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Abstract markings

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1057 Collections and/or Records:

[Leonardo] / Baker, Carlyle., 1996

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Identifier: CC-24099-24551
Scope and Contents

The image at the top of the drawing is a rubberstamping of two superimposed nude figures after Leonardo da Vinci. The bottom half of the drawing has linear horizontal calligraphic markings perhaps a metaphor to the cryptic mirror writing that Leonardo utilized. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Les Dessins Trans-Conscients de Stephane Mallarme: A Propos de la Typographie de Un Coup de Des / Fraenkel, Ernest ; Mallarme S., 1960

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Identifier: CC-13103-13398
Scope and Contents

The left sided portion of the book consist of bound pages that focuses on Mallarme's typographic treatment of the poem. The right side of the book consists of a portfolio of nine, unbound, folded prints which contains 68 plates each related to a page of Mallarme's Un Coup de Des. The interpretations are similar in concept to Marcel Broodthaers work (also held by the Sackner Archive) in which each phrase of the poem is cancelled with a solid black rectangle. In Fraenkel's interpretation, from the 1897 Cosmopolis version, the spaces between the cancelled text are reconstructed with hand-drawn markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

Les Vingt et une Revendications du Comite inter-enterprises de Gdansk / Pruszkowski, Deubak., 1980

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Identifier: CC-04568-4655
Scope and Contents

The image is a portrait of the Polish union leader L. Walenska, produced by varying the boldness of the printed letters comprising a conventional text with a political message. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

[Letter Picture for Industrial Sabotage #39] / lefler, Peggy., 1987

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Identifier: CC-07670-7819
Scope and Contents

Letters and letter-like markings form a continuation to produce two tight compositions. This picture appeared in Curvd H&Z No.345. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

[letter picture with abstract forms] / Nikonova, Rea., 1989

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Identifier: CC-60287-10003288
Scope and Contents

This work was included in pete spence's archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

[Letter to Ruth and Marvin Sackner] / Satie, Alain., 1993

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Identifier: CC-02734-2777
Scope and Contents

Mentions that he has sent the book that the Sackners requested and includes a small ink drawing on the bottom half of the letter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Letters and Jazz: For Richard Hamilton, Lester Young, Charlie "Yardbird" Parker / Brecht, George ; Wewerka, Stefan ; Hamilton R., 1983

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Identifier: CC-21549-21960
Scope and Contents

G. Brecht and S. Wewerka cut-up, stamped and glued R. Hamilton's artrubberprint "Fire Tires" while listening to jazz to make this book.Printed Matter: This book presents reproductions of collaborative drawings made in January, 1981, by Brecht and Wewerka. As Brecht writes in the introduction: "We talked about letters, and Chinese, while / listening to jazz: Lester Young, Billie Holiday / Yardbird, and others. / Richard Hamilton's artrubberprint "Five Tires' / was cut up, stamped, glued. / There was plenty to drink, too! / We have never thought of these "drawings' as / works to be shown, let alone reproduced. They are / just the leftovers of an evening when the authors / tried to get a bit clear(er) about "letters.'" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Little Critic Pamphlet: Patchwork. No.7/Apr / Pip Culbert., 1992

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Identifier: CC-07366-7510
Scope and Contents

Recounts the history of a small museum in England founded in 1888. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992