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For Adults Only (The Art Book - Passion Plays and Amourous Spells), 1996

 Item — Box: 100
Identifier: CC-28807-30122

Scope and Contents

Sandra Jackman writes to the Sackners that this piece was inspired by her Hungarian grandmother who always told her, "To read is to want to know." She hid candy and books in the second drawer of her bureau, where Jackman would forage. "I was grown before I realized that I had been seduced into becoming a reader. In Europe, the rabbis would drip honey on scripture written on slate for the young students to lick off after they repeated the lesson...This early freedom to investigate any form of reading material, to appease my curiosity is the inspiration for Adults Only, a book within a book. My grandmother's bureau is transformed into a dollhouse cupboard and collaged with scraps of printed matter. Its shelves are filled with treasures. This is the centerpiece for a triptych (a style usually reserved for religious images). The front left wing refers to a myth. The fellow with the flute to his lips is from a painting by Perugino. Marsyas the Satyr is showing off his talent to the God Apollo. The outcome of this hubris is depicted oh the right wing of the triptych...For the back left panel, I selected a small book of paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder - a sixteenth century painter whose religious paintings contain an erotic appeal that was in demand in his time. I have layered and altered his paintings with collages of my own suggestive images." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1996

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 book object (wood, triptych, canvas, paint, relief, paper, screws, book, collage, mirrors, glass fruit, fabric, letraset, both sides) + booklet + dust jacket + 12 pages (collaged, acetate, ink, color photograph) in base (wooden)) ; book object 21 x 33 x 22 cm + booklet 11 x 7 x 2 cm, on base 22 x 22 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

box 100- North originaal Sackner location: 2nd floor bedro

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: New York : [Publisher not identified]. Signed by: S. Jackman (l.l.- verso); S. Jackman 96 (l.r.- inside back fold of dust jacket booklet). Nationality of creator: American. General: About 1 total copies. General: Added by: RED; updated by: RUTH.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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