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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5469 Collections and/or Records:

Adam Creating the Motor Car / Furnival, John., 1961

 Item
Identifier: CC-13209-13510
Scope and Contents

In this sketch, a Michaelangelo-like male nude figure reaches his arm out to a mini-car. Stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1961

Adolfa Hoffmeistera by Miroslav Lamac / Hoffmeister, Adolf., 1966

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Identifier: CC-27648-28730
Scope and Contents The work of Hoffmeister is presented in this catalogue in several phases. Following his early realistic prints and paintings in the 1920's, the artist composed line drawing cartoons of many of his contemporaries, including Man Ray, Karel Teige, Le Corbusier, Vladimir Mayakovski, and James Joyce. By the 1930's the drawings became more political in subject matter and included cartoons of an exhibition consisting of identical Hitler portraits and sculptures, Picasso painting Guernica, and Louis Aragon holding an immense flag. In the 1960's, Hoffmeister employed collage elements with drawn additions for literary illustration, for example, in the works of Jules Verne. A collage in this series, "Around the World in Eighty Days," is reproduced in this book that is held by the Sackner Archive. It depicts a scene of a parade for the election of a person named 'Kamerfield,' and uses English texts clipped from newspapers and periodicals. During this period, Hoffmeister created collages of...
Dates: 1966

Affiche. No.8/Oct / Winfred Gaul., 1960

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Identifier: CC-24451-24903
Scope and Contents

The images and text are reproduced from an exhibition catalogue dealing with Gaul. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

Affiche. No.11/Dec / Carl Laszlo ; Guido Biaso ; Endre Ady., 1960

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Identifier: CC-24452-24904
Scope and Contents

The four reproductions in this poster of surrealistic drawings were done by Guido Biaso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1960

Affiche. No.17/Apr / Mario Persico ; Kurt Leonhard., 1961

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Identifier: CC-24457-24909
Scope and Contents

This issue was published as the exhibition catalogue of Mario Persico in the Kunstlergilde of Ulm. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1961

Affiche. No.18/May / Bernd Eberling., 1961

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Identifier: CC-24458-24910
Scope and Contents

This poster depicts several free-form constructivistic letterpress black and white images; there is no accompanying text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1961

Affiche. No.20/May / Ibrahim Kodra., 1961

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Identifier: CC-24460-24912
Scope and Contents

In 1999, Kodra was represented by La spirale, STAMPERIA D'ARTE GALLERIA, in Milan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1961

Affiche. No.22/Jun / Klaus Burkhardt., 1961

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Identifier: CC-25730-26190
Scope and Contents

This final regular issue of Affiche lists a description of No.1 through No.22. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1961

Africa- Model 58423 / Fahlstrom, Oyvind., 1974

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Identifier: CC-13094-13389
Scope and Contents

This print appears to depict a highly stylized outline of the continent of Africa. In addition, a few written words are present, e.g., Konjo. There is a list of abbreviations as untranslated ideograms that have been applied to the outline of the African continent. This print was part of nine other prints by Fahlstrom that were published by multipla editions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Africa: The Art of a Continent / Phillips, Tom, editor ; Picasso P., 1995

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Identifier: CC-04894-4991
Scope and Contents

Published on the occasion of an exhibition with the same title held at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Phillips, the curator of this exhibition, contributed an introductory essay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Africa: The Art of a Continent / Tom Phillips, editor., 1995

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Identifier: CC-54574-990020
Scope and Contents

This is an audio overview of the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

African Arts. No.3/Sum / Phillips T., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27255-27762
Scope and Contents

This issue is dedicated to the exhibition and its catalogue, "Africa: The Art of a Continent" that was curated by Tom Phillips and shown at the Royal Academy of Arts in London with subsequent venues in Berlin and the Guggenheim Museum in NYC. The Sackners attended both the Royal Academy and Guggenheim shows. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

After Babel / Alpha Beta / Reichek, Elaine; Borges J., 2004

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Identifier: CC-43345-45405
Scope and Contents

Elaine Reichek transposes classical paintings into embroidered works. She first scans the reproductions of the paintings and runs the scans through software that maps them as coded embroidery charts. Of primary interest in this small portfolio is "The Tower of Babel" embroidered on linen after a painting by Pieter Bruegel. Also featured are embroideries based on the works of Samuel Morse, painter and inventor of the telegraph and the Morse code. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004