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Calligraphic markings

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 793 Collections and/or Records:

The Creative Stroke / Emery, Richard, editor ; Chermayeff I ; Cusick R ; Goswell J ; Maisner B ; Pettis R ; Waters S ; Skarsgard S ; Beltran F ; Waters J., 1992

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Identifier: CC-32651-34237
Scope and Contents

This book demonstrates the integration of the freehand brush and pen stroke with modern applied graphic design. It is divided into the following sections, 1) media advertising and direct mail, 2) packaging, 3) covers & posters, 4) corporate ID, and 5) gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

The Effect of Communication / Powell, David., 1989

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Identifier: CC-33323-34960
Scope and Contents

Each page of this book depicts a framed, surrealistic image of a person in profile that has been defaced by calligraphic and abstract markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

The Exterminator / Burroughs, William S. ; Gysin, Brion., 1960

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Identifier: CC-22623-23052
Scope and Contents

The text was written by Burroughs, the poems and calligraphic drawings were composed by Gysin. This book, a first edition, was published later in 1967 as a second edition. Includes four pages of Gysin's calligraphic drawings, rendered in black ink, dated 1960 that are in same style as Gysin's book of drawings "Exil" held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

The Flip Side of Language / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Joyce J; Finlay IH; Roth D; Cobbing B; Chopin H; Heidsieck B; Jandl E; levy da; Bayer K; Morgan E; Berge C; Jochims R; Mayer HJ; Bense M; Rawlinson A; Szuter T., 1966

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Identifier: CC-57853-10001104
Scope and Contents

Charles Cameron writes that these pages are "numbered by hand, with many dsh correx + typesetter's markups for 'the flip side of language' -- looks like it might be dsh's entry for the issue of the Oxford mag ISIS on concrete poetry which I edited, but I don't have a copy for comparison & it's hard to say..." This essay appeared in ISIS No.1507, 1966, a periodical hels by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

The Flip Side of Language / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Joyce J; Finlay IH; Roth D; Cobbing B; Chopin H; Heidsieck B; Jandl E; levy da; Bayer K; Morgan E; Berge C; Jochims R; Mayer HJ; Bense M; Rawlinson A; Szuter T., 1966

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Identifier: CC-59905-10002955
Scope and Contents

This essay is another copy of the manuscript with slightly different handwritten correctionss and appeared in ISIS No.1507, 1966, a periodical held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

The Language of Stone / Shepp, Alan., 1992

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Identifier: CC-02562-2604
Scope and Contents

The works by Shepp consist of poetic images in stone sculptures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

The Letters Between Us / Helmes, Scott., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32878-34493
Scope and Contents

In this continuous line drawing, stylized r's and m's are barely discernable. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

The Maenads, 2011

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Identifier: CC-52791-73928
Scope and Contents Wikepedia: "In Greek mythology, maenads were the female followers of Dionysus (Bacchus in the Roman pantheon), the most significant members of the Thiasus, the god's retinue. Their name literally translates as "raving ones". Often the maenads were portrayed as inspired by him into a state of ecstatic frenzy, through a combination of dancing and drunken intoxication. In this state, they would lose all self-control, begin shouting excitedly, engage in uncontrolled sexual behavior, and ritualistically hunt down and tear to pieces animals "” and, in myth at least, sometimes men and children "” devouring the raw flesh. During these rites, the maenads would dress in fawn skins and carry a thyrsus, a long stick wrapped in ivy or vine leaves and tipped by a cluster of leaves; they would weave ivy-wreaths around their heads, and often handle or wear snakes." According to the Basinski's inscription on the verso of the drawing, "the Maenads had ladder like tattoes groves on their arms And I...
Dates: 2011

The Oxygen of Truth [volume 1] / Gaze,Tim ; Leftwich J ; Michaux H ; Dotremont C ; Vleeskens C., 2001

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Identifier: CC-39423-41375
Scope and Contents

Gaze explains in his introduction that his texts are improvised asemic texts which means no semantic content. Composed of writings from other languages and made up works by the artist, they incorporate writing and an infra-verbal level. Gaze notes that asemic texts have no writer-intended meaning. "If you the viewer perceive a meaning, you've created that meaning yourself." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The Oxygen of Truth [volume 2] / Gaze,Tim ; Leftwich J., 2001

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Identifier: CC-39424-41376
Scope and Contents

Artists response to Gaze's work is published as part of "A Symposium Emerging from Tim Gaze" is added as an afterward. It was organized by JIm Leftwich and probably wholly written by Leftwich for the "Institute for Study and Application at Kohoutenberg." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The Shit of God / Galas, Diamanda., 1988

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Identifier: CC-32607-34188
Scope and Contents

This book consists of the texts of Galas' performances; it includes photographic reproductions of Galas in her various roles. Galas uses her voice to evoke the profound suffering and isolation of the human condition as it confronts AIDS and insanity. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

The Tables of Jupiter / Ely, Timothy ; Ernst M ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 2004

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Identifier: CC-43117-45172
Scope and Contents

This catalogue includes an essay and interview with Ely by Ian Boyden, Director of the Sheehan Gallery. The illustrations are reproduced from the book with the same title as the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

this is for silly pretty Jo... / Verey, Charles., 1970

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Identifier: CC-57082-10000439
Scope and Contents

This drawing has a hand-numbered 3 in the l.r. corner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970