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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2963 Collections and/or Records:

The Potential Sparing the Moment / Cheek, Cris., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-16932-17288
Dates: 1979
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books (unprocessed)

The Prayer, 2000

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Scope and Contents

Inked drawing of a man smoking as men and eyes surround him. Signed by artist

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) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

The Procrustes Trilogy / Cremean, Robert ; Jacquelin Pilar, curator., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-58729-10001963
Dates: 2002
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs(unprocessed)

The Puzzle, 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-51523-72621
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) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / Oversized

The Rabbit Generation / Hubaut, Joel., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-09657-9850
Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

The Reader 2nd Edition / Koppany, Marton., 2011

 Item
Identifier: CC-55659-9999259
Scope and Contents

This book was first written in 1988; this is a slightly revised 2nd edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets (unprocessed)

The Resurrection / Afungusboy., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-26991-27465
Scope and Contents

Each page with random calligraphically arranged texts has been overprinted with a single letter from the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets (unprocessed)

The Rotzone Arcane by Jack Hirschman, 1997

 Item — Folder 47: [Barcode: 31858072460045]
Identifier: CC-31598-33096
Dates: 1997
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

The Rotzone Arcane by Jack Hirschman, 1997

 Item — Folder 46: [Barcode: 31858072460052]
Identifier: CC-33583-35236
Scope and Contents

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor with a fine sable brush and added figurative images in acrylic paint. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997
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

[the ruffian said] / Verey, Charles., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-57083-10000440
Scope and Contents

This drawing has a hand-numbered 4 in the l.r. corner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

[the ruffian said] / Verey, Charles., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-57090-10000441
Scope and Contents

This drawing has a hand-numbered 4 in the l.r. corner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

The Russian Futurist Diary 1991 / Gooding, Mel, editor ; Rothenstein, Julian, editor., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-10153-10354
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: Books (unprocessed)

The Ruts , 1979

 Item — Folder 65: [Barcode: 31858072537990]
Identifier: CC-18768-19142
Dates: 1979
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

The Same Proximity, 1989

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-22704-23139
Dates: 1989
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 BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

The Sea's Waves' Sheaves / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Barrie, Stuart., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-11974-12197
Scope and Contents

The card is folded twice to give three panels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

The Season's Greetings from Ana Hatherly / Hatherly, Ana., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-28802-30116
Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

The Secrets Known Only to the Inner Elites / Evason, Greg., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-13490-13793
Scope and Contents

This book is subtitled "A Visual Diary (September 25, 1990- November 25, 1990.)" -- 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: Books (unprocessed)

The Shaper / Gillespie, A. Lincoln., 1948

 Item
Identifier: CC-55667-59940
Scope and Contents Internet: This work amounts to an illustrated prose poem rant on modern art and artists in general, touching on psychology, artistic theory, the working class and labor, politics, etc., and mentioning Gertrude Stein and John Steinbeck. This must be one of the strangest, if not one of the most overlooked works of visual poetry in the United States. "Gillespie was a member of the group that centered around Transition Magazine in the 1920's and 30's. His work not only eschewed standard spelling and punctuation, it incorporated symbols and drawings and resembles musical notation. A selection of his work appeared in the third issue of Beaudoin's little magazine Iconograph, and was the only section of the magazine that had to be mimeographed, as the printer couldn't handle the eccentricities of the piece" (Adam Davis) Abraham Lincoln Gillespie, Jr. was born in Philadelphia in 1895 and died in New York in 1950. "In 1922 he moved to Paris where became friends with writers James Joyce and...
Dates: 1948
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats(unprocessed)

The Shroud, 2006

 Item — Box 135: [Barcode: 31858072457835]
Identifier: CC-47959-68982
Scope and Contents This work is a masterpiece of poetic embroidery with varied styles for the lettering. The phrases read as follows: 1) lifedeath, 2) heebiejeebies, 3) snuffflick, 4) zigzag, 5) duckyducky, 6) deadend, 7) gangplank, 8) zebrazebra, 9) lushlush, 10) be all end all, 11) finiteinfinite, 12) cockeyed & cuckoo, 13) homesick 14) BAH HUMBUG, 15) fuckyfucky, 16) 2010, 17) mamapapbaba, 18) zerozero, 19) hooplahoopla, 20) toom tchoop poom, 21) i cant sell it, 22) perky & chirpy, 23) sporty & forty, 24) holdminehand, 25) hubbahubba, 26) doublewide, 27) eyeball, 28) ojo por ojo, 29) davey crockett ma kettle, 30) i stand corrected, 31) wow, 32) gee, 33) holy cow, 34) la la, 35) dirty dip, 36) dog paddle, 37) sawbuck, 38) juicehead, 39) gummer, 40) gibberish, 41) invisible ink, 42) hotrod, 43) snap hold kick, 44) 2 sides, 45) sing, 46) alfalfa, 47) rhododenron, 48) i, and 49) croak. Sloy wrote to the Sackners: it took a long time to make. 'lifedeath' was embroidered in 2000. 'croak' was...
Dates: 2006
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 BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS / nic and sloy

The Song in My Sentence / Jack A. Hirschman., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-09197-9378
Scope and Contents

The theme deals with a nostalgic view of the Russian language. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

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