Visual art

This consists of a set of pictures, one for each letter of the alphabet, with an attempt to include as many images as possible in the picture denoted by the first letter of its corresponding word. The book contains over 8000 items in its 26 pictures. The author also describes his working process in making the pictures, He includes an image of himself in all the pictures. The soft cover book accompanying the book lists all the images used for the puzzle book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

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)

the umbrellas of mr parapluie and other stories, 1985

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Identifier: CC-52148-73267

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The line drawings and cover were done by John Sweet. -- 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 (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS / Stephen Morris

The Voluptuous Gardener: The Collected Art and Writing of Joe Rosenblatt - 1973-1996, 1996

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Identifier: CC-43367-45429

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A forward was written by Michael Bell traces the life and work of Rosenblatt. Bell writes, "The drawings range in style from the simplest, almost whimsical scratches on the paper, expecially some of the latest observations on the shoreline of Vancouver Island, to highly compendia of signs and symbols, richly worked in obsessive surface patterns." -- 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 (processed) / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS / Joe Rosenblatt

The Watts Memorial Chapel-Compton-Surrey first Published in The Architectural Review, 1961 / Furnival, John., 1998

Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]

Identifier: CC-30121-31519

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This is a reprinting of the first commercial print that Furnival made after his graduation from the Royal Academy of Art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

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 / TO BE PROCESSED / John Furnival

The Weather House and Other Works / Cutts, Simon, editor ; Gardner I ; Lucie-Smith E ; Torok K ; Bann S ; Fidler M ; Duncalf S ; Skidmore S ; Cutts S ; Mills S ; Roberts K., 1975

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Identifier: CC-18111-18483

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: Exhibit Catalogs(unprocessed)

The World below the Window, 1998

Item — Box 615: [Barcode: 31858073143871]

Identifier: CC-29960-31351

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This poem was composed and printed in celebration of the 80th birthday of Bill Smith and the publication of his collected poems by the same title. The small engraving by George Wingate illustrates the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

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

The World / Fierens, Luc; Altemus R., 2007

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Identifier: CC-46368-49093

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Each print consists of a visual and visual/verbal based poem printed from a collage. Each contains a previously published photograph of holacaust subjects. Reed Altemus is the publisher of Live Matter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

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)

The Writer's Brush; Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers / Friedman, Donald ; Gass W ; Updike J ; Acker K ; Apollinaire G ; Artaud A ; Breton A ; Bukowski C ; Corso G ; Ferlinghetti L ; Ford CH ; Ginsberg A ; Gorey E ; Jacob M ; Ionesco E ; Jones D ; Kerouac J ; Lear E ; Lethem J ; Lewis WP ; McClure M ; Michaux H ; Miller H ; Nabakov V ; Patchen K ; Plath S ; Prevert J ; Proust M ; Rexroth K ; Rimbaud A ; Simic C ; Steadman R ; Thomas D ; Verlaine P ; Vonnegut KJr ; Arp H ; Baraka A ; Blake W ; Burroughs WS ; Carroll L ; Cocteau J ; cummings ee ; Darger H ; Davenport G ; DosPassos J ; Dostoevsky F ; Duncan R ; Jarry A ; Kafka F ; Mayakovsky V ; McCullough C ; Smith Pa ; Spiegelman A ; Yeats WB ; Eggers D ; Marquez GG ; Joans T ; Katchor B ; Kesey K ; Lax R ; Merton T ; Perec G ; Queneau R ; Silverstein S ; Ware C ; Wakoski D., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47385-68382

Scope and Contents William H. Gass and John Updike contributed critical essays. Publishers Weekly 2007 "In this hefty volume, novelist Friedman takes a look at the artwork of more than 200 authors who found other avenues for expression in drawing, painting or sculpting. Aside from the familiar illustrations of Edward Gorey, Beatrix Potter and (to a lesser extent) Kurt Vonnegut, Friedman also unearths work from literary heavyweights past and present, including the Bronte sisters, Herman Hesse, Rudyard Kipling, Colleen McCullough, Vladamir Nabokov, John Updike and Jonathan Lethem. Each entry offers a short biography and passages from journals, letters or interviews illuminating the author's reasons for picking up pen or paint; according to Elizabeth Bishop, for instance, writers make a "frequent complaint that painting is more fun than writing." Examples of authors' art, one or two from each subject, are handsomely reproduced in vivid color alongside the text. Friedman also covers a long list of...

Dates: 2007

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)

The Written and the Diagrammatic: Paintings and Drawings 1965 - 77, 1978

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Identifier: CC-48512-69541

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Smith states in an interview with Alan Bowness that his paintings "can be thought of as visual poetry, but they are not to be confused with concrete poetry. It is essential that my paintings are only visually understood. They are sound scores concerned with harmonies, discords and pauses...I seem now to be able to build up a visual written language that can deal with any experience of sensation. A written page can be remade in the same way that an artist remakes an object. WORDS BECOME OBJECTS." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

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

The Yewdales / Furnival, John., 1993

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Identifier: CC-13171-13472

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This print from the Nailsworth series depicts a cottage in the town where the author W.H. Davies lived. The latter glowers from the doorway. In The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

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)

Then and Now: Fifty Years of Assemblage, 2003

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Identifier: CC-47234-49977

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George Herms was an important artist is the California assemblage movement of the 1960's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

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

Theorizing Modernism, 1994

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Identifier: CC-16401-16751

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Part of the series Interpretations in Art, this book is subtitled "Visual Art and the Critical Tradition." -- 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: Books (unprocessed)