Experimental calligraphy

Stille Dialog / Mahdaoui, Nja ; Shibata, Tsuneo ; Videbaek, Ole., 1993

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Identifier: CC-06468-6587

Dates: 1993

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

Suede Bleue / Gette, Paul-Armand., 1965

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Identifier: CC-10595-10801

Scope and Contents

Although the tirage for this book is 20 copies, each book is unique since the letters of the text formed from different colored papers have been individually cut with a scissors by Gette. These letters have varied calligraphic styles and dimensions. The pages consist solely of text and the theme relates to Gette's wife and their vacations in her Swedish birthplace. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

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

The Australian Dancers Will Wear Shrouds / Willis, Diz., 1969

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Identifier: CC-61562-63032

Dates: 1969

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

The Cry (ije) , 1989

Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]

Identifier: CC-22710-23145

Scope and Contents

The backgound text is a repetitively written run-on of the word 'freedom.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

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

The Form and the Poetry / Algardi, Alessandro ; Daniele Pescall, curator ; Elisabetta Tremolada Pescall, curator ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 2011

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Identifier: CC-58638-10001869

Dates: 2011

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

The Life and Times of Simian, Volume 1 / Sandra Jackman., 1987

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Identifier: CC-08294-8457

Scope and Contents

This piece is a book sculpture opened on one side to a box containing 22 treated pages and on the other side to a collaged surface. The sculpture sets on a metal stand. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

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

The Second Layer / Segay, Serge., 1997

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Identifier: CC-61624-10004085

Scope and Contents

Taken from pete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

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

Time - Some Times - Tick Tock - Palpitation of the heart / Mukai, Shutaro., 1986

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Identifier: CC-61352-54353

Scope and Contents

The Sackners met Mukai in Tokyo in 1986. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

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

Traume / Mick, Jurgen., 1993

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Identifier: CC-56912-10000278

Dates: 1993

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

[Untitled] / Algardi, Alessandro ; Ubeir Peeters, curator ; Comini R ; Accame V., 2006

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Identifier: CC-58640-10001871

Scope and Contents Ubeir Peeters commented: "The wide variety of single characters or letters join together to make up words which carry the meaning of ideas. Whereas, feelings and sentiments are easier to convey through a representation of plants, animals, humans, landscapes or objects. To the world of ideas, the letter is a building block for the concrete expression of ideas through words: no other medium is equal. Can you imagine a philosophy that could have survived without script? Inside our mind, deep inside, each word is related to a particular item, a given concept, a fragment of memory, but nowhere this appears more clearly than in a written text, where ideas are chopped and reassembled in a string of words. Writing is an incarnation or rather, the mirror of ideas. Algardi's cursives indeed have the liquid flowing quality of ideas. However, the writing itself is made illegible. By superimposing text over text Algardi conveys a problem regarding the eventual meanings. Thus his writing covers...

Dates: 2006

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

Visual Voices; Graffiti Poem pages 20-21 / Weiss, Irving., 1994

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Identifier: CC-56781-10000153

Scope and Contents

This poem is based upon "Sources on pages 18-19." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

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

VROTVOERVIRDIEVE.. / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 1984

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Identifier: CC-36481-38278

Scope and Contents

This rectangular shaped poem is laid out such that all the lettters fill the lines with no spaces in-between the words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

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

Why Do I Hear...But Not Undertand, 2014

Item — Folder 6: [Barcode: 31858072459443]

Identifier: CC-58598-10001827

Scope and Contents

This piece was performed by Michael Basinski at the Perez Art Museum Miami on March 22, 2014 in conjunction with the exhibition "A Human Document: Selections from The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014