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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2970 Collections and/or Records:

Autobiographical Portrait, 1980

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Identifier: CC-23267-23706
Scope and Contents The drawing is a self-portrait written in English and Spanish words with a graphite pencil. Wikipedia: José Antonio "Tony" Burciaga (1940 - October 7, 1996) was a Chicano artist, poet, and writer who explored issues of Chicano identity and American society. In 1960 Burciaga joined the United States Air Force. After spending a year in Iceland, where he wrote extensively as part of his job, he was sent to Zaragoza, Spain, for three years. There he discovered the work of Spanish poet, Federico Garcí­a Lorca. After completing his military service, he earned a B.A. in fine arts from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1968 and started work as an illustrator and graphic artist, first in Mineral Wells, Texas (an experience he later recorded in an "Hispanic Link" column called "Mineral Wells--A Near and Distant Memory"), and then in Washington, D.C., where he began his participation in the Chicano movement and where he met Cecilia Preciado, whom he married in 1972. After moving to...
Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / Oversized

Autoportrait / Lemaitre, Maurice., 1964

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Identifier: CC-07159-7299
Dates: 1964
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

Autorotratto / Pavanello, Giancarlo., 1993

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Identifier: CC-04669-4756
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: Various Formats

Autumn of Memory / Melnikov-Starquist, Willi., 1997

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Identifier: CC-60726-10003577
Scope and Contents

This is a letter addressed to Donna Summer. Taken from the Archive of O!!Zone 1997. -- 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

Autumn / Skaggs, Steven., 1983

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Identifier: CC-34857-36566
Dates: 1983
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

Aux Hommes, 1969

 Item — Folder 31: [Barcode: 31858072459906]
Identifier: CC-20227-20623
Scope and Contents

This is a preparatory study for a poster announcing the first festival at Ingatestone, England that was published by South Street Publications in 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED / Henri Chopin

Avant Two / Strangulensis, Ficus., 2002

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Identifier: CC-39333-41283
Scope and Contents

Although Ficus Strangulensis' transmorfactions appear to be handwritten, they are created with a computer. This image was created for the Avant Garde Two symposium and exhibition held at Ohio State University (2002). The Sackners attended and Marvin Sackner delivered the keynote speech. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002
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

Avant Two Symposium Presentation / Strangulensis, Ficus., 2002

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Identifier: CC-39334-41284
Scope and Contents

These photocopied loose sheets were taken from a slide presentation given by Strangulensis at the Avant Garde Two symposium and exhibition held at Ohio State University (2002). The images are divide into 1) Cutups - visual poems with texts cut from magazines or books placed on varied visual backgrounds, 2) Haiku Cutups - visual poems with text cut from magazines or books to form a Haiku which in turn are placed on visual backgrounds, 3) Blends - transmorfations, 4) Spirography Blend - transmorfations created with spirography, 5) Collage Poems - concrete and visual poems created from found texts, 6) Spoliations -deliberate document destruction, i.e., poems created by ripping a page, and 7) Word Construct - concrete poem in which the arrangement of the words and the words themselves suggest another word. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002
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

Avec l'Oeil du Savoir / Lalou, Frank., 1988

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Identifier: CC-07507-7651
Scope and Contents This is among one of the first of the unique books made by the calligrapher.Wiipedia: Frank was born in Marmande Lalou in 1958. His parents settled in 1956 in the small town in south-western France after leaving Morocco because of the climate of insecurity before the independence of this country. From his early childhood he was immersed in the tranquil atmosphere of Gascony near the Garonne. In 1965, his parents in search of sun, leaving the Aquitaine to live in Nice. At the age of twelve, he discovered the beauty of Jewish culture and Hebrew letters. But the narrow-minded and old-fashioned teaching of the rabbis of the time, do not invite her to deepen their Jewish practice.Its great meeting at the age of nine with the work of Johann Sebastian Bach is crucial. His passion for this musician is the source of all his research. At twelve, he began learning the piano and teases his teachers because he wants to play as Bach. It is during this period that began his long friendship with...
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

Aventyr i Riemannrummet, 1966

 Item — Box 335: [Barcode: 31858072491040]
Identifier: CC-20900-21309
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 (processed) / BOOKS

Ayer's Sarsaparilla / Anonymous., 1940

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Identifier: CC-26026-26488
Scope and Contents

This booklet is an advertising vehicle for quack remedies which attribute their virtues to Sarsaparilla root. The latter, according to the text, gave Rameses, a Pharaoh of Egypt, his great strength. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1940
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets (unprocessed)

Babilonia / Arbizzani L ; Baroni V ; Ermini F ; Gualtieri M ; Minarelli E ; Miccini E ; Pachetti M ; Perfetti M ; Xerra W., 1981

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Identifier: CC-44684-46849
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: Exhibit Catalogs

Bad Breath Babble / Baroni, Vittore., 1991

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Identifier: CC-23447-23891
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. The center image of each assemblage depicts a standing man, viz., a silhouette with mint candies collaged over upside-down black lungs, a 3-dimensional model of clear, hollow plastic filled with c butts and mints, and a red plastic model with a hole in the chest for the heart surrounded by black pigment. Calligraphic and letraset messages along with related objects and images reinforce the antisocial and antihealth habit of smoking. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991
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

Bad / curry, jw; Laba, Mark., 1984

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Identifier: CC-19710-20097
Scope and Contents

This is an unpublished experimental calligraphic text for the poem, Bad, Coma Goats #40, 1984. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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: Various Formats

Baffling Means, 1991

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Identifier: CC-17401-17766
Scope and Contents

One thousand, five hundred, soft cover unsigned copies of this book were also issued. It includes 41 black and white reproductions of drawings by Guston. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS

[Baja + U] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1972

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Identifier: CC-55486-9999146
Dates: 1972
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

Bamboo / Hasekura, Takako., 1997

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Identifier: CC-29598-30969
Scope and Contents

The drawing, written in green and yellow inks, depicts five thick vertical bars, filled with Japanese ideograms, shaped like bamboo shoot . It is labeled "Bamboo by Japanese Alphabet." -- 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

Bambu Drezi Book Three: Drawings / Berry, Jake., 2002 - 2004

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Identifier: CC-46141-48853
Dates: 2002 - 2004
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

Bambu Drezi Book Three: Initial Notes and Sketches / Berry, Jake., 2000

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Identifier: CC-46140-48852
Dates: 2000
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Bank Manager / Phillips, Tom., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28525-29805
Scope and Contents

This print, which depicts a portrait overlaid by calligraphic poetic text, was reproduced from a drawing by Phillips in conjunction with the Dual Muse exhibition held at the Washington University Art Museum in November 1997. The Sackner Archive lent several works to this exhibition and also attended a symposium which took place there. -- 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

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