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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 269 Collections and/or Records:

Poetry Information, 1974

 Item — Box 312: [Barcode: 31858072490828]
Identifier: CC-25593-26051
Scope and Contents

This is a cover design for the periodical.The uneveness of the abstract images suggests that this work is a drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Poetry Visual, 2001

 Item — Box 336: [Barcode: 31858072491115]
Identifier: CC-37488-39341
Scope and Contents

Bennett gave this drawing to the Sackners during his visit to the Archive in June 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Polar Bear Poster Poem, 1965

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-12898-13189
Scope and Contents

In this poem, Furnival plays with permutations of bear, the personal pronouns, ours & nous (we in English from the French), and son using his distinctive calligraphic printed letterform style. This print is depicted in Furnival's "Lost For Words" (2011) page 56. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Portrait of My Mother, 1977

 Item — Folder 56: [Barcode: 31858072537909]
Identifier: CC-21851-22262
Scope and Contents

Portrait taken from an old photograph and found personal records. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Psalm One, 1984

 Item — Folder 4: [Barcode: 31858072459427]
Identifier: CC-36484-38281
Scope and Contents

This drawing is an exposition of Psalm One. Boshoff comments, "I once, in 1976, gave talks on the Psalms in an old age home, and at one time, in the early eighties, I thought it might be a good idea to write notes on all the psalms like the ones on Psalm One." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Regina Di, 1994

 Item — Box 334: [Barcode: 31858072491032]
Identifier: CC-41963-43959
Scope and Contents Obituary (The independent July 15, 1995 by Tom Raworth): The Swiss-Italian artist and writer Franco Beltrametti )1937-1995) published over 30 books and pamphlets of poetry, prose, collaborations and translations, in several languages and countries; and had a similar number of solo and group exhibitions of his graphic works. Those will last however long words and objects do; but his existence as catalyst, connector and correspondent is gone for ever. He was a personal link between such disparate traditions as American beat - and New York school - poetry; the Fluxus group of artists; the European avant-garde; the music of Steve Lacy, Joelle Leandre and Nino Locatelli; the Italian revolutionary left; and Japanese Zen Buddhism.With Gianantonio Pozzi (whom he met in Sicily) he organised P77 - a small poetry festival in Venice which, the following year, 1978, was transferred to Amsterdam to expand and become the regular "One World Poetry". It was through Beltrametti's friendship with...
Dates: 1994

Reliquaire 89 No.4, 1989

 Item — Folder 46: [Barcode: 31858072460052]
Identifier: CC-15689-16018
Scope and Contents

An image of the lungs is depicted along with the phrase in French, "the beautiful breathing of the lungs is bestowed." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Rest 1 Rest 2, 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-28284-29459
Scope and Contents

This is the first edition of the book which is in part a fascimile of the artist's sketchbook. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Rest 1 Rest 2, 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-28285-29460
Scope and Contents

This is the second edition of the book which is in part a facsimile of the artist's sketch book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Rigid, Poeta, 1995

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-37419-39272
Scope and Contents

This is a collection of poems from 1985 to 1995. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Roaring In Snow Fields, 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-54093-55630
Scope and Contents

The drawing iks framed but not covered with a plexiglas sheet. It was the cover image for a card announcing a private viewing at the Serpentine Gallery 1985. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

rOLLing COMBers, 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-36142-37921
Scope and Contents

Jim Leftwich contributed an afterward, "John M. Bennett's Swarming Present" to this collection of polyphonic poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Scissor Works 1992-2002, 2002

 Item — Box 324: [Barcode: 31858072490901]
Identifier: CC-54005-642978
Scope and Contents

This booklet celebrates the firsrt ten years of Baroni's involvement with the CD musical recording group, Le Forbici De Manitu. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Scrittura Attiva, 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-19815-20202
Scope and Contents

This book reviews visual and concrete poetry with calligraphic themes in Italy during the seventies. Its translation into English without the images is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980