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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

Basen - Mobil / Karel Trinkewitz., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-34809-36517
Scope and Contents

The components of this work consist of horizonally placed black, white, and yellow words and fragments of words printed in capital letters of varied font sizes. The collaged tube extends from the collaged wooden base by means of a collaged nail and heavy plastic filament. The verso contains two labels from a gallery exhibition is Bratislava on 1969. Also, the following handwritten by Trinkewitz: Exposition 1966 Prague (with Jiri Kolar) Galerie Spalova and Exposition Prague Galeria Na Karlove Namesti. Also, a magazine cover onto which Trinkewitz has written "My daughter Barbara." is collaged on the verso. A photographic reproduction appears in Trinkewitz's exhibition catalogue, Zivot Je Kolaz / Das Leben ist eine Collage, 1999. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Basen - Mobil / Karel Trinkewitz., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-34809-36517
Scope and Contents

The components of this work consist of horizonally placed black, white, and yellow words and fragments of words printed in capital letters of varied font sizes. The collaged tube extends from the collaged wooden base by means of a collaged nail and heavy plastic filament. The verso contains two labels from a gallery exhibition is Bratislava on 1969. Also, the following handwritten by Trinkewitz: Exposition 1966 Prague (with Jiri Kolar) Galerie Spalova and Exposition Prague Galeria Na Karlove Namesti. Also, a magazine cover onto which Trinkewitz has written "My daughter Barbara." is collaged on the verso. A photographic reproduction appears in Trinkewitz's exhibition catalogue, Zivot Je Kolaz / Das Leben ist eine Collage, 1999. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Basho 1965 / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-09874-10070
Scope and Contents

This is a reprinting in colored rubberstamped letters of a Houedard version of Basho's frog pond plop. The verso contains a quotation from DMF (?), "One day I will have to acknowledge that the only story is the world, and action the only language in which to tell it." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

bash(o)ful pondifications / Beaulieu, Derek ; Cain S ; Nichol bp., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-36536-38337
Scope and Contents

Cover was drawn by Stephen Cain after a character/style/etc. of bpNichol. The Sackner copy is one of two covers drawn for this pamphlet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Basil Bunting - Poem for Two Voices / Cobbing, Bob., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-17672-18040
Scope and Contents

All the words in this poem begin with the letter "b." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Bay-Brested Barge-Bird / Smith, William Jay., 1957

 Item
Identifier: CC-42628-44645
Scope and Contents

This is the first draft of the poem that eventually became a larger conventional poem that was published in "The Tin Can and Other Poems" (1966), a book also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957

Be Thirteen One Three / Steen, Vagn., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-28176-29339
Scope and Contents

Steen separated the components of the letter "B" so that it equals the number thirteen or one and three. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Bean Structure [OM] / Finch, Peter., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-12814-13101
Scope and Contents

The photograph shows several sculptured letter O's balanced on M's. The title, bean structure, references the Hindu word "om" intoned during meditation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Beauty in Breathing, The / Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Baroni V ; Barron S ; Broel E ; Cahun C ; Clausen T ; curry jw ; Dupont A ; Ely T ; Furnival J ; Goldsmith K ; Hubaut J ; Huth G ; Jackman S ; Laffoley P ; Lemaitre M ; Miglietta E ; Phillips T ; Presser E., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-23373-23815
Scope and Contents

The catalogue was written and the exhibition curated by Marvin Sackner. The viewing took place over a five day period at the Annual Meeting of the American Thoracic Society/American Lung Association in Miami Beach. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

bedepequ, 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-14661-14974
Scope and Contents

Each page is a print depicting geometric arrangements of the letters listed in the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Bedrog, 1981

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Identifier: CC-31160-32628

Beethoven Today / Cobbing, Bob., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-17468-17834
Scope and Contents

Cobbing created repeticious text variations on the title "Beethoven Today" by forming poems in either a circular or quadrangular arrangement. The pages have yellow and orange color -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970