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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5468 Collections and/or Records:

Inside The Visible: An Elliptical Traverse of 20th Century Art / M. Catherine de Zegher, curator ; Hoch H ; Cahun C ; Darboven H ; Hiller S ; Kobro K ; Salomon C ; Spero N ; Schendel M ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 1996

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Identifier: CC-08612-8784
Scope and Contents

This exhibition on art by women was curated and the catalogue edited by M. Catherine de Zegher. The contributing artists and critical texts are international in scope. The book was highly documented as evidenced by 56 essays. An essay by Laura Monahan on Claude Cahun depicts a photograph lent to the exhibition by the Sackner Archive. The art works are varied with only a small fraction being feminist art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Insomnia ou Le Diable en Liberte / Miller, Henry ; George Belmout, translator ; Hortense Chabrier, translator., 1974

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Identifier: CC-37700-39574
Scope and Contents

This book was published in English by Doubleday in 1975 in a signed edition of 150 copies accompanied by a lithograph. This copy does not give the tirage nor does it have the acompanying lithograph. The Doubleday copy was estimated at $300/$500 at Pacific Book Auction Galleries in 1996. The book consists of the love story reproduced in Miller's handwriting about his infatuation at age 75 years with a 25 year old Japanese singer. It is illustrated with 12 drawings by Miller that are reproduced in color at the end of the book. Some drawings are solely visual, others are visual poetic in content. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

InstaBook: Brains & Spines. No.2 / Jessica Nebraska Gifford., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44912-47084
Scope and Contents

The images depict visually altered MRI's of Gifford's brain and spinal cord with the lesions of multiple sclerosis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

[Installation View of Angel of Poets] / de Charmoy, Cozette., 1990

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Identifier: CC-16331-16681
Scope and Contents

The book with the same title is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Instruction Drawings / Andre C ; Acconci V ; Bartlett J ; Chiari G ; Katz L ; Darboven H., 1981

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Identifier: CC-08443-8610
Scope and Contents

The works in this exhibition were loaned from The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Intentions Figures/ Index Images / Paolini, Giulio., 1984

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Identifier: CC-44820-46991
Scope and Contents WEB page: Until 1960 Paolini trained as a set-designer and graphic designer, then he had a preoccupation with art and collages in order to analyze artistic means as well as to examine linguistic systems. The first documented work, Geometric Design, stems from 1960. Since 1965 Paolini has picked art and the history of art and their possibilities of conveying message as a central theme. In 1964 his first individual exhibition took place in the Galleria La Salita in Rome, since then he has been represented in numerous individual and group exhibitions in Italy and other countries. In 1967 he was a participant of the first exhibition of Arte Povera in the Galleria Bertesca in Genova and he took part, inter alia, in several Documenta-exhibitions in Kassel as well as in the Biennale di Venezia in 1970 and 1997. Paolini is concentrated on the phenomenon of seeing, touching themes such as space, time, perspective or the cultural conditioning of author and observer. In 1970 he started to...
Dates: 1984

Intentos / Cuyen, Enrique., 2001

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Identifier: CC-54959-990372
Scope and Contents

The author writes on the loose sheet that "this is my artists book, with my artists nickname "Enrique Cuyen." A big hug from Argaentina. I will receive more information." His real name is Fernando Gioia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Inter Artes Et Naturan / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Page R ; Bann S ; Sloan N., 1987

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Identifier: CC-11741-11959
Scope and Contents

The text is printed in blue and red colors that are interwoven, blue for French and red for English. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

[Interior View] / Furnival, John., 1975

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Identifier: CC-13237-13538
Scope and Contents

Depicts an angled interior (bathroom ?) and pipes and a window. Stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Interminable Gabberjabbs Number Eight: The Last Gabbrejabb / Hamady, Walter ; Drescher H ; Zapf H., 2005

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Identifier: CC-47015-49753
Scope and Contents

This tour de force of bookmaking, printing and neo-dada texts is the final production of Walter Hamady in this series. This volume is described by him as "The last Gabberjabb number eight and IX/XViths of aleatory annexations of odd bondings or fortuitous encounters with incompatible realities or love, anguish, wonder; and engagement or a partial timeline of sorts or bait and switch or finally, a pedagogical rememberance." In this book, Hamady launches a long polemic against the unauthorized and false statements accompanying an exhibition of his press at the Grolier Club in April 2003. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005