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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 426 Collections and/or Records:

Memory, 1991

 Item — Box 213: [Barcode: 31858072459310]
Identifier: CC-28651-29951
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1991

Michel Butor reseau aerion, 2005

 Item — Folder 77: [Barcode: 31858072538360]
Identifier: CC-46966-49704
Scope and Contents

Pessin's writing of a Butor text is presented in gold ink on a black paper background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

[Micrographic Drawings], 2010

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: A-Ba: [Barcode: 31858072491164]
Identifier: CC-51340-72429
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2010

Motive, 2000

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Identifier: CC-35655-37404
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2000

Motive II, 2000

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Identifier: CC-35653-37402
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2000

Muse Measures, 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-31911-33436
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1999

My days as pebbles in a stream are many-coloured: what is the last one: [A ghu] , 1998

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Identifier: CC-31279-32750
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1998

My days as pebbles in a stream are many-coloured: what is the last one: [O ghu] , 1998

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Identifier: CC-31280-32751
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1998

My Heart No.2, 1998

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Identifier: CC-32285-33846
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1998

My Heart No.3, 1998

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Identifier: CC-32286-33847
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1998

My Heart No.4 , 1998

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Identifier: CC-32287-33848
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1998

My Heart No.5, 1998

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Identifier: CC-32288-33849
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1998

My Heart No.6 , 1998

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Identifier: CC-32289-33850
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1998

My Heart No.7 , 1998

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Identifier: CC-32290-33851
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1998

my pet concertinas, 1988

 Item — Box 272: [Barcode: 31858072460938]
Identifier: CC-48234-69258
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1988

Nervous System , 2000

 Item — Box 314: [Barcode: 31858072490802]
Identifier: CC-37385-39238
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2000

Never More, 1989 - 1990

 Item — Folder 15: [Barcode: 31858072459740]
Identifier: CC-22468-22893
Scope and Contents

A photographic image of the Beetles is collaged onto the record. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989 - 1990