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Ideogram

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 197 Collections and/or Records:

Marriage / Solt, Mary Ellen., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-02773-2816
Scope and Contents

Solt introduces the two concrete poems by stating that the code poems are derived from the universal language of signs and symbols that have been used from ancient times to the present as taken from the subjects of the alphabet, astrology, astronomy, botany, chemistry, commerce, engineering, mathematics, medicine, music, physics, punctuation, runes, zoology, etc. She provides a key to the ideograms that render the rebus to be deciphered. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Marriage / Solt, Mary Ellen., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-02774-2817
Scope and Contents

Solt introduces the two concrete poems by stating that the code poems are derived from the universal language of signs and symbols that have been used from ancient times to the present as taken from the subjects of the alphabet, astrology, astronomy, botany, chemistry, commerce, engineering, mathematics, medicine, music, physics, punctuation, runes, zoology, etc. She provides a key to the ideograms that render the rebus to be deciphered. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Marvin Sackner - Collector Miami Beach / Andryczuk, Hartmut., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-29642-31015
Scope and Contents

Card mailed to Marvin Sackner with a drawing of Sackner's imagined portrait by Andryczuk. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Micropolitiques / Hubaut, Joel ; Beuys J ; Buren D ; Filliou R ; Hubaut J ; Matta-Clark G ; Villegle J., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34734-36440
Scope and Contents

Subtitled "Art as Micropolitics, a Mirror of Contemporary History," Hubaut drew ideograms on its cover. The title "Big Flick/Flick/Show" is written in ink at the top and "Epidemic Error" at the bottom of the cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Mirrors of History / Thalia ; Young, Karl., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34642-36343
Scope and Contents

This work consists of two, sepia-toned, photographs from WWII Germany and an ideographic drawing by thalia superimposed on each photograph. The ideograms read 'Knowledge of History' and 'Mirrors of Blindness.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Moons for Wang Wei / Thalia; Young, Karl., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34643-36344
Scope and Contents

This work consists of a poem by Weng Wei written half in Chinese ideograms and half in English letters. The poem is translated at the bottom of the page. The ideograms are Thalia's symbols for the words, 'wash' and 'silk.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

New Evidence of Early Form of Writing in Mexico / Wilford, John Noble., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-39978-41945
Scope and Contents

Article descibes symbols from an Olmec Indian site in Mexico that date back to 650 B.C. and are Americas' earliest forms of writing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

OOOTTTWEZEMA / Ochiishi., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-52634-73770
Scope and Contents

Each page consists of a grid of Chinese ideograms that are possibly fake ones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Passage for Karl Young / Thalia., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34646-36347
Scope and Contents

The poem is composed of the two ideograms for the words 'Charm' and 'Journey' that have the appearance of floating swans. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

pdqb: lmnts. No.118/Oct / Geof Huth., 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-47811-68830
Scope and Contents

Each page is a unique "fidgetglyph"drawing created in Albany, New York on October 27, 2007. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Philoontosophy - Gazaliel / Was, Elizabeth ; And, Miekal., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-46995-49733
Scope and Contents

Elizaberth Was uses her abbrevikated name in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Piratello / Conti, Carlo Marcello; Apicella R., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-27975-29125
Scope and Contents

The images in the prints consist of indecipherable minimalistic brightly colored ideograms. The introductory text was written by the collector, Rossana Apicelli. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977