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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2969 Collections and/or Records:

The Secrets Known Only to the Inner Elites / Evason, Greg., 1990

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Identifier: CC-13490-13793
Scope and Contents

This book is subtitled "A Visual Diary (September 25, 1990- November 25, 1990.)" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Shaper / Gillespie, A. Lincoln., 1948

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Identifier: CC-55667-59940
Scope and Contents Internet: This work amounts to an illustrated prose poem rant on modern art and artists in general, touching on psychology, artistic theory, the working class and labor, politics, etc., and mentioning Gertrude Stein and John Steinbeck. This must be one of the strangest, if not one of the most overlooked works of visual poetry in the United States. "Gillespie was a member of the group that centered around Transition Magazine in the 1920's and 30's. His work not only eschewed standard spelling and punctuation, it incorporated symbols and drawings and resembles musical notation. A selection of his work appeared in the third issue of Beaudoin's little magazine Iconograph, and was the only section of the magazine that had to be mimeographed, as the printer couldn't handle the eccentricities of the piece" (Adam Davis) Abraham Lincoln Gillespie, Jr. was born in Philadelphia in 1895 and died in New York in 1950. "In 1922 he moved to Paris where became friends with writers James Joyce and...
Dates: 1948

The Shroud, 2006

 Item — Box 135: [Barcode: 31858072457835]
Identifier: CC-47959-68982
Scope and Contents This work is a masterpiece of poetic embroidery with varied styles for the lettering. The phrases read as follows: 1) lifedeath, 2) heebiejeebies, 3) snuffflick, 4) zigzag, 5) duckyducky, 6) deadend, 7) gangplank, 8) zebrazebra, 9) lushlush, 10) be all end all, 11) finiteinfinite, 12) cockeyed & cuckoo, 13) homesick 14) BAH HUMBUG, 15) fuckyfucky, 16) 2010, 17) mamapapbaba, 18) zerozero, 19) hooplahoopla, 20) toom tchoop poom, 21) i cant sell it, 22) perky & chirpy, 23) sporty & forty, 24) holdminehand, 25) hubbahubba, 26) doublewide, 27) eyeball, 28) ojo por ojo, 29) davey crockett ma kettle, 30) i stand corrected, 31) wow, 32) gee, 33) holy cow, 34) la la, 35) dirty dip, 36) dog paddle, 37) sawbuck, 38) juicehead, 39) gummer, 40) gibberish, 41) invisible ink, 42) hotrod, 43) snap hold kick, 44) 2 sides, 45) sing, 46) alfalfa, 47) rhododenron, 48) i, and 49) croak. Sloy wrote to the Sackners: it took a long time to make. 'lifedeath' was embroidered in 2000. 'croak' was...
Dates: 2006

The Song in My Sentence / Jack A. Hirschman., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09197-9378
Scope and Contents

The theme deals with a nostalgic view of the Russian language. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Space Below This Printing Is For Future Grandchildren, Great Grandchildren, Great Great Grandchildren..., 1993

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Identifier: CC-33364-35003
Scope and Contents

The drawing lists the names of the Sackners' children and grandchildren in 1991. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

The Spirit Is Breathing / John Furnival., 1991

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Identifier: CC-10775-10985
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. This screen of three hinged panels and a moveable panel of the letter "A" with recto-verso imagery is written in several languages with text alluding to the title. The five vowel sounds, especially the "A" are incorporated as major features of the design because vowels are the "only letters in the alphabet that represent sound made by breathing alone." The "A" is made prominent because it symbolizes creation. This standing screen is depicted in Furnival's "Lost For Words" (2011) on page 83. However, it is mislabeled as "Vowel Screen" (1986). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Splendor of Islamic Calligraphy / Khatibi, Abdelkebir ; Sijelmassi, Mohammed ; Zenderoudi H ; Qotbi M ; Lambert JC ; Benbella M ; Mahdaoui N ; Koraichi R., 1996

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Identifier: CC-31070-32535
Scope and Contents

Excellent review of Islamic calligraphy from ancient times to the present. Originally published in French. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

The Splintered Page: Homage to Asa Beneviste, 1990

 Item — Box 47: [Barcode: 31858072538675]
Identifier: CC-08841-9016
Scope and Contents

Work done in homage to Asa Beneviste, the American expatriate poet/publisher, who died in Yorkshire at age 64 of diabetes. The signs derive from original Welsh alphabets as Wales is closest to both Beneviste and Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

[The State University] / Friedman, Ken., 1978

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Identifier: CC-13051-13343
Scope and Contents

This drawing appeared as an illustration (page 42) in "The Epickall quest of the Brothers Dichtung and Other Outrages" by Dick Higgins, a book published by Printed Editions, New York. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

The Story of Islam's gift of Paper to the West / Cotter, Holland., 2005

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Identifier: CC-43817-45913
Scope and Contents

This book by Jonathan M. Bloom traces the history and impact of paper in the Islamic world. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

The Teachings: Drawn from African-American Spirituals / Robinson, Aminah Brenda Lynn., 1992

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Identifier: CC-33549-35199
Scope and Contents

Robinson illustrates each of 25 spirituals with a semi-realisic drawing in ink, graphite and crayon that is reproduced in color in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

The Water's Breast and ripples / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Gunn, Ronald., 1970

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Identifier: CC-11880-12101
Scope and Contents

This depicts a stone sculpture engraved with the title. The calligraphy of the word "ripples" is formed such that it could also be read "nipples." The verso os rubberstamped indicating that Ronald Gunn holds the copyright - it is not depicted in the Finlay book of Prints 1963-1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

The Words Are the World / Garnier, Pierre., 1996

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Identifier: CC-30758-32203
Scope and Contents

Each page consists of a simple line drawing and a caption, e.g., melancolia underneath a hand drawn circle, mountain and reflection underneath a diamond. The meanings of these picture poems often are obstruse. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996