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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2969 Collections and/or Records:

Peace Flowers: Peace Peace Peace Pleez / Sloy; Nichols, Dave., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-43176-45233
Scope and Contents

This is a New Year's greeting card. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Peintures Recentes / Hantai, Simon., 1958

 Item
Identifier: CC-35611-37356
Scope and Contents

The opened poster depicts four calligraphic paintings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958

Peintures / Serpan, Iaroslav ; Tapie M., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-50274-71341
Scope and Contents

Serpan (aka Iaroslav Sossountzov) lived from 1922-1976. Michel Tapies contributed an essay on Serpam. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

[Pendulum] / Mallarme, Stephane; Jack A. Hirschman, translator., 1973

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Identifier: CC-37193-39037
Scope and Contents

This back cover of Invisible City No.9, 1973, depicts a shaped poem (flask) by Mallarme that was translated and written in his own hand by Jack Hirschman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Periples maches / Descossy, Gilbert., 2004

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Identifier: CC-46714-49444
Scope and Contents

This catalogue depicts Descossy's new work, Arabic texts written on ceramic plaques. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Personae: 1967-2000 / Caruso, Luciano ; Martini SM ; Mainolfi L ; Bugli E ; Villa E ; Diacono M., 2002

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Identifier: CC-41565-43555
Scope and Contents

This book includes a lithograph accompanying a limited edition book probably about 500 copies. The illustrations are reproductions of written fragments of collages that have a name of an Italian poet written over the collaged fragments. These are portraits of the poets in visual poetic terms but are simpler in construction than Caruso's "Ritratto Degli Uomini Illustri" that is also held by the Sackner Archive. This book was published in September 2002 and Caruso died later tha year. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Pertubation / Gette, Paul-Armand., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-50086-71147
Scope and Contents

This exhibition deals with insects, trees, and young women's underwear . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Petit Roman (Libro-Opera) / Caruso, Luciano., 1981

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Identifier: CC-19139-19518
Scope and Contents

In addition to the single pages with paint and writing, five sections of pages have been glued together permitting the artist to treat the sections with heavier paint applications. The original book was an entry journal. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Petite Liste de Mots Visuels, 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-02648-2691
Scope and Contents

The work consists of twelve small pieces of treated paper with a single handwritten neologistic word, e.g., apteryx, argosome, etc. on the recto and numbers on the verso. The papers are held in a papercard case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Phillip Mills Arnold Semeiology Collection / Maurus H., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-04935-5032
Scope and Contents

Includes annotated listing of ancient books dealing with cryptography, ancient languages, shorthand, language (philosophy), sign languages, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Philosophy, 1995

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Identifier: CC-07667-7816
Scope and Contents

The word "philosphy" is presented as a reversal poem so that it reads the same when the print is turned upside down. Dom Sylvester Houedard, the British poet, also created poem reversals which could be read in a similar manner but the reversal created a new word(s). In Langdon's print, one aphorism reads "Philosophy may require looking at ideas from both sides." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Phonemicon From "Hereford Bosons 1" / Mac Low, Jackson., 1989

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Identifier: CC-06740-6859
Scope and Contents

Originally written in 1984, this work consists of 10 pages of music score printed onto cloth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

phonic icono/graphic / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1975

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Identifier: CC-55547-9999178
Scope and Contents

The lists of words in this work are phonetically spelled. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

[Photographs of Prints] / Claus, Carlfriedrich., 1967

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Identifier: CC-17129-17487
Scope and Contents

The photographs of prints by Claus are all signed on the verso and their titles also inscribed. Presumably, these were used for a publication. Carl-Friedrich Claus was born in 1930 and died in 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Phrenodiae Quinque de coitu mirabili / Villa, Emilio ; Costa, Corrado., 1971

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Identifier: CC-50211-71276
Scope and Contents This book consists of Villa's written texts and mathematical equations and Costa's surrealistic-like images of humanoid figures and abstract images engaged in coitus. Internet: Emilio Villa passed away on 14th January 2003. He had been born at Affori, near Milan in 1914. He spent his life in Milan, Florence, Sao Paolo (Brazil) and most of all in Rome, engaging in studies of Semitic - he was an exile from the Vatican Institute of Biblical Studies -- and early Greek philology and working actively with avant-garde artists both Italian and foreign. He carried out a remarkable prose translation of the Odyssey (1964) and he also translated some cuneiform tablets of the Accadic poem "Enuma Eli" (1939). Moreover he carried out a long labour of interpretation of some passages of the Bible, of the Pentateuch in particular. He contributed to several cultural reviews, such as "Frontispizio", "Letteratura", "Arti visive" (1953-56), to avant-garde magazines, such as "Ex" (1961-65) and...
Dates: 1971

Phrenodiae Quinque de coitu mirabili / Villa, Emilio ; Costa, Corrado., 1971

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Identifier: CC-50214-71279
Scope and Contents

This book consists of Villa's written texts and mathematical equations and Costa's surrealistic-like images of humanoid figures and abstract images engaged in coitus. Although a label on the inside back cover calls for 200 copies signed by the authors, this copy is unsigned. Another copy of this book held by the Sackner Archive is signed by Villa and Costa. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971