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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5468 Collections and/or Records:

Postkarten & Kunstlerkarten / Rehfeldt, Robert, editor ; Albrecht d ; Below P ; Beuys J ; Bzdok H ; Cavellini GA ; Rehfeldt R ; Staeck K ; Staeck R ; Ulrichs T ; VanBeveren P ; Christo ; Neumann M ; Dressler O ; VanGeluwe J ; Hahn H ; Morstedt A ; Tress H., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-04163-4242
Scope and Contents

Each card is collaged to an unbound page. This work is a signed, limited edition issued from an East Berlin Art Gallery. Joseph Beuys signed his own card contribution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Postkartenkunst - Kunstpostkarte / Varnhorn, Renate., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-36682-38496
Scope and Contents

The postcard contains an illustration of The Jewish Bride by Rembrandt. The card is machine stitched with blue thread with long dangling thread ends. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Postkartenkunst - Kunstpostkarte / Varnhorn, Renate., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-36683-38497
Scope and Contents

The postcard contains an illustration of Der Mann mid dem Goldheim by Rembrandt. The words Postkartenkunst and Kunstpostkarte are machine stitched in pink thread with long dangling thread ends. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Potency Filled Things / Broekhuysen, Nicky., 2013

 Item
Identifier: CC-59085-10002222
Scope and Contents

The artist produces works based on binary code, handstamping onto rock surfaces in her native South Africa. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2013

pour une annee consentante / Levy, Miller., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-40422-42393
Scope and Contents

The picture on the stick of chewing gum is a female nude. It required restoration at the bottom since the gum cracked in the mail. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Praktiken der modernen Kunst / Kirschenmann Johannes ; Schulz, Frank ; Arman ; Beuys J ; Breton A ; Ernst M ; Haacke H ; Horn R ; Kolar J ; Lucie-Smith E ; Oppermann A ; Olbrich JO ; Rose B ; Schwitters K ; Spoerri D ; Villegle J ; Klapcheck K ; Duchamp M ; Kawara O ; Darboven H ; Cornell J ; Williams E ; Weiner L ; Klee P ; Maciunas G ; Kaprow A ; Broodthaers M ; Ulrichs T., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27823-28956
Scope and Contents

This book is a mini-survey of modern and contemporary art. The authors designate "copy-art," aka xerox art, as a body of art work, which may be the first time that this movement has been placed alongside of major art movements of the 20th century, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Predobrazy / Hoffmeister, Adolf ; Burian EF ; Nezval V ; Seifert J ; Teige K., 1962

 Item
Identifier: CC-51749-72849
Scope and Contents

This book consists of essays, poems, and caricatures about and contributed by Czech artists, architects, poets, and writers. It also depicts paintings by Hoffmeister from the 1910s and 1920s. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1962

Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism / Watson, Steven ; Stein G ; Thomson V ; Ford FM ; Hugnet G ; Quinn J ; Rodchenko A ; Ray M., 1998

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Identifier: CC-32702-34288
Scope and Contents

This text describes the association of Thomson amd Stein in creating their opera "Four Saints in Three Acts," the first Modernist revolutionary work. The opera's success depended on a small group of Harvard graduates who shaped America's first museums of modern art and defined modern taste in the 1920's and 1930's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998