Calligraphic text
Found in 426 Collections and/or Records:
Matisse Chez Duplay / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Farthing, Julie., 1989
Meat Click: Joint Texts, 1980
Memory, 1991
Forty-eight matching pairs of abstract design images on cards, with the words "memory" written on the verso, are to be matched in playing this game. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Michel Butor reseau aerion, 2005
Pessin's writing of a Butor text is presented in gold ink on a black paper background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Micrographic Drawings], 2010
The loose sheets are reproductions of drawings that Susan Baron made for her exhibition in Chicago. On the envelope she has written the following message to the Sackners: "a few not great xeroxes of micrography from Chicago show coming up - charcoal & carbon pencil on paper mostly - lots of black birds = Kafka show = The Writing on the Wall. PLZ DO NOT BEND" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Modell, 1972
Motive, 2000
This drawing depicts three stylized reddish-brown male nude figures placed upon text for the outside two figures and on gold paint for the center figure. The center figure holds an arrow in his right hand and a twig with leaves in his left hand. The paper was made from cardboard egg crate carton material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Motive II, 2000
This drawing depicts a stylized reddish-brown male nude figure in the center with text on either side. The paper was made from cardboard egg crate carton material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Muse Measures, 1999
Ruth Laxson combines worldly, sophisticated statements of truth and wisdom with lively typographic, hand drawn and written designs. The book is divided into three sections: Theory, Figments and Other. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
My days as pebbles in a stream are many-coloured: what is the last one: [A ghu] , 1998
This drawing is densely written in Russian script with an overlaying central figure consisting of varying handwritten texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
My days as pebbles in a stream are many-coloured: what is the last one: [O ghu] , 1998
This drawing is densely written in Russian script with an overlaying central figure consisting of swirling designs in the base. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
My Heart No.2, 1998
The drawing depicts a stylized reddish-orange colored heart surrounded by micrographic writing in Russian. A target with a dart is collaged onto the drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
My Heart No.3, 1998
The drawing depicts a stylized reddish-orange colored heart surrounded by micrographic writing in Russian. A target with a dart is collaged onto the drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
My Heart No.4 , 1998
The drawing depicts a stylized reddish-orange colored heart surrounded by micrographic writing in Russian. A target with a dart is collaged onto the drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
My Heart No.5, 1998
The drawing depicts a stylized reddish-orange colored heart surrounded by micrographic writing in Russian. A target with a dart is collaged onto the drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
My Heart No.6 , 1998
The drawing depicts a stylized reddish-orange colored heart surrounded by micrographic writing in Russian. A target with a dart is collaged onto the drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
My Heart No.7 , 1998
The drawing depicts a stylized reddish-orange colored heart surrounded by micrographic writing in Russian. A target with a dart is collaged onto the drawing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
my pet concertinas, 1988
The booklet with the 26 treated pages has an abstract line drawing on its cover, the booklet with 69 treated pages has the roman numeral "II" on its cover with the title "Les Tres Riches Heures de Fleur." The first booklet describes and illustrates trips to Kenya, Verona, Dusseldorf with Phillips' assistant/bookbinder Pella Erskine Tulloch. He also describes and illustrates her musical tastes. The first sketch of her portrait appears on one of the pages; the Sackner Archive holds the completed painted portrait. In the booklet with 69 treated pages (concertina II), Phillips mentions drawing and painting Pella's portrait and comments on his own activities. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Nervous System , 2000
This book originally was supposed to be the periodical Neptune No.2 (Neptune No.1 is held by the Sackner Archive). The front cover is stencil cut with the word NERVOUS and the back cover is stencil cut with the word SYSTEM. The handwritten, obsessive text is concerned with the emotions. Kurt Allerslev describes Nervous System in correspondence with Marvin Sackner that "the end result is a beautifully charged multiply printed edition of ten. Nervous System smells of ink and sweat sweet sour electricity. Lush dense compositions explore the interconnectedness of nerve form and letterform." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Never More, 1989 - 1990
A photographic image of the Beetles is collaged onto the record. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
