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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2969 Collections and/or Records:

Poetry Visual, 2001

 Item — Box 336: [Barcode: 31858072491115]
Identifier: CC-37488-39341
Scope and Contents

Bennett gave this drawing to the Sackners during his visit to the Archive in June 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

point d'ironie. No.34 / Michel Foucault ; Foucault M., 2004

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Identifier: CC-43237-45296
Scope and Contents

This issue deals with the work and words of Michel Foucault. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

point d'ironie. No.37 / Ed Ruscha., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44246-46374
Scope and Contents

This issue deals with the work of Ed Ruscha. Each page contains an open book with blank pages and with varying colored covers. A title is printed beneath each book in Ruscha's typical typography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Pol - Kniga / Levchin, Rafael., 1995

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Identifier: CC-28005-29158
Scope and Contents

The author's Ukrainian name is Rafael Le Vchyn. The collaged elements consist of printed texts and printed images taken from newspapers and periodicals. Only the first half of this book is collaged. Le Vchyn writes at the midpoint, "From this page everyone can add something to this Pol-Kniga (half-sex book), to write, to draw, to cut off or to collage. Please, help yourself! But - just from this page! But if you really want, you can make the same things on another pages..." This book was purchased by Marvin Sackner from the artist at the Eye Rhymes Conference in Edmonton in May, 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Polar Bear Poster Poem, 1965

 Item — Folder 37: [Barcode: 31858072459971]
Identifier: CC-12898-13189
Scope and Contents

In this poem, Furnival plays with permutations of bear, the personal pronouns, ours & nous (we in English from the French), and son using his distinctive calligraphic printed letterform style. This print is depicted in Furnival's "Lost For Words" (2011) page 56. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Politiscripts / Ferrari, Leon ; Camnitzer L., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42960-45004
Scope and Contents

This is number 48 in the Drawing Papers series and was issued for Ferrari's exhibition at the Drawing Center. The drawings date from the 1960's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Poor Old Tired Horse: The Tug The Barge. No.20 / Ian Hamilton Finlay ; Lyle P., 1961 - 1967

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Identifier: CC-04812-4903
Scope and Contents

The poems were composed by Ian Hamilton Finlay and the drawings were done by Peter Lyle. The pamphlet lists Wild Hawthorne publications (winter '66/'67 list). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1961 - 1967

Port Distinguishing Letters of Scottish Fishing Vessels, 1978

 Item — Box 190: [Barcode: 31858072459609]
Identifier: CC-12416-12643
Scope and Contents

Consists of the port letters and numbers of Scottish fishing vessels fired in green on a white background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Portrait de l'Artiste a Deux Voix / Koraichi, Rachid ; Butor M ; Char R., 1998

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Identifier: CC-35613-37358
Scope and Contents V&A ANNOUNCES RACHID KORAÏCHI AS WINNER OF THE JAMEEL PRIZE 2011Algerian born Rachid Koraïchi has won the £25,000 Jameel Prize for a selection of embroidered cloth banners from a series entitled Les Maitres invisibles (The Invisible Masters), 2008. Martin Roth, Director of the V&A, Hasan Jameel and Ed Vaizey MP, presented Rachid Koraïchi with the prize at a ceremony at the V&A on Monday 12September. 2011.The Judges felt that Rachid's work matches the aims of the Jameel Prize through its qualities of design and reliance on traditional craft. They particularly admired how he has made his great spiritual and intellectual lineage accessible to all through the graphic language he has created out of his artistic heritage.Koraichi uses Arabic calligraphy, and symbols and ciphers from a range of other languages and cultures to explore the lives and legacies of the 14 great mystics of Islam. The work aims to show that the world of Islam, in contrast to contemporary...
Dates: 1998

Portrait of My Mother, 1977

 Item — Folder 56: [Barcode: 31858072537909]
Identifier: CC-21851-22262
Scope and Contents

Portrait taken from an old photograph and found personal records. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977