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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:

Pulmonary Consumption / Orshi Drozdik., 1988

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Identifier: CC-16294-16640
Scope and Contents

The work glass box that includes on its back surface the text of a sandblasted reproduced letter from Frederic Chopin to a friend regarding his landlord's negative reaction to the learning of Chopin's having contracted tuberculosis, a metaphor for the often negative contemporaneous reaction to AIDS. The red colored salt crystals & the vellum along the bottom & the diagonally upright plexiglas rod placed in the box symbolize splitting (spiting) of blood from the tuberculous lungs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Rabbit Remix / Kac, Eduardo., 2004

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Identifier: CC-59840-10002891
Scope and Contents

This catalogue was presented by the gallery for the XXVI Bienal de San Paulo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Random Shapes / De Vries, Herman., 1975

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Identifier: CC-15328-15652
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Ten pieces of white papercard of random shapes are enclosed within a translucent paper envelope. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Raphael Revisited / Phillips, Tom., 2010

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Identifier: CC-54970-990382
Scope and Contents

The image after a painting by Raphael was created according to the proportions of the Golden Section (square root of 2). The lines making up these divisions are invisible in this emlarged second version of the print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Raum / Gappmayr, Heinz., 1977

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Identifier: CC-36221-38008
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The book consists of 25 leaves of blank white paper pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Respiratory Book / Poznanovic, Bogdanka., 1978

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Identifier: CC-04162-4241
Scope and Contents All pages, except one which contains a chest roentgenogram, are translucent. The book must be held up to light for visualization of the chest just as physicians review them.Bogdanka Poznanović was born in Begeč in June, 1930. In 1956 she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. Though she studied painting under the supervision of the modernist painter Milo Milunović, she pursued cultural practices that criticized and transcended both socialist realism and socialist modernism, and became one of the founders and collaborators of the radical program agenda of the Youth Forum Cultural Center in Novi Sad. Her own artistic work was formed within a spectrum between modernist painting close to abstraction and modern graphic design. Her explorations of enformel developed towards post-painting practices: visual poetry, conceptual art, new artistic practice, explorations of communication and new media, especially video art. Later, her artistic work led her away from "creating...
Dates: 1978