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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5469 Collections and/or Records:

The Book of Craving / Rodney, Janet ; Duchamp M ; Hamilton R., 1996

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Identifier: CC-35530-37270
Scope and Contents

A page of experimental fiction is reproduced from Richard Hamilton's translation of Marcel Duchamp's "The Green Box." The theme of this book mainly is autobiographical in nature. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

The Bordeaux Collection / Phillips T ; Furnival J., 1987

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Identifier: CC-22512-22937
Scope and Contents

Advertises portfolio of 25 etchings of French Chateaux wines by six British artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The Boxworks of Jacob Drachler / Drachler, Jacob., 1979

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Identifier: CC-15694-16023
Scope and Contents

The constructions are reminiscent of the the works of Louise Nevelson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

The Boy Who Ate Words / Dedieu, Thierry., 1997

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Identifier: CC-39083-41022
Scope and Contents

This book consists of an illustrated story about a boy who could not communicate with others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

the Bridge / Sackner, Sara., 1979

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Identifier: CC-59866-10002923
Scope and Contents

Found pages of text are interwoven on a visual background and stitched around the borders. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

The Bus Stop / Michals, Duane; Sackner MA; Sackner RK; Sackner SE; Sackner DR; Sackner JD., 1980

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Identifier: CC-59858-10002913
Scope and Contents

This family portrait was photographed by Duane Michals and titled "The Bus Stop" for the story without words told by the eight photos he selected from the many he took in front of a white New York building. As the Sacker family enters in chronological order and waits for the arrival of a bus, they appear as total strangers to each other with no communication among them. The bus arrives, they get on and it remains a mystery whether they ever made contact with each other. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

The Catherwood Project / Katz, Leandro., 1992

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Identifier: CC-07950-8104
Scope and Contents

Mention is made that Katz's work is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

The Cherokee Lottery: A Sequence of Poems / Smith, William Jay ; Dupont A., 2002

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Identifier: CC-46264-48985
Scope and Contents These poems relate the story of the trail of tears suffered by the American Indians on their forced removal to reservations. The book cover is from an engraving by the French artist Albert Dupont that first apperaed in Smith's book, Le Sentier (The Trail). From Booklist: "Smith's sequence of moving, extraordinarily visual poems brings us to the heart of one of the nation's greatest tragedies and, many say, sins--the "removal" of the five civilized tribes, via the Trail of Tears, from their homelands in the eastern U.S. to the Oklahoma territory. Part Choctaw himself, Smith uses several different voices in the sequence, such as those of an old Choctaw on the trail, remembering the "buzzard man" who presided over funeral rites, while mourning the many who died without such appropriate ritual; the great Choctaw chief, Pushmataha, who traveled to Washington in a failed attempt to gain a hearing for his people; and artist Charles Banks Wilson, sketching the last of the purebloods in...
Dates: 2002

The Cherokee Lottery / Smith, William Jay ; Dupont A ; Catlin G., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34503-36201
Scope and Contents

Smith calls this volume "a sequence of poetry" that is related to the history of the American Indians and their forced relocation from their traditional lands to Western reservations. Albert Dupont contributes a cover engraving and black and white illustration that first appeared in Le Sentier by Smith. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

the clevelanders / Horvath, Alan, editor ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA ; Lowell J ; levy da ; rjs ; Cook G ; Taylor K ; Kryss TL., 2002

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Identifier: CC-40295-42266
Scope and Contents

This book reprints poems by Lowell, levy, rjs, Cook, and Taylor. In addition, there are reproductions of unpublished paintings by Levy and collages by rjs. Unpublished poems by Taylor and Kryss are also printed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

the clevelanders vol.III / Horvath, Alan, editor ; levy da ; rjs ; Taylor K ; Kryss TL ; Simon A ; Salamon R ; Butcher G ; Lowell J ; Werner R ; Clinefelter J ; Horvath A ; Bree ; Schaefer M ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 2006

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Identifier: CC-48669-69701
Scope and Contents

This collection depicts a detail of a d.a.levy painting, "Non-Sectarian Crucifiction," that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

The Cliburn 2001 T-Shirt / Tom Phillips., 2001

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Identifier: CC-36246-38034
Scope and Contents

Tom Phillips was invited to exhibit his works related to music during the Van Cliburn competion. The image on the shirt as on the poster designed by Phillips is titled "Drawing on Music." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The Cliburn 2001 T-Shirt / Tom Phillips., 2001

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Identifier: CC-36246-38034
Scope and Contents

Tom Phillips was invited to exhibit his works related to music during the Van Cliburn competion. The image on the shirt as on the poster designed by Phillips is titled "Drawing on Music." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The Coherences / Hollo, Anselm ; Phillips, Tom., 1968

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Identifier: CC-31708-33218
Scope and Contents

Tom Phillips contributed four abstract and constructivistic line drawings that are reproduced in the book. This first edition was designed and printed by Asa Benveniste and Paul Vaughan. This anthology includes The Going-On Poem published by Writers Forum as Quarto One in 1966. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

The Collage Handbook / Digby, John ; Digby, Joan ; Barron S ; Benes BL ; Groh K ; Cleveland B ; Oisteanu V ; Goodnough R ; Goodnough E ; Granovsky N ; Kolar J ; Lissitzky E ; Marinetti FT ; Presser E ; Staeck K ; Zeller L ; Petrovsky W ; Eller E ; Meckseper F ; Johnson R., 1985

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Identifier: CC-15364-15688
Scope and Contents

Artists mentioned win this book with multiple works in the Sackner Archive include Susan Barron, Cavallini, Buster Cleveland, Jiri Kolar, El Lissitzky, and Elena Presser among others. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985