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Visual poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

A Word about Words / Havel, Vaclav ; Kolar, Jiri ; Sadek, George., 1992

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Identifier: CC-09842-10036
Scope and Contents

The text of Havel's acceptance speech (in absentia) for the International Peace Prize of the German Booksellers Association in 1989 was illustrated by Jiri Kolar with 21 prints of visual poetic collages based upon typography from a Gutenberg bible page that contained the lines, "In the beginning was the word." The book was exhibited in "Celebrate Prague and the Book" at Cooper Union in 1992 and at New York Public Library in 1995. Havel's essay is a "tour de force" on the political power of words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Bonjour, Monsieur Kolar! , 1984

 Item — Folder 72: [Barcode: 31858072538071]
Identifier: CC-22379-22802
Scope and Contents

This exhibition honoed Jiri Kolaron the occasion of his 70th birthday. Poster reproduces work from the catalogue published by Galerie Pragxis, held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Contemporary Art in Czechoslovakia / Kolar J ; Novak L., 1988

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Identifier: CC-16469-16822
Scope and Contents

The exhibition at Cornell University consisted of selections from the Jan amd Meda Mladek Collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Dictionnaire des Methodes / Kolar, Jiri ; Erika Abrams, translator., 1991

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Identifier: CC-30036-31430
Scope and Contents

Consists of representative examples of the different types of Kolar's collages. Gilbert Lascault wrote a critical essay at the end of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

E 835, 1966

 Item — Box 85: [Barcode: 31858072538196]
Identifier: CC-49083-70121

Exposition Itinerante des Dictions (Traveling Exhibition of Sayings) / Kolar, Jiri., 1983

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Identifier: CC-08138-8299
Scope and Contents

The types of collages utilized by Kolar and found in this work were described in a glossary of his Albright-Knox exhibition catalogue "Transformations": banknotes, chiasmage, confrontage, crumplage, intercollage, prolage, rapportage, rollage, and sampl Each of collage may incorporate several forms. The verso of several collages incorporate fragments of other collages as if Kolar were sketching with collage rather than paint or pencil. The titles of the collages in Slavic are also written on the verso. Four few collages have been matted and are stored in a flat file drawer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Folgende Folge Aus Dem Tschechischen / Kolar, Jiri., 1978

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Identifier: CC-62290-57017
Scope and Contents

One print is framed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Improvisation / Kolar, Jiri., 1991

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Identifier: CC-31554-33049
Scope and Contents

The colored collages by Kolar are designated chiasmage. The cover of the box is collaged with a small, triangular example. Further, each print has a different, geometric shape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Intertexte / Grogerova, Bohumilia; Hirsal, Josef; Kolar, Jiri., 1970

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Identifier: CC-31612-33111
Scope and Contents

This portfolio was published to accompany Hirsal and Gregorova's book of concrete poetry, job-boj, a work also held by the Sackner Archive. The print by Kolar depicts a two-headed silhouette of Hirsal and Gregorova on a background of collaged words and phrases. The texts are adapted fom contemporary, foreign, newspaper articles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Poesia Experimental / Gomringer E ; Garnier P ; Kolar J ; Isgro E ; Mon F ; Petronio A ; Brossa J ; Fujitomi Y ; Spatola A ; Finlay IH ; Kriwet F ; Claus CF ; DeVree P ; Pino F ; Valie Export ; Andre C ; Azeredo R ; Bauer J ; Belloli C ; Bense M ; Bentivoglio M ; Bertini G ; Betto D ; Blaine J ; Bory JF ; Bremer C ; Bugli E ; DeCampos A ; DeCampos H ; Caruso L ; deCharmoy C ; Chopin H ; Cirlot JE ; Clavin H ; Cobbing B ; Damen H ; Degottex J ; Deisler G ; Delgado FG ; Ferro L ; Garnier I ; Garnier P ; Garzon-Cespedes ; Gerz J ; Gette PA ; Groh K ; Hatherly A ; Hausmann R ; Herbst W ; Hidalgo J ; Houedard DS ; Janco M ; Klophaus A ; Kolar J ; Kriwet F ; Lepage J ; Lichtenauer F ; Locatelli U ; Malina J ; Marchetti W ; Marcucci L ; Martini S ; Mayer H ; Mayor D ; deMelo e Castro EM ; Miccini E ; Arias-Misson A ; Nannucci M ; Nichol bp ; Niccolai G ; Oberto A ; Oberto M ; Ori L ; Osti M ; Padin C ; Parmiggiani C ; Perfetti M ; Piamontese F ; Piccolo E ; Pignatari D ; Pignotti L ; Pino F ; DePoli F ; Radin B ; Riddell A ; LaRocca K ; Roche M ; DeRook GJ ; Roth D ; Roussel A ; Russo V ; Sanabia J ; Sarenco ; Schmidt SJ ; Sharkey JJ ; Spatola A ; Spatola M ; Spoerri D ; Steen V ; Tapies A ; Targowski H ; Tiel K ; Tiziano F ; Todorovic M ; Lora-Totino A ; Ulrichs T ; Uribe E ; Valoch J ; Verey C ; Vicinelli P ; Vigo EA ; Villa E ; Vostell W ; DeVree P ; DeVries H ; Williams E ; Xisto P ; Zabala F ; Zagoricnik F ; Viladot G., 1973

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Identifier: CC-39006-40943
Scope and Contents

Ignacio Gomez de Liano contributes an essay "La nueva poesia y los problemas de la Estetica contemporanea." Maria Aurora Marques writes about "Poesia Experimental en Espana" and Maria Lluisa Borras describes "La Poesia Visual en Cataluna." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973