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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2969 Collections and/or Records:

Corri Consuma / Miglietta, Enzo., 1991

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Identifier: CC-06432-6550
Scope and Contents

The image of this drawing is constructivistic in content. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Couleurs Intimes: Poemes Calligraphies / Bearn, Pierre., 1953

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Identifier: CC-55440-9999125
Scope and Contents The shapes of the poems in this book are composed of calligraphic text arranged to form human figures or parts of figures. In addition, line drawings of human figures overlay conventional poems to form picture poems. Finally, both line and calligraphic drawings of the same figurative shape are printed on some of the facing pages. This effect is analogous to the work of the Italian poet, Ketty La Rocca that was published in the seventies.Wikipedia: Pierre Bearn (15 June 1902 -- October 27, 2004) was a French writer. He was born Louis-Gabriel Besnard in Bucharest, Romania.He is known to Anglophones for his poem "Couleurs d'usine", which includes the line Metro boulot bistrots megots dodo zero (translation: "Subway work bars (cigarette) butts sleep nothing"). A multifaceted personality, at one time a journalist, novelist, poet, fabulist and humanist, at age nine Bearn began writing in French slang, his "natural" language. His father having died prematurely, at the age of 14 he became...
Dates: 1953

Couve le Feu, 2000

 Item — Box 132: [Barcode: 31858072457827]
Identifier: CC-35103-36831
Scope and Contents

The egg is engraved with the title, perfect imprint, embellished with an original engraving enclosed with a text by Michael Gluck. This book object was delivered with rolled, uncrumpled pages within the shell. Their removal caused them to crumpled. The texts are egg shaped and printed on Tibetian paper with one raised, ink and gold leaf illuminated letter per page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

[Cover Design for Pan No.2] / Smithson, Robert., 1958

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Identifier: CC-29924-31313
Scope and Contents

This work is the unfolded cover for issue No.2 of the poetry magazine, Pan. On its verso is the printed table of contents of the magazine that was edited and published by Alan Brilliant. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958

[Cover Design for Pan] / Smithson, Robert., 1958

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Identifier: CC-29925-31314
Scope and Contents

This work is a design for a cover of the poetry magazine, Pan. The issue number is unspecified. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958

[Cover No.503] / Suarez Londono, Jose Antonio., 1992

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Identifier: CC-29419-30784
Scope and Contents

The front cover reproduces a work by Londono that consists of a checkerboard background with a portrait of Nijinsky along with text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

[Cover No.514] / Suarez Londono, Jose Antonio., 1993

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Identifier: CC-29400-30765
Scope and Contents

The front cover reproduces nine drawings by Lodono. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

[Cover No.624] / Suarez Londono, Jose Antonio., 1995

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Identifier: CC-29399-30764
Scope and Contents

The front cover reproduces a drawing by Londono with images of buildings over lines of calligraphic text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

[Cover No.702] / Suarez Londono, Jose Antonio., 1996

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Identifier: CC-29418-30783
Scope and Contents

The front cover reproduces a work by Londono that incorporates text and image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

[Cover Sketches for Richard Truhlar's Ten Sephardic Translations] / curry, jw., 1983

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Identifier: CC-19728-20115
Scope and Contents

A calligraphic adaptation of this work was published in can't afford no Kodak Instamatik Instamatik Vol.2 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Crazy Bodies / Crombie, John., 1992

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Identifier: CC-19252-19635
Scope and Contents

The pages depict graffiti images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Creating the World: Poetry, Art, and Children / Carpenter, John ; Apollinaire G ; Mallarme S ; Malevich K ; Marinetti FT ; Thomas D ; Breton A., 1986

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Identifier: CC-19734-20121
Scope and Contents

This book is an anthology of visual and picture poems made by students from kindergarten to the 12th grade living in Seattle, Washington. The poems and teaching methods are analyzed by the author who was a poet-in-residence in the school system in Seattle. In the final chapter, he presents and comments on poems by established adult poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Creation / Hensel, Susan., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33740-35403
Scope and Contents

The poem deals with the spiritual experience of the ceation of the first male in the form of an illustrated book. The poem is illustrated with semirealistic, figurative line drawings. The calligraphic text of the poem with varied degrees of gray shading was probably done using a computer generated laser printer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Creation Is the Breathing Beauty of Our Spirit / Dupont, Albert., 1991

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Identifier: CC-14524-14835
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Crossing / Cheek, Cris., 1980

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Identifier: CC-18000-18370
Scope and Contents

Two copies of this book are held by the Sackner Archive; there is slight variance in the text between the two. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Crossroads / Essaydi, Lalla., 2008

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Identifier: CC-48788-69822
Scope and Contents

The artist photographs Arabic people in their native garments and overlays Arabic calligraphy over their bodies and in the background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008