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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2969 Collections and/or Records:

Words and Images / Prestianni, John; Wolf A., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-04501-4588
Scope and Contents

This article consists of an interview of Arne Wolf. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Words at My Feet / Jack A. Hirschman., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09159-9340
Scope and Contents

The poem depicts a man sitting on a curb with a touch of the homelessness. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Words & Calligraphy for Children / Cataldo, John W. ; Apollinaire G ; Carroll L., 1969

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Identifier: CC-33023-34644
Scope and Contents

This book illustrates the text and image works of school children. It is an instructional guide for teachers of art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Words of Risk: The Art of Thomas Ingmire / Gullick, Michael ; Ingmire T., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-09992-10190
Scope and Contents

Thomas Ingmire's Calligraphic drawing "Forgive Them" (1986) reproduced in this book is held by Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Working Day and Night, 1989

 Item — Box 107
Identifier: CC-09851-10045
Scope and Contents

This work shows a balcony with books, very much like the Sackner Archive. The artist confirmed that he had no idea of this when he did the work. In the bottom center, a child is seated at a round table. Through two large windows are a day time and a night time scene. The frame is covered with dense hand-lettered text on topology. The top and bottom edges are written backwards and can be read with a small mirror provided by the artist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

World Wall One Documents 1981-1987 / Furnival, John; Rypson P; Phillips T; CrackerJackKid; Melnicove M; Sackner DR; Baroni V; Spector B; Olbrich JO; Toth G; Pittore-Eurofico C; Random S; Hundertmark A; Scott M; Cheek C; McAlpine B., 1988

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Identifier: CC-13193-13494
Scope and Contents

This consists of letters, cards and messages on scraps of paper from the participants who sent rocks to Furnival's wall project. Furnival mounted most of them on cardboard backings. The rock wall was erected at the Furnival's house in Stroud. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Wormwood Review, The: Flowers in a Tin Can. No.86 / Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel., 1982

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Identifier: CC-29254-30608
Scope and Contents

Edited by Marvin Malone. The entire issue consists of poems by Wilma McDaniel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Wormwood Review, The. No.79 / Weidman P., 1980

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Identifier: CC-29226-30579
Scope and Contents

Edited by Marvin Malone. Wholly devoted to Phil Weidman's poems entitled, "Blind Man's Bluff." Includes a section reproducing Weidman's handwritten notebook pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Wormwood Review, The. No.98 / Moore T., 1985

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Identifier: CC-29247-30601
Scope and Contents

Edited by Marvin Malone. This issue is wholly devoted to a collection of poems entitled, "Watching" by Todd Moore. The cover and four pages reproduce handwritten poems from his working notebooks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Worried Noodles (The Empty Sleeve) / Shrigley, David., 2006

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Identifier: CC-50616-71689
Scope and Contents

The phrase "Ugly Cunts" is painted in an abstract expressionist field on the inside of the folder covers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

[Wrapping Paper] / Grafiche Tassotti., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42828-44868
Scope and Contents

The design of this wrapping paper consists of calligraphed letters of various dimensions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

wrecking ballzark, th: Different Tenses. No.14 / Peggy lefler., 1980

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Identifier: CC-53367-63148
Scope and Contents

AntiChrist was first published as logical sequence #3 in Curvd H&Z series 0, No.9. This work is also designated Curvd H&Z No.50. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

[Writing on eight stave-like lines] / Hatherly, Ana., 1988

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Identifier: CC-34765-36471
Scope and Contents

The drawing consists of eight lines of handwriting on groups of stave-like lines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Writing Series: Pressures #2 / Kallman, Edith., 1989

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Identifier: CC-61630-10007091
Scope and Contents The word "pressures" is repeatitively written in the image. The Passdoor (Sebastopol CA) website Edith Kallman (1926-2014) was unique in her approach, using the repetition of words in a calligraphic style to create intricate patterns. Her spirals and grids offer us personal and social messages that vanish into graphic images. "Such words and phrases as: Obsessive, Pressures, And On and On, serve as titles...the words stimulate viewer participation and experience." Edith was influenced by the abstract expressionist painters of the 50"s and 60's, and contemporary artists of her time: Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Adolph Gottlieb, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still. You can see their influence in her use of color fields and gestural brush strokes. In the early 70"s she developed her own style, which challenged the aesthetic establishment of her times. She was highly influenced by the Graffiti Art movement...
Dates: 1989