Calligraphic text
Found in 3003 Collections and/or Records:
Bamboo / Hasekura, Takako., 1997
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.
Bambu Drezi Book Three: Drawings / Berry, Jake., 2002 - 2004
Bambu Drezi Book Three: Initial Notes and Sketches / Berry, Jake., 2000
Bank Manager / Phillips, Tom., 1997
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.
Bark / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Ballantyne, David., 1977
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.
Bark/Barque/Baroque / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Nash, John R.., 1988
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.
Barocco Agricolo, 1989
Also designated Rifili 20. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Baseline. No.8 / Mike Daines, editor ; Kindersley D ; Dwiggens WA ; Koch R., 1986
Basne Obrazy / Apollinaire, Guillaume ; Seifert J ; Marinetti FT ; Breton A ; Nezval V ; Rabelais., 1965
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.
[Basta!], 1994
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.
Basta / Boschi, Anna., 2002
Battle of Midway / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Costley, Ron., 1976
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.
Battle of the Bands / McGurk, Ruth., 1990
BDH, 1986
be my valentine / Sloy., 2007
Beautiful Dreamer / Elena Presser., 1983
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.
Beautiful Writing, 1991
Beauty in Breathing Visitors' Book, The, 1992
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.