Ideogram

10 Strophen Von Kleinen Menschen / Gruber, Thomas., 1988

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Identifier: CC-51269-72358

Dates: 1988

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

16 ding-sonette: zur revision des sonettbegriffs / Ullrich, Barbara ; Riha, Karl., 1992

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Identifier: CC-01005-1031

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

16 Sloppy Haiku & A Lyric For Robert Reardon / Blackburn, Paul; levy da., 1966

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Identifier: CC-23371-23813

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The erotic cover drawing was done by Al Diamondstein. This book was printed by d.a. levy. In a personal communication from Jeff Maser, 16 (including the Sackner copy) of the 45 copies have been located. According to an essay in Congress No.1, this book was seized by Cleveland Police for obscenity from Asphodel Book Store in 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Various Formats

20 Monogrampoems / Bielski, Alison., 1971

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Identifier: CC-21061-21470

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Also designated Writers Forum Fives No.2. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

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

105 posbL resons 4t ;; of thot or d ;; of doze hu undRst& / Mancini, Donato., 2010

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Identifier: CC-54697-990134

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The completed title reads "105 possible reasons of thought or, the sadness of those who understand." The inside paper cover prints a surreialistic story about Alan Turing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

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

1976-2001 / Hubaut, Joel., 2001

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Identifier: CC-40206-42176

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The letter-forms that are typical of Hubaut's stylistic vocabulary were pressed into the paper in a random pattern. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

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

A ZBC of Ezra Pound, 1971

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Identifier: CC-22260-22682

Scope and Contents

Brooke-Rose discusses E. Pound's use of language and literary technique, his treatment of sources and influences. Considerable discussion of Pound's use of ideograms in "The Cantos." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

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

About Books / Horst, Els ter ; Lisa ter Kuile, translator., 1986

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Identifier: CC-08877-9052

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The book consists of line drawings that deal with themes of reading, writing, translating, and categorizing books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

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

About Books / Horst, Els ter ; Lisa ter Kuile, translator., 1986

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Identifier: CC-08937-9113

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The book consists of line drawings that deal with themes of reading, writing, translating, and categorizing books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

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

Absorbent Surfaces / Boyer, Chuck ; And, Miekal., 1983

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Identifier: CC-21303-21713

Dates: 1983

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

ACRCIT / De Cointet, Guy., 1974

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Identifier: CC-16371-16721

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The newspaper is printed with De Cointet's personal language in a manner similar to Constantine Xenakis' use of logographs for his newspaper. De Cointet placed ACRCIT in free newspaper distibutors on the streets of Los Angeles. Passerbys could thus take this incomprehensible artwork and probaly few were preserved. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

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

Adinkra Poems / Keith, Bill., 2003

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Identifier: CC-48595-69626

Scope and Contents Adinkra are West African symbols named after a 19th Century Ivory Coast King. The symbols were copied from the Ashanti royal stool.Wikipedia: William "Bill" Keith (January 20, 1929 -- September 1, 2004) was an African-American artist who began his artistic life as a painter, but moved into photography and visual poetry. His visual poetry ran a full gamut from calligrams inspired by Apollinaire and other early 20th Century French poets to Lettrisme to the Minimalism and Op Art of the 1960s.As his work developed, Keith concentrated increasingly on African and African-American themes and sources. This development toward African roots and branches led away from the Roman alphabet and more toward the store of iconography and symbolism from Egypt to South Africa to the American diaspora. Consequently, Keith developed graphic techniques suggested by textiles, wood carvings, bronze casts, ceramics, and other indigenous arts. An example of Keith's recreation of the substance of his visual...

Dates: 2003

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

Afrikanische Legenden / Garnier, Ilse., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31139-32606

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Each collage has hand drawn additions such that each copy of this book is actually unique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

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

Alarme / Gysin, Brion., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51665-72765

Scope and Contents One of the last pages in this book depicts the following words, " Life Death Breath." This page is also displayed in this record of the database.Gladys Fabre May 2010 writing on inside dust jacket stated: "Painter, writer, poet, filmmaker, and performer Brion Gysin (1916-1986) was a source of inspiration for many Beat Generation artists and for underground culture in general (for Gregory Corso, John Giono, Bernard Heidsieck, but also for Keith Haring, The Rolling Stones, Steve Lacy, the painter Matta and his son Ramuntcho, Laurie Anderson). In books, films and sound poems, together with the author William Burroughs, he developed methods such as Cut-ups and permutations previously employed in painting. With Ian Sommerville, he designed a stroboscopic apparatus to arousing hallucinatory visual effects called the Dreamachine. Such artistic multidisciplinarity enabled him to explore thoroughly a multiple self. He saw himself and indeed lived as if he had been allotted the wrong part by...

Dates: 2010

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