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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 426 Collections and/or Records:

Reflection of a City Dwelling Musician, 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-09742-9935
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. Horndeski paints a bold colored, central image and surrounds it with a black wooden frame onto which he writes a narrative in white paint. The entire frame is utilized for text including mirror writing on the top and bottom. In this work, a boy is playing classical music with a French horn but around him nature is polluted by black smoke from industry. The narrative relates to music and lung anatomy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Regina Di, 1994

 Item — Box 334: [Barcode: 31858072491032]
Identifier: CC-41963-43959
Scope and Contents Obituary (The independent July 15, 1995 by Tom Raworth): The Swiss-Italian artist and writer Franco Beltrametti )1937-1995) published over 30 books and pamphlets of poetry, prose, collaborations and translations, in several languages and countries; and had a similar number of solo and group exhibitions of his graphic works. Those will last however long words and objects do; but his existence as catalyst, connector and correspondent is gone for ever. He was a personal link between such disparate traditions as American beat - and New York school - poetry; the Fluxus group of artists; the European avant-garde; the music of Steve Lacy, Joelle Leandre and Nino Locatelli; the Italian revolutionary left; and Japanese Zen Buddhism.With Gianantonio Pozzi (whom he met in Sicily) he organised P77 - a small poetry festival in Venice which, the following year, 1978, was transferred to Amsterdam to expand and become the regular "One World Poetry". It was through Beltrametti's friendship with...
Dates: 1994

Reliquaire 89 No.4, 1989

 Item — Folder 46: [Barcode: 31858072460052]
Identifier: CC-15689-16018
Scope and Contents

An image of the lungs is depicted along with the phrase in French, "the beautiful breathing of the lungs is bestowed." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Rest 1 Rest 2, 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-28284-29459
Scope and Contents

This is the first edition of the book which is in part a fascimile of the artist's sketchbook. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Rest 1 Rest 2, 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-28285-29460
Scope and Contents

This is the second edition of the book which is in part a facsimile of the artist's sketch book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Rhinozeros, No. 3: Diezeit, 1961

 Item — Folder 3: [Barcode: 31858072459419]
Identifier: CC-30967-32425
Scope and Contents

This is an announcement for Rhinozeros No.3 that included comments on this magazine by several poets and critics. Klaus Peter Dienst was born in 1936 and died in 1981. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1961

Right / Left, 1969

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-57140-10000476
Scope and Contents

This page contains R-L on the left side and the letters eft and ight on the right side so that the words Left, Reft, Light and Right can be created. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Rigid, Poeta, 1995

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-37419-39272
Scope and Contents

This is a collection of poems from 1985 to 1995. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Roaring In Snow Fields, 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-54093-55630
Scope and Contents

The drawing iks framed but not covered with a plexiglas sheet. It was the cover image for a card announcing a private viewing at the Serpentine Gallery 1985. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

rOLLing COMBers, 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-36142-37921
Scope and Contents

Jim Leftwich contributed an afterward, "John M. Bennett's Swarming Present" to this collection of polyphonic poems. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

RYPS, 1973

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-12108-12332
Scope and Contents

This is not an English word - its meaning is unclear. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

S & W, 1999

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: A-Ba: [Barcode: 31858072491164]
Identifier: CC-36698-38513
Scope and Contents

This work was shown at the Sackner Archive during Art Basel Miami December 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Sail/Pear, 1975

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-12102-12326
Scope and Contents

This work was presumably for a unique piece. The seven drawings were mounted on one sheet of paper and the two drawings on another sheet of paper. They consist of slightly different calligraphic styles for these two words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

[Sara Ranchouse Publishing catalog], 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-02735-2778
Scope and Contents

Sally Alatalo is the publisher. Subscriptions to Duz Magazine, formerly DuDa Magazine, are offered. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Schooner Sundial: Umbris Solis, 1975

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-12008-12231
Scope and Contents

These drawings were done for a sundial sculpture to be made from Portland Stone and Westmorland Slate. The completed sculpture, Umbris Solis, was installed in the National Galleries of Scotland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Scissor Works 1992-2002, 2002

 Item — Box 324: [Barcode: 31858072490901]
Identifier: CC-54005-642978
Scope and Contents

This booklet celebrates the firsrt ten years of Baroni's involvement with the CD musical recording group, Le Forbici De Manitu. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Scrittura Attiva, 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-19815-20202
Scope and Contents

This book reviews visual and concrete poetry with calligraphic themes in Italy during the seventies. Its translation into English without the images is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980