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Manifesto

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 254 Collections and/or Records:

Oulipo Laboratory / Queneau, Raymond ; Calvino, Italio ; Fournel, Paul ; Jouet, Jacques ; Berge, Claude ; Harry Mathews, translator ; Ian White, translator ; Perec G ; Pastior O ; Metail M ; Duchamp M ; Arnaud N., 1995

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Identifier: CC-29411-30776
Scope and Contents Oulipo is an acronym for the French word meaning "Workshop for Potential Literature." The group was formed in 1960 by Raymond Queneau, a celebrated novelist and poet who was not an inconsequential amateur mathematician and his friend, Francois Le Lionnais, a chessmaster who shared his friend's love for mathematics. Queneau had been struggling with a literary task of immense complexity, his 100 trillion poems and asked Le Lionnais for practical assistance.When they discusses this problem, their conversations turned to the possibility of incorporating mathematical structures into the process of literary creation. Queneau had ready been doing this in his novels, but no one noticed until he mentioned it. Queneau and Le Lionnais soon widened their investigations beyond mathematics to include all forms of artificial restriction in literature. As an Oulipean term, restriction means a constraining method or system or rule that can be precisely defined. All literature is limited by the...
Dates: 1995

Participacion. No.5/Oct / Clemente Padin, editor., 1984

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Identifier: CC-38585-40493
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This periodical features announcements of mail art activities and political poems dealing with democratic oppression in Latin America. It is stored in the box with Padin's publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Per la Scoperta di una Zona di Immagini / Corvi-Mora, Camillo; Manzoni, Piero; Sordini, Ettore; Zecca, Guiseppe., 1956

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Identifier: CC-19995-20383
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Corvi toured the Archive during a business trip to Miami in 1984 and was shown a poem written about him in Cervo Volante as well as Futurist works. He was amazed by the poem which was unknown to him and invited the Sackners to stay in Piacenza. There Corvi mentioned his friendship with Manzoni with whom he performed club dates. He retrieved this Manifesto which he had not seen in 30 years and recalled the intensity of writing it. He reread it stating, "now I don't understand a word it says!" This is Manzoni's first manifsto (Manzoni, Derbylius 2005). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1956

Photostatic Magazine. No.38/Oct / Lloyd Dunn, editor ; Was E ; Berry J ; Bille P ; Grumman B ; Huth G ; Pawson M ; Home S ; Bloch M ; Helsem M ; Wiloch T ; Hill C ; Eberly J ; Ackerman A ; Dunn L ; Brannen J ; Weinman P., 1989

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Identifier: CC-04736-4825
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Grumman contributes a critical essay on the typewriter poems of Jonathan Brannen. The loose sheet is a political poem protesting racism by Paul Weinman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Poeme Put-Put / Hubaut, Joel., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28472-29745
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This poster printed on red paper has several statements beginning with "je voudrais" which translated to English means "I wish." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Poesia Concreta in Brasile / De Campos, Augusto; Pignatari, Decio; De Campos, Haroldo; deBarros L., 1991

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Identifier: CC-55956-9999424
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Leonora de Barros and Paula Mattioli curated the exhibion of these prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

poetry I shall not make, 2003

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Identifier: CC-43334-45394
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Each page depicts a negative statement printed in a large bold font with packing between letters tight and spaces between words loose until the final page with a positive statement. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Position I Du Movement International / Garnier, Pierre, editor; Claus CF; Finlay IH; Yasuo F; Furnival J; Garnier I; Garnier P; Gomringer E; Grogerova B; Hirsal J; Hollo A; Houedard DS; Jandl E; Kitasono K; VanDerLinde F; Mon F; Morgan E; Novak L; Schimuzu T; Vinholes L; DeVree P; Williams E; Azeredo R; Bense M; Braga E; DeCampos A; DeCampos H; Chamie M; Chopin H; Dohl R; Fujitomi Y; Grunewald JL; Harig L; Henneberg C; Petronio A; Pignatari D; Pino WD; Xisto P; Dufrene F; Heidsieck B., 1965

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Identifier: CC-28179-29344
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This manifesto on the "New Poetry" was drawn up by an international group of poets who are listed as contributors. Other poets working in this field are cited in the contributor field. According to this document, the new poetry can be classified as concrete poetry, phonetic poetry, objective poetry, visual poetry, and sound poetry, Othe related poetries include cybernetic poetry, serial poetry, permutations, word sounds, etc. The major periodicals publishing new poetry are as follows: 1) Germany: Rot, Texturen; 2) England: Poor Old Tired Horse; 3) Belgium: De Tafelronde; 4) Brazil: Invencao, Praxis; 5) France: Cinqueme Saison, Les Lettres; 6) Holland: Kentering; 7) Japan: Vou; 8) Switzerland: Konkrete Poesie; 9) Austria: Manuskripte. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Position I of International for Spatial Poetries / Garnier, Pierre; Dom Sylvester Houedard, translator., 1963

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Identifier: CC-10189-10390
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This manuscript was typed by Dom Sylvester Houedard, the translator of Garier's manifesto and is stored in Garniker's box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963