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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

Buchstaben Halde Konsonantenn-Akkumulation [Letter Heap Accumulation of Consonants] / Peter Daniel., 1991-1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-27737-28857
Scope and Contents

Skillfully cut, glued together, styrofoam Hebrew letters are stacked one on top of another in a random, pyramid shape. The letters may be a metaphor for victims of the Holocaust. The glass box could represent Kristelnacht, when the Nazis destroyed the glass windows of Jewish shops and burned Jewish books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991-1992

Buchstaben Halde Konsonantenn-Akkumulation [Letter Heap Accumulation of Consonants] / Peter Daniel., 1991 - 1992

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Identifier: CC-27737-28857
Scope and Contents

Skillfully cut, glued together, styrofoam Hebrew letters are stacked one on top of another in a random, pyramid shape. The letters may be a metaphor for victims of the Holocaust. The glass box could represent Kristelnacht, when the Nazis destroyed the glass windows of Jewish shops and burned Jewish books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991 - 1992

Buchstaben in Bewegung / Daniel, Peter., 1992 - 1993

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Identifier: CC-27762-28887
Scope and Contents

Two clusters of Hebrew letraset letters are positioned in the top left and bottom right corners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992 - 1993

Buchstaben in Bewegung / Daniel, Peter., 1997

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Identifier: CC-42519-44534
Scope and Contents

This is a reproduction of a drawing that consists of five Hebrew letters falling from the top of the page. This card is combined with others from Edition Splitter and stored as a card set. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Buchstaben in Bewegung (No.2) / Daniel, Peter., 1992 - 1993

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Identifier: CC-27763-28888
Scope and Contents

Clusters of large and small Hebrew letraset letters are randomly positioned throughout the surface. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992 - 1993

Buchstaben in Bewegung (No.3) / Daniel, Peter., 1992 - 1993

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Identifier: CC-27766-28894
Scope and Contents

Consists of a minimalist arrangement of eight Hebrew letters falling from upper left to the center of the surface. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992 - 1993

Buchstaben - Insel, 1996

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Identifier: CC-50888-71966
Scope and Contents

Clusters of large and small Hebrew letraset letters and numbers are randomly positioned throughout the surface. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Buchstablich Wortlich Wortlich Buchstablich / Michael Glasmeir, curator ; Accame V ; Blaine J ; Burda V ; DeCampos A ; Carrega U ; Chopin H ; Cobbing B ; Finlay IH ; Furnival J ; Gomringer E ; Houedard DS ; Jandl E ; Kriwet F ; Lemaitre M ; levy da ; Mon F ; Phillips T ; Ulrichs T ; Williams E ; Frisch J ; Apollinaire G ; Mallarme S ; Picasso P ; Carra C ; Hausmann R ; Schwitters K ; Scheerbart P ; Schauffelen KB ; Bremer C ; Burkhardt K ; Clark TA ; Dienst KP ; Finlay IH ; Flanagan B ; Gappmayr H ; Kolar J ; Kosice G ; Lane B ; Novak L ; Reichert J ; al-Udhari A ; DeCampos A ; Cirne M ; Gerz J ; Isou I ; Belloli C ; Mayer HJ ; Mon F ; Roth D ; Ruhm G ; Sa N ; Chopin H ; Heidsieck B ; Gette PA ; Grunewald JL ; DeVree P ; Sonderborg KRH ; Schmidt W ; Accame V ; Bory JF ; Castillejo JL ; Cutts S ; Dohl R ; Ferro L ; Fernbach-Flarscheim C ; Garnier I ; Garnier P ; Grogerova B ; Harig L ; Hirsal J ; Jandl E ; Kostelanetz R ; Kudielka R ; MacBeth G ; Morgan E ; Mund Hjr ; Nichol bp ; VanOstaijen P ; Pignatari D ; Reed J ; DeSa A ; DeVries H ; Schendel M ; Ponge F ; DeCampos H ; Ulrichs T ; Neusel G ; Bense M ; Magalhaes A ; Oberto A ; Carrega U ; Oberto M ; Sunada C ; Niikuni S ; VanDerLinde F ; Xisto P ; Moineau JC ; Lora-Totino A ; Zwart P ; Balestrini N ; Vigo EA ; Pazos L ; Ginzburg C ; Yoshizawa S ; Spatola A ; Riddell A ; Schuldt ; Zwart P ; Ovcacek E., 1987

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Identifier: CC-23317-23757
Scope and Contents

This is a major exhibition of concrete and visual poetry organized by Michael Glasmeier. Almost every classification of visual/verbal imagery was represented in this catalogue. This catalogue depicts 71 dom sylvester houedard, eight Ladislav Novak typewriter poems. This catalogue depicts images of works included in several Hansjorg Mayer portfolios of concrete poetry. It also depicts images from runs of periodicals such as Affiche, Futura, POTH, Rot, Revue Ou, Rhinozeros, etc. Most of the works in this exhibition are also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Bug Death / Nettelbeck, F.A.., 1979

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Identifier: CC-05654-5761
Scope and Contents

Wikepedia: Fred Arthur Nettelbeck (November 9, 1950 "“ January 20, 2010) was an American poet. In the early 1970s he began work on a long poem that was published in 1979: Bug Death. Bug Death was created using cut-up and collage texts combined with original writing. His literary magazine, This Is Important (1980"“1997), published such writers as William S. Burroughs, Wanda Coleman, John M. Bennett, Jack Micheline, Allen Ginsberg, Robin Holcomb, Charles Bernstein, John Giorno, etc. His other publication of note was a Small press mimeo magazine: Throb (1971), publishing Al Masarik, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Gerald Locklin, Joel Deutsch, and 'Charles Bukowski answers 10 easy questions'. Nettelbeck's work, publications, and papers are collected in the Ohio State University Avant Writing Collection and the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Bug Death / Nettelbeck, F.A.., 1975

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Identifier: CC-05655-5762
Scope and Contents

On final page, Nettelbeck has written in graphite that this work has been copywrited by Rough Life Press, Los Angeles in 1975 and by Horsehead Nebula Press in 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Bulletin 21 / King, Patrick., 1993 - 1994

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Identifier: CC-08034-8194
Scope and Contents

The Sackners purchased from this catalogue, the book, "Aelianus Tacticus" by Lorenzo Torrentino that incorporates "elaborate typographic battle-plans...and troop formations which must have driven [his] type-setters to despair." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993 - 1994

bum /dc3 / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1975

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Identifier: CC-35065-36791
Scope and Contents

The word, bum, on this drawing rotated 90 degrees spells dc3 (Houedard's abbreviation for cinicolo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Burn Poem: La La Mi / Ovcacek, Eduard., 1981

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Identifier: CC-05249-5351
Scope and Contents

The burnt-out, stencilled letters of the title were done on paper of a printed music score. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Busta Celeste / Lora-Totino, Arrigo; De-Alexandris, Sandro., 1979

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Identifier: CC-38172-40067
Scope and Contents

The poem deals with the theme of a dark blue sky. This work is also designated situazioni plasticoverbali No.3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Buster Keaton Enters into Paradise / Higgins, Dick ; Knowles A ; McHugh B., 1994

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Identifier: CC-09802-9996
Scope and Contents

Diagramatic texts are based on scrabble board games starting with the name Buster Keaton. Eleven performances derive from the list of words on each board and film clips of Keaton. Nine layouts of the Scrabble game are depicted that have a concrete poetic appearance owing to different choices of type face and weight. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994