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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6393 Collections and/or Records:

23 sins / Neaderland, Louise Odes., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-40721-42695
Scope and Contents

The pages are cut in horizontal ribbons with a single word containing "sin or cin or syn" on a page such as sincere, synagogue, cinder, cinema and Cinncinnati. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

25 Extracts from 25 Cards / Baines, Phil., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-29318-30679
Scope and Contents

The content of the cards from which this booklet was printed is diaristic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

30 Signatures to Silver Catches / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Sandeman, Margot., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-11720-11938
Scope and Contents

The name of a fishing ship which is printed on each page in its original typeface provides a poetic expression as the pages are turned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

31 Erotic Concrete Sonnets for Samantha / Phillips, Michael Joseph., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-51314-72403
Scope and Contents

This copy was mailed to Luigi Ballerini. The poems are mostly repetitiously printed of a single or a few words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

36. In the Beginning / Furnival, John., 1965

 Item — Folder 39: [Barcode: 31858072459997]
Identifier: CC-34080-35760
Scope and Contents

The poster depicts a stylized phallus formed from letters with a center channel ejecting the biblical phrase "In the beginning was the word..." The number 36 in the title refers to Furnival's 36th birthday -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

40 Poem(a)s / cummings, e.e. ; Augusto De Campos, translator., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-20304-20701
Scope and Contents

Includes reproductions of the correspondence between cummings and De Campos focusing on the typesetting of the poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

40 + Product of Holland, 1968

 Item — Folder 30: [Barcode: 31858072459898]
Identifier: CC-32452-34026
Scope and Contents

The poem with gold colored, repetitive words is printed in the shape of a tondo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

41P, 1999

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-37596-39453
Scope and Contents

This print is housed in a brown paper portfolio with "House Press" and its logo silkscreened onto it along four other prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

45 Modelli de Uso / Carrega, Ugo., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-28639-29939
Scope and Contents

An explanation of each work is provided in a soft cover book accompanying the works that are stored within the large green box in form-fitted compartments. The translation from the Italian is handwritten in English on the verso of each of the 45 works. Carrega comes to concrete and visual poetry from a literary tradition rather than as a visual one This work is a mini-retrospective of his oeuvre dating from 1955; it has a great deal in common with conceptual art and text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

69 (051064) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-09376-9562
Scope and Contents

The page has folds that allow the poem to be displayed in an on end, vertical position. The number '69' is repetively typed in grids of square and rectangular shapes. Three ciircles and twp partial circles typed in black ink capital L's overlay the grids. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

73 Poems / Goldsmith, Kenneth ; La Barbara, Joan ; Young G., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-10486-10690
Scope and Contents

Accompanies print portfolio with same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

73 Poems / Goldsmith, Kenneth ; Sackner MA., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-10440-10644
Scope and Contents

Kate Rawlinson, Director of Galleries, acknowledges the "aesthetic insight and generous assistance in bringing this exhibition together." Marvin Sackner contributed an essay describing his relationship as a collector to the artist and his work. Sackner also coins the term Rap Concrete Poetry to describe the work in this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993