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Calligraphic text

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 419 Collections and/or Records:

Now the Names of the Twelve Are These / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Nash, John R.., 1987

 Item — Folder 35: [Barcode: 31858072459948]
Identifier: CC-12360-12586
Scope and Contents

The names are a mixture of the Apostles and leaders of the French Revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Ode pour l' Election de San Sepulcre (regio), 1988

 Item — Box 283: [Barcode: 31858073143418]
Identifier: CC-19146-19525
Scope and Contents

The collages are actually a single text when placed side by side. The base material is white, hardened, undulating paint and the shapes of the collages are leaves. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

One Special Summer, 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-21369-21780
Scope and Contents

An illustrated record of the two sisters' summer together in Europe in 1951 prepared originally as a thank-you present for their parents. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Os, 1983

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-14805-15118
Scope and Contents

This sculpture is depicted on page 9 of exhibition catalogue, "Sculptures," Galerie Antoine Candau, 1987. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Bovine atlas (first cervical vertebra), Indian ink

Dates: 1983

Otstl , 2001

 Item — Folder 45: [Barcode: 31858072460060]
Identifier: CC-38925-40857
Scope and Contents

The paper was made from cardboard egg crate carton material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Petite Liste de Mots Visuels, 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-02648-2691
Scope and Contents

The work consists of twelve small pieces of treated paper with a single handwritten neologistic word, e.g., apteryx, argosome, etc. on the recto and numbers on the verso. The papers are held in a papercard case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Philosophy, 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-07667-7816
Scope and Contents

The word "philosphy" is presented as a reversal poem so that it reads the same when the print is turned upside down. Dom Sylvester Houedard, the British poet, also created poem reversals which could be read in a similar manner but the reversal created a new word(s). In Langdon's print, one aphorism reads "Philosophy may require looking at ideas from both sides." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Poeme-Visible No.19, 1960

 Item
Identifier: CC-41078-43059
Scope and Contents

This work by Winfred Gaul (1928-2003) has been reproduced in Tecken page 125 and in Bonjour, Monsieur Kolar page 25. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

Poesia, 1980

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Ca-Cl: [Barcode: 31858072491289]
Identifier: CC-17071-17428

Poetendo, 1998

 Item — Box 188: [Barcode: 31858072459583]
Identifier: CC-31294-32767
Scope and Contents

Caruso created a CD with handwritten text, white paint, collaged paper additions and torn paper for this unique poem object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Poetry First, 1993

 Item — Box 256: [Barcode: 31858072458254]
Identifier: CC-03110-3158
Scope and Contents

The porcelain cup is inscribed "Poetry First" on one side and Petr Sevcik on the other side. The shipping box is collaged in part with poems taken from newspapers by Chistian Morgenstern and Ernst Jandl. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Poetry News Letter, 2003

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-57970-10001228
Scope and Contents

This is a design for Poetry Newsletter in New York. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Poetry Visual, 2001

 Item — Box 336: [Barcode: 31858072491115]
Identifier: CC-37488-39341
Scope and Contents

Bennett gave this drawing to the Sackners during his visit to the Archive in June 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001