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Calligraphic text

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 186 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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / B / Babenko, Dmitry

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

grove sings 3, 1968

 Item — Box 643
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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / H / Houédard, Dom Sylvester

grove sings 4, 1968

 Item — Box 643
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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / H / Houédard, Dom Sylvester

Guide for 24 12 8 6 Point Circle, 1967

 Item — Box 643
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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / H / Houédard, Dom Sylvester

[Happy New Year!] / Melnikov-Starquist, Willi., 1997

 Item — Box 396: [Barcode: 31858072461605]
Identifier: CC-55945-9999413
Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / NOT COBBING

Help, 1990

 Item — Box 639: [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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / Oversized Wally Depew

Her Face Was Pale, 1980

 Item — Box 631: [Barcode: 31858072464716]
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
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Vittore Baroni

Hermes-Satie Hat, 1988

 Item — Box 45: [Barcode: 31858072460839]
Identifier: CC-22797-23232
Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Peter Bailey

Hieroglypoetry especially for Mr. Marvin Sackner / Melnikov-Starquist, Willi., 30 December 1997

 Item — Box 396: [Barcode: 31858072461605]
Identifier: CC-42001-43997
Dates: 30 December 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / NOT COBBING

Himorogos, 1984

 Item — Box 97: [Barcode: 31858072538105]
Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

Human Being / Lynne Avadenka ; MA Sackner ; RK Sackner, 2001

 Item — Box 318: [Barcode: 31858072490778]
Identifier: CC-35724-37478
Scope and Contents

This is an announcement for a billboard project and is part of "Root Words," an intensive investigation of th Hebrew and Arabic languages in collaboration with the Islamic calligrapher, Mohamed Zakaria. The Sackner Archive is listed as holding the works of Avadenka. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / A / Avadenka, Lynne

I Am a Painter, 1984

 Item — Box 72: [Barcode: 31858070812072]
Identifier: CC-15686-16015
Dates: 1984
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

I Suppose There Should Have Been More Colour, 1974

 Item — Box 637: [Barcode: 31858072491362]
Identifier: CC-19203-19586
Scope and Contents

This book provides performances directions on fluxus-like themes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / Robin Crozier

In Tone, 1990

 Item — Box 634: [Barcode: 31858072491313]
Identifier: CC-17146-17504
Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / Art Material

Ini Soit Qui Mal Y Pense, 1994

 Item — Box 342: [Barcode: 31858073143863]
Identifier: CC-08607-8779
Scope and Contents

The text on the recto of the loose sheet is a calligraphic colored, sound poem using made up words intersperced with abstract images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / B / Bertozzi

(Invisible) Random Sightings, 1999

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-48657-69689
Scope and Contents

This issue contains a photograph that is reprinted and reproduced in (Uh..One & Uh..Two) Random Sightings. The cover photograph is by Alan Horvath. Reprints numerous collages from Serif (volume 8, number 4, 1972, Marijuana Newsletter #2 (1965), The Day is a Prayer they Can't Understand (1967), Cleveland Undercovers (1966), All Gods Must Learn to Kill (1967). Also reprints Farewell the Floating Cunt (1964) in its entirety. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / L / levy, d.a. / Posthumous [1969-2008]

Iron Fist in Yr Yellow Chakra, 1998

 Item — Box 135: [Barcode: 31858072457835]
Identifier: CC-29776-31154
Scope and Contents This book is composed of calligraphic drawings, one to a card, that repetitively presents the title phrase in extremely varied letter styles and sizes using ink, paint, and graphite. Chakra is a word from Yoga that refers to any of the six points along the spine that are supposed to contain certain powers, persinified by Gods and able to be released through the proper exercises. The title phrase is occasionally modified with another word, e.g., "Iron Fuckin Fist In Yr Fuckin Yellow Fuckin Goddamn Chakra." The cards are a masterpiece of experimental calligraphy. The green corrugated cardboard box holding the cards was made by Sloy's husband, Nicholas. Richard Ovenden, Keeper of Special Collections at the Bodleian Library at Oxford, described the preparation of the cards by sloy. "The artist put blank paper through a press wiha clean plate to create a border indentation (the blank plate mark) to make the work look like an engraving. This technique was used by printers in the 19th...
Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished) / nic and sloy

[It was so sweet...], 1996

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-16388-16738
Scope and Contents

A thank you presentation from Doner to the Sackners in the form of a wedge shaped book, tied and wrapped, containing examples of Doner's ideogramatic drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)