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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6414 Collections and/or Records:

Janela ao Mondo (Window to the World), 1974

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Identifier: CC-43727-45817
Scope and Contents

This poem is circular in shape and the frame is meant to be hung in a diamond shape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Japan: The Art of the Book, Past And Present / Ito M ; Matsutani ; Niikuni S ; Takahashi S ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 1986

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Identifier: CC-37347-39199
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive lent one book by Ito, one book by Matsutani, one book by Niikuni, and four books by Takahashi to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Jardin Japonais, Un Choix de 18 Textes / Garnier, Ilse ; Garnier, Pierre., 1978

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Identifier: CC-27815-28948
Scope and Contents

This book consists of 18 poems, typeset one each to a pamphlet which consists of a folded sheet of heavy paper with the title on the cover and the poem on its inner page. The poems are minimal with the title often being longer than tthe poem. The poems were selected from the Bloknoot edition of the photocopied poems of the typewritten originals. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

jean cocteau in pace / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

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Identifier: CC-55815-9999339
Scope and Contents

Wikipedia: Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau( 5 July 1889 "“ 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Cocteau is best known for his novel Les Enfants terribles (1929), and the films Blood of a Poet (1930), Les Parents terribles (1948), Beauty and the Beast (1946) and Orpheus (1949). His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Yul Brynner, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María Félix, Édith Piaf and Raymond Radiguet. Houedard's epitaph to Cocteau probably relates to pace, the Latin word for peace. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Jean-Louis Brau / Letailleur, Francois., 1997

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Identifier: CC-42281-44291
Scope and Contents

Brau was born in 1930 and died in 1985. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

jetzt ist hier / Clahsen, Peer., 1969

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Identifier: CC-31934-33459
Scope and Contents

The text of each page is progressively rotated clockwise to produce an optical effect by the overlap through the transparent cellophane. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Jibs / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Tammes, Diane ; Cutts S., 1972

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Identifier: CC-11723-11941
Scope and Contents

The photographs that were reproduced in this book were taken by Dianne Tammes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Jim Andrews, 2004

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Identifier: CC-42379-44389
Scope and Contents

This poem depicts an abstract rectangular image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

John Bennett Poems 1965-1975 / Kewell, Kevin, editor ; Kewell, Jackie, editor ; Kewell, Peter, editor ; Glossop, Doug, editor ; Burfit, Graham, editor., 1979

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Identifier: CC-21978-22390
Scope and Contents

The poems in this book are posthumous - John Bennett died in an motorcycle accident. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

John Furnival: Ends and Odds / Moxham, Bernard, curator ; Furnival A., 2012

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Identifier: CC-55698-9999283
Scope and Contents Box is labeled Bernard Moxham. He is the curator of this third volume of Furnival's works. The contents include The Furnival Family, Mail-Art, More Botanical Works, More Locative and Vocative Works, More Visual Poetry, Miscellany and Work-in-Progress and Mail-Art Interviews with John Furnival - Part 3. Bernard Moxham contributes the forward."It might be thought that a volume of John Furnival's work entitled 'Ends and Odds' contains only minor works compared with those illustrated within the preceding volumes.While this volume contains work that, for space reasons alone, could not be incorporated into volumes 1 and 2, the viewer/reader must beware - there are no hierarchies in John's world. An ink landscape drawing is no inferior to a screen, his modernist of postmodernist works are not intrinsically better than his more traditional art, a print is no worse than a drawing or painting, and a large scale work is not superior to a postcard. In other words, Johm Furnival distrusts the...
Dates: 2012