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Conceptual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcsh: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1027 Collections and/or Records:

Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s / Luis Camnitzer, curator ; Jane Farver, curator ; Rachel Weiss, curator ; Boshoff W ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Andre C ; Antin E ; Art & Language ; Beuys J ; Boetti A ; Broodthaers M ; Cage J ; Celant G ; Darboven H ; Debord G ; Deisler G ; Duchamp M ; Ferrari L ; Flynt H ; General Idea ; Gerchman R ; Gins M ; Goeritz M ; Holzer J ; Johns J ; Kabakov I ; Katz L ; Kocman JH ; Komar & Melamid ; Kosuth J ; Kruger B ; Latham J ; Lissitzky E ; Malevich K ; Mallarme S ; Manzoni P ; McLuhan M ; Ono Y ; Perneczky G ; Opalka R ; Rauschenberg R ; Rehfeldt R ; Wolf-Rehfeldt R ; Rodchenko A ; Siegelaub S ; Stepanova V ; Todorovic M ; Tot E ; Valoch J ; Warhol A ; Wolman G ; Young L ; Claus CF ; Arakawa ; Isou I ; Bann S ; Camintzer L ; Tupitsyn M ; Valoch J ; Oiticica H ; Weiner L ; Piper A ; Rosler M ; Snow M ; Lippard L ; Parr M ; Kelly M ; Baldessari J ; Siegelaub S ; Haack H ; Filko S ; Trasov V ; Knizak M ; Merz M ; Xu B ; LeWitt S ; Koraichi R ; Filko S ; Frampton H ; Parr M ; Cha T., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32761-34353
Scope and Contents In an introductory essay, Stephen Bann writes that "artists like Willem Boshoff and Frederic Bruly Bouabre clearly demonstrate the fertility of language-based investigations on African soil: Boshoff prepared for his work with dictionaries by lengthy exercises in concrete poetry." Okwui Enwezor contributes an essay "Where, What, Who, When: A Few Notes on "African" Conceptualism." Bann adds that "Willem Boshoff's conceptual practice is an elaborate effort dedicated to the study of ignorance, that is, pushing to the point of dissolution the idea that the world is knowable. Imprisoned by South African authorities for his refusal to serve in the military (the micrographic work, Kleinpen I, was produced in prison as a way to maintain mental equilibrium)... Boshoff finds in obscure and obsolete words a way to construct a map that denies sight but empowers knowledge...His study of linguistics and Wittgensteinian philosophy led him to explore other ways of rendering words into pulsating...
Dates: 1999

Go Book: Squares. No.16 / Wally Depew., 1973

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Identifier: CC-54336-643223
Scope and Contents

As with other Depew books, the page count includes the blank side of the page, e.g., 24 leaves equals 48 pages. The special issue numbering also included non-related booklets with different titles. Go Book 16 is divided by subheadings into four parts: 1) 16 one to six squares joined together with one and two repeated on eight pages, 2) 16 1/4 one to three squared joined together, 3) 16 1/2 one square with different spatial arrangements on 5 pages, 3) 16 3/4 no subsequent pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

God, 1993

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Identifier: CC-05280-5383
Scope and Contents

All pages of this book are blank but include two vertical linear perforations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Guacamole Airlines and Other Drawings / Ruscha, Edward ; Schjeldahl P., 1980

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Identifier: CC-29942-31333
Scope and Contents

Conceived and designed by Ruscha, this book contains 84 of his favorite drawings mostly in gun powder or pastel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Guacamole Airlines and Other Drawings / Ruscha, Edward ; Schjeldahl P., 1980

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Identifier: CC-29949-31340
Scope and Contents

Conceived and designed by Ruscha, this book contains 84 of his favorite drawings mostly in gun powder or pastel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

hacia un perfil del arte latinoamericano / towards a latin american profie of art / Jorge Glusberg, curator ; Ginzburg C ; Glusberg J ; Pazos L ; Romero JC ; Alocco M ; Deisler G ; Friedman K ; Gerz J ; Groh K ; GAAG ; Higgins D ; Kostelanetz R ; Romberg O ; Valoch J ; Zabala H., 1972

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Identifier: CC-54406-58045
Scope and Contents

Jorgr Glisberg invited the Group of Thirteen to exhibit at this event as well as non Argentine artists/poets. The Group of Thirteen included among others, Carlos Ginzburg, Jorge Glusberg, Luis Pazos, and Juan Carlos Romero. This exhibition also included foreign artists/poets. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

hcub / Konrad Balder Schauffelen., 1970

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Identifier: CC-49079-70117
Scope and Contents

This book consists of pages that have the title (hcub) printed in the center of each page that consists of black paper stock and pages that have a rectangular perforation to secure a Phillips tape cassette player. Photocopied notes indicate that this b ook was owned by the Swiss collector, Krauthammer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

hcub / Konrad Balder Schauffelen., 1970

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Identifier: CC-49079-70117
Scope and Contents

This book consists of pages that have the title (hcub) printed in the center of each page that consists of black paper stock and pages that have a rectangular perforation to secure a Phillips tape cassette player. Photocopied notes indicate that this b ook was owned by the Swiss collector, Krauthammer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

hdjt ljr / Blank, Irma., 2001

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Identifier: CC-37022-38855
Scope and Contents

The complete text is composed to the letters c,d,h,j,l,t and r. The drawing in this limited edition is on the title page and consists of printed letters that read, HNJT IDJRJC LRID J JC HCJ.... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Here, There, and (nearly) Everywhere / Bunn, David ; Marcus G., 1998

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Identifier: CC-35725-37479
Scope and Contents

This book documents the projects of David Bunn. He appropriated part of the defunct card catalogue from the Los Angeles County Library to create an installation, using a select group of framed cards and a four-volume edition of self-published books. In addition, Bunn composed poetry gleaned, edited and rearranged from the titles on the catalogue cards. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Het Volledig Grafisch Werk En De Boeken / Broodthaers, Marcel., 1989

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Identifier: CC-22572-22998
Scope and Contents

Catalog includes description of several works on paper held by Sackner Archive including the print "Das Recht." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989