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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

When Word's Meaning Is in Their Look / Cotter, Holland; Drucker J; Hirschman J; Wolf A; McVarish E; Straus A; Bernstein C; Bee S; Scher P; Seagram B; Freeman B; Goswell J; Licko Z; Fella E; Ligorano N; Reese M; Burke B; Lehrer W; Meador C; Laxson R; Kellner T; Weiner L., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-31028-32489
Scope and Contents

Cotter reviews "The Next Word" at the Neuberger Museum of Art to which the Sackner Archive lent 25 books and pictures. Several of the works from the Archive are specifically described in the article including a manuscript by Jack Hirschman, a drawing by Anne Wolf, Emily McVarish's pasted-up words locked inside a metal frame, Paula Scher's "Opinionated Map: Central and South America" in which every inch on the Southern Hemisphere that is jammed with critical annotationt. "Elsewhere, the printed text, often taking a cue from advertising, comes to the fore. Blair Seagram's 'U Temp est Us' uses a sleek sans-serif type, offbeat spacing and shifting character sizes to hide phrases within other phrases." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

When You Wear What You Say / Smith, Roberta., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-28380-29576
Scope and Contents

Ms. Smith reviews the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum titled "Wordrobe," which "delves into the different ways that language has infiltrated clothing, or what the show's curator, Richard Martin, calls the reconciliation of textile and text." The article depicts two examples, viz., Pauline Trigere's "Trigiere Coat" from 1973 and a 1990 wool jersey dress by Christian Francis Roth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Where is Everybody?, 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-07112-7252
Scope and Contents

Theme of this book deals with intellectual hazards of watching television. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Whisper Piece / Cobbing, Bob., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-20837-21245
Scope and Contents

Designated Writers Forum Folder 6. This copy has Cobbing's handwriting across the prints whereas aother copy held by the Sackner Archive does not. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Whisper Piece / Cobbing, Bob., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-59736-10002792
Scope and Contents

Designated Writers Forum Folder 6. Two of the prints are stored in a binder containing typewriter poems. This copy does not have Cobbing's handwriting across the prints. Another copy held by the Sackner Archive does. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Whississippi / Cobbing, Bob., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-17603-17971
Scope and Contents

Designated writers forum pamphlet number two. "Whississippi" written in London and recorded in Stockholm, is the fourth part in a series of whisper pieces consisting of a vocal interpretation of typewriter-picture poems based of the letters in the words "whisper piece." It was read by two voices (Kersten M. Lundberg & Bob Cobbing) and then manipulated in the recording studio. The maquette for this work is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

White Blossom in a Strong Wind / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-42861-44902
Scope and Contents

The etching or woodcut black and white image on the card cover by Hincks appears to be a scene taken from Finlay's Little Sparta garden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

White Box / Breuer, Theo., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-32942-34558
Scope and Contents

Also designated Wohnzimmersonderheft 17 1/2. Each page depicts a reproduction of a photocopied collage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

White Noise / Gorman, LeRoy., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-32925-34541
Scope and Contents

Theme of each poem relates to "snow." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

White Screen, 1976

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-20903-21312

White Table Cloth / Hompson, Davi Det., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-09260-9442
Scope and Contents

The collage with three folded white handkerchiefs labeled "oral, topical, and spinal" refers to types of anesthesia and its relation to the poems in the rest of this work is not immediately apparent. The drawings consist of minimalist poetry with themes relating to food and common domestic events along with illustrations of fragments of a room. The prints depict concrete poems mainly with food related content. The seven silkscreen prints were published in an edition of 50. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Whose Words? / Goldsmith, Kenneth ; Gillmore, Graham., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-31178-32646
Scope and Contents

This exhibition was curated by Debra Bricker Balken. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

why many monks know whatimeverythingoeschlupft (290663) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-55850-58820
Scope and Contents

The text zig-zags downward. The Geman word at the end of this poem, 'schlupft' meansslip or stumble in Englsih. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Why Shiva Has Ten Arms (Number One) / Cobbing, Bob., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-17453-17818
Scope and Contents

Designated writers forum folder number seven. This tenth publication of Cobbing includes new versions of the following poems: "Soma," "Whisper Piece," "Vertigo," "Marvo Movies Natter," and "Transcript." Cobbing writes on the envelope that this copy number one was finished at 3AM on August 14, 1969. Colophon states "Why Shiva has ten arms / for he represents the dance of life / the omnipotence of being able to do innumerably / many things at once / .the joyous cosmology. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Why Y?, 1988

 Item — Box 255: [Barcode: 31858072458247]
Identifier: CC-15633-15961
Scope and Contents

The two sides of the Y form of the sculpture have question marks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Why Y? / Nancy Dwyer., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-15633-15961
Scope and Contents

The two sides of the Y form of the sculpture have question marks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988