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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2965 Collections and/or Records:

[A B C D] / Zielke, Ottfried., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-39030-40968
Scope and Contents

There is handwritten text at the top fifth of the drawing and four images below it, e.g., A a black plus sign, B a stylized green frog-like animal, C a colored triangle open at its corners, and D a pictogram of a human in white on a black background rectangle. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

A Big Nest / Hasekura, Takako., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-29597-30968
Scope and Contents

The drawing, written in blue ink, depicts a circle filled with Japanese ideograms. It is labeled "A Big Nest by Japanese Alphabet." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

A Dog Came in the Kitchen / Tarlatt, Ulrike., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-01389-1422
Scope and Contents

One of a pair of almost indecipherable calligraphic drawings held by the Sackner Archive, this one in English, the other in German. These drawings were reproduced in Experimenelle Texte No.23, pages 32-33. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

A Family / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-11735-11953
Scope and Contents

Finlay has written a name in red colored ink on each page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

A Florida Everglade For / Jack A. Hirschman., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-08803-8978
Scope and Contents

Poem object has the shape of an alligator; across the body is written the Russian word "oobopshbambo" which means "just a little jazz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

A Humument Second Revision Page 67 (Yale & Royal Academy) / Phillips, Tom., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-47483-68480
Scope and Contents

The image of the page contains repeated letter drawings of WE ARE PEOPLE with the letters painted in a brown tone over an orange section in the right-center of the page.The surrounding letters are of beige tones.The text reads,"call it the people! The once and never people - know what I am--the foreigner in this my England" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

A Humument Third Revision Page 100 / Phillips, Tom., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-53443-100112
Scope and Contents

This second version of page 100 contains colored abstract markings and is divided into three panels. The center panel is painted with white curved outlines and the two side panels are painted with black outlines. The poem now reads, " I lived in London I am only suburban - terrible pictures in the words - the words slipped from him, but art like a knife gave him surprise and pleasure," -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

A Humument Third Revision Page 242 / Phillips, Tom., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-04857-4953
Scope and Contents

This page was also printed in Phillips' & Rushdie's book, Merely Connect. Phillips has written J'Accuse!, used first in defense of Alfred Dreyfus in blue & yellow camouflaged letters against the left vertical side of the page and in more easily readable brown hatched letters on the right vertical side of the page. Phillips poem: "attack the attack, and rhetoric of ruin, counsel for the hat of happiness, counsel for the fiction, counsel for the art voice, counsel for the text." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

A Imagem da Mulher Invadida Pelo Tempo: Homenagem a Henry Moore / Hatherly, Ana., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-34732-36438
Scope and Contents

The drawing is composed with small cursive writing. The shape of the drawing resembles a Henry Moore sculpture. It is depicted in Hatherly's exhibition catalogue "Hand Made" on page 10. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

A Lettrist Lyric / Smith, William Jay., 1996

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Identifier: CC-03093-3140
Scope and Contents

Poem written for Ruth Sackner on her 60th birthday while William Smith was a guest at the Sackner's house. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

A Manner of to Live / Miglietta, Enzo., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-06632-6751
Scope and Contents

The title phrase is repeated throughout the entire drawing in different calligraphic styles and colors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

A Marked Man and His World / van Genk, Willem ; Wolfli A ; Walla A ; Citroen P., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-50806-71884
Scope and Contents

An exhibition of "A Marked Man and His World" was held at Musem De Stadshof, Zwoll from October 1998 to january 1999, curated by Carolien Satink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

a mour armour / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-55768-33448
Scope and Contents

The R is drawn above a mour.The recto depicts the title" amour 2" in the u.r. corner -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

A-Nan An'Nan / Cobbing, Bob., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-16440-16792
Scope and Contents

This sound poem was compiled from Montiaghisms which are Ulster dialect words and phrases. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977