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Experimental calligraphy

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 136 Collections and/or Records:

Suede Bleue / Gette, Paul-Armand., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-10595-10801
Scope and Contents

Although the tirage for this book is 20 copies, each book is unique since the letters of the text formed from different colored papers have been individually cut with a scissors by Gette. These letters have varied calligraphic styles and dimensions. The pages consist solely of text and the theme relates to Gette's wife and their vacations in her Swedish birthplace. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

The Cry (ije) / Basmajian, Shaunt., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-22710-23145
Scope and Contents

The backgound text is a repetitively written run-on of the word 'freedom.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

The Life and Times of Simian, Volume 1 / Sandra Jackman., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-08294-8457
Scope and Contents

This piece is a book sculpture opened on one side to a box containing 22 treated pages and on the other side to a collaged surface. The sculpture sets on a metal stand. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The Second Layer / Segay, Serge., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-61624-10004085
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1997

Time - Some Times - Tick Tock - Palpitation of the heart / Mukai, Shutaro., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-61352-54353
Scope and Contents

The Sackners met Mukai in Tokyo in 1986. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

[Untitled] / Algardi, Alessandro ; Ubeir Peeters, curator ; Comini R ; Accame V., 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-58640-10001871
Scope and Contents Ubeir Peeters commented: "The wide variety of single characters or letters join together to make up words which carry the meaning of ideas. Whereas, feelings and sentiments are easier to convey through a representation of plants, animals, humans, landscapes or objects. To the world of ideas, the letter is a building block for the concrete expression of ideas through words: no other medium is equal. Can you imagine a philosophy that could have survived without script? Inside our mind, deep inside, each word is related to a particular item, a given concept, a fragment of memory, but nowhere this appears more clearly than in a written text, where ideas are chopped and reassembled in a string of words. Writing is an incarnation or rather, the mirror of ideas. Algardi's cursives indeed have the liquid flowing quality of ideas. However, the writing itself is made illegible. By superimposing text over text Algardi conveys a problem regarding the eventual meanings. Thus his writing covers...
Dates: 2006

Visual Voices; Graffiti Poem pages 20-21 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-56781-10000153
Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon "Sources on pages 18-19." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

VROTVOERVIRDIEVE.. / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-36481-38278
Scope and Contents

This rectangular shaped poem is laid out such that all the lettters fill the lines with no spaces in-between the words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Why Do I Hear...But Not Undertand, 2014

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Identifier: CC-58598-10001827
Scope and Contents

This piece was performed by Michael Basinski at the Perez Art Museum Miami on March 22, 2014 in conjunction with the exhibition "A Human Document: Selections from The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014

writing on sand paper / Segay, Serge., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-61618-10004078
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1996

You read, that you think you're reading - Or do you think, that you read you're thinking? / Willi, Jean., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-58041-62551
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive holds a drawing depicted on page 16 of this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982