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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6407 Collections and/or Records:

Happy Birthday Marvin! / Helmes, Scott., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-35684-37434
Scope and Contents

The letters of the greeting are scatttered on the page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Happy Birthday Marvin / Scott Helmes., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-30930-32385
Scope and Contents

The puzzle was started in 1989 and completed in 1998. Helmes' birthday message is rubberstamped in black ink letters with abstract ink swirls. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Happy Birthday Marvin / Scott Helmes., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-30930-32385
Scope and Contents

The puzzle was started in 1989 and completed in 1998. Helmes' birthday message is rubberstamped in black ink letters with abstract ink swirls. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

[Happy Birthday] / Paresky, Laura., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-40970-42949
Scope and Contents

This 70th birthday greeting was designed and printed by Laura Paresky for Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

[Happy Birthday Ruth) / Scott Helmes., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-38863-40789
Scope and Contents

This work was a greeting for Ruth Sackner's 66th birthday, each envelope containing one letter of a jigsaw puzzle of the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

[Happy Birthday Ruth) / Scott Helmes., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-38863-40789
Scope and Contents

This work was a greeting for Ruth Sackner's 66th birthday, each envelope containing one letter of a jigsaw puzzle of the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Happy New Year! / Merks, Jane ; Bartl, Peter., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-33812-35478
Scope and Contents

The year '2000' is made up of a large printed '2', a watercolored '0', a lipstick printed '0' and a '0' burnt out from the paper. The aphorism reads, "Decide what's important and do it!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Harald im Profil / Hosselbarth, Kai., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-30301-31710
Scope and Contents

The subject is a profile of a man with each part of the head printed as a word, e.g., Nase Nase Nase to form the nose. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Hare Krishmas / Williams, Emmett., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-32196-33747
Scope and Contents

This greeting consists of the title printed in a highly stylized, yellow colored, calligraphic text on a blue background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Harm / Papenfus-Gorek, Bert ; Jandl E., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-28229-29397
Scope and Contents

Ernst Jand contributed a brief introductory essay. The sole shaped poem depicts a hanging apparatus. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985