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Ideogram

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 197 Collections and/or Records:

Pneuma: Words from the Syble / Phillips, Tom., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-04622-4709
Scope and Contents

Within an outline suggestive of two lungs, Phillips has painted indecipherable hieroglyphics on stretched vellum. The painting of the symbols within the outline was done by first applying a solid coat of paint and then carving out the letters with a surgical scapel. This leaves the unpainted vellum surface in this region roughened to the touch bit at the painting's borders smooth. The 150 year old frame that holds the irregularly shaped vellum was used by a company to dry and stretch vellum, a type of heavy parchment prepared from lambskin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Probable Latitude 76'15' Longitude 113': Character. / Yasuo Fujitomi., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-28082-29241
Scope and Contents

Print sepicts stylized, constructivistic gray letters and ideograms printed on a tan paper sheet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

[Sackner Archive] / Baker, Carlyle., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-23961-24409
Scope and Contents

The drawing was made on Sackner Archive stationary. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Sculpt - Ecriture / Dupont, Albert., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-15772-16103
Scope and Contents

This drawing is created by writing firmly in ink on the verso side of the page so that the recto side appears to be embossed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Second Hymn to Janus / Thalia ; Young, Karl., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34639-36340
Scope and Contents

The poem facing the conventional poem by Karl Young is an illustration by thalia of a man's head composed of seven different symbols standing for "goodbye, farewell, so long, go on, go out, auf wedersen and adios." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Serendipities Language and Lunacy / Eco, Umberto ; William Weaver, translator ; Abulafia A ; Dante., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-32414-33987
Scope and Contents

This is the second printing of this book that explores beginnings of language from a biblical perspective. In this book, Eco speculates that Dante's consolidation of language in Italy was influenced by Abulafia and Kabbalah. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Signografia VI / Padin, Clemente., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-51619-72718
Scope and Contents

A reproduction of this drawing is depicted in Clemente Padin's "Signografias Y Textos 1967 - 1970" (1970) and in Clemente Padin's "Visual Poems 1967-1970" (1990). The drawing is printed upside down in Visual Poems 1967-1970 (1990). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Signs / Porter, Bern., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-30807-32253
Scope and Contents

This books consists of signs and symbols found in American urban life. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Silent Souls, 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-10396-10599
Scope and Contents

The image is more controlled than the pages in the [Hobo Book], a work also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993