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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2960 Collections and/or Records:

Caught in the Rain Broken in the Stardust / Pierson, Jack., 1994

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Identifier: CC-04774-4864
Scope and Contents

The color of the text is white, hand-printed on black paper as if it were painted graffeti. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Celebration, 1970

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Identifier: CC-33339-34977
Scope and Contents

A folding handwritten sheet of papercard is collaged to the right half of the work. It is entitled "XAIPE" and consists of a series of Hurrah statements for people, events and things. It begins, "Hurrah for life - Hurrah for friendship - Hurrah for sex - Hurrah for Picasso - Hurrah for dada - Hurrah for Duchamp, etc. The left half of the collage contains the words, Hurrah and Celebration, handcut from black paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Celebration of Calligraphy / Waters S ; Jackson D ; Hechle A ; Larcher J., 1996

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Identifier: CC-32656-34242
Scope and Contents

This catalogue presented examples of calligraphic works from The Society of Scribes & Illuminators through 75 years of their history. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Centre de Recherches Peripheri Scopiques: De Rosalie a Sulpice. ., 1981

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Identifier: CC-16838-17194
Scope and Contents

Book consists of a reproduction of a four page letter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Centro Tool: Prove di Scrittua. No.4/Feb / Vincenzo Accame., 1971

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Identifier: CC-16951-17307
Scope and Contents

This card also served as an exhibition announcement. Stored with Tool Publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

ceolfrith / at dsh Love (740822) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1974

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Identifier: CC-55873-59037
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This poem was composed forthe Bob Cobbing/Writers Forum Exhibition at Ceolfrith Sunderland. It becomes a reversal poem (two poems) when viewed from recto and verso. Wikipedia: Saint Ceolfrid (or Ceolfrith) (Pronounced "Chol-frid") (c. 642 "“ 716) was an Anglo-Saxon Christian abbot and saint. He is best known as the warden of Bede from the age of seven until his death in 716. He was the Abbot of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey, and a major contributor to the project Codex Amiatinus. He died in Burgundy while en route to deliver a copy of the codex to Pope Gregory II in Rome. In this work, however, Houedard refers to the Ceolfrith Gallery in the Sunderland Arts Centre. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

ceolfrith / at dsh Love (740822) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1974

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Identifier: CC-58898-10002099
Scope and Contents

This poem was composed forthe Bob Cobbing/Writers Forum Exhibition at Ceolfrith Sunderland. It becomes a reversal poem (two poems) when viewed from recto and verso. Wikipedia: Saint Ceolfrid (or Ceolfrith) (Pronounced "Chol-frid") (c. 642 "“ 716) was an Anglo-Saxon Christian abbot and saint. He is best known as the warden of Bede from the age of seven until his death in 716. He was the Abbot of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey, and a major contributor to the project Codex Amiatinus. He died in Burgundy while en route to deliver a copy of the codex to Pope Gregory II in Rome. In this work, however, Houedard refers to the Ceolfrith Gallery in the Sunderland Arts Centre. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

C'est mon dada: six x six. No.39/Mar / Carla Bertola., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51415-72510
Scope and Contents

Bertola describes this book a "six series of interferences - six interferences each 6 X6 36 - fringes of interferences on writings occured in July and August 2008. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

C'est mon dada: West of Dodge. No.38/Feb / Nico Vassilakis., 2009

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Identifier: CC-50998-72077
Scope and Contents

Some pages of this book have been done in the style of Tom Phillips' "A Humument." The altered pages are based on a book by Louis L'Amour entitled "West of Dodge." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009