Concrete poetry

John Furnival: Lost for Words / Moxham, Bernard, curator ; Furnival A ; Finlay IH ; Williams J ; Meyer T ; Kostelanetz R., 2011

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Identifier: CC-54559-990010

Scope and Contents Box is labeled Bernard Moxham. He is the curator of this first of three volumes of Furnival's works. The contents include Early Works; Word Machines; Screens; Alphabets, Letters and Numbers; Botanical Works; Book Illustrations; Dorthy's Umbrellas ; Mail Art Interviews. Contained in the Sackner Archive are "HA-AH" 1997 (page 31), the screen "Cogito Ergo Sum" 1981 (page 49), the screen "Fifty- one Towers of Babel" 1984 (page 50), "Vowel Screen" 1986 (page 83) and A to Z of Consumerville" 1981 (page 84). Two sweaters knit by Astrid Furnival and designed by John and Astrid are illustrated on page 148. Bernard Moxham contributes the forward."John Furnival is infuriating, at least to art critics and commentators. He is neither a traditionalist nor a signed-up member of the avant-garde. He eschews a consistency of style that could pigeonhole him into an '-ism'. He swaps and changes styles and media in no chronological order. He shows no obvious progression that could catergorise his work...

Dates: 2011

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

John Furnival: The Locative - Vocative Cases / Moxham, Bernard, curator ; Furnival A ; Furnival A ; Hockney D ; Finlay IH., 2012

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Identifier: CC-54561-990011

Scope and Contents Box is labeled Bernard Moxham. He is the curator of this second of three volumes. The contents include Topical Drawings, Kilpeck Drawings, Mazes, Eric Satie (and Music), Other Portraits and Related Works, Mail-Art Interviews. Bernard Moxham contributes the forward."Stephane Mallarme famously stated that everything existed to end up in a book. At that time,images were not as pervasive as they are today, nor did the computer exist. It would be argued that nowadays everything exists to end up as an image and, in this regard, John Furnival works mainly to channel information into visual form. Like his long term collaborator, Jonathan Williams ( an American poet, publisher, and bon vivant who took a profound, yet jocular, dislike to poetry-tasters), John Furnival regards as lamentable a contemporary art scene that fixates on mere fashion and naked commercialism. To John Furnival, art is neither grandiose nor commonplace but is a natural activity to be enjoyed and appreciated by all....

Dates: 2012

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

join the flag / Gerz, Jochen., 1968

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Identifier: CC-27512-28567

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A cluster of i's float above the word "jo ntheflag," an image that suggests there is a large group of individuals who wish to remain outside conventionality. In this image of the poem, three of the 'i's' show remnants of erasure. This differs from the smaller version No.495 that has different remnants of erasure. This typing is not included in Gerz's Catalogue Raisonne Volume III. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

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(unprocessed)

join the flag [small version] / Gerz, Jochen., 1968

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Identifier: CC-27453-28501

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A cluster of i's float above the word "jo ntheflag," an image that suggests there is a large group of individuals who wish to remain outside of conventionality. In this image of the poem, one of the 'i's' and a left-sided parenthesis symbol show remnants of erasure. This typing is designated No.495 in Gerz's Catalogue Raisonne Volume III. Another version on a larger sheet of paper has more erasures and is not included in the Catalogue Raisonne Volume III. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

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(unprocessed)

Joinville / de Oliveira, Caco., 1995

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Identifier: CC-28872-30194

Dates: 1995

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(unprocessed)

Joseph-Agricola Viala 1780-1893 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1994

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Identifier: CC-12596-12828

Scope and Contents This is a kinetic image of the name "Viala," a child-hero of the French revolution. Wikipedia: Joseph Agricol Viala (22 September 1780, Avignon "“ 6 July 1793, Caumont-sur-Durance) was a child hero in the French Revolutionary Army. Viala was living in Avignon when, in 1793, a federalist revolt broke out in the Midi after the fall of the Girondins in Paris. Supported by the British, the French Royalists allied themselves with the Federalists and took control of Toulon and Marseille. Faced with this uprising, the Revolutionary soldiers were forced to abandon Nîmes, Aix and Arles to the insurgents and fall back on Avignon. The inhabitants of Lambesc and Tarascon joined up with the rebels from Marseilles and together they headed for the Durance in order to march on Lyon, which had also revolted against the central government in Paris. The rebels hoped to destroy the Convention and put an end to the French Revolution. Joseph Agricol Viala was a nephew of Agricol Moureau, a Jacobin from...

Dates: 1994

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(unprocessed)

Joue [Illegible} / Anonymous., 1983

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Identifier: CC-33340-34978

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The same text was written on two clear sheets of acetate. When aligned in the frame between two sheets of glass, the registration between the two is slightly off from overlapping such that an optical image is created. The title in English is cheek. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Various Formats(unprocessed)

Journal of Ukrainian Graduate Studies. No.7/Fall., 1979

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Identifier: CC-08222-8383

Dates: 1979

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

Journal to the East / Gilbert, Gerry., 1977

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Identifier: CC-30659-32100

Dates: 1977

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

Joy / Depew, Wally., 1984

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Identifier: CC-52143-73262

Dates: 1984

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(unprocessed)

July 26 Movement Cuba Side 2, 1965

Item — Box 316: [Barcode: 31858072490810]

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 (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

July / Lawrence, Annette., 1994

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Identifier: CC-07678-7828

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Annette Lawrence is an African-American artist concerned with significant dates in her life. The drawing on a flattened, brown paper bag depicts spokes radiating from the center that consist of a series of two dates terminated with a large period. The dates mark the onset and termination of her menstrual periods from 1980-1994. Four thick vertical lines formed from her menstrual blood suggest an appearance of an incomplete cube, perhaps symbolizing absence of ovum fertilization. Lawrence was a participant in the Whitney Biennial 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

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(unprocessed)