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Graffiti

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

A Humument First Revision Page 44 / Phillips, Tom., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-53348-136665
Scope and Contents

This page depicts graffiti text on a multi-colored brick wall that reads WAS HER. The poem reads, "old brick good-bye - redeem a dream; and dream this diary for telling myself my own story." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Artchive / Fain, Benjamin., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-31902-33426
Scope and Contents

Fain sent this drawing as a gift to the Sackners after touring the collection. He drew the word "Artchive," selected from a painting of Tom Phillips, in his graffiti style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Biasca / Beltrametti, Franco; Koller, James., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-22888-23324
Scope and Contents

This card is a color photographic reproduction of a painting with the same title that was reproduced in black and white in the book, "Graffiti Lyriques," a work held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Cerco Cazzo / Vaccari, Franco., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-31673-33180
Scope and Contents

The photograph depicts graffiti scrawled on a door. Vaccari inscribed the verso with the caption, poesia visiva. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

from a photo / curry, jw ; Owen, D.M.., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-54942-990357
Scope and Contents

Stored in Room 3o2 Books box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Graffiti / Freeman, Richard ; Evershed T., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-31432-32921
Scope and Contents

This is a treasure-house of graffiti. It is a hilarious book, and a serious one; it is bawdy, and scholarly. From the origins and meanings of inscriptions on Stonehenge to the modern day muck we see in toilets.The book contains 24 pages of photographs and some 50 line-drawings by Tony Evershed sprinkled throughout the book. Graffito was defined by the Shorter Oxford Dictionary as: A drawing or writing scratched on a wall or other surface, as in Pompeii and Rome. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Graffiti: Two Thousand Years of Wall Writing / Reisner, Robert., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-31457-32947
Scope and Contents

This book describes and reprints written texts on public spaces within a socio-political context. It does not consider the urban, artistic graffiti that emerged in the 1970's. It includes a section on hobo symbols. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Milano Via Orti 16 / Beltrametti, Franco; Koller, James., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-22890-23326
Scope and Contents

The address in the title is that of Mercato Del Sale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

[Neografitti] / Hatherly, Ana., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-38717-40627
Scope and Contents

The drawing is part of a series entitled "neografitti" that are depicted in the exhibition catalogue, EDP.ARTE, a book also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

[...p.cob] / Owen,D.M.., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-48398-69424
Scope and Contents

jw curry printed this card from a photograph by D.M.Owen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008