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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5468 Collections and/or Records:

Paper Work / Hammond, Jane., 2007

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Identifier: CC-62710-49310
Scope and Contents

One of the works exhibited and depicted in this catalogue is the "Stamp Book," edition pf six, that is held by the Sackner Archive -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Papier / Dumur, Marie Francoise., 1984

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Identifier: CC-15919-16252
Scope and Contents

The artist probably used papers that previously were in contact with food, possibly chocolate or cookie dough, because a lucious, lingering odor matches the richness of the brown, translucent pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Papiers Peints 2 / Dana, Llys., 1982

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Identifier: CC-16351-16701
Scope and Contents

RA is another name that is used by Llys Dana. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Paracutes / Rhody, Randy ; MaRa ; levy da., 1966

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Identifier: CC-03495-3552
Scope and Contents

The cover drawing (gouache, watercolor) was made by maRa. The two issues have distinctly different images. Printed by d.a. levy who ran this press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Parc de la Prehistoire / Blaine, Julien., 2008

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Identifier: CC-47983-69006
Scope and Contents

This card accompanied an announcement of "Dream Time" in which Blaine was a participant. The exhibition and performance was held in a cave with prehistoric drawings on its walls. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Paris out of hand {a wayward guide} / Gordon, Karen Elizabeth ; Hodgson B ; Bantock N., 1996

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Identifier: CC-48551-69582
Scope and Contents Publisher's Weekly: "The conceit behind this playful, charming spoof of a book is as simple and bizarre as a Magritte painting: it is a guide to an imaginary Paris, complete with fake hotel listings, off-the-wall travel advice and restaurant recommendations that aim more at literary than culinary edification. In Gordon's Paris, tourists may stop at the Grand Hotel des Echecs, home to a clientele made up of chess lovers and losers ("echecs" means both "chess" and "failures" in French); dine at the Cafe Dada, where one inserts food into an Automat and is fed foreign coins in return; or take in a film at the Cinema l'Ange des Sables, which shows only movies shot in the desert. "Ici on parle angoisse" ("Anguish spoken here"), Gordon informs us of one hotel. Admirers of Gordon's previous work, which includes the popular grammar handbook The Transitive Vampire and the novel The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales, will not be surprised to find her drawing heavily on the work of such...
Dates: 1996

Parking Lots / Coleman, Victor., 1972

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Identifier: CC-17908-18278
Scope and Contents

The covers were each run over by a car. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

[Parole autophone...] / Altagor., 1963

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Identifier: CC-57440-10000732
Scope and Contents

At the margins of the French lettriste movement as he knew Isou and Dufrene, Altagor (pseudonym of Jean Vernier1915-1982) formerly a mechanic and miner, then writer of thrillers, created 'Métapoésie' poetry composed of invented words, therefore abstract. Also an instrument builder, he accompanied his poetry readings on the pantophone, a stringed, bowed instrument. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Partial Portrait of Maria by Feruccio Brugnaro / Hirschman, Jack A. ; Falk A., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34551-36250
Scope and Contents

Cover drawing was done by Agneta Falk . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000