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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2969 Collections and/or Records:

Inspire , 1990

 Item — Folder 65: [Barcode: 31858072537990]
Identifier: CC-16594-16947
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sackners relates to his commission for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Intellectual Game / Weijia., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-32434-34008
Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Interchange: A poem of Los Angeles [Unpublished Shimshaw Press Version Manuscript] / Hirschman, Jack A.; Cage J., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-55044-998895
Scope and Contents

This work was planned for publication in 200 copies in a handwritten version. This version of the poem was never published but a modified manuscript version led to publication in a typeset version by Zora Gallery in 1964. This book written in the style of Mallarme's "Un Coup De Des," and entitled Interchange for John Cage is also held by the Sackner Archive. The word 'frammis" present in this poem is a slang word for a technical term unknown to the reader, e.g., its synonym "what you may call it." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

International Calligraphy Today / Cusick R ; Friedlaender H ; Grushkin P ; Ingmire T ; Lubalin H ; Pott G ; Skaggs S ; Waters J ; Waters S ; Wong J ; Zapf H ; Burgert HJ ; Saunders R ; Pauker F., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-32034-33565
Scope and Contents

One hundred eighteen calligraphers contribute mostly conventional, calligraphic pieces that are reproduced one to a page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Invencao (Feb. 1) / De Campos, Augusto, editor; Ricardo, Cassiano, editor; Pignatari, Decio, editor; Braga, Edgar, editor; De Campos, Haroldo, editor; Grunewald, Jose Lino, editor; Chamie M, editor; Xisto, Pedro, editor; Pignatari D; Bernard S; Pinto A; cummings ee., 1960

 Item
Identifier: CC-51438-72534
Scope and Contents

This is a page torn from the Sunday newspaper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Invention of the Coloured Vowels / Rea, Nicholas., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-03418-3474
Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Invisible City Books: Italian Poetry 1960-1980: From Neo to Post Avant-Garde. No.2 / Adriano Spatola, Paul Vangelisti, editors ; Accame V ; Balestrini N ; Ballerini L ; Bedino D ; Baruchello GF ; Beltrametti F ; Bentivoglio M ; Bertini G ; Blank I ; Binga T ; Cagnone N ; Caruso L ; Costa C ; Danon B ; DellaCasa G ; Ermini F ; Fontana G ; Gualtieri M ; Kemeny T ; Lora-Totino A ; Marcucci L ; Martini S ; Miccini E ; Morrocchi G ; Nannucci M ; Niccolai G ; Oberto M ; Ori L ; Oberto A ; Parmiggiani C ; Porta A ; Ramous M ; Sandri G ; Scalise G ; Sitta C ; Spatola A ; Verdi F ; Villa E ; Xerra W ; Vicinelli P., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-37182-39026
Scope and Contents

This book consists of conventional poems and photographic reproductions of visual poems. Balestrini's piece is a political text recounting the sixties political climate in Milan. The story is laid out in two columns without any punctuation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

(Invisible) Random Sightings / levy, d.a. ; Horvath A., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-48657-69689
Scope and Contents

This issue contains a photograph that is reprinted and reproduced in (Uh..One & Uh..Two) Random Sightings. The cover photograph is by Alan Horvath. Reprints numerous collages from Serif (volume 8, number 4, 1972, Marijuana Newsletter #2 (1965), The Day is a Prayer they Can't Understand (1967), Cleveland Undercovers (1966), All Gods Must Learn to Kill (1967). Also reprints Farewell the Floating Cunt (1964) in its entirety. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Ipermarket / Miglietta, Enzo., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-06431-6549
Scope and Contents

The multicolored images consist of a grid depicting objects stacked on the shelves of a supermarket, viz., bottles, boxes, paper rolls, glasses etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Ipotesti di Teatro-Oggetto / Corrado Costa; William Xerra., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-19285-19668
Dates: 1976
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

Ipotesti di Teatro-Oggetto / Corrado Costa; William Xerra., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-19285-19668
Dates: 1976
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

Iron Fist in Yr Yellow Chakra, 1998

 Item — Box 135: [Barcode: 31858072457835]
Identifier: CC-29776-31154
Scope and Contents This book is composed of calligraphic drawings, one to a card, that repetitively presents the title phrase in extremely varied letter styles and sizes using ink, paint, and graphite. Chakra is a word from Yoga that refers to any of the six points along the spine that are supposed to contain certain powers, persinified by Gods and able to be released through the proper exercises. The title phrase is occasionally modified with another word, e.g., "Iron Fuckin Fist In Yr Fuckin Yellow Fuckin Goddamn Chakra." The cards are a masterpiece of experimental calligraphy. The green corrugated cardboard box holding the cards was made by Sloy's husband, Nicholas. Richard Ovenden, Keeper of Special Collections at the Bodleian Library at Oxford, described the preparation of the cards by sloy. "The artist put blank paper through a press wiha clean plate to create a border indentation (the blank plate mark) to make the work look like an engraving. This technique was used by printers in the 19th...
Dates: 1998
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS / nic and sloy

IS.. No.11 / Victor Coleman, John Oughton, editors ; Nations O ; Dewdney C., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-53259-74411
Scope and Contents

This book consists of poems by 34 poets, most of whom have sunk into total obscurity. It is an example of late 60's early 70's "psychedelic" bookmaking. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

Istanbul Remembered / Eller, Evelyn., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-14085-14390
Dates: 1985
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

It Is a Tree of Life, 1995

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-24003-24453
Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

[It was so sweet...], 1996

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-16388-16738
Scope and Contents

A thank you presentation from Doner to the Sackners in the form of a wedge shaped book, tied and wrapped, containing examples of Doner's ideogramatic drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / ARTIST BOOKS AND POETRY/BOOK OBJECTS

Italian Lesson No.4 / Van Horn, Erica., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-35903-37666
Scope and Contents

The booklet documents a part of her life during her stay in Florence, Italy whe she worked with her husband, Simon Cutts, in an art gallery there. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

Italian Lesson No.4 / Van Horn, Erica., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-00714-732
Scope and Contents

The booklet documents a part of her life during her stay in Florence, Italy when she worked with her husband, Simon Cutts, in an art gallery there. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

Italian Lesson No.4 / Van Horn, Erica., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-00732-750
Scope and Contents

The booklet documents a part of her life during her stay in Florence, Italy when she worked with her husband, Simon Cutts, in an art gallery there. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

Itineraire du Savoir en Tunisie, 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-35614-37359
Dates: 1995
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

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