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Language art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 245 Collections and/or Records:

Trouble Ahead / Sloy., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-42934-44978
Scope and Contents

The tipped-in cover print is a reproduction of a piece that was exhibited in November 2003. The text of the letter indicates that Sloy has discovered seven rhyming families of letters that will be sent to the Sackners in the form of cards. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

True Vine / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1997

 Item — Folder 35: [Barcode: 31858072459948]
Identifier: CC-58409-10001626
Scope and Contents

The print depicts the same seven vertically arranged labels of measurements that was adapted from Ben Nicholson's "Letters and Numbers." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Various Homages to Ed Ruscha / Horowitz, Glenn ; Fisher J ; Monk J ; Morris S ; Ruscha E., 2009

 Item
Identifier: CC-49589-70638
Scope and Contents

This catalogue was written by Jeremy Sanders. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Vincent: Auctions Speak Louder Than Words / Phillips, Tom., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-46251-48972
Scope and Contents

The theme of this print deals with inequities of artworks sold after the death of the artist who was not appreciated while living. This example is the auction of Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Sunflowers" for $47 million in 1987. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Whatever / Amrhein, Joe., 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-44510-46660
Scope and Contents

The hand painted, multi-colored letters are listed vertically. Each word is a different typeface. The artist was a sign painter in his early career and the fonts clearly reflect varing commercial styles. The complete sentence reads, "Unraveling art historical tradition, or arguing with political correctness, or thinking only about painting, or fusing art history and modernity, or exploring the refractory nature of sexual desire, or whatever." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Whatever Happened To / Davies, Peter., 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-44507-46657
Scope and Contents

This collage lists well-known artists and art-related events that have declined in their current recognition. Davies contributed a text piece to the famous "Sensations" exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art, London, 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Whatever I Like / Busby, Cathy., 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-48049-69072
Scope and Contents

Each page in this book with the exception of documentation consists of colored photographs of t-shirts with language of people in Beijing, China. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Whereof... Thereof... / Crombie, John ; Wittgenstein L., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-46392-49117
Scope and Contents

Crombie has adapted the concluding dictum of Wittgenstein's "Tractacus Logico-Philosophica" (1991) aim to stretch the logic of the inability to speak into this artist book of language art printed on various colored paper stocks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Who Is This Balding Man, 1995

 Item — Folder 83: [Barcode: 31858072538402]
Identifier: CC-46249-48970
Scope and Contents

This print depicts a portrait of a banker. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995