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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2955 Collections and/or Records:

Worried Noodles (The Empty Sleeve) / Shrigley, David., 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-50616-71689
Scope and Contents

The phrase "Ugly Cunts" is painted in an abstract expressionist field on the inside of the folder covers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

[Wrapping Paper] / Grafiche Tassotti., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-42828-44868
Scope and Contents

The design of this wrapping paper consists of calligraphed letters of various dimensions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

wrecking ballzark, th: Different Tenses. No.14 / Peggy lefler., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-53367-63148
Scope and Contents

AntiChrist was first published as logical sequence #3 in Curvd H&Z series 0, No.9. This work is also designated Curvd H&Z No.50. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

[Writing on eight stave-like lines] / Hatherly, Ana., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-34765-36471
Scope and Contents

The drawing consists of eight lines of handwriting on groups of stave-like lines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Writing Series: Pressures #2 / Kallman, Edith., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-61630-10007091
Scope and Contents The word "pressures" is repeatitively written in the image. The Passdoor (Sebastopol CA) website Edith Kallman (1926-2014) was unique in her approach, using the repetition of words in a calligraphic style to create intricate patterns. Her spirals and grids offer us personal and social messages that vanish into graphic images. "Such words and phrases as: Obsessive, Pressures, And On and On, serve as titles...the words stimulate viewer participation and experience." Edith was influenced by the abstract expressionist painters of the 50"s and 60's, and contemporary artists of her time: Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Adolph Gottlieb, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still. You can see their influence in her use of color fields and gestural brush strokes. In the early 70"s she developed her own style, which challenged the aesthetic establishment of her times. She was highly influenced by the Graffiti Art movement...
Dates: 1989

Writing Series: Private Musings / Kallman, Edith., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-37187-39031
Scope and Contents

This drawing is a 4 x 2 grid that provides a "sampler" of Kallman's calligraphic and visual styles. The single phrase of the title is used exclusively in all the panels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

[x)...] / Caruso, Luciano., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-19293-19676
Scope and Contents

The drawing on the left side of the folio is collaged to the paper; the drawing on the right side has been done directly on the paper of the folio. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Xerolage: Assassin. No.37 / Andrew Topel., 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-44338-46487
Scope and Contents

Each page reproduces a single concrete poem. The Sackner Archive also holds the manuscript for this work which has 40 pages of poems. Twenty-six poems were used for this issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Xerox Mother Fucker, 1985

 Item — Box Axelrod-Baker: [Barcode: 31858072490786]
Identifier: CC-21556-21967

Xibalba 5 Houses / Jack A. Hirschman., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-08990-9167
Scope and Contents

Contains hieroglyphics relating to the Mayan underground. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Xibalba 5 Houses / Jack A. Hirschman., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-09062-9241
Scope and Contents

The book and the tilles depict hieroglyphics relating to the Mayan underground. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Yes / Arshad, Yasmin., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-42957-45001
Scope and Contents

The handwrittten word YES is repeated in 22 lines. The gallery specializes in fine art and handcrafts by award-winning artists with disabilities. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Yes We All Read and Reek of Papers / Furnival, John., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-13294-13595
Scope and Contents

This print that has been printed in green (for the environment?) depicts a photograph of a woman with the caption "not mama grandmama" and text that deals with concerns for killing of whales. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Yod, 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-09485-9673
Scope and Contents

This book is an example of the Kabbalistic period of Hirschman's work in which the poet combined Hebrew letters within his poetry. Yod is the letter Y and also means hand in Hebrew. The book was designed by Paul Vaughn and Pip Benveniste as a facsimile of Hirschman's manuscript. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Yodeling up the Canyon / Fencott, P.C.., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-11219-11434
Scope and Contents

This is the 2nd edition of the book that was first published in 1977. Includes both typeset and handwritten texts. The latter include several calligraphic styles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Yodelling up the Canyon: Thriller Guide to Eaten Out / Fencott, P.C.., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-32394-33965
Scope and Contents

The theme of the book is eating out in fast food restaurants. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Yorkshire & Cumbria / Furnival, John., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-13168-13469
Scope and Contents

This one of a series of 11 prints, done in collaboration with Jonathan Williams, that deal with the weather in that location of country. The collaged addition to the print is a map of the area. The print is stored in The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994