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Concrete poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6475 Collections and/or Records:

Coracao Cabeca (Heart Head) / De Campos, Augusto., 1980

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Identifier: CC-15862-16194
Scope and Contents

Letter thanks Marvin Sackner for the Iliazd catalog De Campos received from him and then explains the multiple meanings of his new poem Cabeca. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Coral Reef Six: fish [ffffff...] / Nichol, bp., 2005

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Identifier: CC-45319-47505
Scope and Contents

The image was taken from a color photograph made by jw curry. The stamp sheet with a 50 cent face value for each stamp was designed by Steven Spazuk and Jean-Francois Renaud. It was issued as Picture Postage 10003995 on May 31, 2005. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Cornponetonepome / Heckman, Carl ; levy da., 1963

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Identifier: CC-09799-9993
Scope and Contents

d.a. levy was the proprietor of Renegade Press. The title poem was set in the style of e.e. cummings. The poems entitled "Sound Poems" are actually tongue-twisters. This was Heckman's only book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

coRRida / Garnier, Ilse., 1965

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Identifier: CC-50392-71460
Scope and Contents

The print of this original is reproduced in Ilse and Pierre Garnier's folder, "Prototypes: Textes Pour Un Architecture" (1965) that is also held by the Sackner Archive. It is also reproduced in GArnier's book "Oevres poetiques ! 1950-1968 page 219. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Corsom / De Campos, Augusto., 1958

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Identifier: CC-58336-10001552
Scope and Contents

This page was personally scnned under the direction of Augusto De Campos. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958

Cortado por la Misma Tijera / Ogaz, Damaso., 1977

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Identifier: CC-31007-32466
Scope and Contents

Damaso Ogaz (1924-1990). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

CORTEXt, 1995

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Identifier: CC-29033-30371
Scope and Contents

Johanna Drucker contributes an introductory essay on historic aspects of visual poetry which is carried forth to multimedia information systems of today. She also was responsible for the cover design. Karl Young contributes an afterword in which he focuses on mail art. He particularly addresses his own, ongoing Shadow Project that refers to the faint traces people left on nearby surfaces after they were vaporized by the atomic bombs in Japan. Young indicates that d.a. levy stands out as the major figure in the last three decades who left an indelible inprint on underground publications and visual poetry. He also adds that Tom Phillips is the most complete book artist. The Sackner Archive partially funded this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Cough / Sellers, Peter., 1990

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Identifier: CC-02422-2462
Scope and Contents

A concrete poem which depicts "cough drops" theough the arrangement of letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Country Life. No.29/July / Finlay IH., 1996

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Identifier: CC-28389-29596
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts a stone sculpture in the garden of Ian Hamilton Finlay. It illustrates a statement of Saint Just, which is carved on nine rocks, "Paths to enlightenment in a garden of ideas." An essay within this magazine by Alan Powers entitled "The Sparta of the North," describes the poet's garden in Lanarkshire as one of the significant creations of our time. He states that Finlay recreated a poetic, classical garden as a place of beauty, and a journey of the mind; complex schemes of iconography provide entertainment and painted a moral. The essay is illustrated with nine colored photographs. The Sackners visited the garden with their daughter Sara in 1980. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Courants d'Air sur le Chemin de Ma Vie 1916-1921 / Crotti, Jean ; Villon, Jacques., 1941

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Identifier: CC-62765-16820
Scope and Contents The etchings were made by Villon and the text based upon 1920's text written by Crotti. Born in Bulle, Switzerland, Crotti first studied painting in Munich when he was eighteen, and after a year under Jules Lefevre at the Academie Julian in Paris, he abandoned formal instruction. He exhibited regularly at the Salon des Independants beginning in 1908, at the Salon d'Automne from 1910 and Salon des Tulliers in 1927. The critical event of his artistic career was his arrival in June 1915 in New York, where he worked closely with Marcel Duchamp, joined the New York Dada group, and met Picabia. Crotti produced mechanical drawings, wire constructions, and collages on glass and metal. Returning to Paris in 1919, he married Suzanne Duchamp. Together in July 1921 they launched a new movement, Tabu-Dada (apparently inspired by Picabia), which Crotti described as the expression of "Mystery...That which cannot be seen...That which cannot be touched." In Crotti's Tabu work, spheres and sectors...
Dates: 1941

Covent Garden Broadsheet: Beethoven Today. No.1, 1971

 Item — Folder 23: [Barcode: 31858072459823]
Identifier: CC-18728-19102
Scope and Contents

Designated Broadsheet No.1. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

[Cover Design for can't afford no Kodak Instamatik Instamatik Vol.2] / curry, jw., 1980

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Identifier: CC-19716-20103
Scope and Contents

This is the original cover design for Vol.2 that was not used for the final publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980