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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2960 Collections and/or Records:

Rhinozeros: Dubuffet Issue. No.8 / Klaus-Peter Dienst, Rolf-Gunther Dienst, editors ; Arnaud N ; Noel G ; Capogrossi G., 1963

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Identifier: CC-27343-28047
Scope and Contents

This issue features reproductions, in black and white, of several of Dubuffet's drawings and calligraphic texts. It also includes several texts calligraphed by the Dienst brothers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Rhinozeros. No.1 / Klaus-Peter Dienst, Rolf-Gunther Dienst, editors ; Dienst RG ; Dienst KP ; Ruhmkorf P., 1960

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Identifier: CC-27335-28037
Scope and Contents

This periodical is one of the most important experimental calligraphic and typographic contributions of the early sixties. The signer (Michael Heinze) of one of the copies appears to be its initial owner. The other copy is unsigned. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

Rhinozeros. No.1 / Klaus-Peter Dienst, Rolf-Gunther Dienst, editors ; Dienst RG ; Dienst KP ; Ruhmkorf P., 1960

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Identifier: CC-39263-41210
Scope and Contents

This periodical is one of the most important experimental calligraphic and typographic contributions of the early sixties. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

Rhinozeros. No.2 / Klaus-Peter Dienst, Rolf-Gunther Dienst, editors ; Ginsberg A ; Arp H ; Beckett S ; Dienst RG ; Ruhmkorf P ; Petersen PJ ; Jonas E ; Brock L ; Dienst KP., 1960

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Identifier: CC-27336-28038
Scope and Contents

This periodical is one of the most important experimental calligraphic and typographic contributions of the early sixties. The Diensts' redesigned the letters in Allen Ginsberg's poem, "To an Old Post in Peru" so that the A became a triangle, the I an elongated rectangle, and the E three parallel lines. Its signer (Michael Heinze) appears to be its initial owner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

Rhinozeros. No.2 / Klaus-Peter Dienst, Rolf-Gunther Dienst, editors ; Ginsberg A ; Arp H ; Beckett S ; Dienst RG ; Ruhmkorf P ; Petersen PJ ; Jonas E ; Brock L ; Dienst KP., 1960

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Identifier: CC-39264-41211
Scope and Contents

This periodical is one of the most important experimental calligraphic and typographic contributions of the early sixties. The Diensts' redesigned the letters in Allen Ginsberg's poem, "To an Old Post in Peru" so that the 'A' became a triangle, the 'I' an elongated rectangle, and the 'E' three parallel lines. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

Rhinozeros. No.4 / Klaus-Peter Dienst, Rolf-Gunther Dienst, editors ; Dienst KP ; Dienst RG ; Hollo A ; Mon F ; Jonas E ; Ruhmkorf P ; Cocteau J ; Meister E., 1961

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Identifier: CC-27338-28040
Scope and Contents

This periodical is one of the most important experimental calligraphic and typographic contributions of the early sixties. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1961

Rhinozeros. No.4 / Klaus-Peter Dienst, Rolf-Gunther Dienst, editors ; Dienst RG ; Hollo A ; Mon F ; Jonas E ; Ruhmkorf P ; Cocteau J ; Meister E ; Dienst KP., 1961

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Identifier: CC-39265-41212
Scope and Contents

This periodical is one of the most important experimental calligraphic and typographic contributions of the early sixties. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1961

Rhinozeros. No.9 / Klaus-Peter Dienst, Rolf-Gunther Dienst, editors ; Arp H ; Burroughs WS ; Ginsberg A ; Gysin B ; Horovitz M ; Jandl H ; Durrell L ; Luca G ; Hollo A., 1964

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Identifier: CC-27344-28048
Scope and Contents

This issue, No.9, as well as No.10, present the most highly experimental calligraphic texts of the ten issues in the run. In several instances, the calligraphers have designed new alphabets for the texts. Translations of English to German texts in this issue was done by Anselm Hollo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Rhinozeros. No.10 / Klaus-Peter Dienst, Rolf-Gunther Dienst, editors ; Dohl R ; Creeley R ; Schauffelen KB ; Dienst KP ; Dubuffet J ; Gysin B ; Ulrichs T ; Bezzel C., 1965

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Identifier: CC-27345-28049
Scope and Contents

This issue, No.10, as well as No.9, present the most highly experimental calligraphic texts of the ten issues in the run. In several instances, the calligraphers have designed new alphabets for the texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Ricci Foglie Giardini / Miglietta, Enzo., 1991

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Identifier: CC-06494-6613
Scope and Contents

This drawing on orange paper depicts leaves arranged symmetrically radiating from the center outward. The leaves are formed with written letterforms in red ink and intersperced vertical spokes with printed letterforms in blue ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

riffs on alphabet + extras / Sloy., 2006

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Identifier: CC-46048-48756
Scope and Contents

This DVD depicts several calligraphic pieces written on paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Right / Left / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

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Identifier: CC-57140-10000476
Scope and Contents

This page contains R-L on the left side and the letters eft and ight on the right side so that the words Left, Reft, Light and Right can be created. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Right Left / Steen, Vagn., 1969

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Identifier: CC-28175-29338
Scope and Contents

In a personal communication to the Sackners from Steen, he wrote the following. Steen wrote the words "right left' once, then he made left more left by spelling left backwards, e.g. tfel, written upright, and then turns it more to the left, in fact by writing it normally and mirroring it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969