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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3298 Collections and/or Records:

Foto-Fix / Behme, Rolf ; Ulrichs T ; Vaccari F ; Olbrich JO ; Filliou R ; Boltanski C., 1996

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Identifier: CC-29379-30744
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Foto-fix indicates the process where portrait photographs are automatically made and developed from the subject(s) sitting in an enclosed booth that has a slot for insertion of currency to pay for them. The photographs reproduced in this book are either straight or manipulated portraits. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Fractal Economies / Beaulieu, Derek ; Finlay IH ; Garnier P ; Wah F ; Werschler-Henry D ; Priddle R ; Gysin B ; Gomringer E ; Solt ME ; McCaffery S ; bissett b ; Nichol bp ; Riddell J., 2006

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Identifier: CC-44664-46828
Scope and Contents Beaulieu comments: an afterword after words: notes towards a concrete poetic.Despite over a century of poetic innovation since Stephane Mallarme's "Un Coup de Des Jamais n'Abolira le Hasard" (1896) & almost 50 years since the publication of Eugen Gomringer's manifesto "Concrete Poetry" (1956), there is still no accepted critical vocabulary for concrete poetry. Concrete poetry is often contextualized historically & is categorized as a subgenre of radicalized praxis from its predominantly modernist period in the 1950s through to the present. By reiterating this historical precedent -- a stridently modernist activity -- criticism on concrete poetry more often than not reifies the idea that this form is still in its infancy, requiring a citation of poetic precedent in order to justify its existence. Brion Gysin remarked that "writing is fifty years behind painting," an assertionevident in the cultural & critical reception for concrete poetry. Readings based upon...
Dates: 2006

Fragmen / Fragmentary / Fragmentation / Barron S ; Attie D ; Benes BL ; Fisher V ; Ossorio A ; Rauschenberg R ; Saari P ; Souza A ; Huebler D., 1983

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Identifier: CC-48498-69527
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Martha B. Scott contributes an essay on the cultural aspects of the artists' collage works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Free. No.2 / Baroni V., 1985

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Identifier: CC-11421-11637
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Vittore Baroni contributes an essay on Yoko Ono, rock music, and Fluxus. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Freibord Sonderdruck: Erinnern und Vergessen. No.22 / Gerhard Jaschke., 1991

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Identifier: CC-10837-11047
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Edited by Gerhard Jaschke. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Freibord: Text-Bild-Music. No.41-42 / Gerhard Ruhm., 1984

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Identifier: CC-10787-10997
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Edited by Gerhard Jaschke. The Sackner Archive also holds the hard copy issue of this work published in an edition of 100 copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

French Concrete Poetry / Seaman, David William ; Albert-Birot P ; Apollinaire G ; Blaine J ; Mallarme S ; Garnier P ; Garnier I ; Isou I ; Lemaitre M ; Marinetti FT ; Mon F ; Niikuni S ; Solt ME ; Williams E ; Theocritus ; Porphyrii PO ; Maurus H ; Fraenkel E ; Cangiullo F ; Picabia F ; VanDerLinde F ; Herbert G ; Angot R ; Sterne L ; Queneau R ; Rimbaud A ; Soffici A ; Motherwell R ; Picabia F ; Tzara T ; Etiemble R., 1970

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Identifier: CC-02898-2942
Scope and Contents This is a copy of Seaman's Ph.D dissertation thesis that was later revised and published in the Series "Studies in fine arts. The avant-garde" by UMI Research Press in 1981, a book that is also held by the Sackner Archive. On pages 150-156, Seaman analyzes Rimbaud's "Voyelles." Seaman devotes Chapter V, pages 179-251, to Mallarme with particular attention to Un Coup de Des. Seaman provides an English translation of Tzara's recipe for making a dadaist poem in Breton's manifestos of Surrealism. Here Is Tzara's recipe:To make a dadaist poemTake a newspaper.Take a pair of scissors.Choose an article as long as you are planning to make your poem.Cut out the article.Then cut out each of the words that make up this article and put them in a bag.Shake it gently.Then take out the scraps one after the other in the order in which they left the bag.Copy conscientiously.The poem will be like you.And here you are a writer, Infinitely original and endowed with a sensibility that is charming though...
Dates: 1970

Froissages / Kolar, Jiri., 1981

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Identifier: CC-51087-72169
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Gloria Picazo contributed a critical essay opening with a quote by Kolar "Someday it will be possible to make poetry out of anything." Foissage is described when "a mere piece of paper is wrinkled, then flattened down and finally set upon a support. The strange writing left in the piece of paper by the wrinkles is another of the means usedby Kolar to make a poem visible." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

From Imagism to Concrete Poetry: Breakthrough or Blind Alley? / Cluver, Claus; Saroyan A; Solt ME; Williams E; Indiana R; DeCampos A; Gomringer E; Mallarme S., 1987

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Identifier: CC-19835-20222
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Cluver presents definitions of Concrete Poetry and its controversies. Robert Indiana's "LOVE" works and e.e. cummings poem "brIght" are analyzed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

From Letters to Lettrisme: The Ancient Origins of an Avant-garde Movement / Seaman D ; Isou I ; Sabatier R ; Satie A ; Roehmer W ; Poyet F ; Broutin GP ; Apollinaire G ; Lemaitre M., 2000

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Identifier: CC-33879-35550
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David Seaman curated this exhibiton and contributed an essay tracing the routes of Lettrisme to the present day. The exhibition was reviewed in the Statesboro Herald. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000