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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3003 Collections and/or Records:

Bamboo / Hasekura, Takako., 1997

 Item
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

Bank Manager / Phillips, Tom., 1997

 Item
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

Bark / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Ballantyne, David., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-12155-12379
Scope and Contents

These are preparatory drawings for a plaque to be mounted on a tree. Comments written on these drawings explain the artist's intent. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Bark/Barque/Baroque / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Nash, John R.., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-12180-12404
Scope and Contents

Finlay comments on the verso of this card that the text moves from the plain (or Doric) tree-bark to the Baoque via the elaborate barque or three-masted sailing ship. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Barocco Agricolo, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-24142-24594
Scope and Contents

Also designated Rifili 20. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Basne Obrazy / Apollinaire, Guillaume ; Seifert J ; Marinetti FT ; Breton A ; Nezval V ; Rabelais., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-25600-26058
Scope and Contents

Includes a review of French shaped poetry written prior to Mallarme. In this book, calligraphic poems of Apollinaire have been translated into the Czech language -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

[Basta!], 1994

 Item — Folder 49: [Barcode: 31858072537834]
Identifier: CC-16148-16491
Scope and Contents

A ghost-like, computer manipulated, red colored photograph of a woman is in the center of a border of handwritten phrases e.g., insoportable pesar (insupportable sorrow), un verdadero silencio se impone (a veritable silence asserts itself), suicidio (suicide). The handwritten phrases around the border were printed with computer generated typefaces. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Battle of Midway / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-57798-10001051
Scope and Contents

Finlay writes about the World War II Battle of Midway4 June 1942 in poetic terms, viz., ...the great sea hives/consumed with their choicest swarms by their own flaming honey. The bee symbol is used to suggest the sea (bee) and hive symbolizing the aircraft carriers. The text is hand written and served as preparatory texts for a subsequently realized print that is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Beautiful Dreamer / Elena Presser., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-04820-4913
Scope and Contents

Presser writes that this work is her "very personal expression of a mask...There is an emphasis on the eye, the mouth and the ears because those are the organs that I use to communicate within myself and with the external world... The back of [the mouth] carries all the threads that are attached to the alphabet and the numbers. Those strings are like marionettes pulling the letters that form the words that allow us to communicate." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Beauty in Breathing Visitors' Book, The, 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-24053-24503
Scope and Contents

The viewers of The Beauty in Breathing exhibition, curated by Marvin Sackner for the ATS/ALA meeting, wrote interesting and relevant remarks after viewing the works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992