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Conceptual art

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Subject Source: Lcsh: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1027 Collections and/or Records:

Foto-Fix / Behme, Rolf ; Ulrichs T ; Vaccari F ; Olbrich JO ; Filliou R ; Boltanski C., 1996

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Identifier: CC-29379-30744
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Foto-fix indicates the process where portrait photographs are automatically made and developed from the subject(s) sitting in an enclosed booth that has a slot for insertion of currency to pay for them. The photographs reproduced in this book are either straight or manipulated portraits. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

French Flag Infuence / Smith, Brian Reffin., 1989

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Identifier: CC-01803-1839
Scope and Contents Wikipedia: Brian Reffin Smith (born 1946) is a writer, artist and teacher born in Sudbury in the United Kingdom. He lives in Berlin, Germany. Working with computers since the middle 1960s, he was a pioneer of computer-based conceptual art, with the aim of trying to resist technological determinism and "state of the art" technology which might merely produce "state of the technology" art. After showing interactive artworks at the Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1983 he was invited by the French Ministry of Culture to intervene in art education, and was later appointed to a teaching post in the École nationale supérieure d'art (national art school) in Bourges. In the UK in 1979, Smith wrote 'Jackson', one of the first digital painting programs, for the Research Machines 380Z computer, software which was distributed by the Ministry of Education and widely used in schools and elsewhere. The BBC published his art software for the BBC Micro. He has been cited as one of the...
Dates: 1989

futura: Programmed Squares 11. No.24 / Peter Schmidt., 1968

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Identifier: CC-27479-28527
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Schmidt writes, "On the overall square of this print each of the four units used has its own corners. Each unit is most dense in its own corner and the probability of its appearance decreases with the distance from that corner...The print was realized in 1967 using an arithmetical programme which approximates to the idea and hand set in 10 pt letterpress border material. The shuffling of the units within the subsections used was done manually and is imperfect." The units consist of small rectangles which are solid black, have a heavy outline, have a light outline, and blank spaces. The only copies of this issue are in futura sammelband. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Gamble/Labor/Sustain/Add: Before Your Eyes Open W/VITC / Jurgen O. Olbrich., 1994

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Identifier: CC-05360-5463
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The wrapping consists of elements of the American flag. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Gegen Stande Satze, 1979

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Identifier: CC-39621-41580
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Photographic reproductions in this catalogue that are held by the Sackner Archive include, "Little Bug Bang," "Exploding Galaxy" and "Schrifttaleln." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Geiger. No.8 / Adriano Spatola, Maurizio Spatola, editors ; Costa C ; Blaine J ; Blank I ; Baroni V ; Spatola A ; Binga T ; Danon B ; Carrion U ; Minarelli E ; Gut E ; Schodl G ; Sitta C ; Poniz D ; McBride J ; Marcucci L ; Zabala H ; Ermini F ; Conte B ; Lai M ; Mignani R ; Fontana G., 1979

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Identifier: CC-10615-10824
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The cover is an original ink drawing by Corrado Costa. Compared to the earlier issues of this periodical, this issue has a greater content of original contributions rather than works reproduced from previous publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Gerber's / Leiber, Steven ; Duchamp M ; Darboven H ; Brecht G ; Hirschman J ; Ben ; Cutts S ; Friedman K ; Ono Y ; Ashbery J ; Williams E ; Connor B ; Paik NJ ; Vostell W ; Boltanski C ; Castillejo JL ; Filliou R ; Oldenburg C ; Watts R ; Kosugi T ; Valoch J ; Gray D., 1993

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Identifier: CC-07408-7552
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The interior box is a small box of Gerber's mixed baby cereal that serves as packing material and lends a feeling of a Fluxus presentation to this catalogue which has several Fluxus items on sale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Gesammelte Matritzendrucke 1964-1972 / De Vries, Herman., 1974

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Identifier: CC-15940-16275
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Each page depicts a punctuation poem.Sims Reed email: Modern Artist Books comments: Herman DE VRIES.: Gesammelte Matritzendrucke 1964-1972. Bern. Verlag artists press. 1974. 4to. (29.3 x 20.9 cm).Title page, and 19 dot matrix prints. Publisher's stiff card wrappers,cloth spine. A collected volume of de Vries' typewriter matrices. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Getting Inside Jack Kerouac's Head / Morris, Simon ; Goldsmith K ; Thurston N., 2009

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Identifier: CC-52304-73426
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This book was edited by Nick Thurston and the introduction provided by Kenneth Goldsmith who posed that a retyping of a book would provide the same inspiration to writers as art students derive from copying old masters' paintings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009