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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3466 Collections and/or Records:

[Untitled] / Christanell, Linda., 1977

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Identifier: CC-17088-17446
Scope and Contents

This catalog had a rubber object attached which decomposed and was discarded. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

[Untitled] / Cruise, Stephan., 1976

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Identifier: CC-18905-19283
Scope and Contents

The text consists of an interview of Stephen Cruise by Philip Fry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

[Untitled] / Drum, David, editor ; Drum D., 1996

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Identifier: CC-40029-41997
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This press produces "hand-cut and individually-assembled viusal poetry chapbooks in color." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

[Untitled] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Scobie S., 1976

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Identifier: CC-11864-12085
Scope and Contents

The critical essay was contributed by the Canadian poet, Stephen Scobie. He states that Finlay is "a Classical artist" in contrast to "a Romantic artist." who attempts to create the artistic world out of an isolated consciousness whereas the Classical artist works within tradition as emphasized by Finlay's Hommage series to other artists. As Scobie indicates, to call Finlay a Classical artist seems paradoxical since his work appears so experimental or inventive but "Classicism" refers to -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

[Untitled] / Hubaut, Joel; Dupuy J; Dreyfus C., 1999

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Identifier: CC-36155-37934
Scope and Contents

Hubaut draws a Rube Goldberg type machine (for the Cyberpink sculpture in Toulouse?) on the verso of a postcard that has Hubaut, Dupuy and Dreyfus seated on a sofa on its verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

[Untitled] / Kentridge, William., 1999

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Identifier: CC-39766-41729
Scope and Contents

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev contributes an in depth interview with the artist. Dan Cameron's essay is titled "A Procession of the Dispossed." J.M. Coetzee focuses o "History of the Main Complaint." Also included are writings by the artist and a chronologyand bibliography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

[Untitled] / Kentridge, William ; Jarry A., 1999

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Identifier: CC-39854-41819
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The inner flap of the dust jacket reads, "William Kentridge's drawing-based works, encompassing animated films, theatre and opera productions, present a uniquely evocative, emblematic view of the state of South Africa today...from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings to traces of apartheid's violence in the landscape around Johannesburg. Kentridge's animated films are patiently built up from series of single drawings, incorporating erasure as well as the addition of lines and forms; a week's drawing can give rise to just forty seconds of animation. Socio-political traumas such as apartheid are narrated through his haunting imagery." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

[Untitled] / Kolar, Jiri. ; Mesens, E.L.T. ; Schwitters, Kurt ; Hoffmeister, Adolf., 1994

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Identifier: CC-08145-8306
Scope and Contents

Mentions that Hoffmeister (1902-1973) fled from Czechoslovakia in 1939 to USA and after WWII became Ambassador to France from 1948-1951 and subsequently Professor of Art at the Prague Art Academy. His work overlaps the border of Art and spreads into cartoon, advertising and related fields. "He was the first artist to use typography as a total compositional medium regardless of the meaning of the actual words, concentrating on the purely visual image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

[Untitled] / Lax, Robert., 1985

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Identifier: CC-07348-7492
Scope and Contents

Exhibition originated from Archive Sohm. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985