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Lettrisme

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 846 Collections and/or Records:

Haute Flamme, 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-34412-36109
Scope and Contents

This booklet, printed in an addition of 1500 in honor of the 60th anniversary of the company, Primagaz, commemorates the editioned plate created by Albert Dupont. The plate contains two poetic texts by Dupont around the border and the center. the blue and gold colors relflect the flame, the energy and the creativity associated within each person. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Haute Flamme / Albert DuPont; MA Sackner; RK Sackner., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-34412-36109
Scope and Contents

This booklet, printed in an addition of 1500 in honor of the 60th anniversary of the company, Primagaz, commemorates the editioned plate created by Albert Dupont. The plate contains two poetic texts by Dupont around the border and the center. the blue and gold colors relflect the flame, the energy and the creativity associated within each person. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Histoire de Rire / Lemaitre, Maurice., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-07465-7609
Scope and Contents

Reproduction of painting done in 1965. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Homage a Van Gogh, 1990

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Identifier: CC-14507-14818
Scope and Contents

Depicts one of the self-portaits by Van Gogh but instead of impasto to create the image, Dupont uses different colored letters of the alphabet and overprints some sections. This is the same image on Dupont's exhibition announcement for Galerie Ariane Bomsel 1990. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Hypergraphic Novels 1950-1984 , 2012

 Item
Identifier: CC-55634-9999237
Scope and Contents

In Lemaitre's essay, he mentions that that only 200 bound copies of Les Journaux Des Dieux were delivered for distribution because there were insufficent funds to pay him - "which of course makes the saved volumes extremely valuable." The books as well as prints and printed plates depicted in this exhibition consisted of 'Les Journal des Dieux' [The God's Diaries], 'Initiation a la haute volupte' [Initiation to High Voluptuousness], and 'Jonas.' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

I am Immortal and Alive / Wolman, Gil ; Acquaviva F ; Isou I ; Lemaitre M ; Dufrene F ; Debord G ; Brau JL ; Cabanas K., 2010

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Identifier: CC-52922-74062
Scope and Contents Wolman invented "Scotch Art" and the Sackner Archive has one such example. It consisted of sticking Scotch tape onto printed matter such as posters, magazine pages, newspapers and pamphlets, and, placing them in water so that the cellulose support of the paper dissolved, leaving the image on the surface of the tape. This was then first repostioned on thin pieces of wood and later on a cavas support on a stretcher. The Sackners met Wolman in his apartment in Paris in 1982. Adrian Dannatt who wrote his obituary for the London newspaper, The Independent, characterizes his life well. Gil Joseph (Gil J. Wolman), film-maker, writer, political activist - born Paris 7 September 1929; died Paris 3 July 1995 "Those who live by obscurity die by it also, so the minimal response to the disappearance of Gil J. Wolman is hardly surprising. Wolman led a brave, ferociously independent existence at war with the forces of contemporary conformity, the celebrity machine of the mass media being high...
Dates: 2010

Icon/Image: Photographs in Miami Collections / Abbott B ; Badura M ; Satie A ; Michals D., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-08435-8602
Scope and Contents

This exhibition was curated by Ellen Lyons. The cover depicts photographs of Marvin Sackner and daughter Sara by Duane Michals. The Sackner Archive lent photographs by Bernice Abbott, Michael Badura, and Alain Satie to this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

INI smo: Dell'Avanguardia il Fonema / Antonio Gasbarrini, curator ; Francois Proia, curator ; Aga-Rossi L ; Agresti G ; Bertozzi GA ; Campal JL ; Canal F ; Ferrua P ; Chopin H ; Dupont A ; Isou I ; Lemaitre M ; Sabatier R ; Mattioli G ; Merante A ; Molero-Prior FJ ; Soupault P ; Proia F ; Conti P ; DeMattia F., 1992

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Identifier: CC-08480-8648
Scope and Contents

This exhibition was curated by Antonio Gasbarrini and Francois Proia. Includes a reproduction of Francois Proia's painting, Le Bateau Ini (1991), a work held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Initiation a la haute volupte / Isou, Isidore ; Sabatier R ; Conz F., 2005

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Identifier: CC-51716-72816
Scope and Contents

This exhibition features enlargement of pages as prints on fabric from Isou's novel "Initiation a la haute volupte" (1960) that is also held by the Sackner Archive as the book and also the prints published by Francisco Conz. The exhibition was curated by Roland Sabatier. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005