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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3390 Collections and/or Records:

William Morris, 1834-1896 / Morris, William ; Nash J., 1996

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Identifier: CC-06719-6838
Scope and Contents

Edited by Linda Parry, this book was issued to coincide with the exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and an exhibition at the Morgan Library, New York. Morris was a painter, poet, typographer, calligrapher, and book illuminator as well as a designer of wallpaper, carpets, stained glass, tiles, furniture and tapestries. He was also a leader of the British Arts & Crafts Movement, founder of Kelmscott Press and an avid Socialist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Wingdom / Keith, Bill ; Garnier P ; Grumman B., 1993

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Identifier: CC-08061-8221
Scope and Contents The poems have the appearance and sound quality of Rap Concrete Poetry like those composed by Kenneth Goldsmith.Wikipedia: William "Bill" Keith (January 20, 1929 -- September 1, 2004) was an American artist who began his artistic life as a painter, but moved into photography and visual poetry. His visual poetry ran a full gamut from calligrams inspired by Apollinaire and other early 20th Century French poets to Lettrisme to the Minimalism and Op Art of the 1960s.As his work developed, Keith concentrated increasingly on African and African-American themes and sources. This development toward African roots and branches led away from the Roman alphabet and more toward the store of iconography and symbolism from Egypt to South Africa to the American diaspora. Consequently, Keith developed graphic techniques suggested by textiles, wood carvings, bronze casts, ceramics, and other indigenous arts.An example of Keith's recreation of the substance of his visual style and the very nature of...
Dates: 1993

Wireless Imagination Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde / Kahn, Douglas, editor ; Whitehead, Gregory, editor ; Marinetti FT ; Artaud A ; Cage J ; Cros C ; Duchamp M ; Jarry A ; Breton A ; Apollinaire G ; Tzara T ; Kruchenykh A ; Khlebnikov V ; Iliazd ; Jandl E ; Burroughs WS ; DeCampos A ; DeCampos H ; Breton A ; Aragon L ; Chopin H ; Char R ; Duchamp M ; Dohl R ; Gysin B ; Harig L ; Jarry A ; McLuhan M ; Mallarme S ; Mayakovsky V ; Mon F ; Picabia F ; Ribemont-Dessaignes G ; Ruhm G ; Satie E ; Soupault P ; Themerson S ; Zurbrugg N., 1992

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Identifier: CC-07945-8099
Scope and Contents This book deals with the history of sound and sound installations by artists across modern and contemporary art movements. It is noteworthy that Charles Cros, whose works were translated by Laura Aga-Rossi (held by the Sackner Archive), is mentioned with Edison as the co-inventor of the phonograph. Both this instrument and the radio are featured topics in this book. Includes discussion of artistic languages such as zaum and glossolalia (used by Artaud), precursors to sound poetry.Between the Covers Review: Wireless Imagination directly addresses what is perhaps the most conspicuous silence in contemporary theory and art criticism, the silence that surrounds the polyphonous histories of audio and radio art. By gathering both original essays and several newly translated documents into a single volume, editors Douglas Kahn and Gregory Whitehead provide a close audition to some of the most telling and soundful moments in the "deaf century", including the fantastic acoustic scenarios...
Dates: 1992

Women & Hats: Vintage People on Photo Postcards / Phillips, Tom., 2010

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Identifier: CC-52375-73498
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Tom Phillips provided an introductory essay and Philip Treacy a foreward. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Women of Allah / Neshat, Shirin., 1997

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Identifier: CC-32690-34276
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This book consists of photographic reproductions of photographic portraits done by Neshat that feature Iranian women with calligraphic poetic texts written in Farsi on their uncovered body parts. The first photographic reproduction in this book is entitled "I Am Its Secret" and is held by the Sackner Archive. It is a portrait of Neshat's covered head, wrapped in a black chador, with only her eyes and nose exposed. Her skin is covered with black and red Farsi text written in a circular pattern.In an introductory essay, Francesco Bonami writes that "all the work of Shirin Nesht develops along the border where bigotry and spirituality touch but don't merge." She politicizes the oriental woman who gazes with a seductive innocence that is at the same time extraordinarily shrewd. As the writer Hamid Dabashi states, "From the verbal to the visual, Shirin Neshat turns the body into the written and photographed page of a banned book." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Wood Notes Wild: Essays on the Poetry and Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay / Finlay, Alec, editor ; Finlay IH ; Bann S ; Cutts S ; Clark TA ; Abrioux Y ; Kenedy R ; Jencks C ; Stoddart A ; Scobie S ; Morgan E., 1995

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Identifier: CC-12921-13213
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The prior published essays in this book, edited by Ian Hamilton Finlay's son, present a comprehensive survey of his father's poetry and art, from 1958 to 1995. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Woodcutting in Winter / Miller, Charles H.., 2007

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Identifier: CC-46972-49710
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William Jay Smith contributed a poetic intorduction to this volume. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Word as Image: American Art 1960-1990 / Basquiat JM ; Berman W ; Cage J ; Kruger B ; Ruscha E ; Twombly C ; Holzer J ; Dwyer N ; Hansen A ; Kosuth J ; Rosen K ; Wool C ; Johns J ; Allen T ; Arakawa ; Brecht G ; Johnson R ; Lemieux A ; Masullo A ; Bellavance L ; Jess., 1990

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Identifier: CC-00672-688
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Exhibition was divided into five parts, Words from the Environment, Words as Sign and Structure, Words as Juxtaposition and Association, Words as Narrative, and Words as Socio-Political Commentary. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Word & Image Bulletin. No.4/Nov., 1989

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Identifier: CC-00403-414
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Published for the Second International Conference on Word and Image University of Zurich, August 27-31, 1990 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Word & Image Bulletin. No.6/Nov-Dec / Yoshizawa S., 1990

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Identifier: CC-00315-323
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Mention is made of Marvin Sackner as a new member. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Word & Image: From Book to Garden and Back: Ian Hamilton Finlay. No4/Oct-Dec / Finlay IH ; Hunt JD ; Ryan M ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA ; Follo V ; Gilonis H., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44168-46294
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This issue serves as a profusely illustrated catalogue for the exhibition at the Annenberg Rare Book & Mauscript Library, University of Pennsylvania. Michael Ryan, Director, contributes an introductory essay. Professor John Dixon Hunt in additon to serving as curator, has written an introduction, essay and catalogue listing for this issue. The Sackner Archive is mentioned by Dr. Ryan as "unstinting in their generosity, agreeing to lend more than 25 items to the show, while also donating some of their duplicate Finlay items to us. For this their latest kindness to us, we are honored and thankful." The duplicate copy does not include the signed loose sheet by Hunt. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Word & Image. No.1/Jan-Mar / Stieglitz A., 1991

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Identifier: CC-00365-373
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Geraldine Wojno Kiefer's essay is titled "Alfred Stieglitz and The Steerage: an empirio-critical correlation." The Steerage which is a photogravure published in the periodical 291 is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Word Paintings / Trasov, Vincent., 1991

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Identifier: CC-01759-1795
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Exhibition was curated by Scott Watson who also wrote the introductory essay for the catalog. The paintings in this exhibition consisted of one or two words formed from treated paper with heated chemicals. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Wording the Silent Art: Essays and Writings , 2001

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Identifier: CC-58988-10002178
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Amazon.com: Wording the Silent Art collects Barbara Caruso's essays on the contemporary art scene, including controversial issues like the National Gallery's purchase of Barnett Newman's Voice of Fire and the recent transformation of public galleries from institutions of preservation to places of pop entertainment and the effect this has on art. She also writes with elegance and verve on the subject of her own painting, on painting practice, and on how to look at visual art. Her generous and wise advice to a young painter is worth the price of this book alone. Caruso's is a unitary, clear, communicating voice, and she brings to the reader a marvellous and accessible vision of the essential nature of art in our lives. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Wordrobe, 1997

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Identifier: CC-29670-31045
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This exhibition, curated by Richard Martin, inegrates texts and textiles with stunning fashion designs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Words and the Images, The: Text and Image in the Art of the Twentieth Centur / Woorden en de Beelden, De: Tekst En Beeld in De Kunst Van De Twingigste Eeuw / Jan Brand, curator ; Nicolette Gast, curator ; Robert-Jan Muller, curator ; Mallarme S ; Marinetti FT ; Apollinaire G ; Depero F ; Werkman HN ; Lissitzky E ; Ben ; Broodthaers M ; Roth D ; Finlay IH ; Chopin H ; Ruscha E ; Dwyer N ; Holzer J ; Kruger B ; Gibbs M ; Goncharova N ; Schwitters K ; Picabia F ; Bonset I ; deSaga P ; Kruchenykh A ; Khlebnikov V ; Apollinaire G ; VanDoesburg T ; Stepanova V ; Balla G ; Picasso P ; Braque G ; Huelsenbeck R ; Hausmann R ; Ernst M ; Crotti J ; Hoch H ; Magritte R ; Miro J ; Breton A ; Dotremont C ; Appel R ; Shiomi M ; Young L ; Maciunas G ; Brecht G ; Williams E ; Paik NJ ; Filliou R ; deRidder W ; Kabakov I ; Johns J ; Hains R ; Kosuth J ; Nauman B ; Broodthaers M ; Indiana R ; MacLow J ; Mayer HJ ; DeVree P ; DeRook GJ ; Beuys J ; Twombly C ; Baldessari J ; Barry R ; Hulten P ; Weiner L ; General Idea ; Bloom B ; Wool C ; Spero N ; Baxter G ; Prince R ; Lum K ; Staeck K ; Polke S ; Penck A ; Baumgarten L ; Jenney N ; Daniels R ; Huber T ; Rollins T+KOS ; Basquiat JM ; Dokoupil GJ ; Diamond J., 1991

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Identifier: CC-00479-491
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This catalogue covers "Text and Image in the Art of the Twentieth Century," in four sections, 1900-1940, 1940,-1970, and 1970-1990 and contains numerous reprinted essays as well as those written especially for the exhibition. Topics include Concrete and Visual Poetry, Language relating to Fluxus and Dada, and texts on Marcel Broodthaers, A.R. Penck, Neil Jenney, Nancy Dwyer, Tim Rollins and KOS, Ken Lum, and Barbara Kruger among others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991