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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 424 Collections and/or Records:

Fragment No.3 , 2000

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Identifier: CC-35043-36765
Scope and Contents

This depicts a still life of mugs, drapes, and a hat (?) surrounded by words. The paper was made from cardboard egg crate carton material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Front Lines, 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-41945-43941
Scope and Contents

Also designated Pocket Poets Series No.55. Agnetta Falk contributed a calligraphic visual portrait rendering of Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Funginii , 1998

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-31727-33239
Scope and Contents

The theme of this poem is mushrooms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

[genitality], 1984

 Item — Folder 13: [Barcode: 31858069877920]
Identifier: CC-60014-10003049

Ghosts Live in Closed Eyes , 2008

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-49378-70423
Scope and Contents

This work is also designated as Card 26 from "Stories from the Flats." Tom Kryss conributed the envelope and cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

grove sings 3, 1968

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-57092-10000449
Scope and Contents

Houedrad draws a diagram describing how this reversal poem is to be set up on a looking glass.On the lower left side is inscribed " for ihf" e.g. Ian Hamilton Finlay. On the lower right an additional poem is drawn in rectangles that reads "louez" and "longs." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

grove sings 4, 1968

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-57093-10000450
Scope and Contents

Houedrad draws a diagram describing how this reversal poem is to be set up on a looking glass. His instructions are "this version may be printed on thick white (card) to stand on looking glass best wld be for card to be such that it can be bent thus." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Guide for 24 12 8 6 Point Circle, 1967

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-57859-10001109
Scope and Contents

Cameron writes that this is "a page in typescript & dsh's hand offering 'a guide for a 24 12 8 6 point circle' to be made on a lettera 22 typewriter with single line adjustment" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Head, 2010

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-51991-73093
Scope and Contents

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

[Head of a Woman] , 1994

 Item — Folder 48: [Barcode: 31858072537826]
Identifier: CC-16146-16489
Scope and Contents

The portrait of the woman in black & white has been overlaid by computer generated repetitious texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Help, 1990

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-55205-2298971
Scope and Contents

This calligraphic message is handwritten on a torn out page of a notebook -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Her Face Was Pale, 1980

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Baroni, Vittore: [Barcode: 31858072491123]
Identifier: CC-21697-22108
Scope and Contents

two photos black and white depicting the bottom half of a face. text reads: "her face was pale / dry xerox white".

Dates: 1980

Hera Oons, 1998

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-31724-33236
Scope and Contents

The drawing is done on a page from a book on mushrooms and includes printed drawings of mushrooms and a caption. One of the mushrooms in the drawing is titled, "Scleroderma verrucosum." The title and subject of Sackner's first published medical book was "Scleroderma," a disease of humans and unrelated to the mushroom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998