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Concrete poetry

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 594 Collections and/or Records:

Visual Poem, 1953

 Item — Box 638: [Barcode: 31858072491370]
Identifier: CC-58343-10001560
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1953
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / Oversized D

Visual Poems, Text Poems, Book Three, Book Four, Book Five, 1970 - 1980

 Item — Box 634: [Barcode: 31858072491313]
Identifier: CC-17301-17665
Scope and Contents

The titles of each book, each containing 32 prints with each print glued one to a page, are written on the covers by Cobbing. These books constitute a "scrapbook of Cobbing's published prints." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970 - 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / Art Material

Visualeyes, 1988

 Item — Box 636: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-19646-20032
Scope and Contents

The text is stenciled and colored and is placed at random in this folded drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / Oversized A-C

Vite: Poem-Graphique pour un Cerf-Volant, 1966

 Item — Box 632: [Barcode: 31858072464724]
Identifier: CC-18783-19159
Scope and Contents

This is the original of the typing which appears in Chopin's book, "Le Dernier Roman du Monde." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Henri Chopin

Vitriolum, 1988

 Item — Box 286: [Barcode: 31858072460672]
Identifier: CC-03785-3857
Scope and Contents

The title represents an acrostic of alchemy: Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificandoque Invenies Occultum Lapidem Veram Medicinam according to Persiani. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Voor'werk, 1990

 Item — Box 275: [Barcode: 31858073143384]
Identifier: CC-28573-29861
Scope and Contents

The inside of the box for this exhibition has four compartments, one for representation of each of the participating artists. Kay Rosen's are concrete poetic-like prints on stiff cardboard. Fiona Rae provides a thick, impasto, acrylic, abstract expressionist painting that is numbered 227/500. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Vou (2), 1981

 Item — Folder 34: [Barcode: 31858072459930]
Identifier: CC-21271-21681
Dates: 1981
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED

[Vowels] , 1975

 Item — Box 312: [Barcode: 31858072490828]
Identifier: CC-37573-39430
Dates: 1975
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Walls Must Crumble, 2000

 Item — Box 639: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-55117-98929
Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / Oversized Wally Depew

Wan/Grin (For Schools) / Cobbing, Bob., 1986

 Item — Box 394: [Barcode: 31858072461589]
Identifier: CC-17566-17932
Scope and Contents

One copy is printed on white paper and two copies on brown paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / Art Material

was an old woman lived in the buddhashoe (290663-060763), 1963

 Item — Box 643
Identifier: CC-08879-9055
Scope and Contents This page includes 11 typewriter poems including a oiem in five parts as an homage to Leopold Sedar Senghor. Wikipedia: Léopold Sédar Senghor (9 October 1906 "“ 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who for two decades served as the first president of Senegal (1960"“1980). Senghor was the first African elected as a member of the Académie française. Before independence, he founded the political party called the Senegalese Democratic Bloc. He is regarded by many as one of the most important African intellectuals of the 20th century. He graduated from the University of Paris, where he received the Agrégation in French Grammar. Subsequently, he was designated professor at the universities of Tours and Paris, where he taught during the period 1935"“1945. Senghor decided to start his teaching years at the Lycée René-Descartes in Tours; he also taught at the Lycée Marcelin Berthelot in Saint-Maur-des-Fosses near Paris.[14] He also studied linguistics...
Dates: 1963
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / H / Houédard, Dom Sylvester

W.H. Davies Nailsworth Series: Q is for Question - U is for Union Uncertainty, 1999

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-33742-35405
Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / John Furnival

W.H. Davies Nailsworth Series: Q is for Question - V is for Venus Violet and Oak Voices of Scorn, 1999

 Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]
Identifier: CC-33743-35406
Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / John Furnival

W.H. Davies Nailsworth Series: T Is for Time..., 1996

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-13338-13639
Scope and Contents

Consists of two columns of poetic expressions beginning with the letter T or the word T. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / John Furnival

Whisper Piece / Cobbing, Bob., 1969

 Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-59736-10002792
Scope and Contents

Designated Writers Forum Folder 6. Two of the prints are stored in a binder containing typewriter poems. This copy does not have Cobbing's handwriting across the prints. Another copy held by the Sackner Archive does. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / Art Material

Whississippi / Cobbing, Bob., 1969

 Item — Box 385: [Barcode: 31858072461506]
Identifier: CC-17603-17971
Scope and Contents

Designated writers forum pamphlet number two. "Whississippi" written in London and recorded in Stockholm, is the fourth part in a series of whisper pieces consisting of a vocal interpretation of typewriter-picture poems based of the letters in the words "whisper piece." It was read by two voices (Kersten M. Lundberg & Bob Cobbing) and then manipulated in the recording studio. The maquette for this work is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / Art Material

Why Shiva Has Ten Arms (Number One) / Cobbing, Bob., 1969

 Item — Box 386: [Barcode: 31858072461514]
Identifier: CC-17453-17818
Scope and Contents

Designated writers forum folder number seven. This tenth publication of Cobbing includes new versions of the following poems: "Soma," "Whisper Piece," "Vertigo," "Marvo Movies Natter," and "Transcript." Cobbing writes on the envelope that this copy number one was finished at 3AM on August 14, 1969. Colophon states "Why Shiva has ten arms / for he represents the dance of life / the omnipotence of being able to do innumerably / many things at once / .the joyous cosmology. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / Art Material

Why Y?, 1988

 Item — Box 255: [Barcode: 31858072458247]
Identifier: CC-15633-15961
Scope and Contents

The two sides of the Y form of the sculpture have question marks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Windmills Enter Arms Race, 1967

 Item — Folder 36: [Barcode: 31858072459963]
Identifier: CC-12407-12633
Scope and Contents

This is a varient copy of a print with the same title in Finlay's portfolio Headlines:Eavelines. The overlaid text in this print as well as the colors differ from the print in the portfolio. The finished print has words printed in blue and bluish-purple and the varient copy is printed in green and light blue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / Ian Hamilton Finlay

Winter Poem No.7 / Cobbing, Bob., 1982

 Item — Box 386: [Barcode: 31858072461514]
Identifier: CC-19078-19457
Dates: 1982
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / Art Material / Greeting Cards