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The pages are white heavy stock paper and the binding is blue suede leather.The handwriting was done with white paint mixed with glue to create an appearance of letters in relief in white paper stock. The writing consists of indecipherible calligraphic markings with a consistent style throughout the book. The Sackner Archive also holds book created by Algardi in 1983 utilizing similar calligraphic markings made with black ink, pigment and graphite on black colored paper, entitled "Imagine della Scrittura." The latter has a variety of calligraphic styles whereas the current book has a consistent style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

The pages are black heavy stock paper and the binding is smooth black leather. The handwriting on some pages has been done with graphite and on others with black paint mixed with glue to create an appearance of letters in relief. The writing consists of indecipherible calligraphic markings done in a variety of styles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Ubeir Peeters commented: "The wide variety of single characters or letters join together to make up words which carry the meaning of ideas. Whereas, feelings and sentiments are easier to convey through a representation of plants, animals, humans, landscapes or objects. To the world of ideas, the letter is a building block for the concrete expression of ideas through words: no other medium is equal. Can you imagine a philosophy that could have survived without script? Inside our mind, deep inside, each word is related to a particular item, a given concept, a fragment of memory, but nowhere this appears more clearly than in a written text, where ideas are chopped and reassembled in a string of words. Writing is an incarnation or rather, the mirror of ideas. Algardi's cursives indeed have the liquid flowing quality of ideas. However, the writing itself is made illegible. By superimposing text over text Algardi conveys a problem regarding the eventual meanings. Thus his writing covers...