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Concrete poetry

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1101 Collections and/or Records:

Un Coup de Des Jamais N'Abolira le Hazard, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-10765-10975
Scope and Contents

This work, based upon Stephan Mallarme's celebrated poem, is exhibited on a collaged, female mannequin, "Lady Midnight" by Astrid and John Furnival. The buttons on the sweater are actual dice. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Un Semantema in Piscina, 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-11437-11653
Scope and Contents

The black text is set in various colored shapes and patterns. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Untitled Plaque 2 (politeness strategies series), 2002

 Item — Box 212: [Barcode: 31858072459245]
Identifier: CC-38973-40910
Scope and Contents

The plaque reads I'm {fine. tired. awesome. The signed certificate of authentification is stored in the study small notebook. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Untitled [Woodface Type Sculpture] , 2002

 Item — Box 61: [Barcode: 31858072538543]
Identifier: CC-39060-40998
Scope and Contents

The painted white sculpture is made from varying size wooden typefaces and fonts including Art Deco arranged in a vertical column attached to a white wooden base. The artist's signature is composed of the wooden type letters on the bottom of one face of the sculpture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Useless, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27237-27729
Scope and Contents

The title is written several times in difficult to read calligraphy but one that gives an impression of an abstract drawing -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Verbotetture: Architetture di Parole Nello Spazio della Pagina, 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-35918-37682
Scope and Contents

Verbotecture is a neologism meaning a construction of words in the space of the page. This book is an anthology of previously published works of Lora-Totino dating from 1966 to 1998 They "identify with Concrete Poetry, but with the need of an accurate relation among the semiotic-graphical values and the meaning of the poem." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Verbum Parola Mot Word / La Rocca, Ketty., 1966

 Item — Box 535: [Barcode: 31858073111811]
Identifier: CC-37425-39278
Scope and Contents

This piece, reproduced in yellow letters on a blue background, was the front piece in the catalogue of La Rocca's works at Galleria Carini, 1989. The photograph verso is rubberstamped, "ketti la rocca, via de serrogli 66, firenze" and hand dated '66. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Vert Rouge, 1982

 Item — Folder 48: [Barcode: 31858072537826]
Identifier: CC-15715-16044
Scope and Contents

Trou translates as hole; verge translates as penis. Vert (painted green) is green and rouge is red (painted red) - a double anagram. The work is stamped "Ypudu, Anagrammiste." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Verzamelde Weken (Collected Works): Boek 1 / Van Essche, Leon., 2014

 Item
Identifier: CC-59897-10002950
Scope and Contents This book was composed and introduced by Wilfried Wynants. It is a collection of all of Van Essche's literary and poetic works in chronologic order. Book 1 consists of Part I: Collected verses from the years 1941, '42, '43 and '44. Part II: Collected poems 1950-1960. Part III: Poems published in magazines for Labris. Part: IV: publications of combined poems. Part V.: collected poems published after 1957. Part VI. Unpublished poems after 1962. Book 2 consists of Part VII: Poems published in LABRIS 1962-1973. Part VIII: poems published in KOKO 1975-1979. Part IX: poems published in BUITENBEENS. Part X: poems published in TEMPUS FUGIT 1985-2000. Part X: CD-ROM - selection of works known more than 1250From 1941 to 1960, he composed solely conventional poems. In about 1960, he composed 100 abstract line drawings with ink that were divided into 10 sets each containing 10 drawings entitled, "Sintetis Vizjoen of Lyrintis (SE)." One such set is helld by the Sackner Artchive and differs from...
Dates: 2014

Verzamelde Weken (Collected Works): Boek 2 / Van Essche, Leon., 2014

 Item
Identifier: CC-59898-10002951
Scope and Contents

This book was composed and introduced by Wilfried Wynants and is a continuation of the collection of all of van Escche's literary and poetic work in chronologic order. Its first section consists of Van Essche's "typed artpoe" to the four numbers of the first year (1962) of the "Labris" periodical. The dvd contans colored images and others not printed in the two books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014

Visao Vision E. M. de Melo e Castro 1961-1972, 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-38656-40566
Scope and Contents

This book presents a sampling of the different approaches to concrete poetry and visual art employed by De Melo e Castro. There are several rubberstamped poems reproduced in this book including one in color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Visitation 2nd Edition, 2007

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-47287-50030
Scope and Contents

The pages consist of variations on small o's forming the letter 'H.' This book was originally published in 26 lettered copies for the "On the H orizon" celebration in memory of bp Nichol held at Emily Carr College, Vancouver, September 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Visual Poem, 1953

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: D: [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