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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 669 Collections and/or Records:

Pierre Albert-Birot's La Grande Vie, 1998

 Item — Folder 31: [Barcode: 31858072459906]
Identifier: CC-30120-31518
Scope and Contents

The image in blue and black inks consists of Albert-Birot's poem set in conventional typography, and rubberstamping text and abstract expressionistic flourishes with diagrams by de Charmoy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Pinspot: Invisible Cities Series. No.2 / Jody Zellen., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33168-34796
Scope and Contents

This book is from the "Invisible City Series." Zellen describes her work in an afterward that states, "The photograph is a framed segment of reality, captured by an unknown photographer, It is a picture of a public place - an interior or exterior view that depicts the city as a place for action and change. The image is fragmented and distanced from the original through cropping and selection. In these images the places become uninhabitable and the people become isolated. The language is abstracted. The text becomes an image." The Sackner Archive holds a photograph from this series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Pinspot: Invisible City Series. No.2 / Jody Zellen., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-32580-34161
Scope and Contents

This book is from the "Invisible City Series." Zellen describes her work in an afterward that states, "The photograph is a framed segment of reality, captured by an unknown photographer, It is a picture of a public place - an interior or exterior view that depicts the city as a place for action and change. The image is fragmented and distanced from the original through cropping and selection. In these images the places become uninhabitable and the people become isolated. The language is abstracted. The text becomes an image." The Sackner Archive holds a photograph from this series. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

[Please do] / Levchin, Rafael., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-28004-29157
Scope and Contents

The author's Ukrainian name is Rafael Le Vchyn. This dense, complex collage consists of printed and handwritten texts. The collaged elements consist of printed texts and printed images taken from newspapers and periodicals. Fragments of black text with varied typefaces on white papers provide the background. Fragments of white text with varied typefaces on black papers create the image of a large head that resembles a visual/verbal space alien. This collage was purchased by Marvin Sackner from the artist at the Eye Rhymes conference in Edmonton, Canada in 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Please Don't Read This / Willi, Jean., 1982

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Identifier: CC-58042-62552
Scope and Contents The drawing is depicted on page 16 of Willi's catalogue, You read, that you think you're reading - Or do you think, that you read you're thinking? (1982) Wikipedia: Jean Willi graduated in Basel in a six-year training as a graphic designer and worked there and in Paris, among other things as a designer for Olivetti and Kodak. In 1973 he began after a trip to Africa to paint and draw. In 1977, he developed his own drawing technique, in which a kind of calligraphy linked to structures and networks. Work related nature have been 1982 in a group exhibition in Zurich with the title "Schreibgestik" along with artists such as Roman Opalka and Cy Twombly issued. He later painted letters, as they might appear from their sound goes. Published in 1988, the Swiss art magazine you his illustrations to Hundred Years of Solitude. The diversity of its artistic potential he showed in 1989 in the Basel exhibition "POLE" in his attempt to combine the different facets of his work together and at the...
Dates: 1982

Poesia Visiva een Keuze / De Vree, Paul., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-15700-16029
Scope and Contents

The portfolio was water damaged and the prints were trimmed after the accident. The images remain intact. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Poisons, their antidotes / Bonney, Sean., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-51480-72578
Scope and Contents

Martin Corless-Smith on the back cover describes these poems as "glass-sharp graffiti collages of political spin and half heard blah blahs rage with humour." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003