Calligraphic markings

The painting is dated on the verso Feb. 10 - April 7. 1975. It has an appearance of a landscape viewed from a great altitude. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

461, 1998

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Identifier: CC-30095-31493

Scope and Contents

This a drawing from a series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

781 Spanish Composition Book / Masullo, Andrew., 1983 - 1984

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Identifier: CC-39162-41106

Scope and Contents

Each page of this found book in Spanish is covered with linear, calligraphic markings in a style reminiscent of Charles Crumb's notebooks. Masullo's signature is written in the center of page 111, just above the number adjacent to the number '781,' the number of his works. In November 2010, showed paintings at Feature NYC, his 12th solo show in a NYC gallery and the first in six years. Roberta Smith, NYT art critic, commented (NYT November 26, 2010) "He is due a small museum survey that would tie together his paintings with the quirky books and collages he made in the 1980, when his work was one of the fresher sights on the East Village art scene. Its freshness persists." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983 - 1984

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

911 Quick Drawings, 1988

Item — Box 99: [Barcode: 31858072538329]

Identifier: CC-14215-14522

Scope and Contents

The images consist of quick sketch line drawings; these are stored within a box painted by Evason. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

1952-1982 / Ruehm, Gerhard ; Tilman Osterwold, curator., 1982

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Identifier: CC-27850-28985

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Each of these four, well illustrated books in the folder provides a description of an aspect of Ruhm's work from 1952-1982, e.g., 1) automatic drawings, 2) written drawings, 3) hand and body drawings, and 4) photomontages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

2398 gr. A Book about Food, 2003

Item — Box 184: [Barcode: 31858072459542]

Identifier: CC-40697-42671

Scope and Contents

Fabrica is a communication research and development center founded in 1994 by the Benetton Group. At Fabrica young artists and experimenters under 25 gather and develop their creativity and concrete communication pojects in fields that range from cinema, graphic design, industrial design, music, illustration, photography, new media and editorial production...2398 gr. is the title of a book interpreting food - a fundamental cultural and anthropological stimulus. Exploring our relationship with food, the techniques of contemporary art; food as fetish, ritual, dependence, festivity, emotion, pleasure, obsession, chemistry, relation or fear. Or food as landscape, design, a metaphor, a sign, dance and architecture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

A Humument First Revision Page 83 / Phillips, Tom., 1980

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Identifier: CC-52992-74136

Scope and Contents This page depicts three horizonal, large, calligraphic markings possibly symbolizing chaos on a background of light white cross-hatching layered on blue and red color in the upper 80%. The lower 20% is a solid black color. The red and blue backgound might symbolize bleeding and black color at the lower portion of the drawing death. The poem reads "future began - the night of long white words - that day was reckoned the first day of it - the opening number." Here Phillips might be referring to The Night of the Long Knives {white words?} or more commonly called in Germany the "Röhm-Putsch," a purge that took place in Nazi Germany between June 30 and July 2, 1934, when the Nazi regime carried out a series of political executions. Most of those killed were members of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary Brownshirts [Wikipedia]. Adolf Hitler moved against the SA and its leader, Ernst Röhm, because he saw the independence of the SA and the penchant of its members for street...

Dates: 1980

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

A La Memoire d'Un Ange / Tarlatt, Ulrich., 1994

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Identifier: CC-01605-1640

Scope and Contents

The calligraphic markings have been made on two pages of the book with the title of this piece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

[A l'Intention...] / Anne Marie Guerryam., 1982

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Identifier: CC-10645-10854

Dates: 1982

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

A Marca e o Logotipo Brasileiros / Dias Pino, Wlademir ; Dos Santos, Joao Felicio., 1974

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Identifier: CC-15393-15717

Scope and Contents

The catalogue of industrial logos from Brazilian companies is interspersed with symbols and drawings from primitive tribes, art history and architecture, and graphic design. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry