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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2969 Collections and/or Records:

Notarikon / Yau, John ; Berthot, Jake., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-00120-124
Scope and Contents

Poems by Yau with reproductions of drawings by Berthot. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Now the Names of the Twelve Are These / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Nash, John R.., 1987

 Item — Folder 35: [Barcode: 31858072459948]
Identifier: CC-12360-12586
Scope and Contents

The names are a mixture of the Apostles and leaders of the French Revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

NRG: Hollow Fox. No.10 / David Whited., 1979

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Identifier: CC-36122-37901
Scope and Contents

Also designated Skydog Press #1. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Nullity / Bernard, Kenneth., 2000

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Identifier: CC-43635-45720
Scope and Contents

This book is bound with marbled paper over limp boards, green linen spine. It was hand set and printed on a Vandercook press by Walter Hamady. Three unbound copies were made in addition to the 100 copies. There is a real typewriter keyshaft attached in the binding of the book (the letter "V") that almost appears as a bookmark. This one anamorphically mulling life's exigencies via the lensing metaphor of a typewriter. (His) original handwitten text; the first typewritten draft, hand corrected: and the first rough setting of a "typewriter typeface" transmogrify into an ultimate readability Bernard's text on the untimely discarding of typewriters - or is it people our society prematurely abandon. The printing plate is a handwritten text dating 2/14/92 that is printed in the book as a facing pages spread; it was a gift to the Sackners from Hamady. Selected as one of the "Fifty Books of the Year" 1996 AIGA. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Nuvole / Miglietta, Enzo., 1981

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Identifier: CC-06498-6617
Scope and Contents

This drawing of five images with surrealistic creature-like shapes composed with white ink on black paper was done in the style reminescent of Judith Copithorne's calligraphy of the late 60's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Oab 1 / Zend, Robert., 1983

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Identifier: CC-29935-31326
Scope and Contents

In Volume 1, an inventive book of visual poetry, Zend has created an imaginary character, Oab who plays word games dealing with a multitude of topics with his own creation, Irdu. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Oab 2, 1983

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Identifier: CC-29937-31328
Scope and Contents

In Volume 2 of this bookwork, Zend continues the history of his imaginary character, Oab who plays word games with his own creation, Irdu. The character Ardo, who is a mystic dealing with the fourth dimension, is introduced. Some of the mathematical content in the beginning of this volume is reminiscent of Abbott's "Flatland." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Oboe. No.3/Fall / Vangelisti P., 1979

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Identifier: CC-05174-5274
Scope and Contents

Edited by Robert Anbian. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Observationes Anatomicae / Seille, Genevieve., 1989

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Identifier: CC-01762-1798
Scope and Contents

Cover has series of numbers written by artist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Observationes Anatomicae Vol 33 / Seille, Genevieve., 1989

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Identifier: CC-02630-2673
Scope and Contents

This book depicts typical imagery of Seille's work, viz. surrealistic, impossibly constructed, human figures, automatic handwriting in different calligraphic styles, lists of numbers and labels unrelated to image or text are present in the book and on two facing pages which depict the lungs as one to four chambers in five pseudo-humanistic figures. Although the obsessive calligraphy and strange visual imagery resemble artwork done by artists in mental institutions (outsiders), Seille is not an outsider. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989