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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 669 Collections and/or Records:

S.P.Q.R. P.S.#24 / White, Derek; Munari B., 2009

 Item
Identifier: CC-58174-10001427
Scope and Contents

This is one of a series of artworks inspired by the work of Bruno Munari. On his web site, White muses, the images are"composed of graphITE, old letters/stamps/diagrams from the Porta Portese flea market, superimposed photos taken in Rome, [Ital.] red wine, [Ital.] coffee & MISC ephemera, grit, fingerprints & physical imPRESSions of Rome [with ADded REflections on Bruno Munari & starLING flight patterns." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

squeezing molly / Crombie, John ; Joyce J., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-46387-49112
Scope and Contents

The text prints (with help from Pagemaker) Molly Bloom's monologue from Ulysses, compressed, with apologies to James Joyce! -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Staatsexamen: 81 Sprachbeobachtungen 3rd Edition / Gloor, Beat., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-58035-10001286
Scope and Contents

Gloor's "State Exam" provides a cross section of the language around the turn of the century, as it arises in advertising for companies and institutions, in journalism and in the literature, uses, and passes away. The texts consist of found objects arranged. They have grown by combining, citation and collages. Beat Gloor deals with the language, the words and the letters. "I have written down: from newspapers and on television, by old masters and young savages, with colleagues and companies on the Internet and at the carnival, short, with strangers and with myself» -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Stamp Grid #1 / Tompkins, Betty., 2008

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Identifier: CC-49187-70227
Scope and Contents This image is formed by rubberstamping the words kiss and smooch over each other with dense center slit-like image suggestive of a woman's pubis. Fuck Paintings Interview by Christina Voss for the online magazine, F/lthyGorgeousTh/ngs (2011). Betty Tompkins paints gorgeous photorealistic works of art on a monumental scale, all explicit, detailed images of penetration, masturbation, and the female genitalia. Her first Fuck Painting was created back in 1969, and after a group show in the early 1970's, they were more or less left untouched by critics and dealers, seemingly due to their visual content. In 2003, the Centre Pompidou acquired Fuck Painting #1, and since then, there's been a new appreciation for the power, poignancy, and sheer beauty of her work. A note on their size: small works of art reproduce fairly well online, but there's no way to reproduce the impact of a monumental work of art here, so I'm going to ask you to imagine the size. Many of these canvases are larger...
Dates: 2008

Stamp & Mail / Leewes, Gerry., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-31003-32462
Scope and Contents

This book includes one page that is rubberstamped in colored ink. The pages that are classified as collaged rubberstamped might be photocopies rather than originals. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Statement of Defectiveness / Tot, Endre., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-49479-70525
Scope and Contents

One leaflet is printed on white paper, the other on pink paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Struktur-Bruch/Bruchstaben-Gefuge, 1995 - 1996

 Item — Folder 48: [Barcode: 31858072537826]
Identifier: CC-27727-28837
Scope and Contents

The title translates to "Structure-Break/Structure-Framework." The image consists of two groups of densely placed Hebrew letters divided by a river-like blank space. On the left and right sides are several letters that are randomly, less densely placed. This could be a metaphor for the Red Sea, of the political schism of religious and non-religious Jews, or history's attemmpt to divide the Jews. Or it could be simplly a beautiful abstract, typographic poem! -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995 - 1996

Surface / Fencott, P.C.., 1984

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Identifier: CC-12825-13112
Scope and Contents

The word "surface" is densely overprinted in red and blue ink giving a leaf-like frottage appearance to the print. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Tarif Bleu Nuit / de Charmoy, Cozette., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-16201-16544
Scope and Contents

This print was made from repetitive rubber stampings utilizing the title, "Price of the Blue Night" and the numbers 19 + 81. This imagery presumably was adapted from a film or drama ticket. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995