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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2969 Collections and/or Records:

Ecritures: Signes-Peinture-Ecritures Poetiques. No.10 / Pierre Lafoucriere., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-13569-13872
Scope and Contents

Edited by Jean-Marc Vincent. The folded sheet is supplement 10. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Ecritures Textiles, 1987

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Identifier: CC-13539-13842
Scope and Contents

Exhibition consisted of calligraphic works by 28 fiber artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Edge / Fencott, P.C.., 1979

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Identifier: CC-11220-11435
Scope and Contents

300 copies were inset into Rawz magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Editions Lettrisme et Hypergraphie: Sigillographie. No.2 / Alain Satier ; Jacques Spacagna., 1966

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Identifier: CC-14239-14546
Scope and Contents

Alain Satier later changed his name to Alain Satie. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Egg Series: Egg Legs It Right / Furnival, John., 1976

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Identifier: CC-13271-13572
Scope and Contents

Half of an egg shell is depicted on the right side; the caption in bold cursive text is placed in the lower center of the drawing. The word "legs" references the shape on the left that also resembles a knee. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Egg Series: Eggs Sit Left / Furnival, John., 1976

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Identifier: CC-13272-13573
Scope and Contents

Viewed from above, the two parts of the egg shell in this drawing might be interpreted as the thigh meeting the knee. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Egg Series: The Great British Egg Rise (1977) / Furnival, John., 1977

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Identifier: CC-13274-13575
Scope and Contents

The drawing depicts an image of an egg shell with radiating bands as a spoof on the Japanese flag icon of the Rising Sun. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Egg Series: Yink Yolk / Furnival, John., 1976

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Identifier: CC-13275-13576
Scope and Contents

Image and caption are a word play on Ying/Yang. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Eight Songs for a Mad King / Davies, Peter Maxwell ; Stow R., 1969

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Identifier: CC-52122-73241
Scope and Contents Wikepedia (abridged): Eight Songs for a Mad King is a monodrama by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies with a libretto by Randolph Stow based on words of George III, written for the South-African actor Roy Hart and the composer's ensemble the Pierrot Players and premiered April 22, 1969.Lasting half an hour, it is scored for a baritone with an extraordinary command of extended techniques covering more than five octaves, and six players: flute (doubling piccolo), clarinet, percussion: railway whistle/Snare drum/ 2 susp.cymbals /foot cyms/ 2 wood blocks / Bass drum/chains/ratchet/tom-toms/tamtam/tambourine/rototoms/toy bird-calls/2tpl.bl/ wind chimes/crotales/sleigh bells/glockenspiel/steel bars/crow/ didgeridoo, piano (doubling harpsichord & dulcimer) and violin cello. The cover shows a famous excerpt in which the staves are arranged in the shape of a birdcage's bars. The eight songs are all based on the tunes played by an actual mechanical organ owned by George III which he used to try...
Dates: 1969

Ein Hund Kam on die Kuche / Tarlatt, Ulrike., 1990

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Identifier: CC-01387-1420
Scope and Contents

One of a pair of almost indecipherable calligraphic drawings held by the Sackner Archive, this one in German, the other in English, meaning A Dog Came in the Kitchen. These drawings were reproduced in Experimentelle Texte No.23, pages 32-33. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Eis Chthoneis / Caruso, Luciano., 1987

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Identifier: CC-19143-19522
Scope and Contents

Every page and the cover have a central background of white paint overlaid with collage elements, paint and writings. An ink border has been drawn on every page suggesting that the collages were made separately and then assembled as a book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987