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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5491 Collections and/or Records:

Lanark: A Life in 4 Books, 1985

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Identifier: CC-31798-33316
Scope and Contents This is the first American edition of the novel originally published by Canongate Publishing in England in 1981. The visionary drawings reproduced in this book were made by Gray. Andrew Crumey WEB 1999 wrote the following. "Alasdair Gray was born on 28 December 1934 in Glasgow, and trained as a painter at the Glasgow School Of Art. He worked as an art teacher, muralist and theatrical scene painter (experiences which are reflected in novels such as "Lanark" and "1982, Janine"), and his illustrations for his own books (as well as his bold use of typography) form a crucial part of their unique appeal. In the early seventies, Gray attended an informal writers' group run by Philip Hobsbaum, along with James Kelman, Tom Leonard, Liz Lochhead, Agnes Owens and others. Work would be photocopied and distributed in advance for the group to discuss and criticise. Gray had already been working on "Lanark" since the fifties, and found Kelman's advice particularly helpful. The novel was finished...
Dates: 1985

[Landscape in a Circle] / Furnival, John., 1970

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Identifier: CC-13241-13542
Scope and Contents

Stored in Odd & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

L'Arc d'Oell dans le Cercle des Poings / Anseeuw, Alin; Fremiot, Joel., 1980

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Identifier: CC-26176-26639
Scope and Contents

The text in this book deals with the retreat from Dunkerque in WW II. The eight visual images in this book depict variations of the letter "x." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Large Paintings Small Galleries / Phillips, Tom ; Rushdie S., 1982

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Identifier: CC-38842-40757
Scope and Contents

Phillips provides annotations for the paintings. One of them is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

[Large Printed Abstractions], 1990

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-55139-9998942
Scope and Contents

The original purchase price of each print was $5. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

L'Art du Tampon / Sophie Nagiscarde, curator ; A1 Waste Paper ; Adamus K ; Albrecht d ; Alechinsky P ; Pavl A ; Andre C ; Andersen E ; Andre JL ; Arman ; Armleder J ; Attalai G ; Bal E ; Baldessari J ; Banana A ; Barbot F ; Baroni V ; Bartolini L ; Bennett JM ; Beuys J ; Blaine J ; Brecht G ; Bruscky P ; Boetti A ; Bzdok H ; Carrion U ; Cavellini GA ; deCharmoy C ; Cohen R ; Corfou M ; Crane M ; Crozier A ; Cutts S ; Daligand D ; Darboven H ; Deisler G ; DiPalma R ; Downsborough P ; Duch LF ; Ducorroy J ; Durland S ; Eriksson L ; Evans D ; Felter J ; Ferrando B ; Ferrer E ; Filliou R ; Fricker H ; Friedman K ; Gaglione B ; Galantai G ; General Idea ; Gerz J ; Gibbs D ; Gibert S ; Gilbert & George ; Ginzberg C ; Goulart C ; Groh K ; Held Jjr ; Hendricks B ; Higgins EF-III ; Holzer J ; Hompson DD ; Hubaut J ; Huisman H ; Image Bank ; Immoos F ; Indiana R ; Jacks R ; Jackson L ; Johnson R ; Johns J ; Kawara O ; Knizak M ; Kocman JH ; Koepcke A ; Kruchenykh A ; Kustermann P ; Lane B ; Levine L ; LeWitt S ; Lichtenstein R ; Lisboa U ; Long R ; Luis ; Maciunas G ; Malevich K ; Mallander J ; Marin M ; Marx GG ; McCallion B ; McLean B ; Medeiros J ; Mesciulam P ; Mayer P ; Minkoff G ; Mittendorf H ; Morelli F ; Nannucci M ; Oldenburg C ; Ono Y ; P-orridge G ; Padin C ; Paik NJ ; Papp T ; Parant JL ; Pazos C ; Perneczky G ; Petasz P ; Pino F ; Rehfeldt R ; Restany P ; DeRook GJ ; Roth D ; Rothenberg J ; Sabatier R ; Sachse K ; Sapere H ; Saunders R ; Schmidt A ; Schraenen G ; Schulz T ; Scott M ; Serge III ; Silveira R ; Smith P ; Sorensen W ; deSouza EA ; Spiegelman L ; Splettstosser P ; Spoerri D ; Supek J ; Swierkiewicz R ; Szombathy B ; Targowski H ; Thomkins A ; Tisma A ; Tolstoy L ; Tot E ; Toth A ; Toth G ; Turnbull W ; Tyson I ; Tyson M ; Ulrichs T ; Vaccari F ; VanBarneveld A ; VanBeveren P ; Ben ; Vigo EA ; Vostell W ; Warhol A ; Watts R ; Weiner L ; Welch C ; Williams E ; Zabala H ; Zucker J ; Schwitters K., 1995

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Identifier: CC-41610-43600
Scope and Contents

This catalogue presents the history of rubberstamping to contemporary times. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

L'Art en Transit, no. 4: Depanne Machine recontre Gilardi, Inverosimile, 1993

 Item — Box 122: [Barcode: 31858072458080]
Identifier: CC-16416-16766
Scope and Contents

The object in the box is a bunch of plastic grapes mounted on plastic grass. The cover print on the box depicts colored leaves. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This black box is one "encounter" between an artist and Dépanne Machine, out of a series of six.

Dates: 1993

Latin American Art in Miami Collections / Presser E ; Trasobares C ; Cruz-Diez C ; Riveron E ; Soto J ; Gonzalez-Torres F ; Jaar A ; Kuitca G ; Solar X., 1994

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Identifier: CC-07563-7708
Scope and Contents

Elena Presser's "Breathing In and Breathing Out" depicted in the catalogue, was borrowed from the Sackner Archive; it was originally commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing Exhibition." "Physichromie" by Carlos Cruz-Diez, a gift of the Sackners to the Lowe Museum was also exhibited. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

l'autoroute - le theatre a bretelles / Berman, Laurent ; Quesemand, Anne., 1979

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Identifier: CC-50176-71240
Scope and Contents

This is an illustrated book of a dream-like car journey undertaken by Berman that consists of black and white and colored drawings with typogaphy and cross hatchings present in his later drawings and books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

[Layouts for litryscrip No.2-5] / curry, jw, editor., 1990

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Identifier: CC-20340-20737
Scope and Contents

Layouts for recto and verso of litryscrip No.2-5. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990