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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2969 Collections and/or Records:

I Suppose There Should Have Been More Colour / Crozier, Robin., 1974

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Identifier: CC-19203-19586
Scope and Contents

This book provides performances directions on fluxus-like themes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

I Wrap Sara Kali In The Sky / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1984

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Identifier: CC-46347-49072
Scope and Contents Hirschman's book is a homage to Sarah Kali accompanied by Gypsy glifs. According to Wikipedia, Saint Sarah is a patron saint venerated by the Roma (Gypsy) people. She is also known as Sara-la-Kali (Sara the black). The center of her cult is Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, a place of pilgrimage for Roma in the Camargue, in southern France, where legend identifies her as the servant of the two saints Mary commemorated in the town. An alternative legend has her as a pagan of noble birth and being converted to the faith of Abraham. In the traditional account, Saint Sarah was a native of Upper Egypt; after the Crucifixion of Jesus, Mary Salome, Mary Jacobe, and Mary Magdalene were cast adrift in a boat that arrived off the coast of what is now France "a sort of fortress named Oppdium-Ra", and the location was known as Notre-Dam-de-Ratis (Ra becoming Ratis, or boat); the name being changed to Notre-Dame-del-la-Mer, and then Le Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in 1838. Some say that the boat arrived in...
Dates: 1984

Il Cerchia dell Evocazione Demoniaco / Caruso, Luciano., 1977 - 1978

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Identifier: CC-19441-19824
Scope and Contents

The title translated into English means, The Circle of Demoniacal Recollections. The book has an appearance of an ancient one owing to the vellum binding with leather thongs. Caruso has used white paint for the written text making its reading difficult. There is a round perforation through all the pages, 7 cm in diameter, that exposes a crystal stone collaged onto the inside back cover. Several styles of calligraphy on the pages have been employed by Caruso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977 - 1978

Il Disagio della Parola / Mussio, Magdalo., 1975

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Identifier: CC-37817-39697
Scope and Contents

The image of this print is the same as in Mercato del Sale April 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Il Disconto / Caruso, Luciano., 1980 - 1982

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Identifier: CC-19134-19513
Scope and Contents

The content of this book is almost wholly calligraphic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980 - 1982

Il Milione di marco Polo / Fallini, Mario., 2008

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Identifier: CC-50143-71205
Scope and Contents

This catalogue reproduces the scroll installed in the museum with a textual description clearly hand printed on the extreme length of the work. The two dvd's with musical accompaniment document the installation of this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Il Mio Pensiero / Caruso, Luciano., 1988

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Identifier: CC-19138-19517
Scope and Contents

The book is written in a free, experimental, calligraphic style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

[il primero] / Caruso, Luciano., 1995

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Identifier: CC-58025-10001281
Scope and Contents

This work was exhibited in one of pete spence's 1999 correspondence art shows. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Il Respiro Corto (Shortness of Breath) / Miglietta, Enzo., 1990

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Identifier: CC-06062-6176
Scope and Contents

This piece was commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. Miglietta writes in an accompanying letter that the most important sign of sickness is shortness of breath. In this picture, he depicts breathing as a diamond shape which becomes smaller from outward inward as breathing shortens owing to environmental damage present on earth and in air, such as smoke, toxins, wasteful consumerism etc. In hundreds of cells, he writes the names, causes and possible causes of these insults. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Il Respiro del Cielo della Tierra dell Uomo (The Breathing of the Sky, of the Earth, of the Man) / Miglietta, Enzo., 1990

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Identifier: CC-06063-6177
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. Miglietta writes the Sackners that he considers breathing as a metaphor for origins of the universe (implosion and explosion). He depicts a white lifeline for the sky, earth or man and breathing as an infinite succession of diamond shapes. The blue color indicates sky, green earth, and red men, all bound to the harmonious lifeline in which is written "live together." A surrounding, infinite grille symbolizes ideas beyond his comprehension. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Il Secondo Libro della Sibella Cumana (libro-opera) / Caruso, Luciano., 1982

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Identifier: CC-19145-19524
Scope and Contents

This book wholly consists of calligraphic text in several styles. The utilization of heavily built-up paint on the one hand and sparkles on the other to form letters of the words is unusual in artist books genre. The words are written onto tissue paper of pink, green, purple, red and blue colored stock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

[Illegible] / Illegible., 1997

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Identifier: CC-54849-990279
Scope and Contents

This book was purchased at Eye Rhymes, a visual poetry conference held in Edmonton that was attended by Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Illuminazioni by Arthur Rimbaud / Bertozzi, Gabriele-Aldo, editor., 1994

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Identifier: CC-23949-24397
Scope and Contents

Bertozzi translated this work from French to Italian. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994