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Calligraphic text

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 413 Collections and/or Records:

Temple , 2008

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-49395-70440
Scope and Contents

This work is also designated as Card 22 from "Stories from the Flats." Tom Kryss contributed the envelope and cover designs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

[the 1st of January] / Melnikov-Starquist, Willi., 1997

 Item — Box 396: [Barcode: 31858072461605]
Identifier: CC-55947-9999415
Scope and Contents

This is a letter addressed to Mr. Marvin Sackner! " Great thanks for your wonderful catalog!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. Attached to "Hieroglypoetry especially for Mr. Marvin Sackner"

Dates: 1997

The Amo Soph Arcane by Jack Hirschman , 1997

 Item — Folder 47: [Barcode: 31858072460045]
Identifier: CC-33584-35237
Scope and Contents

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor with a fine sable brush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

The Book of Broken Speech / Seille, Genevieve., 1994

 Item — Box 578: [Barcode: 31858072463338]
Identifier: CC-28878-30200
Scope and Contents

The 'pages' consist of seven lengths of string fixed to the inside at the spine onto which have been collaged several fragments of paper with a handwritten word, e.g., clear, their, from, rare, sand, tightly, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

The Brain of the Monster, 1989

 Item — Box 620: [Barcode: 31858072461076]
Identifier: CC-02633-2676
Scope and Contents

The cover has calligraphic text by Seille. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

The Chthonic Arcane by Jack Hirschman , 1998

 Item — Folder 47: [Barcode: 31858072460045]
Identifier: CC-33582-35235
Scope and Contents

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor with a fine sable brush and added color fields in acrylic paint. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

The Corridors of Flower-Power, 1969

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-13313-13614
Scope and Contents

Depicts three visual poetic word columns. The Archive also holds this print backed on museum board. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

The Corridors of Flower-Power, 1969

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-13317-13618
Scope and Contents

Depicts three visual poetic word columns and several circles with optical effects from interlacing short lines. This print is depicted on page 44 of Furnival's book "Lost for Words" (2011). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

The Eight: Fragments of Letters to the World, 1976

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Co-Cu: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-18924-19302

The Environment, 2005

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CC-43553-45630
Scope and Contents

The paper was made from cardboard egg crate carton material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

[The Getty Center] , 1992

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-24006-24456
Scope and Contents

Baker's calligraphic rendering of the Getty Center's goals covers one side of this experimental, typographically designed brochure and bleeds through to the other side which has printed text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

The Girt Arcane by Jack Hirschman, 1998

 Item — Folder 47: [Barcode: 31858072460045]
Identifier: CC-33585-35238
Scope and Contents

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor and china ink with a fine sable brush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

The Green Chakre Arcane by Jack Hirschman, 1997

 Item — Folder 47: [Barcode: 31858072460045]
Identifier: CC-33580-35233
Scope and Contents

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor with a fine sable brush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

The Hound Arcane by Jack Hirschman, 1998

 Item — Folder 52: [Barcode: 31858072537867]
Identifier: CC-33586-35239
Scope and Contents

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor with a fine sable brush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

The Invention of Mankind, 1976

 Item — Folder 54: [Barcode: 31858072537883]
Identifier: CC-13082-13377
Scope and Contents

Words are painted in capital letters in red, black and white colors over a blue-green painted background resembling a landscape. The sign has been appropriated from an electical contractor (identified as Ray White on verso). The painting was included the Philadelphia Art Alliance in 1984 as indicated by a paper label affixed to the verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976