for Latin & French versions. Finlay's 2nd list of poems include Schiff, Ark/Arc, Homage to Seurat, Cloud, Gourd (together with Nuclear Sail & Fountain/Sphinx), Set of Wild Stones, and The Colours of the Vowels....
Dates: 1972 - 1978

Archive of Abracadada / Bory, Jean-Francois., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-27682-28770
Scope and Contents

The linear, black printed text is laid out with mixed typefaces and sizes. The maquette is a sketch book with chaotically arranged handwritten text that employs several colored inks and calligraphic styles. The manuscript appears to have made with a combination of photocopying and colored letraset type. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Archive of Retour au Japon: calligrames et fragments de journal intime, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27683-28771
Scope and Contents

The book is a diary of Bory's trip to Japan along with 25 concrete and visual poems about his experience there. The poems are designated calligrammes by Bory. The sketches for the concrete poems in ink and graphite were subsequently printed from a computer with a laseror nk jet printed -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Are Your Children Safe? In the Sea? / Cobbing, Bob., July 1998

 Item — Box 388: [Barcode: 31858072463676]
Identifier: CC-44990-47166
Scope and Contents

This work was published as a triptych of prints in 1964 and then as broadsides in Eyearun in 1966. Cobbing stated on title page that first publication was 1966 but the Sackner Archive holds the prints published in 1964. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: July 1998

Au Pair Girl 1, 1964

 Item — Box 640: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-56273-9999711
Scope and Contents

The photograph appears to be a distorted image of the repeticious title placed on a loose fabric. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Au Pair Girl 2, 1964

 Item — Box 640: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-56274-9999712
Scope and Contents

The photograph appears to be a distorted image of the repeticious title placed on a loose fabric. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Basil Bunting - Poem for Two Voices / Cobbing, Bob., 1974

 Item — Box 394: [Barcode: 31858072461589]
Identifier: CC-17672-18040
Scope and Contents

All the words in this poem begin with the letter "b." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Beethoven Today / Cobbing, Bob., 1970

 Item — Box 392: [Barcode: 31858072461563]
Identifier: CC-19973-20361
Scope and Contents

Cobbing created tautologic variations on the title "Beethoven Today" by forming poems in either a circular or quadrangular arrangement. Al the pages are printed on white paper stock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Beethoven Today / Cobbing, Bob., 1970

 Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-17468-17834
Scope and Contents

Cobbing created repeticious text variations on the title "Beethoven Today" by forming poems in either a circular or quadrangular arrangement. The pages have yellow and orange color -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Before After Birth Death, 1988

 Item — Box 58: [Barcode: 31858072538576]
Identifier: CC-10330-10533
Scope and Contents

Four wooden, pie-shaped panels painted BEFORE AFTER in black are hinged to the circular wood base painted DEATH BIRTH in red. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988