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Calligraphic markings

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 793 Collections and/or Records:

Lamentations / Harris, Ken ; Bennett JM ; Repeshko A ; And M., 2001

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Identifier: CC-39837-41801
Scope and Contents

Five of the poems (one to a page) in this book were composed in collaboration with John M. Bennett, Andre Repeschko, anf Miekal And. The poems are done in several diverse styles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Le Bureau de Titre / Alechinsky, Pierre., 1983

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Identifier: CC-35649-37396
Scope and Contents

The fonts and layouts of the poems in this book are highly varied. The images are reproduced and artistically altered, legal documents, memos, and telephone messages accompanied by poems arranged as vertical columns of single words or brief phases in varied orientations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Le Chemin d'un Calligraphe / Massoudy, Hassan ; Sicre, Jean-Pierre ; Michaux H ; Baudelaire C ; Eluard P ; Char R., 1991

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Identifier: CC-30516-31944
Scope and Contents

This book was edited by Jean-Pierre Sicre whose interview with Hassan Massoudy comprises the text. The rest of the book consists of calligraphic drawings in Arabic of quotes mainly from Arabian and French writers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Le Jardin Perdu 1st Ed. / Massoudy, Hassan ; Chedid, Andree., 1997

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Identifier: CC-30550-31983
Scope and Contents

This book relates the story of Adam and Eve with text by Chedid and calligraphic illustrations by Massoudy. Another copy, held by the Sackner Archive, published the same year as the first edition is designated 4th edition on the title page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Le Jardin Perdu 4th Ed. / Massoudy, Hassan ; Chedid, Andree., 1997

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Identifier: CC-38120-40013
Scope and Contents

This book relates the story of Adam and Eve with text by Chedid and calligraphic illustrations by Massoudy. This copy, published the same year as the first edition, is designated 4th edition on the title page. It appears identical to the first edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Le Masque / Steinberg, Saul ; Butor M ; Rosenberg H., 1966

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Identifier: CC-30425-31845
Scope and Contents

Butor and Rosenberg wrote introductory essays to Steinberg's illustrations that feature viewers gazing at a cubist painting, photographs of people wearing Steinberg decorated paper bag masks, landscape, cityscapes, air mail motifs, cartoons with micrographic calligaphic markings, images involving music records, labyrinths, feigned ancient battles, pyramids, and bird-like people among others. Three hundred copies of the book were released with a signed lithograph; this copy is not part of that edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Le Soloeil Qui Se Leche Ses Cheveux Ayant Tue Ses Chevaux / Villa, Emilio; Caruso L., 1992

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Identifier: CC-00802-821
Scope and Contents

This production was edited by Luciano Caruso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

[Leonardo] / Baker, Carlyle., 1996

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Identifier: CC-24099-24551
Scope and Contents

The image at the top of the drawing is a rubberstamping of two superimposed nude figures after Leonardo da Vinci. The bottom half of the drawing has linear horizontal calligraphic markings perhaps a metaphor to the cryptic mirror writing that Leonardo utilized. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Les Archeologie Pessinoise, 1993

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Identifier: CC-28677-29978
Scope and Contents

Pessin has defined his personal, imagined, "Archeologie Pessinoise," with a presentation of an abstract, hieroglyphic language, handwritten descriptions in French, artifacts, coins, photographs, signs, animals, and maps at the site of Des Charbinieres a Saint-Laurent-du-Pont. Several of Pessin's works were exhibited in Musee D'Art Naif Max Fourney Paris, that the Sackners visited in 1997 when they purchased this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Les Voyelles du Desir / Lalou, Frank; Ouaknin, Marc Alain., 1994

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Identifier: CC-07567-7712
Scope and Contents

The three calligraphic drawings by Lalou include the Hebrew letters Ian, Shin and Daled. These are original drawings whereas the text is printed in 30 copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

letter 4 / Diotallevi, Marcello., 1982

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Identifier: CC-15764-16095
Scope and Contents

This is an example of highly stylized calligraphy with recognizable number "4" in text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

letter 7 / Diotallevi, Marcello., 1982

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Identifier: CC-15765-16096
Scope and Contents

This is an example of highly stylized calligraphy with number "7" recognizable in text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982