Letter picture
Subject Source: Sackner Database
Found in 270 Collections and/or Records:
Slipping & a Slidin, 1971
spidEr, 1999
S.P.L.A.T. II, 1984
S.P.L.A.T. V, 1984
Starting Point for "Napples & Nadders", 1988 January 30
Symbolic Field stamp album" Untitled (XXX), 2014
Syntax, 2000
The cover depicts a letter picture. The pages are mostly abstract markings with a few letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Texto XIIIa, 1969
A reproduction of this drawing captioned as Texto XIII (1969) is depicted in Clemente Padin's "Visual Poems 1967-1970" (1990) but not in Clemente Padin's "Signografias Y Textos 1967 - 1970" (1970). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
textos y antitextos, 1970
THE DEAD WERE BURIED IN URNS and LIVE ACROSS THE SEA, 1971
This work with a Moire pattern image made only with the letter 'x.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Fall of the Tower of Babel, 1995
This is a reprint on different paper (Arches 88) of the same print of the sixties. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Five Vowels: A, E, I, O, U / Cobbing, Bob., 1974
Designated Folders No.16. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Juggler, 1995
The central image is a skeletal, rubberstamped figure who juggles 5 rubberstamped spherical objects, perhaps key locks to a room. The figure stands on 2 mounds of letraset letters. A relief object collaged to the upper left corner consists of handwritten cancelled numbers on top of letraset letters with a paper fragment of blue sky and a cloud. The image may be a metaphor for Baroni's questioning his art, music, or hotel careers. This is one of a series of 8 Unrelated Pieces for the Sackn -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Makeshift Club, 1988 June
The Parchment Is Burning , 1985
The full title of this print, a quote from Rabbi Hanina Ben Tradyon, is "The Parchment is Burning but the Letters are Flying Free." It depicts Hebrew letters arranged randomly above a collaged, burnt surface of paper at the bottom of the print. Tradyon was an ancient Talmudic scholar who was executed for his beliefs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Sinner and God's [Hand], 1980
The second of three of H. Bellaert's "n-books," all of which are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Spheres, No. 1 & 2, 1993
These drawings were made on pages 12 & 5, and pages 28 & 21 of a book on astronomy by Joannis de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, Lyon France, 1564. The original pages were perforated by termite holes that were filled with gold leaf. The pages themselves have engravings and marginalia that Macia has incorporated into his new images. Macia related that he was inspired to make these drawings after visiting the Sackner Archive and viewing Tom Phillips' A Humument. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Spheres, No. 3 & 4, 1993
These drawings were made on pages 68 & 89, and pages 112 & 15?] of a book on astronomy by Joannis de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, Lyon France, 1564. The original pages were perforated by termite holes that were filled with gold leaf. The pages themselves have engravings and marginalia that Macia has incorporated into his new images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Spheres, No. 5 & 6, 1993
These drawings were made on pages 32 & 17, and pages 42 & 39 of a book on astronomy by Joannis de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, Lyon France, 1564. The original pages were perforated by termite holes that were filled with gold leaf. The pages themselves have engravings and marginalia that Macia has incorporated into his new images. The relief elements were cut from other pages in the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Spheres, No. 9 & 10, 1993
These drawings were made on pages 110 & 99, and pages 70 & 75 of a book on astronomy by Joannis de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, Lyon France, 1564. The original pages were perforated by termite holes that were filled with gold leaf. The main image in the upper drawing is a spider; Macia has created its web by repetitive writing of a poem by e.e. cummings, when skies are, in an almost micrographic style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
