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Experimental calligraphy

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 136 Collections and/or Records:

4040 / Segay, Serge., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-61622-10004083
Scope and Contents

Taken from pete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

A Life in Books: The Rise and Fall of Bleu Mobley, 2013

 Item
Identifier: CC-58647-10001879
Scope and Contents This illuminated novel was written, edited and designed by Warren Lehrer.Amazon reviews: Phil Zimmerman: A Life in Books, is the latest brilliant work by Warren Lehrer. This is a worthy follow-up to his other books, Crossing the Boulevard, French Fries and I Mean You Know. Warren Lehrer, a talented story teller, mixes text and images in unique ways that straddle the line between experimental literature and purely visual artists' books. Each of the 101 books referenced in the subtitle are imaginatively and often humorously illustrated. On page after page, Lehrer lays out his clever and often touching narrative text along with his almost chameleon-like graphic design skills. This is a must-have book for anyone interested in new and original book works.Steve Heller: A meticulously illustrated chronicle"¦ Lehrer's 101 cover designs for Mobley's books are pitch perfect. And like the best film title sequences, which establish moods or introduce plotlines, these fictional covers are...
Dates: 2013

Automatischer Text / Trinkewitz, Karel., 1964

 Item
Identifier: CC-39373-41325
Scope and Contents

A photographic reproduction of this drawing appears in Neue Texte No.4 1970, a publication held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Barf / Farmanfarmian, Monir (aka Farmanfarmaian, Monir Shahroudy)., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-13053-13348
Scope and Contents The drawing is a free-form design with Farsi letters rendered in different colored inks. She had her first comprehensive exhibition in the United States at the Guggenheim Museum from May to Jume 2015. Wikipedia: She is a contemporary Iranian artist who lives in Tehran and was a ollector of traditional folk art. Her artistic practice weds the geometric patterns and cut-glass mosaic techniques of her Iranian heritage with the rhythms of modern Western geometric abstraction. Born to educated parents in the religious town of Qazvin in north-western Iran, Farmanfarmaian studied at the University of Tehran at the Faculty of Fine Art (1944-1946), before traveling to the United States on a steamer boat when World War II derailed plans to study art in Paris, France. In New York she studied at Parsons The New School for Design (1946"“1949) and Cornell University (1948"“1951), worked as a fashion illustrator, and was absorbed into the city's avant garde art scene, becoming friends with...
Dates: 1981

Bierun uid Polen / Werbachowska, Alicja., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-28806-30121
Scope and Contents

Werbachowska allows the inked, handwritten, run-on text to bleed through the opposite side of the page to produce light and dark patterns of writing with an optical effect. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

BMCT / Babenko, Dmitry., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-58020-10001276
Scope and Contents

This work was exhibited in one of pete spence's correspondence art shows. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Book No.11 / Dmitry Babenko., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34673-36374
Scope and Contents

This poem sculpture was constructed of heavy corrugated packaging paper, folded in eighths. The surfaces are covered in handwritten, black and red ink Cyrillic letters of varying sizes. The edges of the sculpture are covered with red and black felt papers arranged in a checker board pattern. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Book No.11 / Dmitry Babenko., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34673-36374
Scope and Contents

This poem sculpture was constructed of heavy corrugated packaging paper, folded in eighths. The surfaces are covered in handwritten, black and red ink Cyrillic letters of varying sizes. The edges of the sculpture are covered with red and black felt papers arranged in a checker board pattern. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Cahier No.1: De L'Art Des Combinaisons: le lettre y, le traca, le mot / Mairey, Francoise., 2011 - 2012

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Identifier: CC-58048-10001294
Scope and Contents

The page count is the sum of the right sided inked pages including the bleed-throughs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011 - 2012

Cahier No.2: De L'Art Des Combinaisons: le lettre w, le trace, le mot / Mairey, Francoise., 2012

 Item
Identifier: CC-58230-10001484
Scope and Contents

The page count is the sum of the right sided inked pages including the bleed-throughs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

Cahier No.3: De L'Art Des Combinaisons: le lettre y, le trace, la mot / Mairey, Francoise., 2012

 Item
Identifier: CC-58258-10001498
Scope and Contents

The page count is the sum of the right sided inked pages including the bleed-throughs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

Cahier No.4: De L'Art Des Combinaisons: le lettre w, le mot, le trace / Mairey, Francoise., 2012

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Identifier: CC-58695-10001927
Scope and Contents

The page count is the sum of the right sided inked pages including the bleed-throughs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

Cahier No.4: De L'Art Des Combinaisons: le lettre y, le trace, le mot / Mairey, Francoise., 2012

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Identifier: CC-58257-10001497
Scope and Contents

The page count is the sum of the right sided inked pages including the bleed-throughs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

Cahier No.5: De L'Art Des Combinaisons: le lettre w le mot le trace / Mairey, Francoise., 2012

 Item
Identifier: CC-58696-10001928
Scope and Contents

The page count is the sum of the right sided inked pages including the bleed-throughs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

Cahier No.6: De L'Art Des Combinaisons: le lettre, le trace y le mot / Mairey, Francoise., 2012

 Item
Identifier: CC-58256-10001496
Scope and Contents

The page count is the sum of the right sided inked pages including the bleed-throughs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012