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Concrete poetry

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6454 Collections and/or Records:

[Review of Poemografias] / curry, jw; Aguiar F; Pestana S., 1985

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Identifier: CC-20743-21147
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This is a favorable review of this book that surveys Portuguese concrete poetry and its antecedents; the book is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Review of Poemografias edited by Fernando Aguiar and Silvestre Pestana / curry, jw; Aguiar F., 1985

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Identifier: CC-20628-21030
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This article appeared in What #5. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Revolutie, 1968

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Identifier: CC-16007-16348
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This is among the most widely reproduced concrete poems of Paul De Vree. The word "Revolutie," printed in a circular way in red color has been fractured across its middle and placed slightly to the right of its top half to give an optical sense of movement. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Revolution / Gerz, Jochen., 1971

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Identifier: CC-27448-28496
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The wooden blocks spell REVOLUT with three final letters, 'd' 'f' & 'n' separated and turned as if to revolt against themselves! This is a sepia toned photograph of a unique three dimensional book object designated No.609 in Gerz's Catalogue Raisonee Volume III. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Revolution/Virtue/Eloquence/Transparency / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Stirling, Annet., 1993

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Identifier: CC-12429-12656
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The work is composed of 4 prints each a single word formed from a collage of packets of commercial plant seeds. The height of all the prints is the same with the width smaller or larger depending on the number of the letters in the word. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Rhapsodomancy / Eckhoff, Kevin Mepherson., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51342-72431
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In Rhapsodomancy, Eckhoff remembers Pitman Shorthand and Unifon, a 40 character phonetic alphabet. "Using these two phonic alphabets as image, his poems tease out a relationship between voice and words and visual poetry." According to Geof Huth, "His is a visual poetry at the edge of the textual and fully visual, resplendant with fragmentary bits of language and formal games filled with humor...We learn from this book that play is the deepest form of learning." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

rhythmus r / Ruehm, Gerhard., 1968

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Identifier: CC-27225-27705
Scope and Contents The text which deals with plays on the letter 'r' was first written in Morbisch in 1958.Sims Reed Jamuary 2014 eMail: "rhythmus r", is a key work of Gerhard Ruhm, a program of linguistic concretism implemented consistently through all the senses. This printed version uses the mechanical flexibility of the typewriter and communicates the associative content of the written word by the spatial arrangement of words beginning with the letter 'R'. When read, the eye wanders up and down the pages, columns of R-words are printed close to page edges, the leitmotif of "regen rauscht" or 'rain rushing' cascading to the page sides. The acoustic recorded version is loud - Ruhm producing torrents of rain, paper tears, with listeners following the 'R' verb series ""rauscht reibt rast" (Roar, rub, rest). With the artist book, Ruhm has also attempted to produce a similar acoustic sensation with one of the pages being a sheet of abrasive pink sandpaper. The printing on the verso of the sandpaper...
Dates: 1968

Ricercari / Accame, Vincenzo., 1968

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Identifier: CC-24323-24775
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Wikipedia Vincenzo Accame ( Loano , 1932 - Milan , 1999 ) was a poet , essayist and translatorof Italian. His poetry, essentially rooted in the context of writing, it caters to the visual arts in a constant search and analysis of the possibility of a relationship between word and image, and relationships, creativity, aesthetics, including various types of signs. Such research is also the fundamental theme of his work as an essayist. In 1964 he was the editor for the magazine neoavanguardia Malebolgia . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Richard Tipping: Versions: Perversions, Subversions and Verse / Johnson, Ken., 1999

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Identifier: CC-31777-33291
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This is a review of Richard Tipping's exhibition in Ubu Gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Right / Left / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

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Identifier: CC-57140-10000476
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This page contains R-L on the left side and the letters eft and ight on the right side so that the words Left, Reft, Light and Right can be created. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

rimbaudelaire / Cameron, Charles., 2013

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Identifier: CC-58058-10001304
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Composed on an IBM Selectric typewriter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2013