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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2969 Collections and/or Records:

Writing Series: Private Musings / Kallman, Edith., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-37187-39031
Scope and Contents

This drawing is a 4 x 2 grid that provides a "sampler" of Kallman's calligraphic and visual styles. The single phrase of the title is used exclusively in all the panels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

[x)...] / Caruso, Luciano., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-19293-19676
Scope and Contents

The drawing on the left side of the folio is collaged to the paper; the drawing on the right side has been done directly on the paper of the folio. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Xerolage: Assassin. No.37 / Andrew Topel., 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-44338-46487
Scope and Contents

Each page reproduces a single concrete poem. The Sackner Archive also holds the manuscript for this work which has 40 pages of poems. Twenty-six poems were used for this issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Xibalba 5 Houses / Jack A. Hirschman., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-08990-9167
Scope and Contents

Contains hieroglyphics relating to the Mayan underground. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Xibalba 5 Houses / Jack A. Hirschman., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-09062-9241
Scope and Contents

The book and the tilles depict hieroglyphics relating to the Mayan underground. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Yes / Arshad, Yasmin., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-42957-45001
Scope and Contents

The handwrittten word YES is repeated in 22 lines. The gallery specializes in fine art and handcrafts by award-winning artists with disabilities. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Yes We All Read and Reek of Papers / Furnival, John., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-13294-13595
Scope and Contents

This print that has been printed in green (for the environment?) depicts a photograph of a woman with the caption "not mama grandmama" and text that deals with concerns for killing of whales. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Yod, 1966

 Item
Identifier: CC-09485-9673
Scope and Contents

This book is an example of the Kabbalistic period of Hirschman's work in which the poet combined Hebrew letters within his poetry. Yod is the letter Y and also means hand in Hebrew. The book was designed by Paul Vaughn and Pip Benveniste as a facsimile of Hirschman's manuscript. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Yodeling up the Canyon / Fencott, P.C.., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-11219-11434
Scope and Contents

This is the 2nd edition of the book that was first published in 1977. Includes both typeset and handwritten texts. The latter include several calligraphic styles. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Yodelling up the Canyon: Thriller Guide to Eaten Out / Fencott, P.C.., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-32394-33965
Scope and Contents

The theme of the book is eating out in fast food restaurants. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Yorkshire & Cumbria / Furnival, John., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-13168-13469
Scope and Contents

This one of a series of 11 prints, done in collaboration with Jonathan Williams, that deal with the weather in that location of country. The collaged addition to the print is a map of the area. The print is stored in The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

you noh / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-55749-9999305
Scope and Contents

The title "you noh " reads the same upside down. The other reversals are 'dew map,' pep dad,' 'wow mom' and 'east sea.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Your Black Black Heart / Parantela, Claudio., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-30995-32454
Scope and Contents

This consists of handwriten poetry around an abstract, black painted, drawing of a nude young woman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Zapp: Censored, 2011

 Item — Box 136: [Barcode: 31858072457843]
Identifier: CC-52055-73157
Scope and Contents

The smaller box contains postcards that Sloy and Nic mailed to the Sackners after the box was sent. The book is an exhibition catalogue from the Oregon Artists Series in which both artists were included. It is slipped into the larger box. All the cards deal with censorship. The box came from tony colomona who was the drummer for the band, "plug," that sloy managed in the 1990s. The box was from deen castronovo's Zappo's shoe box, with his name on the inside of the censored box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011