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Letter picture

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 270 Collections and/or Records:

Slipping & a Slidin, 1971

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: A-Ba: [Barcode: 31858072491164]
Identifier: CC-25642-26100

spidEr, 1999

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: D: [Barcode: 31858072491370]
Identifier: CC-36524-38325

Syntax, 2000

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-36501-38299
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts a letter picture. The pages are mostly abstract markings with a few letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Texto XIIIa, 1969

 Item — Oversize folder 45: [Barcode: 31858068937618]
Identifier: CC-51630-72729
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1969

THE DEAD WERE BURIED IN URNS and LIVE ACROSS THE SEA, 1971

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: A-Ba: [Barcode: 31858072491164]
Identifier: CC-57672-10000937
Scope and Contents

This work with a Moire pattern image made only with the letter 'x.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

The Fall of the Tower of Babel, 1995

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-13290-13591
Scope and Contents

This is a reprint on different paper (Arches 88) of the same print of the sixties. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

The Five Vowels: A, E, I, O, U / Cobbing, Bob., 1974

 Item — Box 394: [Barcode: 31858072461589]
Identifier: CC-17688-18056
Scope and Contents

Designated Folders No.16. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

The Juggler, 1995

 Item — Folder 17: [Barcode: 31858072459765]
Identifier: CC-24118-24570
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1995

The Parchment Is Burning , 1985

 Item — Folder 68: [Barcode: 31858072538022]
Identifier: CC-25655-26113
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1985

The Sinner and God's [Hand], 1980

 Item — Box 334: [Barcode: 31858072491032]
Identifier: CC-21332-21743
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1980

The Spheres, No. 1 & 2, 1993

 Item — Box 609: [Barcode: 31858073143566]
Identifier: CC-06393-6510
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1993

The Spheres, No. 3 & 4, 1993

 Item — Box 609: [Barcode: 31858073143566]
Identifier: CC-06392-6509
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1993

The Spheres, No. 5 & 6, 1993

 Item — Box 609: [Barcode: 31858073143566]
Identifier: CC-06391-6508
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1993

The Spheres, No. 9 & 10, 1993

 Item — Box 609: [Barcode: 31858073143566]
Identifier: CC-06390-6507
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1993