Calligraphic text
Subject Source: Sackner Database
Found in 419 Collections and/or Records:
Visual Poem , 1996
This work was included in pete spence's archive. This "visual poem" as designated by Babenko consists solely of language. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Vittore on Tour, 1981
Vocabulaire: Breathe, 1989
Depicts image of lungs with phrase, "breathe in and breathe out" in red and green, respectively, corresponding to the red color that de Charmoy used for the pulmonary parenchyma and the green color for the airways. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Voyage en Auvergne, 1991
Wasteland, 1995
This exhibition was curated by the Brazilian Sergio Bessa (b.1951) who serves as the Director of the Bronx Museum in NYC. A biography of Bessa appears on David Daniels' Gates of Paradise web site. For this exhibition, Kay Rosen contributed four pages of language poetry and Vic Muniz three pages entitled "Study for Neon." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[welcome to days to come], 1966
The text is written in red and black capital letters. The text reads both right to left (black) and right to left (red) if the paper is turned over and read on the reverse side. It states,"Welcome to days to come! Shall we forfeit much? Sight, hearing, speech perhaps and thought? In the end our loss is self, the glory our gain." The appropriate punctuation marks are written in red and black as are directional arrows. The letters are written written twice, text over text or mirror image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell I , 1993
withapile, 2010
McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Working Day and Night, 1989
This work shows a balcony with books, very much like the Sackner Archive. The artist confirmed that he had no idea of this when he did the work. In the bottom center, a child is seated at a round table. Through two large windows are a day time and a night time scene. The frame is covered with dense hand-lettered text on topology. The top and bottom edges are written backwards and can be read with a small mirror provided by the artist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Xerolage, No. 37: Assassin, 2005
Each page reproduces a single concrete poem. The Sackner Archive also holds the manuscript for this work which has 40 pages of poems. Twenty-six poems were used for this issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Xerox Mother Fucker, 1985
Yod, 1966
This book is an example of the Kabbalistic period of Hirschman's work in which the poet combined Hebrew letters within his poetry. Yod is the letter Y and also means hand in Hebrew. The book was designed by Paul Vaughn and Pip Benveniste as a facsimile of Hirschman's manuscript. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
You Are The Figure, 1994
Zapp: Censored, 2011
The smaller box contains postcards that Sloy and Nic mailed to the Sackners after the box was sent. The book is an exhibition catalogue from the Oregon Artists Series in which both artists were included. It is slipped into the larger box. All the cards deal with censorship. The box came from tony colomona who was the drummer for the band, "plug," that sloy managed in the 1990s. The box was from deen castronovo's Zappo's shoe box, with his name on the inside of the censored box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Zen Concrete: Translations & a new interpretation of Buddhist Doctrines [with ephemera], 1967
This is the introductory piece of this 23 piece suite of altered mimeographed works. This is a letter to Bill Wyatt, a British poet, that states, "dear bill: i hope you can use this - i have no way to reproduce here - the fugs and allen ginsberg will be doing a benefit for me & jim lowell so we'll at least be able to pay our lawyers - its going to be difficult staying out of jail - establishment here is [swastika symbol] insane - i hope you can afford the return postage on this if you cant use it - if not let me know & ill try to get some return coupons & send them to you..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Zwolf, 1981
Includes pages from Denker's artist visual poetic books "Die Reise Nach Rom" and "Gedicht: Die personifizierte Schlagzeile." Gedichrt was reproduced in black and white in this book and in color in Zeitschrift fur Fotographie No.32- 33, 1984. The latter is also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
