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Calligraphic markings

 Subject

Staff Only

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 120 Collections and/or Records:

Tarentula vagina, 2013

 Item
Identifier: CC-62089-10004480
Dates: 2013
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 / Oversized

Tea Cup Valentine's Greetings, 2008

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-47634-68648
Scope and Contents

This annual gift to the Sackner Archive shaped like a tea cup, is filled with two tea bags with labels that read sinceri TEA and integri TEA. The third object is a red stuffed heart with a Jan Baker Text Tiles label. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008
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

Texto XVI, 1970

 Item — Oversize folder 45: [Barcode: 31858068937618]
Identifier: CC-51635-72734
Scope and Contents

A reproduction of this drawing is depicted in Clemente Padin's "Signografias Y Textos 1967 - 1970" (1970) but not in Clemente Padin's "Visual Poems 1967-1970" (1990). It is mislabeled in Visual Poems 1967-1970 (1990) as Texto XVI when it should have been Texto XVIIa. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970
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 / Oversized

The Blur, 1987

 Item — Box 336: [Barcode: 31858072491115]
Identifier: CC-21781-22192
Dates: 1987
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS

The Flip Side of Language, 1966

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-59905-10002955
Scope and Contents

This essay is another copy of the manuscript with slightly different handwritten correctionss and appeared in ISIS No.1507, 1966, a periodical held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966
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 / H / Houédard, Dom Sylvester

The Maenads, 2011

 Item — Box 328: [Barcode: 31858072490927]
Identifier: CC-52791-73928
Scope and Contents Wikepedia: "In Greek mythology, maenads were the female followers of Dionysus (Bacchus in the Roman pantheon), the most significant members of the Thiasus, the god's retinue. Their name literally translates as "raving ones". Often the maenads were portrayed as inspired by him into a state of ecstatic frenzy, through a combination of dancing and drunken intoxication. In this state, they would lose all self-control, begin shouting excitedly, engage in uncontrolled sexual behavior, and ritualistically hunt down and tear to pieces animals "” and, in myth at least, sometimes men and children "” devouring the raw flesh. During these rites, the maenads would dress in fawn skins and carry a thyrsus, a long stick wrapped in ivy or vine leaves and tipped by a cluster of leaves; they would weave ivy-wreaths around their heads, and often handle or wear snakes." According to the Basinski's inscription on the verso of the drawing, "the Maenads had ladder like tattoes groves on their arms And I...
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 (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

To Fly of Madness, 2000

 Item — Folder 6: [Barcode: 31858072459443]
Identifier: CC-33916-35588
Scope and Contents

This drawing on irregularly shaped cardboard, consists of sections of multi-colored calligraphic texts, found, painted texts and handcolored images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Tre Libriste Da Palermo, 1991

 Item — Box 339: [Barcode: 31858072491248]
Identifier: CC-22965-23402
Dates: 1991
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)

Twittueur X-ray, 2013

 Item
Identifier: CC-62091-10004482
Dates: 2013
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 / Oversized

Uncle Ulcer, 2006

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-46810-49542
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 (processed) / BOOKS

[Untitled], 1993

 Item — Box 619: [Barcode: 31858072461043]
Identifier: CC-02657-2700
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 (processed) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / to be sorted (unpublished)

[Untitled], 1960

 Item
Identifier: CC-32364-33932
Scope and Contents

The ideograms appear ro be stylized letters, "B G," i.e., initials of Brion Gysisn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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 / Oversized

Ut To Be Realized, 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-16368-16718
Scope and Contents

The drawing consists of a grid of letter-like forms in the artist's personal language. De Cointet produced experimental performances in which signs of this language often mixed with English letters and numbers were utilized. De Cointet died young in the early 1980's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977
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 / Oversized

Variazione per Penna Costante, 1991

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Ca-Cl: [Barcode: 31858072491289]
Identifier: CC-18678-19051
Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (processed) / Oversized A-C

Visao Vision E. M. de Melo e Castro 1961-1972, 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-38656-40566
Scope and Contents

This book presents a sampling of the different approaches to concrete poetry and visual art employed by De Melo e Castro. There are several rubberstamped poems reproduced in this book including one in color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975
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

William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell II , 1993

 Item — Folder 69: [Barcode: 31858072538030]
Identifier: CC-13067-13362
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 (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Winter Poem No.6 / Cobbing, Bob., 1981

 Item — Box 387: [Barcode: 31858072461522]
Identifier: CC-17526-17892
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) / ARTIST POETRY MATERIALS/BOOK OBJECTS / C / Cobbing, Bob / Greeting Cards

Within Borders, 1986

 Item — Folder 67: [Barcode: 31858072538014]
Identifier: CC-27746-28866
Scope and Contents

The Hebrew word for 'Borders' is printed in a large bold calligraphic style in the middle of the print. It is bordered on all four sides by the printed English phrase, "Within borders and boundaries is the freedom of endless possibilities." -- 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 (processed) / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

word dust: instruct & construct / in memory of Castle, 2010

 Item — Box 330: [Barcode: 31858072490968]
Identifier: CC-51421-72516
Scope and Contents

This piece consists of two works. The top drawing measuring 3" x 3" is graphite on paper mainly micrography. The bottom work is a collage of three pieces of paper and papercard that measures 3 3/8" x 6 1/8" and consists of micrography, paint and a silver letter B. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010
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

Wrist Watch Valentine's Greetings, 2010

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-50713-71788
Scope and Contents

This annual gift to the Sackner Archive is shaped like an actual wrist watch. The card reads," 2010 Take time 2 do what you want. Love, Jan Baker and Mark Kaplan." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010
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