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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2965 Collections and/or Records:

Abomination (Abominacja) / Dluzniewski, Andrzej., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-60472-10003382
Scope and Contents

Ths Sackner Archive also holds and English translation of the Polish words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

About Change About / Laxson, Ruth., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-07412-7556
Scope and Contents

Laxson's work combines the visual and the verbal poetically, sensitively and intellectually. She works in the book and print format, and although the pieces are generally small in scale, the power and beauty of the text, line, typography and message combine to create strong, meaningful work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

[ABR] / Kozol, Myroslav., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-28122-29281
Scope and Contents

The print includes the calligraphic letters 'A' & 'B' &'R' arranged perhaps in the shape ot a cathedral. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Accuse De Reception numero 3 / Clement, Christine., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-41698-43690
Scope and Contents

This collage was a gift from Sopie-Anne and Arnaud Blachet . It contains notarial paper from 1806 and part of the French Republic seal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Ace Red North Fire / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Ballantyne, David., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-12154-12378
Scope and Contents

These are preparatory drawings for an unrealized work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Adventures in Afropea 3: Telling Stories to the Sea / David Byrne; Yale Evelev., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-38032-39918
Scope and Contents

The accompanying pamphlet containing lyrics of the musical recordings is perforated with a small round hole in the center from cover to cover. This hole goes through images of a record, eye of a fish, the center of a target, the marking of a dice, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Adventures in Afropea 3: Telling Stories to the Sea / David Byrne; Yale Evelev., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-38032-39918
Scope and Contents

The accompanying pamphlet containing lyrics of the musical recordings is perforated with a small round hole in the center from cover to cover. This hole goes through images of a record, eye of a fish, the center of a target, the marking of a dice, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Aenigmatic Wrinkles / Baroni, Vittore., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-29503-30868
Scope and Contents

A photocopied image of the face of Mona Lisa is built up in four pages from the abstract to the visible. The facing pages have childlike handwritten phrases possibly done by Baroni's son. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Aesthetics of Calligraphy, The / Johns J ; Nauman B., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-26329-26796
Scope and Contents

Calligraphic examples from the West are included as well as examples from the Eastern religious world. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Afaka Script / Wikipedia., 2009

 Item
Identifier: CC-49742-70795
Scope and Contents

This is the language of an indigenous people who migrated from Africa to Surinam. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

After the signature of Oscar Wilde / Nr 1 / Laszlo Lakner., 1974

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Identifier: CC-43836-45932
Scope and Contents

This opened German book is painted gray-black with "Oscar Wilde" written in large letters in gray on its surface. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Afterimage. No.5/Dec / Sligh C., 1989

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Identifier: CC-24781-25234
Scope and Contents

Laura U. Marks interviews Clarissa Sligh, a visual/verbal artist who also makes books, in an article entitled "Reinscribing the Self." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Agentzia: Mot-Couleur-Roman. No.29 / Annalies Klophaus., 1970

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Identifier: CC-28135-29297
Scope and Contents

The pages are printed with varied colored, written words and phrases which are arranged in horizontal grids. The book also contains comments by Klophaus about the relation of colors to words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Aggregat K, 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-35301-37035
Scope and Contents

This collection of reproductions of a work first published in 1987 accompanies "Zwischen dem Einst und dem Einst." The dimensions of the prints in this folder are much smaller than the originals. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Ah Love Could / Mayer, Peter., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-06592-6711
Scope and Contents

This is an adaptation of a poem from Omar Khayam. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Ai Limite / Miglietta, Enzo., 1992

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Identifier: CC-06515-6634
Scope and Contents

This drawing consists of an expressionistic calligraphic image almost like the Futurist's parole in liberta. It is atypical of Miglietta's typical, controlled style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Aimless Wandering / Bey, Hakim., 1993

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Identifier: CC-24190-24642
Scope and Contents

Text deals with Taoism. Hakim Bey is a non-de-plume for Peter Lamborn Wilson who also contributed issue 53 of le point d'ironie (also held by the Sackner Archive). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993