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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2966 Collections and/or Records:

We laughed, knowing that better men would come: from Wilfred Owen's Thr Next War / Lourson, Laurent., 1994

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Identifier: CC-35981-37748
Scope and Contents

The print is divided into a 2 x 2 grid with the title from the Owen's war poem divided into representation of fire, air, earth and water. The calligraphy expresses these elements in shape and color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Web Too / Chace, Joel., 2013

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Identifier: CC-57960-10001218
Scope and Contents

The images on the pages consist of reproductions of collages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2013
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

[Wedding Invitation] / Karsch, Benjamin; Sharabi, Liat., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28723-30029
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This is an invitation to the wedding of Ruth Sackner's nephew in Israel designed by the artist calligrapher, Denni Ann Gershaw. One sheet on parchment paper is designed with the Hebrew letters Lamed and Vav, the first initials of the bride Liat and the groom Benjamin. These two letters also spell "heart" in Hebrew and it is the first word from a quote from the Book of Psalms which is written in calligraphy around the two letters. This motif is repeated on the second sheet, the actual wedding invitation, as an under printing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Wedge: Sexuality: Re/Positions. No.6/Win / Silvia Kolbowski, Brian Wallis, Phil Mariani, editors ; Kelly M ; Lyotard JF ; Burgin V ; Kruger B., 1984

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Identifier: CC-42128-44130
Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

weitermalen / Thomkins, Andre., 1988

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Identifier: CC-58979-10002169
Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

[welcome to days to come] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

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Identifier: CC-27839-28972
Scope and Contents

The text is written in red and black capital letters. The text reads both right to left (black) and right to left (red) if the paper is turned over and read on the reverse side. It states,"Welcome to days to come! Shall we forfeit much? Sight, hearing, speech perhaps and thought? In the end our loss is self, the glory our gain." The appropriate punctuation marks are written in red and black as are directional arrows. The letters are written written twice, text over text or mirror image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

[We're coming to Miami] / Jackman, Sandra., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47383-68380
Scope and Contents

The Jackmans write about a date to meet with the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Werner geht in die Schule / Herbst, Werner., 1990

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Identifier: CC-08995-9172
Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

west est sea - mast hen tia / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1966

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Identifier: CC-50859-71937
Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

west est sea - mast hen tia / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1966

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Identifier: CC-50859-71937
Dates: 1966
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

wf 2 nudes land / 3 X sunderland (740822) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1974

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Identifier: CC-55893-9999364
Scope and Contents

This poem was composed for Bob Cobbing/Writers Forum Exhibition at Ceolfrith Sunderland. The writing on the recto of one of two poems 'wf,' is visible on the verso as '3 X.' wf is the abbreviation for Bob Cobbimg's press, 'writers forum.' The other poem '2 nudes land' on the recto reads 'sunderland' on the verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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

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 / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

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 / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

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 / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

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 / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

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 / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

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 / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

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 / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

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 / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

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 / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

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