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Calligraphic text

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2954 Collections and/or Records:

[I am afraid that to read this letter you might need binoculers] / Seille, Genevieve., 1991

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Identifier: CC-02424-2464
Scope and Contents

In this letter to the Sackners, the artist writes about her new works which she calls "Architecture Fluide." Examples of this genre were later acquired by the Sackner Archive from an exhibition held at the England Gallery, London in April 1992. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

I Believe / Sloy., 1995

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Identifier: CC-03009-3054
Scope and Contents

The objects are calligraphically styled painted letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

I Bring Good News / Jackman, Sandra., 2010

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Identifier: CC-52009-73111
Scope and Contents

Sandra Jackman writes about her participation at an exhibition at the Getty Foundation and the sale of a fourth book to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts Library. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

I Danced / Massa, Jacques., 1984

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Identifier: CC-05908-6020
Scope and Contents

Submitted as entry for the Homage To The Mad Diarist exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

I Dream of War / Roberts, Tom., 1991

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Identifier: CC-44781-46950
Scope and Contents

This is a war story that is illustrated with line drawings and graphic symbols. The text is hand printed by the author. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

I Dream of War / Roberts, Tom., 1991

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Identifier: CC-30674-32116
Scope and Contents

This is a war story that is illustrated with line drawings and graphic symbols. The text is hand printed by the author. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

I Love You Like a Sister / Lopez, Erica., 1995

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Identifier: CC-07650-7795
Scope and Contents

This book has a feminist theme. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

[I promise] / Weiner, Hannah ; MacLow J ; Giorno J., 1975

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Identifier: CC-00682-698
Scope and Contents

The card is addressed to Bernadette Walsh aka Bernadette Mayer who heads The Poetry Project in NYC. Weiner has written on each ruled page of this student style notebook a series of promises some of which can be read in a straight foward fashion, others omitting articles, verbs and nouns, and still others an incorrect tense to the verbs. These errors increase progressively over the course of this book which begins, "I promise to write readible and coherent letters. I promise to write a filthy book." Further, the sizes of the writing are also instructions for printed layout. Finally, scatteed throughout the book is the phrase Big Word, another instruction. During the period of writing this book (one of several hundred in this style), Weiner became a pyschotic recluse living in Manhattan. She emerged from this state about 1977. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

I Suppose There Should Have Been More Colour, 1974

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Crozier, Robin: [Barcode: 31858072491362]
Identifier: CC-19203-19586
Scope and Contents

This book provides performances directions on fluxus-like themes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

I Wrap Sara Kali In The Sky / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1984

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Identifier: CC-46347-49072
Scope and Contents Hirschman's book is a homage to Sarah Kali accompanied by Gypsy glifs. According to Wikipedia, Saint Sarah is a patron saint venerated by the Roma (Gypsy) people. She is also known as Sara-la-Kali (Sara the black). The center of her cult is Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, a place of pilgrimage for Roma in the Camargue, in southern France, where legend identifies her as the servant of the two saints Mary commemorated in the town. An alternative legend has her as a pagan of noble birth and being converted to the faith of Abraham. In the traditional account, Saint Sarah was a native of Upper Egypt; after the Crucifixion of Jesus, Mary Salome, Mary Jacobe, and Mary Magdalene were cast adrift in a boat that arrived off the coast of what is now France "a sort of fortress named Oppdium-Ra", and the location was known as Notre-Dam-de-Ratis (Ra becoming Ratis, or boat); the name being changed to Notre-Dame-del-la-Mer, and then Le Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in 1838. Some say that the boat arrived in...
Dates: 1984