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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

Typogramme / Stankowski, Anton ; Heissenbuttel H., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-02342-2382
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a concrete poem, generally of one or two words, in bold typeface. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Typograms / Bridgwater, Patrick ; Indiana R ; Mon F ; Williams E ; Apollinaire G ; Mallarme S ; Roth D ; DeCampos A ; Gomringer E ; Furnival J ; Mayer HJ ; Finlay IH ; Graham Ri., 1968

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Identifier: CC-21401-21812
Scope and Contents

The introduction was written by Rigby Graham. This book is stored with Jos C. Brilliantes book, "Sonnets in Concrete volume one." Bridgewater in other publications also spelled his name as Bridgwater. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Typographycs / Keller, Ronald., 1994

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Identifier: CC-08151-8312
Scope and Contents

Consists of handset, metal type, alphabetical texts with ornaments printed on different composition papers utilizing such typefaces as Helvetica, Bembo, Caslon, Centaur, Garamond, Bernhard Gothic Light, Modern Roman, News Gothic, Plantin, Chandelier, Cheltenham, Traftin, Packard, and Puritan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

U Temp est Us, 1991

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Identifier: CC-02421-2461
Scope and Contents

The work consists of two flat panels of green colored plexiglas that enclose a clear panel held together by four plastic housings for disposable hypodermic needles. Seagram placed large, paper-cut, black and white, letters of varied size onto the clear plexiglas panel to form the text. It begins "U Tempest Us Nota Wit Ut Tel A Vision Air Y... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Uber das Ablesen von Tauben [Vol.5] / Bohmler, Claus., 1983

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Identifier: CC-21367-21778
Scope and Contents

A book of text and images dealing with color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Uber die Elefantin 'Mucke!' / Dieckhoff, Artur Hans-George., 1987

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Identifier: CC-15390-15714
Scope and Contents

This is the second edition of the book first published in an edition of 30 copies in 1978. Its theme is the Elephant. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Uber: "Lab-Art ist" / Schmidt, Burghart ; Neville Plaice, translator ; Daniel P ; Derrida J., 1993

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Identifier: CC-27671-28756
Scope and Contents

The book reprints an in depth lecture delivered by Schmidt on the occasion of Peter Daniel's exhibition of Lab-Art. He states that Daniel's subject matter is located between literature and pictorial art. In reviewing Daniel's Ein Sof, a Kabbalistic book, and Lab-Art, Schmidt traces the development of the awareness of language since the nineteenth century, relating the influence of Ferdinand Saussure and his emphasis on phonetics, Walter Benjamin and Jaques Derrida and their theories of language. In relation to Daniel's use of collage, Schmidt quotes the Kabbalah concerning the origin of letters, "He [God] outlined them, dug them out, weighed them, combined and transposed them."The print, Lab-Art, An open manifesto, designed by Daniel, that is held by the Sackner Archive, is reproduced in the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Uberschriften / Nasshan, Reinhold, editor ; Herbst Wo ; Hafner J ; Bernhard O ; Zitzmann P ; Zapf H., 2001

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Identifier: CC-52433-73559
Scope and Contents

This book depicts examples of the work of five Nurnberg letterpress publishing houses based upon the typoraphy of Hermann Zapf. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

(Uh..One & Uh..Two) Random Sightings, 2001

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Identifier: CC-48654-69686
Scope and Contents

Some of the pages inside untitled(1964) were based upon images used for levy's 6 cleveland prints (renegade press, 1964). There were 5 copies produced probably each one different from the other. This edition reprints copy #2. Reprints: Book 14T (1966), The Para-Concrete Manifesto (1966), Untitled (include pages from 6 Cleveland Prints, 1964), and the envelope, mailed originally to Ian Hamilton Finlay, with the holograph address reproduced here and contains The Egyptian Prayer Wheel (1966). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

(Uh..One & Uh..Two) Random Sightings / levy, d.a. ; Finlay IH ; McCarthy C., 2001

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Identifier: CC-40258-42229
Scope and Contents

This book includes reproductions of "Book 14 T that consisted of abstract markings rendered on the mimeograph machine. The book reproduces 'The Para-Concrete Manifesto (1996)' is from the original mimeograph printing. Some of the pages inside 'untitled (1964)' also reproduced in the book were based upon images used for levy's '6 cleveland prints' (renegade press, 1964). There were 5 copies published; probably each one different from the other. Here, copy #2. is reprinted. The pages are colored abstract markings with some containing letter pictures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

uhuru uhuru (161166) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

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Identifier: CC-09732-9925
Scope and Contents

The page upon which the poem has been typed has waterstains. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Ukraine Still Lives On: Visual Poems, Aphorisms, Poetical Paintings / Soroka, Mykola; McCarthy C., 1994

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Identifier: CC-02917-2961
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive also holds the printed edition of this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

[Ukrainian Title] / Kozol, Myroslav., 2003

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Identifier: CC-43706-45795
Scope and Contents

After an introductory essay, the book consists of concrete and visual poems of very varied styles printed one to a page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Um Nicht Zu Sagen: Ganz Zu Schweigen Von / Ulrichs, Timm ; Houedard DS ; Schwitters K ; Hausmann R ; Garnier P., 1968

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Identifier: CC-52385-73508
Scope and Contents

The pages of this book were printed on different stock and with several inserts among which a printed envelope in which 3 pieces of toilet paper with the printed text: 'landestheater hannover'. - First edition. Published on the occasion of an evening 'text- und aktionsabends ii' organized by Anastasia Bitzos. Participating artists were:Claus Bremer, Rolf Geissbühler, Julien Blaine, Jean-Francois Bory, Reinhard Dohl and Timm Ulrichs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968