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Concrete poetry

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6414 Collections and/or Records:

Concrete Poetry / Linton, Arnold ; Gomringer E ; Kierzkowski R., 1975

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Identifier: CC-49004-70042
Scope and Contents Unable to identify this poet in a Google search. Russell Kierzkowski contributes a brief history and definition of concrete poetry as quoted as follows. "Concrete poetry has taken root in the literary soil of the United States. Small presses are attempting to establish and develop this fresh medium. Concrete poetry is a positive response to an earnest demand for adequate methods of communication. For advanced methods of thought, typography and design are the essential tools of this international.rnovement that is exercising the many dimensions of poetry which have long been suppressed by the antiquated hierarchy of literature. Arnold Linton is a local artist concerned with this emerging art. A free-lance graphic designer and typographer, he utilizes his press - the hermit press by participating in the movement to validate concrete poetry as an artform. The hermit press is one of the many small presses making an important contribution in addition to the work in concrete poetry the...
Dates: 1975

Concrete Poetry / Lucie-Smith, Edward; Apollinaire G; Schwitters K; Garnier P; Finlay IH; Morgan E; Rimbaud A., 1966

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Identifier: CC-35946-37710
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This a critical text dealing with issues after the exhibition, "Between Poetry and Painting" at the ICA in London 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Concrete Poetry / Niikuni, Seiichi., 1979

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Identifier: CC-38341-40240
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This book consists of a critical analysis of Niikuni's work and a selection of his concrete poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Concrete Poetry / Timm Ulrichs., 1972 - 1977

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Identifier: CC-43835-45931
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This work is made from concrete in the shape of a book. The front molded letters read "Concrete Poetry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972 - 1977

Concrete Poetry / Timm Ulrichs., 1972 - 1977

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Identifier: CC-43835-45931
Scope and Contents

This work is made from concrete in the shape of a book. The front molded letters read "Concrete Poetry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972 - 1977

Concrete Poetry, Works on Paper from the Collection of Stanislaw Drozdz / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Rypson P., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34988-36707
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This catalogue depicts a wide range of Finlay's poems on cards and prints along with several critical analytic essays. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Concrete Poetry x6, 2002

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Identifier: CC-42924-44967
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The dedication reads, "to Marvin Sackner - The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry MIAMI USA - whose colossal collection, stockpiled over many obsessive years guarantees that this form of poetry beloved of many dedicated exponents world-wide will in all good time become visible." The first page provides Claire's definition of concrete poetry repeated 4 1/2 times on the page. Each subsequent page was created by overprinting through altering the position of the page in the ink jet printer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Concrete! The Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Sara Sackner, producer, director, editor; Andrew Behar, executive producer, editor; T Phillips; J Drucker; A Dupont; T Riley; C Nava; A Dreyblatt; H Shams; RK Sackner; MA Sackner., 2003

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Identifier: CC-46092-48802
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On this DVD that runs 72 minutes, "Ruth and Marvin Sackner share their love of words and images with an intimate tour ot their Miami Beach home/museum - the largest private collection of its kind. Over sixty-thousand objects from around the world speak volumes about a compulsive and joyful lifeof collecting art, poetry, and artists books." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Concrete! The Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Sara Sackner, producer, director, editor; Andrew Behar, executive producer, editor; T Phillips; J Drucker; A Dupont; T Riley; C Nava; A Dreyblatt; H Shams; RK Sackner; MA Sackner., 2003

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Identifier: CC-46092-48802
Scope and Contents

On this DVD that runs 72 minutes, "Ruth and Marvin Sackner share their love of words and images with an intimate tour ot their Miami Beach home/museum - the largest private collection of its kind. Over sixty-thousand objects from around the world speak volumes about a compulsive and joyful lifeof collecting art, poetry, and artists books." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

[Concrete & Visual Poems] / Murphy, Peter., 1983

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Identifier: CC-62507-47660
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Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispu, California. Exhibition was curated by Karl Kempton. Four of these poems have been separately catalogued. iz. Amazing Tease, Scrambled Egg, You And I Were Missing, and Obscure Dance. You And I Were Missing was included in Peter Murphy's book 'Seen & Unseen' (1975). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Concrete Words and Earthy Images / Ingleby, Richard; Finlay IH; Finlay S., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33779-35444
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This is a review of a photographic exhibition of Ian Hamilton Finlay's garden in Little Sparta at the Portrait Gallery. The reviewer describes the garden as arguably one of the great art works of art ever made on Scottish soil. "Certainly, it's the greatest ever made of Scottish soil - the realisation of one man's vision of a classical garden in the midst of an untamed land." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999