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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 399 Collections and/or Records:

0, 2005

 Item — Box 336: [Barcode: 31858072491115]
Identifier: CC-44844-47015

1999 Greetings, 1999

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-32278-33839
Scope and Contents

The object is heart-shaped and the words on one side are written as without punctuations and appear to be randomly connected. The other side of the object consists of fine silver mesh that covers potpourri. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

A Lettrist Lyric, 1996

 Item — Box 615: [Barcode: 31858073143871]
Identifier: CC-03093-3140
Scope and Contents

Poem written for Ruth Sackner on her 60th birthday while William Smith was a guest at the Sackner's house. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

A Nation in Exile: #7, 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-37005-38838
Scope and Contents

This is one of a suite of 21 prints written by Massoudy of a poem by the Palestinian activist poet, Mahmoud Darwish. These prints accompanied the artistic renditions of the poem done by Rachid Koraichi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

A Nation in Exile: #9, 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-37007-38840
Scope and Contents

This is one of a suite of 21 prints written by Massoudy of a poem by the Palestinian activist poet, Mahmoud Darwish. These prints accompanied the artistic renditions of the poem done by Rachid Koraichi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

A Nation in Exile: #14, 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-37012-38845
Scope and Contents

This is one of a suite of 21 prints written by Massoudy of a poem by the Palestinian activist poet, Mahmoud Darwish. These prints accompanied the artistic renditions of the poem done by Rachid Koraichi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

A Nation in Exile: #17, 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-37015-38848
Scope and Contents

This is one of a suite of 21 prints written by Massoudy of a poem by the Palestinian activist poet, Mahmoud Darwish. These prints accompanied the artistic renditions of the poem done by Rachid Koraichi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

A Partir de ce Jour, 1985

 Item — Folder 3: [Barcode: 31858072459419]
Identifier: CC-57568-10000846
Scope and Contents

This drawing is a page from the scrapbook of John Furnival. It contains Lettrist statements, handwriting, abstract drawings and a cartoon-like figure speaking an unkown language in a bubble.The verso has other artifacts from the Furnival scrapbook. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

A Tapestry of Languages, 1994

 Item — Box 625: [Barcode: 31858073143897]
Identifier: CC-28857-30176
Scope and Contents

The book extolls America with poems in several languages. These languages, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, Russian, and Armenian, are calligraphed and printed on different colored backgrounds opposite an American seal which picks up the same color in one of its components. All the handwritten texts are also printed together on the fold-out page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

About Change (about), 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-07412-7556
Scope and Contents

Laxson's work combines the visual and the verbal poetically, sensitively and intellectually. She works in the book and print format, and although the pieces are generally small in scale, the power and beauty of the text, line, typography and message combine to create strong, meaningful work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Aenigmatic Wrinkles, 1997

 Item — Box 327: [Barcode: 31858072490943]
Identifier: CC-29503-30868
Scope and Contents

A photocopied image of the face of Mona Lisa is built up in four pages from the abstract to the visible. The facing pages have childlike handwritten phrases possibly done by Baroni's son. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Aggregat K, 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-35301-37035
Scope and Contents

This collection of reproductions of a work first published in 1987 accompanies "Zwischen dem Einst und dem Einst." The dimensions of the prints in this folder are much smaller than the originals. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Aimless Wandering, 1993

 Item — Box 340: [Barcode: 31858072491255]
Identifier: CC-24190-24642
Scope and Contents

Text deals with Taoism. Hakim Bey is a non-de-plume for Peter Lamborn Wilson who also contributed issue 53 of le point d'ironie (also held by the Sackner Archive). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Alchimia della Scrittura: Opere 1963-1995, 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-20658-21060
Scope and Contents

Nine books and drawings held by the Sackner Archive are depicted and annotated as "Collezione privata, Miami Beach" in this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995