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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5468 Collections and/or Records:

Los Ecos de Mathius Goeritz Ensayo y Testimonios, 1997

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Identifier: CC-31722-33234
Scope and Contents

Goeritz, who was of Protestant (?) or Jewish zzzzz9/) heritage, was born in Danzig and migrated to Mexico circa WWII. According to this catalogue, Goeritz made concrete poetry between 1952 and 1966. Throughout his career, he mostly made public sculptures and practiced architecture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Los Fantamas de Nanchuazu / The Ghosts of Nanchuazu / Katz, Leandro ; Berger J., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51799-72899
Scope and Contents

The dvd is a film documenting a photograph taken by Freddy Alborta (Bolivian news photographer) of Che Guevara after he was captured and executed without a trial in Bolivia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Lose Blatter (1966/69) / Ulrichs, Timm., 1969

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Identifier: CC-32236-33793
Scope and Contents

Autumn leaves are fixed in position between the sealed vinyl pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Lose Blatter (1966/69) / Ulrichs, Timm., 1969

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Identifier: CC-32237-33794
Scope and Contents

Autumn leaves are fixed in position between the sealed vinyl pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Lost and Found Times: Monkey Suites. No.4/Feb / John M. Bennett, editor ; Bennett JM., 1977

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Identifier: CC-06881-7004
Scope and Contents

Edited by John M. Bennett. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Love in a Dead Language / Siegel, Lee ; Gaard F., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33125-34751
Scope and Contents This post-modern, non-linear comic novel is written in the tradition of Raymond Federman in that the story is probably autobiographical and fanciful. The book is "a love story, a translation of an Indian sex manual, an erotic farce, and a murder mystery." The author writes himself into the plot. Included in the hypertextual story are diagrams and illustrations from the Kamasutra, movie posters, upside-down pages, comic strips, varying typefaces and graduate student essays. The illustrations and cover design were done by Frank Gaard.Amazon.com review Philip Roth has done it. So have Updike and Nabokov. Now Lee Siegel joins the ranks of novelists who write novels that pretend not to be novels at all. Love in a Dead Language, for example, purports to be the work of one Professor Leopold Roth, and comprises both a translation of, and commentary on, the Kama Sutra, as well as the professor's more personal annotations concerning his amorous yearnings for one of his students. Siegel...
Dates: 1999

Love in a Dead Language (Uncorrected Page Proof) / Siegel, Lee ; Gaard F., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33146-34773
Scope and Contents This edition is the uncorrected page proof version. It is a post-modern, non-linear comic novel written in the tradition of Raymond Federman in that the story is probably autobiographical and fanciful. The book is "a love story, a translation of an Indian sex manual, an erotic farce, and a murder mystery." The author writes himself into the plot. Included in the hypertextual story are diagrams and illustrations from the Kamasutra, movie posters, upside-down pages, comic strips, varying typefaces and graduate student essays. The illustrations and cover design were done by Frank Gaard."Amazon.com review Philip Roth has done it. So have Updike and Nabokov. Now Lee Siegel joins the ranks of novelists who write novels that pretend not to be novels at all. Love in a Dead Language, for example, purports to be the work of one Professor Leopold Roth, and comprises both a translation of, and commentary on, the Kama Sutra, as well as the professor's more personal annotations concerning his...
Dates: 1999

love le ciel des voleurs / Tillier, Thierry., 2011

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Identifier: CC-52766-73903
Scope and Contents

This is the ordinary edition of the book without page additions as in the limited edition, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

[Love Poems for Linda] / Depew, Wally; Depew L., 1964 - 1965

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Identifier: CC-48089-69112
Scope and Contents

These are beautifully written, personal love poems from Wally to Linda Depew. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964 - 1965

loving without being vulnrabal, 1997

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Identifier: CC-29866-31253
Scope and Contents

Includes reproductions of several line drawings by bissett. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales / Schwitters, Kurt ; Jack Zipes, translator., 2009

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Identifier: CC-49794-70849
Scope and Contents

Many of Schwitters's fairy tales were discovered after his death in England in 1948. many were in draft form. "Despite their roughness and incompleteness, they are incisive if not disturbing reflections of his life and times, and the incorporate radical notions of the fairy tale as an art form... Schwitter's innovations were based on his theory of Merz." Jack Zipes contributes an introductory essay "Kurt Schwitters, Politics, and the Merz Fairy Tale" and Irvine Peacock is the book illustrator. These fairy tales also are published in Schwitters "Das literarische Werk," a series held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Luna Shows the Way / Merks, Jane; Barth, Peter., 2004

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Identifier: CC-43343-45403
Scope and Contents

This is a greeting card for 2004. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Lungs, 1988

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Identifier: CC-10218-10421
Scope and Contents

This print depicts an image of the lungs suspended within an intricate frame. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988