Calligraphic text
Found in 2960 Collections and/or Records:
[The Grisly Circus] / Welch, Chuck., 2014
Chuck Welsh aka Cracker Jack Kid has corresponded with the Sackners around the border of an original collage. The print is a replica of the collage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Hound Arcane by Jack Hirschman, 1998
Falk did the calligraphy of Hirschman's poem in watercolor with a fine sable brush. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Hound Arcane / Falk, Agneta; Hirschman, Jack A.., 1997
The Illustrated Wilfred Funk / Ferlinghetti, Lawrence., 1971
This poem is also printed without the illustrations in the periodical, Desparado, held by the Sackner Archive with annotations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Invention of Mankind, 1976
Words are painted in capital letters in red, black and white colors over a blue-green painted background resembling a landscape. The sign has been appropriated from an electical contractor (identified as Ray White on verso). The painting was included the Philadelphia Art Alliance in 1984 as indicated by a paper label affixed to the verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Island (detail) , 2008
The image depicts an artist's map of London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Island (detail 5) / Walter, Stephen., 2008
The Island (detail) / Stephen Walter., 2008
The image depicts an artist's map of London. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Language of Stone / Shepp, Alan., 1992
The works by Shepp consist of poetic images in stone sculptures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Last Cigaret: Smokeender's Haiku / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1989
The work is intended as an admonition to smokers in the form of a work of art. The haiku is repeated for both sexes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Last Vispo Edition (supplement) / Olbrich, Jurgen O., editor; Altemus R; Bertola C; Figueiredo C; Hill C; Jirgens K; Krecker D; Nakamura K; Olbrich JO; Priddle R; Sutherland WM; Vitacchio A., 2012
The Legalization of Cake (Description) / McClurg, John., 1976
The Legalization of Cake / McClurg, John Wayne., 1976
This work is an unstructured, illustrated, erotic, tour de force of a novel. The papercard pages made by Mohawk Paper Mills are hinged in two places to enable the accordion construction. In commemts pn the internet, McClurg states tha it took 15 hours to assemble one copy. The covers are thick cardboard. There are 15 pages that have typewritten texts and the remainder are handwritten. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[the LISSON gaL] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968
On the inside of an unfolded envelope Houedard has drawn several lettered and numbered squares with ink & colored ink that can be reversed.The note related to thr Lisson Art Gallery in London. The outside of the envelope includes his playing with the reversal of the name Saint Marylebone. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Little Bug Angel / Patchen, Kenneth., 1955
The poem reads as follows: He bangs his wings on the table! - Still no service! - What's the matter with that waiter! - Wow! Smell that roast biff! - Ah! he takes out a stick of dynamite - Brr-ump! That should teach them! - But nothing happens! - Of course, obviously, the dynamite of an angel that size - Does not (unfortunately) pack very much of a wallop. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[The Living Theatre: Paradise Now: Collective Creation] , 1984
The Lost Rivers of London / Bush, Tracey., 1994
The embossings signify ancient tributories of the Thames river which have disappeared underground. The artist has written their names adjacent to the specific embossings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Malinsay Massacre / Wheatley, Dennis., 1981
This volume is a reprint of the detective novel first published in 1938. a near identical facsimile of the third Hutchinson crime dossier originally published 1938, with varying size leaves, numerous tipped in clues and a sealed solution, a collection of statements, photographs, plans, samples of exhibits, etc, together forming the quasi-crime file of Police Lieutenant Schwab of New York starting with investigating the murder of the fifth Earl of Malinsay, allowing the reader to view all the evidence and try to solve the crime, solution sealed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Man of Sorrows / Coleman, Joe., 1993
This is an account of a complex visual/verbal painting, The Man of Sorrows (by Coleman after Bosch), that is his revelation of the hidden truths about Jesus Christ based upon Apocrypha, stories about Christ striken from New Testament because they clashed with view of Jesus that the church wished to perpetuate as well as Pagan and Jewish anti-Christian writings available soon after Jesus' death. Tipped full- color fragments of the painting are explained by Coleman in a printed calligraphic text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Matter (Seria Entropy), 2002
The paper was made from cardboard egg crate carton material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.