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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3293 Collections and/or Records:

Esposizione In Tempo Reale; Exhibitions In Real time, 2007

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Identifier: CC-53553-291306
Scope and Contents The book documents exhibitions of snapshots that were taken in a coin operated photograph booth. It can be considered a 2nd revised edition of a book with a similar title pubished in 1973 that is also held by the Sackner Archive.Amazon.com: Franco Vaccari, born in Modena, Italy, in 1936, has shown his work at four Venice Biennales to date (1972, 1980, 1993 and 1995), the Centre Pompidou in Paris and P.S.1 in New York. He's also well known in Italy as a critic and author. Exhibitions in Real Time is the first monograph to assemble his recurring works of that title. It focuses particularly on one early and better-known iteration, his 1972 Biennale solo show, and also documents 35 performances over the following 30 years of activity. The 1972 Exhibition in Real Time, known as Leave a Photographic Trace of Your Passing, set a simple photo kiosk into the gallery with a sign asking visitors to add a picture to the wall. It was and remains both an ideal conceptualist work and an emblem of...
Dates: 2007

Esquema: Grado 13 / Padin, Clemente ; Jandl E., 1972

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Identifier: CC-47186-49929
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In this book, Padin provides a mathematical description for the lay out of his letter pictures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Esquema: Grado 13 / Padin, Clemente ; Jandl E., 1972

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Identifier: CC-41044-43025
Scope and Contents

In this book, Padin provides a mathematical description for the lay out of his letter pictures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Essays on Postmodern Culture / Amiran, Eyal, editor ; Unsworth, John, editor ; Eckersley R ; McHale B ; Perelman B ; Watten B ; Derrida J ; Acker K ; Pynchon T., 1998

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Identifier: CC-33555-35205
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Richard Eckersley designed this book. His experimental layout is reminiscent of the style that he utilized for "The Telephone Book," a work also held by the Sackner Archive. This book consists of essays by several contributors dealing with varied aspects of postmodern culture including obsession with eating, communism, poetry, AIDS, and postmodernist fiction and non-fiction, anal retention, prostitution among others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Estra. No.2/Jan / Enrico Gabbrielli Scalini, editor., 1981

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Identifier: CC-13807-14112
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This issue deals with conventional poetry and ancient art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Et in Arcadia Ego / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; DeVries H., 1999

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Identifier: CC-35746-37502
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This book was published for the dedication of Finlay's water, wall and words work on the end of the river Hofvijver to commemorate its original pristine qualities. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Et Tous Ils Changent le Monde / Dachy, Marc, editor ; Dachy M ; Malevich K ; Khlebnikov V ; Duchamp M ; Schwitters K ; Moholy-Nagy L ; Tzara T ; Arp H ; Iliazd ; Joyce J ; Jorn A ; Dubuffet J ; Wolfli A ; Restany P ; Maciunas G ; Mekas J ; Brecht G ; Cage J ; Beuys J ; Filliou R ; Kaprow A ; Gysin B ; Burroughs WS ; Williams E ; Kostelanetz R ; Higgins D ; DeCampos H ; DeCampos A ; Stein G ; Tinguely J ; Boetti A ; Weiner L ; Villegle J ; Messager A ; Nauman B ; Kruger B ; Arias-Misson A ; Flynt H ; Basquiat JM ; Haring K ; Armleder J ; Huelsenbeck R ; Ray M ; Mosset O ; Poynder M., 1993

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Identifier: CC-27486-28534
Scope and Contents The exhibition, "Et Tous Ils Changent le Monde" ("And All of Them Change the World"), reveals, outside of major works, an ensemble of art moments that have been perceived as essential in the course of modern and contemporary art, the avant garde artists from the beginning of the century and those of today. Marc Dachy, who proposed the theme of the exhibition, writes in his preface that this biennale was to present Dada and its spirit, connections and relationships to contemporary art. Dachy gives a broad overview with reference to specific artists participating in the exhibition and describes their relationship to art movements such as Situationism, Art Brut, Conceptual and the language-art movements of concrete and visual poetry, Fluxus and Neo-Dada. The book is arranged such that each section deals with an individual artist. The section includes a reproductions of the works, a critical essay, an interview or documentation by the artists on his/her works. -- Source of...
Dates: 1993

Etre Artists Et Tout Plaquer / Ducorroy, Joel., 2008

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Identifier: CC-50655-71729
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The text of this book is by Marlene Girardin with translation by Gabrielle & Norman Clark. The book was a gift from Ducorroy when he learned from a French visitor to the Sackner Archive that a Ducorroy picture was on display in their living room. This book depicts another work by the artist held by the Archive titled "Dollar" that was purchased from the Emily Harvey Gallery in New York. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Eugen Gomringer in the UK: A celebratory tour / Concept as Concrete Form - Visual Poetry, Texts and Typography / Gomringer, Eugen ; Roger Brown, curator ; Conz F ; Zurbrugg N ; Richardson R ; Mills S ; Clark T ; Finlay IH ; Fulton H ; Furnival J ; Gardner I ; Houedard DS ; Long R ; Mayer H ; Morris S ; Richardson R ; Sackett C ; Williams J ; Voss J., 2011

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Identifier: CC-54577-990023
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As described by William Allen, this is a printed card folio with a printed tipped-in pocket containing 5 four pages of folded illustrated essays together with a Gomringer blue type print of "Silencio" on white paper. The essays are illustrated and informative and consist of the following: 1) Eugen Gomringer in the UK, 2011 Concept as Concrete Form: Visual Poetry, Texts and Typography; 2) Eugen Gomringer in the UK "father of concrete poetry" by Roger Brown; 3) The Conz Donation at De Montford University - Eugen Gomringer and Nicholas Zurbrugg by Robert Richardson; 4) Stuart Mills; 5) Concept as Concrete Form List of Works. Allen writes that this is a beautifully produced catalogue published at the time of Gomringer's UK tour in 2011 with useful reference information and also a section on the English concrete poet Stuart Mills.The cover is silkscreen with eg. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

Evening / Sail / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Morgan E., 1991

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Identifier: CC-12379-12605
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Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Ian Hamilton Finlay & The Wild Hawthorn Press 1958-1991 at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh. This book was edited and designed by Graeme Murray. Edwin Morgan contributed a critical text about Finlay's early works including P.O.T.H., Canal Stripe 4, Ocean Stripe 3, Autumn Poem, and Ocean Stripe 5.The complete text is "Evening will sail They will sew the blue sail." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991