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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6414 Collections and/or Records:

Ecritures tome 1 / Lapointe, Paul-Marie., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-52945-74087
Scope and Contents The slipcase is common to tomes 1 & 2; these books as catalogued separately. The son of a banker, Antoine Lapointe, and his wife, Antoinette Rousseau Lapointe, Joseph- Auguste-Julien-Paul-Marie Lapointe was born 22 September 1929 at Saint-Felicien in the Lac Saint-Jean region of Quebec. He studied at the Seminaire de Chicoutimi and at the College Saint-Laurent and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Montreal. After leaving school, he became a journalist with Evenement-Journal in Quebec City in 1950, staying there for four years. In Quebec he married Gisele Verreault, an artist, on 29 November 1952; they have two children, Michele and Frederic. In 1955 Lapointe moved to La Presse in Montreal, working with the paper until 1960. With Jean-Louis Gagnon he helped found the Nouveau-Journal in Montreal in 1961, occupying the post of director of information. Moving to Le Magazine Maclean, serving as general editor from 1963 to 1968, he then joined Radio-Canada, where he has in turn been head...
Dates: 1980

Ecritures tome 2 / Lapointe, Paul-Marie., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-52946-74088
Scope and Contents

The slipcase is common to tomes 1 & 2; these books are catalogued separately. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Edge / Fencott, P.C.., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-11220-11435
Scope and Contents

300 copies were inset into Rawz magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Edition Ubu: Vers ions: Perversions Subversions and Verse. No.16 / Richard Kelly Tipping ; Boxer E., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-31588-33086
Scope and Contents

The license plate that reads "vers ions and Richard Tipping 99" was designed by Eileen Boxer. The gallery also sent 12 installation, colored photographs of the exhibition along with the check list that is stored in the box with this item. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Editions Ottezec: ATMYFP 31936. No.7 / Cozette de Charmoy., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-16287-16633
Scope and Contents

This book collects a selection of de Charmoy's published poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

eé (and it is), 1967

 Item — Box 309: [Barcode: 31858073143632]
Identifier: CC-52480-73607
Scope and Contents

This is also designated No.2 of the series "fonemi plastici 1967." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Ego / Klauke, Michael., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-08015-8173
Scope and Contents

The letters of the word "EGO" are drawn in a broken apart, constructivistic-like image to convey the implicit meaning, "Fractured Ego." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Eiffel Tower / Furnival, John., 1968

 Item — Folder 39: [Barcode: 31858072459997]
Identifier: CC-13320-13621
Scope and Contents

This depicts the Eiffel tower as a shaped poem. The text is drawn by Furnival in his unique calligraphic style. A major portion of the poem consists of repetitive printed words, e.g., down under, stale, etage, escalation, etc. On the left side cluste word "rain" are slanted downward over the tower to emulate Apollinaire's famous poem. The rain falls on a cluster of the word "people" assembled at the base of the tower. The poem was reprinted in 1994 and both versions are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Eiffel Tower / Furnival, John., 1966

 Item — Folder 39: [Barcode: 31858072459997]
Identifier: CC-30366-31781
Scope and Contents

This print is depicted on page 43 of Furnival's book "Lost for Words" (2011). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

[Eight Eccentric Horizontal Circles] / Kluge, Jana., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-33947-35619
Scope and Contents

The almost micrographic handwriting appears to depict words but on close examination, the letters are indecipherable. The dry board mount of the drawing has the same dimensions as the drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Eight Letter Poems / Cobbing, Bob., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-20578-20976
Scope and Contents

The prints of these collages, also held by the Sackner Archive, were published by Writers Forum in 1982. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981