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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6414 Collections and/or Records:

Earthquakes & Explorations, 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-30349-31764
Scope and Contents This book is about how language deals with the non-verbal and about linguistic resposes to painting. Scobie writes that the unity in this book lies "in its relation to a central complex of ideas - the interaction between language and painting: the specific case of Cubism; the extension of Cubism into Concrete Poetry." Scobie provides an excellent background of Cubism's beginnings with emphasis on the roles of Apollinaire and Daniel Kahnwieler, the art dealer. He discusses the placing of fragmented words into Cubist paintings as word-play and puns.In his chapter on concrete poetry, Scobie "attempts to situate the international movement of the 1950's and 1960's within larger cultural tendencies, such as the transition from modernism to post modernism," and he reviews the collaboration between bp Nichol, the Canadian poet and Barbara Caruso, the Canadian artist. In the following chapter, Scobie deals with sound and visual poetry and concludes this section with an analyses of the...
Dates: 1997
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)

Earthship / Ian Hamilton Finlay; Alistair Cant., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-12477-12704
Scope and Contents

Nineteen cards printed with text at their bottom edge were bent into a curved shape and stapled together. This poem object can be positioned in different configurations to create the image of a ship that in Finlay's vision might be adapted for travel on land. The text includes such words as "fin, bow, number, sail, etc." as locations for the various aids to make this "Earthship." The cardboard box has a few waterstains but the poem object is undamaged. According to Paul Robertson (catalogue: he patted), only 25 of these poem objects might have been actually made with the printed box. 3 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

Earthship / Ian Hamilton Finlay; Alistair Cant., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-12477-12704
Scope and Contents

Nineteen cards printed with text at their bottom edge were bent into a curved shape and stapled together. This poem object can be positioned in different configurations to create the image of a ship that in Finlay's vision might be adapted for travel on land. The text includes such words as "fin, bow, number, sail, etc." as locations for the various aids to make this "Earthship." The cardboard box has a few waterstains but the poem object is undamaged. According to Paul Robertson (catalogue: he patted), only 25 of these poem objects might have been actually made with the printed box. 3 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

East-Ender, 1974

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (3 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491347]
Identifier: CC-17767-18136
Dates: 1974
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 / Bob Cobbing

Eat - Fat, 1992

 Item — Box 296: [Barcode: 31858072460755]
Identifier: CC-00789-808
Scope and Contents

The work consists of two large painted letters, "A" & "T." The third Letter, an "F" can be converted to an "E" by adding a fourth piece, a bar to the "F." In that way, the sculpture can be read as EAT or FAT. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
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

Eat Seer / Varney, Edwin., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-50384-71452
Dates: 1975
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)

ebauche d'une mosaique / Dautricourt, Joelle., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-47661-68675
Dates: 1975
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)

[ecart] (120763) / giocester (200863) / maximus (160963) / whatcowhat (160963) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-57867-10001119
Scope and Contents

This typing consists of four poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963
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)

echantillon: henri chopin (220264) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-09848-10042
Scope and Contents

This depicts Houedard's notion of an "echantillons" (English = sampling) of Henri Chopin's typewriter poetry styles. This work was reproduced in the Dom Sylvester houedard book edited by Nicola Simpson, "Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter: The Life and Work of Dom Sylvester Houedard" and is stored in the binder labeled DSH London 2012. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964
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)

Echo Book / King, Ronald., 1996

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Identifier: CC-31248-32718
Scope and Contents

Each page contains the words "book echo" and "echo book" on the verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
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)

Echoes Series: D.H. Lawrences Autumn Rain as G.Apollinaire's Il Pleut / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Apollinaire G., 1995

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Identifier: CC-12964-13256
Scope and Contents

Finlay laid out D.H. Lawrence's poem, "Autumn Rain" in the style of Apollinaire's Il Pleut. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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)

Eclipse: Concrete Poems 1963-1971, 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-28761-30068
Scope and Contents

For the most part, each page depicts a single printed reproduction of a typewriter or typeset poem by the author. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972
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)

Eclipse: Concrete Poems 1963-1971, 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-28762-30069
Scope and Contents

For the most part, each page depicts a single printed reproduction of a typewriter or typeset poem by the author. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972
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)

Eclipse I, 1969

 Item — Folder 78: [Barcode: 31858072538378]
Identifier: CC-61275-50400
Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Eclipse II, 1969

 Item — Folder 78: [Barcode: 31858072538378]
Identifier: CC-61276-50401
Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Eclipse III , 1969

 Item — Folder 78: [Barcode: 31858072538378]
Identifier: CC-61277-50402
Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Ecosystems Collapsing / Nettelbeck, F.A.., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-34369-36065
Scope and Contents

Nettelbeck intersperses his own poetry with selections using the cut-up technique. Nettelbeck has drawn in red ink a simple autoportrait on the colophon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
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)

Ecosystems Collapsing / Nettelbeck, F.A.., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-05658-5765
Scope and Contents

This unpublished poem deals with environmental hazards. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985
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)

Ecosystems Collapsing / Nettelbeck, F.A.., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-05644-5751
Scope and Contents

Nettelbeck intersperses his own poetry with selections using the cut-up technique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
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)

Ecriture / Burgaud, Christian., 1992

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Identifier: CC-23580-24025
Dates: 1992
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)

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