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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2965 Collections and/or Records:

A TV Dante Diary XI (New Series) / Phillips, Tom., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-32397-33968
Scope and Contents

The notes by Phillips in this drawing describe work on the storyboard at CAL Video with Peter Greenaway. Phillips comments that relations with the video company are "wearing thin" with editing continuing late into the night. The right side of this page consists of a numerical diagram on the top and three drawings, two side and one frontal view of a man's head at the bottom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

A TV Dante Diary XII (New Series) / Phillips, Tom; Erskine-Tulloch P., 1984

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Identifier: CC-32398-33969
Scope and Contents

Tom Phillips writes about his trip to Japan and regrets not sharing it with Pella Erskind-Tulloch. Images include reproductions of Hiroshima after explosion of the Atomic Bomb interspersed with hand drawn quotes from Dante in the Italian. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

A TV Dante Diary XIII (New Series) / Phillips, Tom., 1984

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Identifier: CC-32399-33970
Scope and Contents

This page consists of preparatory charts for filming sequences. The collage elements are ripped, handwritten and drawn pieces of paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

A TV Dante Diary XIV (New Series) / Phillips, Tom; Eno B; Murdoch I., 1984

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Identifier: CC-32400-33971
Scope and Contents

This page is based on the package of a pornographic film that that Tom Phillips' son Leo found titled "Dante's Inferno." Phillips painted elements to the flattened and ripped box changed "minors" to "Minos," and crossed out portions of male anatomy. Phillips writes in his text that he showed the video tapes to Iris Murdoch and Brian Eno who liked it a lot and found it inventive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

A Vocabulary For Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim / Mac Low, Jackson., 1968

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Identifier: CC-47565-68574
Scope and Contents

The verso is a calligraphic text explaining how the print was made, the exhibition of it and instructions for performing the piece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

A Vocabulary For Peter Innisfree Moore February 1974-July 1975 / Mac Low, Jackson., 1989

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Identifier: CC-06743-6862
Scope and Contents

A print by MacLow of this work is also held by Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

A Vocabulary For Sharon Belle Mattlin 10-17 June 1973 / Mac Low, Jackson., 1989

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Identifier: CC-06739-6858
Scope and Contents

The original drawing and print of this work are also held by Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

A Vocabulary For Sharon Belle Mattlin / Mac Low, Jackson., 1973

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Identifier: CC-47560-68569
Scope and Contents

This is the first of several visual scores created by making words from the letters of a person's name, in this case the title name. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

A Vocabulary For Vera Regina Lachman March-April 1974 / Mac Low, Jackson., 1989

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Identifier: CC-06742-6861
Scope and Contents

A print by Mac Low of this work is also held by Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

A Waddle / Mayer, Peter., 1969

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Identifier: CC-62423-47562
Scope and Contents

Seven concrete poems and one visual poem are depicted in this pamphlet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

A Year from Monday / Cage, John ; Paik NJ ; Johns J ; Tudor D ; Rauschenberg R., 1975

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Identifier: CC-16657-17012
Scope and Contents

This copy is the third printing of the book that was first published in 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Ab Aeterno / Ferretti, Eugenio., 1991

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Identifier: CC-42692-44711
Scope and Contents

The cover and end papers are printed to give the appearance of a blackboard. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Abacus: What I Believe. No.37/Oct / Robert Grenier., 1988

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Identifier: CC-24420-24872
Scope and Contents

Edited by Peter Ganick. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988