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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6414 Collections and/or Records:

Go Book: Gambot Cavort Twitch. No.29 / Wally Depew., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-54345-643232
Scope and Contents

As with other Depew books, the page count includes the blank side of the page, e.g., 24 leaves equals 48 pages. Most of the pages of this book depict an abstract woodcut image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: leap Dash. No.3 / Wally Depew., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-54323-643210
Scope and Contents

As with other Depew books, the page count includes the blank side of the page, e.g., 24 leaves equals 48 pages. The special issue numbering also included non-related booklets with different titles. Go Book 3 consists of different arrangements of the rubberstamped words 'leap' and a single page with the word 'dash' along with abstract woodcut prints on non-rubberstamped pages that have a tenuous relation to the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: [Lope Trot Soar Jerk etc.]. No.24 / Wally Depew., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-54343-643230
Scope and Contents

As with other Depew books, the page count includes the blank side of the page, e.g., 24 leaves equals 48 pages. One letter of the title is rubberstamped with varied fonts on the lower right corner of a page and separated from it by one or more pages that depict abstract woodcut prints. The title, saunter, means to walk in a slow, relaxed manner, without hurry or effort. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: no.24 / Depew, Wally., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-57932-10001184
Scope and Contents

The rubberstamped words in this book includie lope, trot, soar, roam and spurt. There is a single abstract design. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: no.29 / Depew, Wally., 1973

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Identifier: CC-57941-10001193
Scope and Contents

The words gambol, cavorat and twitch are rubberstamped on three single pages. The remaining pages depict abstract woodcut designs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: no.33 / Depew, Wally., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-57945-10001197
Scope and Contents

The cover is rubbersstamped with several number'3s.' The words'being a go book' are rubberstamped on one page. The words be a go book are also rubberstamped on separate pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Go Book: Walk Run. No.1 / Wally Depew., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-54320-643207
Scope and Contents

As with other Depew books, the page count includes the blank side of the page, e.g., 24 leaves equals 48 pages. The special issue numbering also included non-related booklets with different titles. Go Book 1 consisted of different arrangements of the rubberstamped words 'walk' and 'run' along with abstract woodcut prints on non-rubberstamped pages that appear to relate to the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

God / Hirsal, Josef; Grogerova, Bohumila., 1962 - 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-09396-9582
Scope and Contents

The theme of this poem, first composed in 1962, depicts the Christian concept of Heaven and Hell from the blue sky (azur) to the bowels of the earth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1962 - 1992

Golem [Hebrew] / Daniel, Peter., 1997

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Identifier: CC-42515-44530
Scope and Contents

This is a reproduction of a work that consists of styrofoam Hebrew letters Gimel - Lamed - Mem placed vertically in a glass pyramid. This card is combined with others from Edition Splitter and stored as a card set. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Good Luck Katrina (Etruscan Text) / Edward Wright., 1969

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Identifier: CC-53865-642911
Scope and Contents

This work consists of a thin, flexible dull, steel sheet onto which is embossed an Ontario Canada 1960 automobile license plate and Etruscan letters. It is stored against the wall below the "Something is Missing" work by Kevin Carter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Good Luck Katrina (Etruscan Text) / Edward Wright., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-53865-642911
Scope and Contents

This work consists of a thin, flexible dull, steel sheet onto which is embossed an Ontario Canada 1960 automobile license plate and Etruscan letters. It is stored against the wall below the "Something is Missing" work by Kevin Carter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

[Good Will] / McGurk, Ruth., 1997

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Identifier: CC-34663-36364
Scope and Contents

The print depicts brief aphorisms and derogatory expressions in varied colored typefaces. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997