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Calligraphic text

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 186 Collections and/or Records:

Now the Names of the Twelve Are These, 1987

 Item — Folder 35: [Barcode: 31858072459948]
Identifier: CC-12360-12586
Scope and Contents

The names are a mixture of the Apostles and leaders of the French Revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Ode pour l' Election de San Sepulcre (regio), 1988

 Item — Box 283: [Barcode: 31858073143418]
Identifier: CC-19146-19525
Scope and Contents

The collages are actually a single text when placed side by side. The base material is white, hardened, undulating paint and the shapes of the collages are leaves. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

One Special Summer, 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-21369-21780
Scope and Contents

An illustrated record of the two sisters' summer together in Europe in 1951 prepared originally as a thank-you present for their parents. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Os, 1983

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-14805-15118
Scope and Contents

This sculpture is depicted on page 9 of exhibition catalogue, "Sculptures," Galerie Antoine Candau, 1987. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Bovine atlas (first cervical vertebra), Indian ink

Dates: 1983

Poetendo, 1998

 Item — Box 188: [Barcode: 31858072459583]
Identifier: CC-31294-32767
Scope and Contents

Caruso created a CD with handwritten text, white paint, collaged paper additions and torn paper for this unique poem object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Poetry First, 1993

 Item — Box 256: [Barcode: 31858072458254]
Identifier: CC-03110-3158
Scope and Contents

The porcelain cup is inscribed "Poetry First" on one side and Petr Sevcik on the other side. The shipping box is collaged in part with poems taken from newspapers by Chistian Morgenstern and Ernst Jandl. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Poetry News Letter, 2003

 Item — Box 639: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-57970-10001228
Scope and Contents

This is a design for Poetry Newsletter in New York. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Port Distinguishing Letters of Scottish Fishing Vessels, 1978

 Item — Box 190: [Barcode: 31858072459609]
Identifier: CC-12416-12643
Scope and Contents

Consists of the port letters and numbers of Scottish fishing vessels fired in green on a white background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Random Sightings (d.a. has left the building), 1999

 Item — Box 618: [Barcode: 31858072461035]
Identifier: CC-48658-69690
Scope and Contents

The cover photograph is by Alan Horvath. Includes several poems and polemics against the Vietnam war as handwritten manuscripts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Recit-Gît (Edition Parallele), 1989

 Item — Box 121: [Barcode: 31858072458072]
Scope and Contents

This edition of the object is described as parallel to the original (designed as wood slabes in a wooden case).

Dates: 1989

Reflection of a City Dwelling Musician, 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-09742-9935
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. Horndeski paints a bold colored, central image and surrounds it with a black wooden frame onto which he writes a narrative in white paint. The entire frame is utilized for text including mirror writing on the top and bottom. In this work, a boy is playing classical music with a French horn but around him nature is polluted by black smoke from industry. The narrative relates to music and lung anatomy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

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

Right / Left, 1969

 Item — Box 643
Identifier: CC-57140-10000476
Scope and Contents

This page contains R-L on the left side and the letters eft and ight on the right side so that the words Left, Reft, Light and Right can be created. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969