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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

[Body] / Curtay, Jean-Paul., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-17840-18210
Scope and Contents

The manuscript depicts different arrangements and shapes for the letters in the word "body." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Body of Text / Ellingsen, David ; Smith, Michael V. ; Bok C., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-49159-70199
Scope and Contents

This is a collection of concrete poems by photographing Michael Smith dressed in a full black body suit in various poses that resemble Greco-Roman letters, Asian characters, hieroglyphs and Rorschach inkblots. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Body of Work / O'Sullivan, Maggie ; Bernstein C., 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-47125-49865
Scope and Contents

This book is a compilation of reprints of O'Sullivan's publications. In "tonetreks," she has composed concrete, shaped and conventional poems to depict Monet's paintings, a Giacometti sculpture, and a Rothko painting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Bohmischer Dorfer / Weber, Franz-Josef., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-00379-387
Scope and Contents

Image consists of "?" in different size typefaces. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Boj Job, 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-36612-38420
Scope and Contents

This book is a compendium of Hirsal and Grogerova's typewriter poetry. The inscription was written to Eugen Gomringer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Boj Job / Hirsal, Josef ; Grogerova, Bohumila ; Wittgenstein L ; Morgenstern C., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-36613-38421
Scope and Contents

This book is a compendium of Hirsal and Grogerova's typewriter poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

bokstavtepperkatalogen / Ormstad, Ottar., 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-51588-72687
Scope and Contents

The typeface is Helvetica for these poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Bollettino Tool. No.3/Oct / Ugo Carrega, Tomaso Kemeny, editors ; Carrega U ; Kemeny T., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-22411-22834
Scope and Contents

The card painted by Carrega is present in one copy but not in the duplicate. Eight pages of text consist of an overprinting of poets names and titles of their works and two pages are a key to this text. A fold-out page before the text reads in large letters "when the saints are marching in." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Bomb / Corso, Gregory., 1958

 Item
Identifier: CC-18580-18952
Scope and Contents

This is the first state of the poem with two books advertised on the rear panel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958

Bonjour, Monsieur Kolar! , 1984

 Item — Folder 72: [Barcode: 31858072538071]
Identifier: CC-22379-22802
Scope and Contents

This exhibition honoed Jiri Kolaron the occasion of his 70th birthday. Poster reproduces work from the catalogue published by Galerie Pragxis, held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Book 1A: Merde / Depew, Wally., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-15122-15441
Scope and Contents

The poems in this book deal with the Scarab beetles who live and eat in dung piles. Despite their unusual environment, they become beautiful creatures. The copies have covers of yellow, green, blue and orange papers, respectively. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Book 3: It / Depew, Wally., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-15160-15481
Scope and Contents

There is one word printed on each page whose letters are mostly formed from a stencil. Every word has "it" contained within it, e.g., kit, Jesuite, writ, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Book 5: Flip Book / Depew, Wally ; Depew L., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-51149-72236
Scope and Contents

Linda Depew did the linoleum block print on the cover. The pages mostly depict a 2 x 2 square or triangular grid with the stencilled letters L, O, V, and E as well as in some instances a blank square placed in various combinations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968