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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2969 Collections and/or Records:

[the LISSON gaL] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56512-9999916
Scope and Contents

On the inside of an unfolded envelope Houedard has drawn several lettered and numbered squares with ink & colored ink that can be reversed.The note related to thr Lisson Art Gallery in London. The outside of the envelope includes his playing with the reversal of the name Saint Marylebone. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

The Little Bug Angel / Patchen, Kenneth., 1955

 Item
Identifier: CC-37661-39527
Scope and Contents

The poem reads as follows: He bangs his wings on the table! - Still no service! - What's the matter with that waiter! - Wow! Smell that roast biff! - Ah! he takes out a stick of dynamite - Brr-ump! That should teach them! - But nothing happens! - Of course, obviously, the dynamite of an angel that size - Does not (unfortunately) pack very much of a wallop. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1955

The Lost Rivers of London / Bush, Tracey., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-24082-24534
Scope and Contents

The embossings signify ancient tributories of the Thames river which have disappeared underground. The artist has written their names adjacent to the specific embossings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

The Malinsay Massacre / Wheatley, Dennis., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-00346-354
Scope and Contents

This volume is a reprint of the detective novel first published in 1938. a near identical facsimile of the third Hutchinson crime dossier originally published 1938, with varying size leaves, numerous tipped in clues and a sealed solution, a collection of statements, photographs, plans, samples of exhibits, etc, together forming the quasi-crime file of Police Lieutenant Schwab of New York starting with investigating the murder of the fifth Earl of Malinsay, allowing the reader to view all the evidence and try to solve the crime, solution sealed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

The Man of Sorrows / Coleman, Joe., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-20787-21193
Scope and Contents

This is an account of a complex visual/verbal painting, The Man of Sorrows (by Coleman after Bosch), that is his revelation of the hidden truths about Jesus Christ based upon Apocrypha, stories about Christ striken from New Testament because they clashed with view of Jesus that the church wished to perpetuate as well as Pagan and Jewish anti-Christian writings available soon after Jesus' death. Tipped full- color fragments of the painting are explained by Coleman in a printed calligraphic text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

The Matter (Seria Entropy), 2002

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Identifier: CC-40017-41984
Scope and Contents

The paper was made from cardboard egg crate carton material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

The Mock Trial of Marvin Ross Friedman / Friedman, Marvin Ross., 2011

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Identifier: CC-52531-73659
Scope and Contents

This invitation for the 70th birthday surprise celebration for Marvin Ross Friedman was created in humerous, ersatz legalese language and images. The second page consisted of micrographic, illegible text, e.g, "the fine print!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

The Moment for Miriam [red gray background] / Patchen, Kenneth., 1955

 Item
Identifier: CC-55683-151119
Scope and Contents

Miriam was the wife of Kenneth Patchen. The background of this print was handcolored by Kenneth Pathchen.The text reads," Before the girl picking field daisies - Becomes the girl picking field daisies - There is a moment of some complexity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1955

The Moment for Miriam [yellow green background] / Patchen, Kenneth., 1955

 Item
Identifier: CC-55682-51119
Scope and Contents

Miriam was the wife of Kenneth Patchen. The background of this print was hand colored by Kenneth Pathchen. The text reads, " Before the girl picking field daiseis - Becomes the girl picking field daisies - There is a moment of some complexity" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1955

[the of an yet] (030268) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56318-9999742
Scope and Contents

This page consists of five drawn squares, four of which contain the words 'the, of an, yet.' The fifth square is blank. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

The Pasolini Arcane by Jack Hirschman, 1997

 Item — Folder 46: [Barcode: 31858072460052]
Identifier: CC-33581-35234
Scope and Contents

Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor with a fine sable brush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997