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Letter picture

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1175 Collections and/or Records:

The Juggler, 1995

 Item — Folder 17: [Barcode: 31858072459765]
Identifier: CC-24118-24570
Scope and Contents

The central image is a skeletal, rubberstamped figure who juggles 5 rubberstamped spherical objects, perhaps key locks to a room. The figure stands on 2 mounds of letraset letters. A relief object collaged to the upper left corner consists of handwritten cancelled numbers on top of letraset letters with a paper fragment of blue sky and a cloud. The image may be a metaphor for Baroni's questioning his art, music, or hotel careers. This is one of a series of 8 Unrelated Pieces for the Sackn -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

The Makeshift Club, 1988

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Cobbing, Bob (2 of 3): [Barcode: 31858072491313]
Identifier: CC-17902-18272

The Mystic Explorer / Podwel, Mark., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-03972-4047
Scope and Contents

Podwell illustrates a review by Cynthia Ozick using Hebrew letters and symbols. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

The Parchment Is Burning , 1985

 Item — Folder 68: [Barcode: 31858072538022]
Identifier: CC-25655-26113
Scope and Contents

The full title of this print, a quote from Rabbi Hanina Ben Tradyon, is "The Parchment is Burning but the Letters are Flying Free." It depicts Hebrew letters arranged randomly above a collaged, burnt surface of paper at the bottom of the print. Tradyon was an ancient Talmudic scholar who was executed for his beliefs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

the rose / Cameron, Charles., 2013

 Item
Identifier: CC-58065-10001311
Scope and Contents

Composed on an IBM Selectric typewriter that was originally typed 1966 and now retyped 2013. Cameron comments that this poem was originally typed as a gift for Elizabeth Taylor, when she turned out in support of campaign for Edmund Blunden as Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1966. I was a young Oxford poet favored by the young don Francis Warner at the time, he was, if I recall, the one leading the campaign for Blunden, and introduced me to Elizabeth Taylor at a pub. Pleasant, if hazy, memories. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2013

The Sinner and God's [Hand], 1980

 Item — Box 334: [Barcode: 31858072491032]
Identifier: CC-21332-21743
Scope and Contents

The second of three of H. Bellaert's "n-books," all of which are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

The Spheres, No. 1 & 2, 1993

 Item — Box 609: [Barcode: 31858073143566]
Identifier: CC-06393-6510
Scope and Contents

These drawings were made on pages 12 & 5, and pages 28 & 21 of a book on astronomy by Joannis de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, Lyon France, 1564. The original pages were perforated by termite holes that were filled with gold leaf. The pages themselves have engravings and marginalia that Macia has incorporated into his new images. Macia related that he was inspired to make these drawings after visiting the Sackner Archive and viewing Tom Phillips' A Humument. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

The Spheres, No. 3 & 4, 1993

 Item — Box 609: [Barcode: 31858073143566]
Identifier: CC-06392-6509
Scope and Contents

These drawings were made on pages 68 & 89, and pages 112 & 15?] of a book on astronomy by Joannis de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, Lyon France, 1564. The original pages were perforated by termite holes that were filled with gold leaf. The pages themselves have engravings and marginalia that Macia has incorporated into his new images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

The Spheres, No. 5 & 6, 1993

 Item — Box 609: [Barcode: 31858073143566]
Identifier: CC-06391-6508
Scope and Contents

These drawings were made on pages 32 & 17, and pages 42 & 39 of a book on astronomy by Joannis de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, Lyon France, 1564. The original pages were perforated by termite holes that were filled with gold leaf. The pages themselves have engravings and marginalia that Macia has incorporated into his new images. The relief elements were cut from other pages in the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

The Spheres, No. 9 & 10, 1993

 Item — Box 609: [Barcode: 31858073143566]
Identifier: CC-06390-6507
Scope and Contents

These drawings were made on pages 110 & 99, and pages 70 & 75 of a book on astronomy by Joannis de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, Lyon France, 1564. The original pages were perforated by termite holes that were filled with gold leaf. The main image in the upper drawing is a spider; Macia has created its web by repetitive writing of a poem by e.e. cummings, when skies are, in an almost micrographic style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

The Spheres, No . 11 & 12, 1993

 Item — Box 609: [Barcode: 31858073143566]
Identifier: CC-06389-6506
Scope and Contents

These drawings were made on pages 46 & 35, and pages 54[?] & 61 of a book on astronomy by Joannis de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, Lyon France, 1564. The original pages were perforated by termite holes that were filled with gold leaf. The pages themselves have engravings and marginalia that Macia has incorporated into his new images. The upper drawing depicts Macia's conception of the Tower of Babel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

The Spheres No.7 & 8 [ Pages 12 & 5 Pages 28 & 21] / Macia, Carlos., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-06409-6526
Scope and Contents

These drawings were made on pages 12 & 5, and pages 28 & 21 of a book on an astronomy by Joannis de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, Lyon France, 1564. The original pages were perforated by termite holes that were filled with gold leaf. The pages themselves have engravings and marginalia that Macia has incorporated into his new images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

The Spheres Pages 151 & 152 / Macia, Carlos., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-57095-10000452
Scope and Contents

This drawing was made on pages 151 & 152 as well as a page near the title page of a book on astronomy by Joannis de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, Lyon France, 1564. The original pages were perforated by termite holes that were hidden by mounting them to a sheet of gold leaf. The title page with three adjacent pages within the two pages have termite holes not concealed with gold leaf. The pages themselves have engravings that Macia has incorporated into his new image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

The Spheres Pages 152 & 153 / Macia, Carlos., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-06419-6537
Scope and Contents

These drawings were made on pages 152 & 153 and the title and preface pages of a book on astronomy by Joannis de Sacro Bosco, Spaera, Lyon France, 1564. The original pages were perforated by termite holes that were filled with gold leaf. The pages themselves have engravings and marginalia that Macia has incorporated into his new images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

The Spheres Pages 192 & 177 / Macia, Carlos., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-06414-6532
Scope and Contents

This drawing was made on pages 192 & 177 of a book on astronomy by Joannis de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, Lyon France, 1564. The original pages were perforated by termite holes that were filled with gold leaf. The pages themselves have engravings that Macia has incorporated into a new image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993