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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

[Untitled] / Gerchman, Rubens ; Oiticica H., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-36306-38096
Scope and Contents Internet: "Rubens Gerchman (10 janvier 1942, Rio de Janeiro - 29 janvier 2008, Sao Paulo) est un peintre et sculpteur bresilien influence par l'art concret et neoconcret. Rubens Gerchman (born January 10, 1942, Rio de Janeiro January 29, 2008) was a Brazilian painter and sculptor. He was heavily influenced by concrete and neoconcrete art. Many of Gerchmans works are paintings based on populist themes and his political beliefs, which followed those of neoconcrete artists. His sculptures with letters, stem from concrete poetry. Gerchman studied at the Rio de Janeiro School of Fine Arts. In the 1960s, his work focused on mass culture. He used faces clipped from news photos, but unlike Andy Warhol, who used infamous celebrity, he used images of anonymous individuals. These faces would be reproduced as multiple painted images in a comic-strip style. In the late 1960s, Gerchman devoted his interest to urban isolation and alienation. He produced boxes and containers destined to be opened...
Dates: 1973

[Untitled] / Groh, Klaus., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27782-28912
Scope and Contents

The collage, which is typical of Groh's style, consists of several rhomboidal shaped strips of paper with printed German texts stapled to blue colored paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Untitled Illustrations / Kriwet, Ferdinand., 1976

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Identifier: CC-62076-57195
Scope and Contents

Might be titled Geld wortwörtlich dargestellt, Mappe mit 6 Original-Grafiken: 1. "EXIM", 2. "PLUS", 3. "Weltwaehrung", 4. "Transfer", 5. "Pay" und 6. "Roll Over", Baldreit WEB 2010 priced it at $665. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Untitled / Ives, Norman., 1976

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Identifier: CC-38118-40011
Scope and Contents

The collage consists of fragments of paper with varied typographic fonts. Norman Ives was the printer for Josef Albers in the United States. This collage was purchased prior to the establishment of the Sackner Archive in 1979. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

[Untitled] / Kassak, Lajos., 1971

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Identifier: CC-31843-33361
Scope and Contents

This catalogue reproduces seven of Kassak's "picture portraits" that have the appearance of concrete poems. The silkscreened pages depict reproductions of Kassak's constructivistic artworks, in color and black & white. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

[Untitled] / Kozol, Myroslav., 1996

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Identifier: CC-41602-43592
Scope and Contents

The images of these prints were composed with either red or black inks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Untitled / Kriwet, Ferdinand., 1964

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Identifier: CC-62067-57173
Scope and Contents

Water damage on base with pin holes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

[Untitled Manuscripts] / Qianzi, Che; Lazer H., 1999

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Identifier: CC-42789-44828
Scope and Contents

The manuscripts provide examples of Che Qianzi's concrete poetry along with English translation of five of the pages. These poems are among the few in Chinese in the Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999