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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 426 Collections and/or Records:

Aur Sea, 1969

 Item — Box 106: [Barcode: 31858073143822]
Identifier: CC-56715-58322
Scope and Contents

Three pages taken for consideration by Favretto 2016, Two loose pages: Thou and Thou into dover futtering, Honeyblood of jese green the color of the grass (signed at bottom). One mounted page on board Avenue six flights up ten fifteen Longwood avenue (with hand painted paper collage, painting of soldier face, stamps). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Autobiographical Portrait, 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-23267-23706
Scope and Contents The drawing is a self-portrait written in English and Spanish words with a graphite pencil. Wikipedia: José Antonio "Tony" Burciaga (1940 - October 7, 1996) was a Chicano artist, poet, and writer who explored issues of Chicano identity and American society. In 1960 Burciaga joined the United States Air Force. After spending a year in Iceland, where he wrote extensively as part of his job, he was sent to Zaragoza, Spain, for three years. There he discovered the work of Spanish poet, Federico Garcí­a Lorca. After completing his military service, he earned a B.A. in fine arts from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1968 and started work as an illustrator and graphic artist, first in Mineral Wells, Texas (an experience he later recorded in an "Hispanic Link" column called "Mineral Wells--A Near and Distant Memory"), and then in Washington, D.C., where he began his participation in the Chicano movement and where he met Cecilia Preciado, whom he married in 1972. After moving to...
Dates: 1980

Aux Hommes, 1969

 Item — Folder 31: [Barcode: 31858072459906]
Identifier: CC-20227-20623
Scope and Contents

This is a preparatory study for a poster announcing the first festival at Ingatestone, England that was published by South Street Publications in 1969. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Baffling Means, 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-17401-17766
Scope and Contents

One thousand, five hundred, soft cover unsigned copies of this book were also issued. It includes 41 black and white reproductions of drawings by Guston. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

[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

Bill Jubobe, 1977

 Item — Folder 23: [Barcode: 31858072459823]
Identifier: CC-18756-19130
Scope and Contents

This work was made for a performance in Saarbrucken, West Germany, January 1977. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

[Book Object on Brass Feet], 1987

 Item — Box 273: [Barcode: 31858072460904]
Identifier: CC-34795-36502
Scope and Contents

Jackman made an artist book seated on two brass clawed feet. The pages are heavily collaged with drawings and photographs. The cover has metal fragments that include a turning, cogged wheel and spear-like object. This book object is placed within a baker's glass dome that is used to display a cake. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Book of Elevations, 1994

 Item — Box 333: [Barcode: 31858072491024]
Identifier: CC-31571-33067
Scope and Contents

Each of the pages depicts a reproduction of a handwritten visual poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994