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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2955 Collections and/or Records:

Wonderings, 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-03791-3863
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a picture poem that is printed in black and white. According to Morgan, only 100 copies of this hard cover edition were printed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

wordo worko / mosko mosgo: esperanto / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

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Identifier: CC-57149-10000479
Scope and Contents

Houedard has written the reversal poem "esperanto" in red ink at the lower right. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Wordplay: Ambigrams and Reflections on the Art of Ambigrams 2nd Edition / Langdon, John ; Hofstadter D ; Kim S., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44326-46474
Scope and Contents

The reversal poems (ambigrams) in this book along with their documentation are by Langdon himself. These works are reminiscent of the reversal poems composed by Dom Sylvester Houedard. This second edition is expanded with 50 new ambigrams. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Wordplay: Ambigrams and Reflections on the Art of Ambigrams / Langdon, John ; Hofstadter D ; Kim S., 1992

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Identifier: CC-07376-7520
Scope and Contents

The reversal poems in this book along with their documentation are by Langdon himself. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Words and Images / Prestianni, John; Wolf A., 1985

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Identifier: CC-04501-4588
Scope and Contents

This article consists of an interview of Arne Wolf. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Words at My Feet / Jack A. Hirschman., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09159-9340
Scope and Contents

The poem depicts a man sitting on a curb with a touch of the homelessness. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Words & Calligraphy for Children / Cataldo, John W. ; Apollinaire G ; Carroll L., 1969

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Identifier: CC-33023-34644
Scope and Contents

This book illustrates the text and image works of school children. It is an instructional guide for teachers of art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Words of Risk: The Art of Thomas Ingmire / Gullick, Michael ; Ingmire T., 1989

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Identifier: CC-09992-10190
Scope and Contents

Thomas Ingmire's Calligraphic drawing "Forgive Them" (1986) reproduced in this book is held by Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Working Day and Night, 1989

 Item — Box 107
Identifier: CC-09851-10045
Scope and Contents

This work shows a balcony with books, very much like the Sackner Archive. The artist confirmed that he had no idea of this when he did the work. In the bottom center, a child is seated at a round table. Through two large windows are a day time and a night time scene. The frame is covered with dense hand-lettered text on topology. The top and bottom edges are written backwards and can be read with a small mirror provided by the artist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

World Wall One Documents 1981-1987 / Furnival, John; Rypson P; Phillips T; CrackerJackKid; Melnicove M; Sackner DR; Baroni V; Spector B; Olbrich JO; Toth G; Pittore-Eurofico C; Random S; Hundertmark A; Scott M; Cheek C; McAlpine B., 1988

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Identifier: CC-13193-13494
Scope and Contents

This consists of letters, cards and messages on scraps of paper from the participants who sent rocks to Furnival's wall project. Furnival mounted most of them on cardboard backings. The rock wall was erected at the Furnival's house in Stroud. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Wormwood Review, The: Flowers in a Tin Can. No.86 / Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel., 1982

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Identifier: CC-29254-30608
Scope and Contents

Edited by Marvin Malone. The entire issue consists of poems by Wilma McDaniel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Wormwood Review, The. No.79 / Weidman P., 1980

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Identifier: CC-29226-30579
Scope and Contents

Edited by Marvin Malone. Wholly devoted to Phil Weidman's poems entitled, "Blind Man's Bluff." Includes a section reproducing Weidman's handwritten notebook pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Wormwood Review, The. No.98 / Moore T., 1985

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Identifier: CC-29247-30601
Scope and Contents

Edited by Marvin Malone. This issue is wholly devoted to a collection of poems entitled, "Watching" by Todd Moore. The cover and four pages reproduce handwritten poems from his working notebooks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985