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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 288 Collections and/or Records:

[Artwork for Ciaran Carson's Opera et Cetera: into the aluminium blimp basket], 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-28328-29507
Scope and Contents

This is a colored drawing that was intended for Ciaran Carson's book of poems, Opera et Cetera, Wake Forest Press, 1996, but not utilized in the printed edition. The printed page is Carson's poetry. Carson's book is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

[Artwork for Ciaran Carson's Opera et Cetera: these are night's Northern wars], 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-28330-29509
Scope and Contents

This is a gouache drawing that was intended for Ciaran Carson's book of poems, Opera et Cetera, Wake Forest Press, 1996, but not utilized in the printed edition. The text is from Carson's poetry. Carson's book is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Blindrawings, 1987

 File — Folder 14: [Barcode: 31858072459732]
Identifier: CC-21835-22246
Scope and Contents

Automatic drawings - the first six in a series of one hundred. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

[Blue Spiral], 1990

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-55177-4998965

Carved Erosion , 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-31572-33068
Scope and Contents

A minimalist poem (many of which have a concrete poetic sensibility) is printed one to each page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

CERVELLI Letters Mapes, 1960

 Item — Folder 31: [Barcode: 31858072459906]
Identifier: CC-19351-19734
Scope and Contents ItInternet:Italian artist Enrico Cervelli (1927-1961)is best remembered now for being Artistic Director on the 1954 Federico Fellini film La Strada. However, he also had an impressive painting career in the 1950s and 1960s, with solo shows at Galleria Numero in Florence in 1955, Galleria Pogliani in Rome in 1961 and the Grosvenor Gallery, London in 1966. A 1960 review by Michel Strauss in the art magazine The Burlington - of an exhibition of Cervelli's work at London's Savage Gallery - described the artwork as calligraphic transpositions of ancient propitiatory rites as presented by the peasants of the Abruzzi region. Cervelli was interpreting ancient rites and symbols in a very modern context. The review described his technique as watercolour, gouache, ink and gold leaf pressed down with sealing wax and Strauss, later to be head of Impressionist & Modern Art at Sotheby's, said the combination of shapes and colours represented "the best of abstract traditions". There is some...
Dates: 1960