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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 395 Collections and/or Records:

DOULAIN Refluxtion, 1994

 Item — Folder 23: [Barcode: 31858072459823]
Identifier: CC-16130-16473
Scope and Contents

Doulain is the God-Son of William Jay Smith. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Drug - store, 2000

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Identifier: CC-35045-36769
Scope and Contents

This is a complex drawing dealing with a stylized white faced, portrait of a pharmacist working at a counter next to a bed that has bottles placed on its top surface. There is no vanishing point of three dimensionality. Shelves with colored bottles are placed at the top of the drawing along with a pair of white curtains painted with a red cross. Written and printed text surround the image in a chaotic fashion. The paper was made from cardboard egg crate carton material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Editions Camomille, No. 13: Sept Ans de Bonheur, 1991

 Item — Box 237: [Barcode: 31858072460375]
Identifier: CC-14353-14662
Scope and Contents

Ben has written on one side of the mylar pages which have a mirror surface so that the opposite blank page gives a mirror, almost 3D appearance, to the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

El Lissitzky - Art and Pangeometry, 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-14756-15069
Scope and Contents

The theme is based upon the teachngs of El Lissitzky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Essai sur la Sculpturale, 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-23137-23575
Scope and Contents

Perforations are related to images of body orifices. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Evening / Sail, 1991

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-12421-12648
Scope and Contents

The image is identical to the print with the same title. The complete text is "Evening will come They will sew the blue sail." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Evening / Sail / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-58406-10001623
Scope and Contents

The complete text is "Evening will come They will sew the blue sail." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Everybody Needs American Excess, 2001

 Item — Box 317: [Barcode: 31858072490844]
Identifier: CC-37271-39117
Scope and Contents

Andryczuk's title substitutes "American Excess" for the "American Express" credit card designation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Exilee - Temps Morts: Selected Works, 2009

 Item
Identifier: CC-50291-71358
Scope and Contents Murray Media: In her radical exploration of cultural and personal identity, the writer and artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha sought 'the roots of language before it is born on the tip of the tongue'. Her first book, the highly original postmodern text "Dictee", published in 1982, is considered a classic work of autobiography and is widely read by students internationally. This stunning selection of her uncollected and hitherto unpublished work at last brings together Cha's writings and text-based pieces with images spanning the period between 1976 and 1980. The volume includes two related poem sequences, "Exilee and Temps Morts", major texts incorporating autobiographical elements as well as themes of language, memory, displacement, and alienation - issues that continue to resonate with artists decades after Cha explored them. These moving works give a fuller view of the creative nexus out of which "Dictee" emerged and attest to the singular literary achievement of a major figure in...
Dates: 2009

Facit Saltus, 1967

 Item — Folder 81: [Barcode: 31858072460029]
Identifier: CC-05444-5547
Scope and Contents

Depicts a grainy photographic image of a full-figured man apparently suspended in mid-air during a vertical jump with a caption in a made-up language. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Fantastique Journée, 1984

 Item — Box 186: [Barcode: 31858072459567]
Identifier: CC-25887-26348
Scope and Contents

Exhibited in Visualog 2 in San Opispo, California. Exhibition was curated by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

/ Faund Saund Pouem /, 1967

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (3 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491347]
Identifier: CC-17698-18067
Scope and Contents

This is a collage that was printed in Kurrirrurriri, Writers Forum 1967. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967