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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5468 Collections and/or Records:

James Lee Byars und der Drachen / Byars, James Lee., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-52822-73960
Scope and Contents

The card depicts a colored photograph of Byars in a gold suit and black top standing in a mountain crevice. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

JC / Crombie, John ; Bourne, Sheila., 1988

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Identifier: CC-20116-20511
Scope and Contents

This book is designed as an aid to meditation or concentration. Pages depict prayer beads which serve as a guiding thread or an alternative devotional aid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Jean Cocteau, Before His Own Fabulousness Consumed Him / Riding, Alan; Apollinaire G; Tzara T., 2003

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Identifier: CC-42431-44441
Scope and Contents

This article reviews the Cocteau exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris; the Sackners attended that show. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

JHK/ Paper Re Making Book No.013 JHL/ Ruth and Marvin Sackner: Archive of concrete and visual poetry / Kocman, J.H.., 1981

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Identifier: CC-59410-10002476
Scope and Contents

The first Sackner catalogue photocopied from typed paper sheets (1980), according to Kocman as typed on the colophon "was torn in to small fragments and threse were crushed by grinding in water on mixer. From this pulp handmade paper sheets were made and from these sheets a new book was bound. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

[Jigsaw Puzzle] / Olbrich, Jurgen O.., 2001

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Identifier: CC-35478-37214
Scope and Contents

The image reproduces several pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Joan Miro in Miami / Miro, Joan ; Brossa J ; Duchamp M., 1984

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Identifier: CC-06036-6150
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive lent two books that consisted of poems by Joan Brossa and images by Joan Miro. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

John Picking: Paintings from Spain / Ian Hamilton Finlay, editor., 1963 - 1964

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Identifier: CC-11687-11905
Scope and Contents

This catalogue, with a printing technique similar to P.O.T.H., provides a price list for works of the artist, John Picking. One of the paintings on the list was lent by Finlay. A page of this catalogue has a concrete poem by Finlay. It also contains a unbound reprint of a semiotic poem by Finlay that appeared in P.O.T.H. This publication is not mentioned in the Finlay bibliographies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963 - 1964

Jonah / Sackner, Sara., 1979

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Identifier: CC-59876-10002920
Scope and Contents

Found pages of text are interwoven on a visual background and stitched around the borders. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Joseph Cornell: Gifts of Desire / Tashjian, Dickran ; Clearwater B ; Clearwater J ; Spector B., 1992

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Identifier: CC-01455-1488
Scope and Contents

The author has focused on analysis of works by Cornell that were gifts to ballerinas, actresses, poets and historic figures. Buzz Spector's cedar box is a unique collage using vintage post cards under blue plexiglas. "Spector contrasts revelation and mystery in his homage to this enigmatic artist." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Joseph Cornell: Gifts of Desire / Tashjian, Dickran ; Clearwater B ; Clearwater J ; Trasobares C., 1992

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Identifier: CC-01454-1487
Scope and Contents

The author has focused on analysis of works by Cornell that were gifts to ballerinas, actresses, poets and historic figures. Cesar Trasobares has created a "cedar box with a wire lid that opens like a gate to the nostalgic garden of Cornell's collage...on the cover." The artist also uses IRS tax rulings, airline schedules and assorted Cornell-like objects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Journal d'un jour: Le petit Noeuf. 9.99 / Michel Corfou, editor., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33648-35307
Scope and Contents

The theme of this issue is "Eggs." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Journal of a Year 1997 / Diehl, Carol., 1998

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Identifier: CC-29980-31371
Scope and Contents

In 1992, Carol Diehl started to use letters, words and symbols in paintings to record events in her life. This exhibition at the Hirschl & Adler Gallery displayed 12 paintings, one for each month of the year. The rich, colorful, madala-like arrangements are reminiscent of the paintings of Alfred Jensen. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998