Calligraphic markings

Scope and Contents ItInternet:Italian artist Enrico Cervelli (1927-1961)is best remembered now for being Artistic Director on the 1954 Federico Fellini film La Strada. However, he also had an impressive painting career in the 1950s and 1960s, with solo shows at Galleria Numero in Florence in 1955, Galleria Pogliani in Rome in 1961 and the Grosvenor Gallery, London in 1966. A 1960 review by Michel Strauss in the art magazine The Burlington - of an exhibition of Cervelli's work at London's Savage Gallery - described the artwork as calligraphic transpositions of ancient propitiatory rites as presented by the peasants of the Abruzzi region. Cervelli was interpreting ancient rites and symbols in a very modern context. The review described his technique as watercolour, gouache, ink and gold leaf pressed down with sealing wax and Strauss, later to be head of Impressionist & Modern Art at Sotheby's, said the combination of shapes and colours represented "the best of abstract traditions". There is some...

Dates: 1960

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED

CHANCHO [Untitled], 1981

Item — Folder 34: [Barcode: 31858072459930]

Identifier: CC-19408-19791

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The form of the calligraphic loopings resembles the markings in the paintings of Cy Twombly but their density in this drawing of Chanco is much greater. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED

Collaborations, 2000

Item — Box 338: [Barcode: 31858072491230]

Identifier: CC-36516-38317

Dates: 2000

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / BOOKS / SMALL BOOKS

Corespondence Variations , 1989

Item — Folder 55: [Barcode: 31858072537891]

Identifier: CC-21564-21975

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 (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Cromanzo, 1982

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Identifier: CC-15421-15745

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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

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

CUTLER Alphabet of Bones, 1988

Item — Folder 33: [Barcode: 31858072459922]

Identifier: CC-20051-20444

Dates: 1988

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES / TO BE PROCESSED

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Canto XIII (III), 1978 - 1979

Item — Folder 86: [Barcode: 31858072538436]

Identifier: CC-58744-10001980

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This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. The Humument text of this print reads, "truant and hiding, could I such a step? - I could I could I could I could I could - I must - a suicide of tragic temper - made mistakes with me - I long to come back to my face once more." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Pape Satan, 1978 - 1979

Item — Folder 85: [Barcode: 31858072538428]

Identifier: CC-61418-10003945

Scope and Contents

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. A Humument text of this image reads, "oppportunity / judges / all / of / us" and "upper / under / in / favor / or / fallen / is / fortune / proportionate" Added: CEND

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: Ulysses II, 1978 - 1979

Item — Folder 85: [Barcode: 31858072538428]

Identifier: CC-61145-10003912

Scope and Contents

This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. A Humument text of this image reads, "Already the dream of dreams he whispers - water blind imagination- speeding away piercing the dull - all came floating true men - o the very names - touch the sea -pouring past world to mountain -The green seen for a minute." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Dante's Inferno First Edition Proof Print: V [adam and eve], 1978 - 1979

Item — Folder 86: [Barcode: 31858072538436]

Identifier: CC-61419-10003946

Scope and Contents This print is one of the proofs for the first edition of Phillips' Dante's Inferno. The completed prints were destroyed in a fire at the Editions Alecto studio and never published as an edition. Phillips subsequently redid the prints in a different manner although he borrowed some of the imagery from the first edition. The prints in a limited edition and a trade edition book were published by Phillips and Thames and Hudson, respectively. A Humument text of this image reads, "lovers / in horror, and / she / motionless, he / slowly filled with tears," "Her / judged / lips trembled /towards him," "passion / done for / -- I have no / emotion" "him / for me / emotion is gone, and / lost / the ghost of / fact / outgrown" "the case of the / emotions / now / withered/ lost soul / the fossil of a / former self / survives / the / mere ghost / of it." "o / perfect / days of romance are over;" "on / and / on" "in / all / ages / eve" "for / ever / eve" "eve / again. / put down the story of this...

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

[Dear Ruth & Marvin], 1986

Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]

Identifier: CC-22304-22727

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 (processed) / CORRESPONDENCE

Delivre II Proof , 1988

Item — Folder 80: [Barcode: 31858072538394]

Identifier: CC-24204-24656

Scope and Contents

Prints were reproduced from a unique collage held by the Sackner Archive. This proof, according to the artist, is the penultimate proof run "before the real thing." Includes specific instructions for changes to the printer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988