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Calligraphic markings

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:

911 Quick Drawings, 1988

 Item — Box 99: [Barcode: 31858072538329]
Identifier: CC-14215-14522
Scope and Contents

The images consist of quick sketch line drawings; these are stored within a box painted by Evason. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

2398 gr. A Book about Food, 2003

 Item — Box 184: [Barcode: 31858072459542]
Identifier: CC-40697-42671
Scope and Contents

Fabrica is a communication research and development center founded in 1994 by the Benetton Group. At Fabrica young artists and experimenters under 25 gather and develop their creativity and concrete communication pojects in fields that range from cinema, graphic design, industrial design, music, illustration, photography, new media and editorial production...2398 gr. is the title of a book interpreting food - a fundamental cultural and anthropological stimulus. Exploring our relationship with food, the techniques of contemporary art; food as fetish, ritual, dependence, festivity, emotion, pleasure, obsession, chemistry, relation or fear. Or food as landscape, design, a metaphor, a sign, dance and architecture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Anakuklosis, 1982

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CC-37277-39123
Scope and Contents

The book object component of this work was made by Emile-Bernard-Souchiere and the prints and texts by Christian Gabriel Guez-Ricord. The texts are printed and handwritten on papier japon. The prints are also rendered on papier japon. These elements fit into the compartment at the bottom of the base of the book object. This is copy 7 out of an edition size that is based upon orders. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Cromanzo, 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-15421-15745
Scope and Contents

The colors appear so vibrant that it seems that the images were drawn rather than printed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

[Dictionary of Made-Up Language] , 1990

 Item — Box 341: [Barcode: 31858072491263]
Identifier: CC-23862-24310
Scope and Contents

Consists of neologisms and calligraphic equivalents in a made-up language. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Far Marvnius Sacknavius / Andryczuk, Hartmut; Scherstjanoi, Valeri., January 2003

 Item — Box 317: [Barcode: 31858072490844]
Identifier: CC-40451-42422
Scope and Contents

This drawing is a New Year gift to Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: January 2003

Ginetics, 1978

 Item — Box 633: [Barcode: 31858072464732]
Identifier: CC-17506-17872
Scope and Contents

Designated folders number twenty-four. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Guaranto Guartare, 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-36519-38320
Scope and Contents

The pages consist of three identical photographs that depict abstracted eyes and calligraphic markings/text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Letter from Eve, 1995

 Item — Box 187: [Barcode: 31858072459575]
Identifier: CC-09881-10077
Scope and Contents

The image in the center of this work depicts a collaged reproduction of a renaissance painting of Adam and Eve with their hands on an apple. This is surrounded by linear calligraphic markings formed with black thread embedded in the paper that covers the object. A larger calligraphic mark formed with thicker brown thread simulates a large letter beginning an illuminated manuscript. Calligraphic markings at the bottom of the Adam and Eve image act as a "caption" for the painting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Libro-Libro, 1983

 Item — Box 150: [Barcode: 31858072458031]
Identifier: CC-19480-19863
Scope and Contents

This totally white book which is opened to facing pages has lines of calligraphic markings made by linear carving into the soft paper (carta scolpita). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Livre, 1974

 Item — Box 291: [Barcode: 31858072460706]
Identifier: CC-22971-23408
Scope and Contents

The work consists of an artist book and a cardboard, constructivistic relief. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Livre Noir Arabe, 1981

 Item — Box 193: [Barcode: 31858072459633]
Identifier: CC-34372-36068
Scope and Contents

Dautricourt has drawn made-up, simulated Arabic letters in white ink on a black paper background. The opened facing pages are the only visible part of the book; the other pages are glued together. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

[Notebook Pages], 1997

 Item — Box 617: [Barcode: 31858072461027]
Identifier: CC-28483-29757
Scope and Contents

The letter from Jeffrey Weinberg of Water Row Books offers a notebook by Charles Crumb to Marvin Sackner. The covers and eight pages are reproduced as photocopied colored sheets. These depict obsessive dense, linear calligraphic markings as well as scattered cartoon-like head portraits. Unfortunately, the book was sold prior to the Sackners offer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997