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Calligraphic text

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2954 Collections and/or Records:

Pierce-Arrow / Howe, Susan., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32652-34238
Scope and Contents

This book is a poetic biography of Charles S. Peirce, the nineteenth century philosopher-scientist and founder of pragmatism. It includes photographic reproductions of calligraphic text and drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

pingpong / Suarez Londono, Jose Antonio ; Lopez, Mateo., 2003

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Identifier: CC-51780-72880
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This catalogue presents a project commisioned for Art Basel Miami 2010 in which topics were selected by the two artists and separate or joint drawings were made. Sixty two drawings are depicted from 31 topics in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Pintura / Zylla, Klaus ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 2002

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Identifier: CC-48455-69483
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive is mis-labeled as Marvin L. Suttner Foundation of Visual Poetry in the list of musems and libraries holding Zylla's works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

PIPS. No.5-7 / Claudia Putz, editor ; Weber FJ., 1987

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Identifier: CC-52173-73292
Scope and Contents

Stored in box labeled "PIPS flat periodials." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Piquete de Tomate XXXIII / Serge Pey., 1994

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Identifier: CC-04629-4716
Scope and Contents This poem was performed in 1987 in a Festival in Opposition to the Inquistion.Serge Pey (1950, Toulouse, France) "“ poet, performer, essay writer, organizer. Author of fifteen poetry books, including the following ones: De la ville et du fleuve (Tribu Ed., 1981), Prophéties (Tribu Ed., 1984), La définition de l'aigle (J. Bremond Ed., 1987), Notre Dame La Noire (Tribu Ed., 1988), La Mère du Cercle (Travers Ed., 1994) and many others. He is the founder and editor of the magazines "Emeute" (since 1975) and "Tribu" (since 1981), dedicated to the theory and practice of the contemporary literature. Being the organiser of the group of action flamenco-poetry "Los Afiladores" and one of the participants of the international trend of direct poetry, Pey repeatedly performed in New York, Madrid, Quebec, Mexico-City, Paris, Barcelona, Florence, Tokyo, etc., as well as in the frameworks of the documenta 10 (Kassel, 1997). He is the author of a number of critical and theoretical articles...
Dates: 1994

Place Names of Oxfordshire / Claire, Paula ; Spencer, Isabelle., 1981 - 1991

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Identifier: CC-17475-17841
Scope and Contents

The poem is by Claire (composed in 1981) and the calligraphy by Spencer. Isabelle Spencer (1924-2011) was a teacher in the British school system and a calligrapher. The other copy of this book is owned by Paula Claire. The poem is in the poetic style of naming ships by Ian Hamilton Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981 - 1991

Plasma / Ross, Stuart; curry jw., 1985

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Identifier: CC-03566-3630
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This is the cover designed by jw curry for Curvd H&Z No.314, 1985. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Plis sous Pli / Frechette, Jean-Yves; Arcand, Pierre-Andre., 1982

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Identifier: CC-27690-28778
Scope and Contents

The white paper envelopes contain folded, typed instructions and objects which were to be opened every 30 minutes. Comments concerning the contents were to be written on the outside of the envelope within a given rectangular space. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

[pm in hebrew greek latin letters] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-57017-10000379
Scope and Contents

PM is Pat Morressey, the Director of the Bear Lane Gallery in Oxford England.The upper right corner contains the letters for P and M in Hebrew, Greek and Latin. These forms are used to create three variations of letter pictures in each language.The left side of the page is tattered. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

poem by yeshua ben-yoosuf (010368) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-56317-9999740
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The name yeshua ben-yoosuf is starred to a line at the lower center "or JC - from the agapha translated by dsh 010368." The page is perforated top and bottom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Poem Epidemique - Reve-ile / Hubaut, Joel., 1993

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Identifier: CC-09642-9833
Scope and Contents

This is a densely filled image of calligraphic text of different size fonts and weight that provokes an optical image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Poem of Beirut / Koraichi, Rachid; Darwish, Mahmoud., 2001

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Identifier: CC-44668-46832
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The colophon states that "Original edition of Mahmood Darwich's "Poem of Beirut" was engraved on 22 zinc plates by Rachid Koraichi in Sisi-Bond-Said, Tunisia in 1984. The plates were printed in 250 gram weight Velin d'Arches paper by Elsa Ancia, Paris, France 2001. Kamel Ibrahim drew the calligraphy for the poem in Alexandria, Egypt, 1986. This text was printed at Saig's typographic press, L'Hay-les-Roses, France. The translation of the poem into English is printed on a single page The case was designed and fabricated by the Duval workshop in Paris, France. The total printing run was limited to 75 copies, signed and numbered by Koraichi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Poema Semiotic / Ferrando, Bartolome., 1989

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Identifier: CC-10776-10986
Scope and Contents

Ferrando composed a poem with five words in Spanish, e.g. hablar, bostezar, pensar, respirar, and sentir meaning to speak, yawn, think, breathe, and feel in English. He specified puntuation signs including an opened and closed parentheses, dashes, and opened circles adjacent to each of these words as a non-verbal code. In the three subsequent panels only the signs are used to convey the performance of the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989