Visual poetry

Cross-Canada Writers' Quarterly. No.3-4 / Ted Plantos, editor ; curry jw ; Copithorne J ; Nichol bp ; Gorman L ; Basmajian S ; UU D ; bissett b ; Evason G ; lefler P ; Wah F ; Riddell J ; Shikatani G ; Power N ; Truhlar R., 1987

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Identifier: CC-20774-21179

Scope and Contents

Includes several essays on the historic beginnings of Canadian concrete, visual, and sound poetry. The Archive for the essay by jw curry, Defying Linear Deification... is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

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)

Cross International Fine Art Exhibition, The / Baroni V ; Lakner S ; Mittendorf H ; Olbrich JO ; Nakamura K ; Fierens L ; Turner A ; Dellafiora D ; spence p ; Keppler R ; Cohen R ; Szombathy B ; Maggi R ; Strada G ; Dammann M ; Bertrand D ; Dudek-Durer A ; Keppler R ; Lagerdorf M ; Biro J., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35770-37527

Scope and Contents

All the works in the exhibition were made in the shape of a cross. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

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)

Crossing the River When the Bridge Comes to It / Cole, David., 1986

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Identifier: CC-19756-20143

Dates: 1986

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

Crossing the Sea of Ink / Seille, Genevieve ; Cardinal R., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34955-36670

Scope and Contents In these paintings, more vivid colors begin to appear in Seille's work. Roger Cardinal contributes a particularly sensitive essay about Seille's personality. On the WEB, Roger Cardinal's essay: If writing remains one of our most cherished modes of communication, then it is because we associate the effort of transcribing words onto paper with a genuine desire for clarity and contact. Often of course, a person's handwriting is ungainly or crabbed, yet we still attribute purpose to its markings. Messages matter to us, and we are seldom blase when we trip over a phrase in a loved one's postcard and struggle to disentangle the scrawl letter by letter. What we cannot decipher, we gawp at in bemusement. Such bemusement remains an essential ingredient in the artmaking of Geneviève Seille. As a child at school, she fell in love with the sensation of her nib scudding across the paper during handwriting classes. "It was a magical moment", she recalls, "the quiet only interrupted by the...

Dates: 2000

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)

Crossroads / Essaydi, Lalla., 2008

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Identifier: CC-48788-69822

Scope and Contents

The artist photographs Arabic people in their native garments and overlays Arabic calligraphy over their bodies and in the background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

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)

Cruciverba / Guillot, Anna., 1986

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Identifier: CC-10054-10253

Scope and Contents

The text is written on painted white crumpled paper mounted on wooden board. The lower portion has typed text in Italian and English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

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)