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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5468 Collections and/or Records:

God's First Attempt in the Formation of Man / Ricatto, Cosimo Di Leo., 1991

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Identifier: CC-03398-3454
Scope and Contents

The sculptural forms created by this artist as depicted in this catalog resemble lungs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

going / Depew, Wally., 1984

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Identifier: CC-15176-15497
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts the same rubberstamped dragon as its companion volume but here the darkest image is at the beginning of the book and progressively lightens as it approaches the end. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Going Out with a Bang / Horndeski, Gregory., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34512-36211
Scope and Contents

The exhibition consists of new pipe bomb paintings in which Horndeski deals with the issue of suicide. The metal pipe bomb structures are attached to landscape paintings with textual borders describing specific problems that can be solved by setting off the bombs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Gommisti. No.2 / Downsborough P ; Tyson M., 1993

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Identifier: CC-10420-10624
Scope and Contents

Edited by Matthew Tyson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Gommisti. No.2 / Downsborough P ; Tyson M., 1993

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Identifier: CC-10577-10782
Scope and Contents

Edited by Matthew Tyson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Gothic Style / Dellafiora, David., 1999

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Identifier: CC-54933-990348
Scope and Contents

This booklet consists olf photographs taken on bulding a sand castle. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Grafikverkstaden Brosarp 2 / Warnke U ; Ebel G ; Andersson JB ; Zielke O ; Falk A., 2000

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Identifier: CC-38474-40381
Scope and Contents

Includes an essay by curator Thomas Millroth about artists books or "art as a book," a desciptive title created by Leif Eriksson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Grand Testaments et ceramiques avec du signes Pessenois / Pessin, Marc., 1998

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Identifier: CC-46591-49321
Scope and Contents

This work represents photographs of Pessin's objects and wall work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Graphic Eye / Cantor, Judy; Paresky L., 2003

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Identifier: CC-40222-42193
Scope and Contents

This article describes Laura Paresky Gould's new photographic work in a magazine "Home & Design" published by the Miami Herald. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

graphic work & painting, 1985

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Identifier: CC-54526-62730
Scope and Contents

This book is a collection of essays by Wright's students as an homage to him, Wright's own essays and autobiography and examples of his artwork, typographical work, and concrete poetry. On page 17, a photographic of one of his concrete vowel poems is depicted; the original photograph is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Graphic Works: Catalogue Raisonne 1947-1998 / Roth, Dieter., 2003

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Identifier: CC-42405-44415
Scope and Contents

This book was edited by Dirk Dobke who contributed a introductory essay. It contains reproductions of the 524 prints made by Dieter Roth between 1947 and 1998 when he died. The works display his "inventive manuipulation of the various stages in the print making process, achieving remarkable editions in which not one print is identical." The print of this deluxe edition is "A Bunch of Flowers 3" which is also depicted on page 319. An exposition of the various printmaking techniques employed by Roth is described in the introduction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Graphpoemachines / Chopin, Henri ; Henson S., 2006

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Identifier: CC-62523-47677
Scope and Contents This catalogue features sculptures made from outdated tape recorders analogous to sculptures created by Nam Jong Paik from television seats. There are also reproductions of 12 typewriter poems placed in an inside flap on the back cover. This is the last catalogue held by the Sackners done during Chopin's lifetime. He died in January 2008 at age 85 years and Frederic Acquaviva wrote his obituary for the Guardian that was reproduced on the internet: Towards the end of the second world war, Henri Chopin, who has died aged 85, escaped from a forced labour camp in Olomouc, in what is now the Czech Republic, after it had been bombed. He then spent time with the advancing Red Army, until, recaptured by the Germans, he and inmates of concentration and extermination camps were sent west on a Nazi "death march." Thousands died on those journeys and it was then that he listened to the voices of his fellow marchers, sounds which would infuse his work for the rest of his life. In the 1950s...
Dates: 2006