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Shaped poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 788 Collections and/or Records:

Le Colporteur d'Images: [Au Point Du Jour], 1997

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Identifier: CC-41629-43619
Scope and Contents

ThIs drawing is included in a book that follows the romantic adventures of A (L'Amoureuse) and M (Le Marchand) though a poetic, typographic landscape in Paris. Berman is the graphic designer and illustrator of this humorous and sophisticated book. Quesemand is the author of the text. This drawing 's main image is a black building on the left in the night with the day on the right. One of the buildings is labeled "Cochin Hospital." Quesemand's poetry is printed on the extreme right. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Le Colporteur d'Images: [La Poste] / Berman, Laurent., 1997

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Identifier: CC-50107-71169
Scope and Contents

ThIs drawing is included in a book that follows the romantic adventures of A (L'Amoureuse) and M (Le Marchand) though a poetic, typographic landscape in Paris. Berman is the graphic designer and illustrator of this humorous and sophisticated book. Quesemand is the author of the text. On the left side of the drawing is a an image of a postal envelope with a stamp. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Le Colporteur d'Images: [Le Temps Des Cerises] / Berman, Laurent., 1997

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Identifier: CC-50108-71170
Scope and Contents

ThIs drawing is included in a book that follows the romantic adventures of A (L'Amoureuse) and M (Le Marchand) through a poetic, typographic landscape in Paris. Berman is the graphic designer and illustrator of this humorous and sophisticated book. Quesemand is the author of the text. This drawing features images related to fruits. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Le Colporteur d'Images: [Maison Opallinaire] / Berman, Laurent., 1997

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Identifier: CC-41630-43620
Scope and Contents

ThIs drawing is included in a book that follows the romantic adventures of A (L'Amoureuse) and M (Le Marchand) though a poetic, typographic landscape in Paris. Berman is the graphic designer and illustrator of this humorous and sophisticated book. Quesemand is the author of the text. The theatre building on the left has signs of books that have a title with a single letter, e.g., 'W' by Georges Perec and Joseph K. by Kafka, etc. Quesemand's poetry is printed on the extreme left. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Le Colporteur d'Images: [Passerelle], 1997

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Identifier: CC-41628-43618
Scope and Contents

ThIs drawing is included in a book that follows the romantic adventures of A (L'Amoureuse) and M (Le Marchand) though a poetic, typographic landscape in Paris. Berman is the graphic designer and illustrator of this humorous and sophisticated book. Quesemand is the author of the text. This drawing's main image is a bridge across a canal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Le Hockey dans l'Espace / Dobzynski, Charles ; Bar, Alain., 1982

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Identifier: CC-15891-16224
Scope and Contents Wikipedia: Charles Dobzynski was born in Poland in 1929, but his family emigrated to France when he was barely a year old. He narrowly escaped the deportation during World War II , but his family has to hide. His mother encouraged him to read the very young. He runs a long a company of textile to the death of his father in 1946. Early poet, he published his first poem in 1944 in a youth newspaper from the Resistance , Young Combat. End of 1949 , Paul Eluard presents the first poems of Charles Dobzynski in the French Letters . On the proposal 's Aragon he joined the editorial staff of the newspaper tonight . Aragon and Elsa Triolet prefacent two of his collections. His work is imbued with his three passions: astronautics , the cinema and poetry.It was a notable columnist French Letters and contributions to poetic action are important. He collaborates with many other journals and translated Rainer Maria Rilke. Moreover, it is up to the management team of the journal Europe in the...
Dates: 1982

Le Petit Peignot: Dictionnaire de Mots-Images, 1996

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Identifier: CC-29115-30460
Scope and Contents

Peignot provides examples of word-images along with comments in an alphabetic listing. He uses alterations of letter spacing and boldness of the Futura typeface, repetition of letters, anagraphic presentation, variations in the arrangement of letters, mirror imaging, and punctuation marks to enhance and visually define the meaning of words. The poems are related to those found in another book published by Peignot in the same year, Toutes les Pommes se Croquent. Both books are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

le vagin: il est creux / Chopin, Henri., 1965

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Identifier: CC-18696-19069
Scope and Contents

This is an original of a typing which appears in Chopin's book, "Le Dernier Roman du Monde." It depicts a stylized view of a vagina shaped by the word "nu." The latter means 'bare' in English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Lebennlaufe / Schwaiger, Gernot ; Adorno T ; Artaud A ; Beckett S ; Joyce J ; Leger F ; Stein G ; Breton A ; Paik NJ ; Pound E ; Ranier A ; Thomas D ; Tinguely J., 1983

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Identifier: CC-36403-38195
Scope and Contents Each page is a calligraphic portrait of a prominent person in the arts and sciences accomplished through texts that are handwritten in darker and lighter lines to form the image.Wikipedia: Gernot Schwaiger (24 January 1952 in Kassel ) is a German visual artist, lithographer, draftsman and sculptor. He first trained as a bookseller . Then he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kassel, and received a scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation . He completed his studies with the work of art school graduating designers and art degree as a sculptor and painter. In 1983, its existing only from black and white illustrations book CVs . His work through a repeatable sequence. First, he researched the CV of mostly already deceased personality. Then he hand-written resume of the model . Finally, he writes with black color again on the resume, but changed so the font size, font width and font thickness that one out of the text, the portrait can perceive. The drawings were as...
Dates: 1983

Les Hippocampes Noirs/The Black Hippocampus / Chopin, Henri ; Agius J., 1991

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Identifier: CC-28420-29664
Scope and Contents

Henri Chopin used the same typewritten symbol on each page for the black and white reproduced typewriter poems. The works take the form of a square, a jar and lid, a mask, a crescent moon, and geometric shapes. This book was part of the EVENTS series, coordinated by Manuel Cuevas and Juan J. Agius. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Lesebuch, 1967

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Identifier: CC-38242-40138
Scope and Contents

Helmut Heissenbuttel has contributed an afterward. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Lesebuch, 1967

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Identifier: CC-38247-40143
Scope and Contents

Helmut Heissenbuttel contributed an afterward. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Letter Arts Review. No.4 / Waters S ; Falter L ; Falter M ; Beck M ; Clayton E ; Neuenschwander B ; Skarsgard S., 2007

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Identifier: CC-46928-49665
Scope and Contents

Frances Spiegel reviews Megillat Esther, a rare Hebrew illuminated manuscript, published by Michael and Linda Falter of Facsimile Editions. Susan Skarsgard interviews Brody Neuenschwander about his book on Casanova published by Editions Alternatives. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

[Letter to Tom (?)] / Furnival, John; Chopin H; Morgan E; Weaver M., 1970

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Identifier: CC-13203-13504
Scope and Contents

The message has been written on the verso of a photograph b&w depicting a visual poem by Furnival done in 1964. Furnival mentions that Mike Weaver was slightly peeved by Edwin Morgan's talk which leaned heavily on his "Image" article without giving Weaver credit for it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970