Diagram

Scope and Contents Comments by Johanna Drucker on internet: The concept of the "diagram" is vaguely defined in common usage, used to refer to a broad variety of schematic images"”graphs, charts, anatomical images, working drawings and so on. By working towards a tighter definition, we might use the term to refer to a specific category of graphical expressions that spatialize relations. These relations, I suggest, are themselves meaningful"”they are a kind of poetics, a bringing into being of meaning through articulation and expression. The materiality of this poetics of relations provides a way to analyse its formats and features"”to get at, to grasp, to read, see, describe, elaborate the particulars of diagrammatic expressions. The even more specific attention to writing, to written discourse organized in graphical form, exposes the workings of diagrammatic activity within the field of visual verbal activity. We depend upon these, but rarely stop to describe or discuss their structuring principles...

Dates: 2013

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Dices or Black Bones: black voices of the seventies / Miller, Adam David, editor ; Pritchard NH-II ; Harrison DL., 1970

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Identifier: CC-53205-74357

Scope and Contents N[orman]. H. Pritchard contributed the typewriter, concrete and punctuation poems. Among the very first modern anthologies of newer African-American poetry, DICES OR BLACK BONES received the California Teachers of English Award for Best Anthology, 1970. This book was precedent setting in several ways. The editor was allowed to control the illustrator and thereby control the cover image, important at the time because so many contemporary publications then used lurid and often violent imagery to depict African-American experiences. DICES, instead, used art that expressed an African sensibility in keeping with the spirit of the movement-era of the early 1970s. The book premiered poetry by several of the younger Black writers who later became well-known: Al Young, Lucille Clifton, Ishmael Reed, Etheridge Knight, Victor Hernandez Cruz, David Henderson, Conyus, and Clarence Major, as well as many other writers deserving of attention. DICES challenged the prejudice there was no...

Dates: 1970

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Discovery of the Circle / Munari, Bruno ; Marcello Maestro, translator ; Edna Maestro, translator ; Duchamp M., 1966

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Identifier: CC-05922-6034

Dates: 1966

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Discovery of the Square / Munari, Bruno ; Desmond O'Grady, translator ; Vasarely V ; Belloli C ; Malevich K., 1965

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Identifier: CC-05923-6035

Dates: 1965

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Downtown Body / Shelly, Ward; Anderson L; Feldman R; Giorno J; Holman B; Kostelanetz R; Knowles A; Oleszko P; Schneemann C; Howland B., 2008

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Identifier: CC-49156-70196

Scope and Contents Shelley traces the poetic, musical, theatrical, and artistic history of "downtown NYC" over the 20th Century. On the recto of this print, several artists and poets provide short narratives on what it was like to live "downtown in NYC during the 1970's and early 1980's. On Shelley's WEB site, he comments: Downtown Body is a portrait of New York's avant garde cultural landscape. I choose to use the word portrait because I think it conveys a kind of subjective selectivity that my work brings to any subject I work with. I entered into this project with a raucous enthusiasm, but I am exiting the room on tip toes. Downtown-ness touches on the lives of nearly everyone I know and care about. Everyone's sense of who they are is wrapped up in what Downtown means. And what should Downtown mean? Downtown is the success story of New York's art world, both critical and commercial. It's valuable, so it's hyped. It's Downtown Story: the Movie. It's a nostalgic myth, but it is a self-fulfilling...

Dates: 2008

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Drainage. No.1 / Neil Barrett, editor ; Saroyan A ; Coolidge C., 1967

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Identifier: CC-15554-15881

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Several of Aram Saroyan's minimalist poems are printed in this issue -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Dramatika: Soundings. No.29 / Malcolm Goldstein., 1981

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Identifier: CC-14462-14771

Dates: 1981

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Edge / Andrews, Bruce., 1973

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Identifier: CC-24658-25111

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This is the first book published by Andrews. In it, he provides a definition of language poetry, viz., a) fragmentation and quality of words other than (and along with) their meaning, b) stress on texture, sound, rhythm, space and silence, c) less "content" (in the old sense) but hopefully the "language" becomes the content and d) the "individual" words have meanings and associations but these are not yoked together and aimed "outside the poem" at a single externally applied meaning for a poem as a whole. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Editions Camomille, No. 27: Fucking Letters - Fucking Numbers, 2007

Item — Box 169: [Barcode: 31858072458312]

Identifier: CC-52694-73830

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The CD is a silent kinetic piece involving the movement of two circles with varied color schemes. Bertand was born in 1937 and lives and works in Paris, France. The book appears to relate the kinetic movements on the CD. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / NON-COMMERCIAL AND ARTIST PERIODICALS / Editions Camomille

Eduardo Kac: Poesia Digital, 1982 - 1999 / Kac, Eduardo., 2014

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Identifier: CC-59834-10002884

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The work of Kac is presented on the cover and on page20. It is noted that his digital poems were created before the internet. Kac is described as a radical inovator creating a universal poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Ein-Faches Werk-zeug / Steinbacher, Christian., 1990

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Identifier: CC-02062-2100

Dates: 1990

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

En-Sof / Daniel, Peter., 1992

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Identifier: CC-27667-28750

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The Hebrew title translates into "There Is No End." This book includes the following reproductions of drawings and collages held by the Sackner Archive, viz., Transparente Zeit(ung), Konsonanten-Chaos, and Durch-Streichung (No.2). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Enquanto Jactos e Hiatos, 1994

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Identifier: CC-16152-16495

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Given to the Sackners at the Yale University Portuguese Concrete Poetry Symposium (1995) organized by Keith Jackson and Johanna Drucker. De Melo e Castro utilized typewritten punctuations, brackets, and parentheses of different dimensions among the words to cause the reader to interact with his/her own words thereby creating another meaning. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994