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Minimalist poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 778 Collections and/or Records:

la ugh / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-55796-9999326
Scope and Contents

The handwritten word on the verso is"laugh." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Label [Simple and Useful] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1995

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Identifier: CC-12958-13250
Scope and Contents

This compares a simple and useful, printed label to an idea by Plato. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Labels / Bennett, John M.., 1979

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Identifier: CC-22107-22524
Scope and Contents

The labels are of varied sizes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Lanes / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Sandeman, Margot., 1969

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Identifier: CC-37979-39862
Scope and Contents

Cover is missing but pages are intact. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Les Cimetieres des Naufrages / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1981

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Identifier: CC-12319-12545
Scope and Contents

The word "Symbolisme" is printed on blue heavy stock paper and the folder is purple heavy stock paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Letter Poetry / Deisler, Guillermo., 1994

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Identifier: CC-16195-16538
Scope and Contents

The pages consist of envelopes addressed to Deisler from mail artists who contributed to his periodical, Uni/verse. The pages have been rubberstamped by Deisler with a single word, e.g., words, love, hope, media, story, bill, offer, case, panic, gain, plan, dead, date, life, idea, peace, save, deal, cause, etc. It is probably the last book made by Deisler who died in November 1995 of Multiple Myeloma shortly after this book was received. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

[Letter to Jim Haynes] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1964 - 1965

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Identifier: CC-12587-12819
Scope and Contents

Notifies Haynes that he is sending a new play to him that has been broadcasted in Scotland and Canada. Includes a minimalist poem in the letter entitled "Landscape in the Barracks." Calls attention to two stains on the first page by encircling them and labeling them "tomato soup." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964 - 1965

Letters to the Great Dead: Hist! It's Liszt! / Furnival, John., 2012

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Identifier: CC-56406-9999819
Scope and Contents

Hist means to 'attract attention.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

Letters to the Great Dead: Odilon Redon! / Furnival, John; Williams, Jonathan., 1986

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Identifier: CC-13148-13449
Scope and Contents

Redon's name is broken up to form a poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Lifeart / Seitz, Tom., 1972

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Identifier: CC-39454-41410
Scope and Contents

The poems are printed on different colored stock paper. They constitute a minimal space of the pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Lighght / Saroyan, Aram., 1965

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Identifier: CC-58785-65151
Scope and Contents

his image was printed by Brice Marden. Saroyan received a $5,000 grant from NEA to produce this print and FOUR other minimalist, concrete poems. This grant prompted William Proxmire, senator from Wisconsin, to award his Golden Fleece Award to the National Endowment for the Arts as one of the most outrageous examples of slap-your-forehead misappropriations. In his book "an/thology of pwoermds" Geof Huth writes the following: "I began to write pwoermds after becoming entranced by Saroyan's eyeye. The simple beauty of that poem haunted me, even though (and maybe because) the poem began as a typographical error of Saroyan's and it took a friend of his to point out to him its signficance (Solt, Concrete Poetry, 57)." This print was redone in 1989 as a silkscreen orint in 1989 in an edition of 150 with a priceof $1,000 on the internet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Ligue / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1988

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Identifier: CC-12177-12401
Scope and Contents

This is an attack on Michel Blum who was responsible in part for rejection of Finlay's commission for the city of Paris through the "Ligue des Droits de l'Homme." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Line Sails, 1980

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Identifier: CC-53741-642820
Scope and Contents

A note on the folder states that this was originally published by Gallery Number Ten, London, 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980