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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2992 Collections and/or Records:

Card to Ruth & Marvin Sackner (30 Aug.82), 1982

 Item — Box And-Andre: [Barcode: 31858072490810]
Identifier: CC-59002-10002194
Scope and Contents

Carl Andre writes to Ruth and Marvin Sackner, "Ana Mendieta & I wish to thank you very much for the wonderful evening you shared with us in Miami. Your collection & archive are truly of the aesthtic & historic first rank. It is so rare to find such depth in an American collection." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Cards from D.R. Wagner to Wally Depew / Depew, Wally., 1987

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Identifier: CC-57973-10001231
Scope and Contents

Included in the five cards is an invitation to the wedding of D. R. Wagner to Rebecca Connor and a photograph of the bride and groom. Srored in the D.R. Wagner box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Carmina Burana / Dienst, Klaus Peter., 1962

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Identifier: CC-15385-15709
Scope and Contents

Texts from Carmina Burana have been rendered by Dienst in a highly experimental calligraphic style similar to the styles employed in the magazine he published, Rhinozeros. Klaus Peter Dienst was born in 1936 and died in 1981. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1962

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts: Reading. / Anthony Hecht., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-19327-19710
Scope and Contents

The designer for this poster is Ann Noel. Each poster is printed in a different color - brown, aqua, burgundy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Cartouche of Un Nome Singing, 1998

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-31726-33238
Scope and Contents

The title page reads - Gnostic: the nome of she are words of power, unspeakable and dwelling in forrest shadow in the midst of insect song. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Catalogue in a Suitcase, 1993

 Item — Box 91: [Barcode: 31858072538154]
Identifier: CC-06545-6664
Scope and Contents

This catalogue is a yellow, plastic suit case which contains dried grass behind the transparent plastic sheet that lists exhibitions and works for sale by Merz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Caught in the Rain Broken in the Stardust / Pierson, Jack., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-04774-4864
Scope and Contents

The color of the text is white, hand-printed on black paper as if it were painted graffeti. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Celebration, 1970

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Identifier: CC-33339-34977
Scope and Contents

A folding handwritten sheet of papercard is collaged to the right half of the work. It is entitled "XAIPE" and consists of a series of Hurrah statements for people, events and things. It begins, "Hurrah for life - Hurrah for friendship - Hurrah for sex - Hurrah for Picasso - Hurrah for dada - Hurrah for Duchamp, etc. The left half of the collage contains the words, Hurrah and Celebration, handcut from black paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Celebration of Calligraphy / Waters S ; Jackson D ; Hechle A ; Larcher J., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-32656-34242
Scope and Contents

This catalogue presented examples of calligraphic works from The Society of Scribes & Illuminators through 75 years of their history. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Centre de Recherches Peripheri Scopiques: De Rosalie a Sulpice. ., 1981

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Identifier: CC-16838-17194
Scope and Contents

Book consists of a reproduction of a four page letter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Centro Tool: Prove di Scrittua. No.4/Feb / Vincenzo Accame., 1971

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Identifier: CC-16951-17307
Scope and Contents

This card also served as an exhibition announcement. Stored with Tool Publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

ceolfrith / at dsh Love (740822) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1974

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Identifier: CC-55873-59037
Scope and Contents

This poem was composed forthe Bob Cobbing/Writers Forum Exhibition at Ceolfrith Sunderland. It becomes a reversal poem (two poems) when viewed from recto and verso. Wikipedia: Saint Ceolfrid (or Ceolfrith) (Pronounced "Chol-frid") (c. 642 "“ 716) was an Anglo-Saxon Christian abbot and saint. He is best known as the warden of Bede from the age of seven until his death in 716. He was the Abbot of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey, and a major contributor to the project Codex Amiatinus. He died in Burgundy while en route to deliver a copy of the codex to Pope Gregory II in Rome. In this work, however, Houedard refers to the Ceolfrith Gallery in the Sunderland Arts Centre. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974