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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6454 Collections and/or Records:

Projected Buildings 50 m. High / Chopin, Henri., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-17403-17768
Scope and Contents

This work was commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. The typed phrases repetitively utilized by Chopin in linear and Moire arrangements, reading from top to bottom include No Smoking, Breath Of Life, Poisonous Danger, Poison, and Yes. The impossibility of constructing a building with sound engineering principles designed in this image may reflect Chopin's frustrations with the smoking public. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Proletarian, 1969

 Item — Folder 30: [Barcode: 31858072459898]
Identifier: CC-15695-16024
Scope and Contents

The letters formed at the top of the repetitious text by utilization of negative space spell BRIER. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Proof from Noise for Sloane (Noise 1) / Maret, Russell., 1995

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Identifier: CC-06680-6799
Scope and Contents

This print depicts the word, Mystery, in red ink, over a letters and the word, Mystery, in mirror written presentation, printed in gray. Only one copy of Noise 1 was made. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Proofs , 1991

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Identifier: CC-17975-18345
Scope and Contents

The pages are "saturated" with proofs of "discarded titles, rejected illustrations, botched typographics" from an abandoned book, "Sic Transport." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Proposal: Eino Ruutsalo - Letterpictures / Leiber, Steven ; Ruutsalo E., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42397-44407
Scope and Contents

This catalogue features the prints of Eino Ruutsalo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Proposal: Ian Hamilton Finlay - Poem/ Prints / Leiber, Steven ; Furnival J., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-42367-44377
Scope and Contents

This catalogue features the prints of Ian Hamilton Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Propuestas Poeticas, Libros Objeto, Poesia Proceso / Ferrando, Bartolome ; Miccini E., 1990

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Identifier: CC-11232-11447
Scope and Contents

Contains reproduction of "Poema Semiotic" 1989, a four panel poem composed of white painted symbols on black painted wood, a work held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

prosa, konstellationen, montagen dialektgedichte studien, 1970

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Identifier: CC-24328-24780
Scope and Contents

This book includes two works of Achleitner, "o- i-studie"(1960) & "schwer schwerz" (1960), the manuscripts of which are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Prose of the Trans-Canada / Beaulieu, Derek., 2011

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Identifier: CC-52423-73548
Scope and Contents

According to the publisher, "in 1913 Blaise Cendrars created his monumental Prose of the Trans-Siberian, a milestone in the history of artists books and visual poetry. When the intended edition of 150 copies was laid end-to-end they measured the same length as the height of the symbol of Parisian Modernity, the Eiffel Tower. derek beaulieu's prodigious Prose of the Trans-Canada responds to Cendrars' legacy in a 16" x 52" visual poem. When all 150 copies of this limited edition are placed end-to-end, the resultant length is the same as the symbol of Calgarian Modernity, the Calgary Tower. A towering moment in beaulieu's on-going exploration of letraset as a medium for concrete poetry, Prose of the Trans-Canada, issued as Moments Cafe No. 8, is published in a strictly limited edition of 150 copies." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

Prose of the Trans-Canada / Beaulieu, Derek., 2010

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Identifier: CC-50795-71873
Scope and Contents

This piece, one of the largest artistic collages made with letraset is reminiscent of a Jackson Pollack abstract expressionistic painting in its rhythms with letters and symbols. It is also depicted as a fold-out page in Beaulieu's book, "Swarms," that is also held by the Sackner Archive. The title is taken from The Trans-Siberiean Railroad by Blasie Cendrars and Sonya Delauney. The Sackner Archive contains the print edition of this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Prose Pudka Mets / Kasemets, Udo ; Cage J ; Jirgens K., 1980

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Identifier: CC-31855-33377
Scope and Contents

Edited by Karl Jirgens. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Prosthetics of Poetry: The Art of Bob Cobbing / Mottram, Eric., 1973

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Identifier: CC-38269-40165
Scope and Contents

Mottram discusses the career of Bob Cobbing from his first sound poetry performance at the ICA London in 1965, his organization of writers and poets beyond the traditional literary boundaries, and his relationship to the avant garde poets, musicians and theorists of the 1960's and 1970's. The panels "Spontaneous appealinair contemprate apollinare" that are depicted in this pamphlet are held by the Sackner Archive.This piece is reprinted from Second Aeon magazine No.16-17, 1973 and is also Designated Studies in Concrete Poetry No.1. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Protokoly, 1966

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Identifier: CC-43054-45101
Scope and Contents

This is a collection of literary essays, plays, concrete and typewriter poems by the later President of the Czechoslovakian Republic. The concrete and typewriter poems are included a section entitled, "Antikody," also published as book in 1993 and held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

protracted type, 2009

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Identifier: CC-49960-71019
Scope and Contents

This book presents varied examples of Vassilakis' visual, concrete poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Prove di Linearita / Accame, Vincenzo., 1970

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Identifier: CC-27149-27624
Scope and Contents

In this book, Accame poetically demonstrates his theories of the point and the line. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

PSIA / Antunes, Arnaldo., 1991

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Identifier: CC-26322-26789
Scope and Contents

This is the 3rd edition of the book first published in 1986. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991