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Calligraphic text

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2955 Collections and/or Records:

What does Islam Look Like? / Cotter, Holland; Koraichi R; Neshat S., 2006

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Identifier: CC-44564-46717
Scope and Contents This review of an exhibition at MoMA in New York states that "Rachid Koraichi , raised in a Sufi family in Algeria and now living in Paris, invents 'calligraphic' texts with Arabic characters, Chinese-style ideograms and talismanic signs, and embroiders them in gold on silk banners to creat banners for a new, universal language." Cotter also writes that "Shirin Neshat, born in Iran, turns the written word - as distinct from calligraphy, with its very particular skills - into a quasi-revolutionary instsrument in a seies of 1996 studio photographs of young women wha are dressed in traditional black veils but carry guns and have passages from erotic poetry and paeans to religious martyrdom written in Persian on their faces and hands. The artist seems to be symbolically placing political power in the hands of the kinds of veiled women who are automatically assumed by many Westerners to be oppressed victims of Islamic religious law, but who don't necessarily see themselves that way at...
Dates: 2006
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

What I Believe; Transpiration/Transpiring; Minnesota / Grenier, Robert; Scalapino L., 1988

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Identifier: CC-10297-10500
Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

What Indeed If I am Higgs / Patchen, Kenneth., 1955

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Identifier: CC-55686-51731
Scope and Contents

The background of this print was hancolored by Kenneth Pathchen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1955
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

When the child of Leopard & dragonfly / Patchen, Kenneth., 1955

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Identifier: CC-55687-9999278
Dates: 1955
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

When the Saints / Ciani, Piermario, editor ; Echaurren P., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44423-46572
Scope and Contents

This is a religious spoof on Saints of the Church by several Italian poets/artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Whence did the Mystic...by William Massey / Moore, Suzanne., 1993

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Identifier: CC-06360-6477
Scope and Contents Internet: Suzanne Moore is a printmaker, painter and lettering artist whose eclectic interests fuse in the diversity of her artists' books. Born to a family of gifted inventor-engineers and raised in post-Sputnik middle-America, her aptitudes in math and science channeled her into those areas at an early age. She made her way into the world of art at 20-something, and earned a BFA in Printmaking and Drawing in Wisconsin. Suzanne melds word and painted image with form, content and structure into spaces which invite the reader to engage, examine and inquire. Her books blend distinctive design, color use and surface treatments with textual content and contemporary lettering to create work that obscures the line between word and image, legibility and abstraction.The physical, sensual and architectural aspects of books and the musical/rhythmic, sequential, unfolding narratives of bookworks are a multi-dimensional parallel to the way imagery and letterforms move across surfaces. Moore...
Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

whichever way it's turned / Burke, Herbert., 1981

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Identifier: CC-22366-22789
Dates: 1981
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

White Christmas The Abortionist Gone South / Gorman, LeRoy., 1989

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Identifier: CC-09955-10153
Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Who Owned The Last Norfolk Wherry / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Harvey, Michael., 1974

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Identifier: CC-12353-12579
Scope and Contents

The card depicts a drawing of a Norfolk Wherry (type of sailship) with its sails and hull reflected in the water. The title posing the question is printed on four leaves of the card. Beneath this text as a metaphor for relection on water, the answer is provided in upside down lettering, Messrs. Woods Sadd & Moore. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Why the Solstice is always so.......Punctual / Soll, Ivan; Gomez, Marta., 2003

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Identifier: CC-42029-44027
Scope and Contents

This is a New Year's greeting card. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

William Blake / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1967

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Identifier: CC-08759-8934
Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

William Blake / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1967

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Identifier: CC-08761-8936
Dates: 1967
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

William Blake in Beuleh / Costa, Corrado., 1977

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Identifier: CC-18582-18954
Dates: 1977
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell I , 1993

 Item — Folder 69: [Barcode: 31858072538030]
Identifier: CC-13066-13361
Dates: 1993
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Windows on Fire / Vermeulen, Guido., 1998

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Identifier: CC-58877-10002081
Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Winter Book / Rose, Thomas., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27254-27761
Scope and Contents

Thomas Rose created a visual poetic tribute and memory to his father and mother upon their deaths, The presentation is introspective and dream-like, and these characteristics are matched in the physical presentation of the book with text that floats on the page, transparent papers with heavenly clouds, clinical typography for autopsy texts, and handwriting for personal thoughts and musings. The original graphic print seems to be an abstracted drawing of an urn of ashes. The brochure is a prospectus for the book.One of Rose's reminiscences reads as follows, "still the labor of your breathing is - heavy in the room - your breath - in a cloud of vapor as it left - your lips into the cold light of the room... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Wishes for a Happy New Year / Gerlovina, Rimma; Gerlovin, Valeriy., 2016

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Identifier: CC-61930-10004399
Dates: 2016
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

With Joy and Gratitude to Hashem / Marmelli, Joshua Lawrence., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31203-32671
Scope and Contents

An elegant invitation to the Bar Mitzvah ceremony and celebration honoring Joshua Marmelli's thirteenth birthday and acceptance into Jewish maturity. The postage stamps were designed after images of sculptures by Alexander Calder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

withapile / McMurtagh ; Bennett, John M.., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51987-73089
Scope and Contents

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking / Koraichi R ; Neshat S., 2006

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Identifier: CC-44689-46854
Scope and Contents

This exhibition ostensibly dealt with works by 17 Islamic artists but fell short owing to inclusion of mostly Western art images done by Islamic artists living in the West. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry

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