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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 344 Collections and/or Records:

Caracteres IBM / Mairey, Francoise., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-59293-10002396
Scope and Contents

This brochure advertises the various typefaces available and IBM locations in France. The cover by Mairey consists of a typing of yellow and green A's . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts: Graphic Design: A Kinetic Presentation of Contemporary Trends. ., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-19295-19678
Scope and Contents

This poster was designed by Toshihiro Katayama. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts: Virtual Realities. / David Brison ; Harriet Brisson ; Jose Yturralde., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-19330-19713
Scope and Contents

The poster was designed by Toshihiro Katayama. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts: Visual Arts Contest. ., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-19329-19712
Scope and Contents

This poster was designed by Toshihiro Katayama. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

celtic wheel of taranis (150469) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-56278-9999716
Scope and Contents

Typed black slashes delineate the image of a sphere with a tail-like appendage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

chakravartin / wordwomb (080367 & 090367) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-08651-8824
Scope and Contents

This work consists of two poem dated a month apart.' Wordwomb' is composed using all five vowels. 'Chakravartin' is composed using apostrophes and parehtheses. Wikipedia: Chakravartin is a term used in Indian religions for an ideal universal ruler, who rules ethically and benevolently over the entire world. Such a ruler's reign is called sarvabhauma. It is a bahuvrīhi, literally meaning "whose wheels are moving", in the sense of "whose chariot is rolling everywhere without obstruction". It can also be analyzed as an 'instrumental bahuvrīhi: "through whom the wheel is moving" in the meaning of "through whom the Dharmacakra ("Wheel of the Dharma) is turning" (most commonly used in Buddhism and Hinduism). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

[Circles Spheres Lines] / Hatherly, Ana., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-34760-36466
Scope and Contents

The drawing consists of red and black ink spheres and varied sized circles connected by lines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Coldtypestructures / Burkhardt, Klaus; Dohl R., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-23542-23987
Scope and Contents

This work suffered water damage to the original portfolio such that a new one had to be made; the printing on the original was preserved and collaged to the new one. The prints suffered only minor water damage at their lower border and not to the image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Cosmic Geometry / Farmanfarmaian, Monir aka Monir Sharoudy Farmanfarmaian ; Olbrist HU ; Neshat S ; Stein D ; Stella F., 2011

 Item
Identifier: CC-60664-10003529
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive hold one of Monir's calligraphic drawings purchased from the group exhibition, Calligraffiti, NYC 1984. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

[cube & propeller] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-09453-9640
Scope and Contents

The image of this work was formed with typed periods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

[cubes and 8's] (312166) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-08682-8855
Scope and Contents

Five cubes formed by apostrophes are divided by a vertical row of 8's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966