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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5469 Collections and/or Records:

The Dimensions Of The Morning / Wagner, D.r. ; Kryss TL., 1969

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Identifier: CC-48072-69095
Scope and Contents

Tom Kryss did the silkcreen print and wrote the afterword. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper through Our Sumptuous Lexicon / Gordon, Karen Elizabeth., 2003

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Identifier: CC-49310-70352
Scope and Contents

This book compiles mostly archaic words and their definition along with selected illustrations, e.g., 'callipygian' meaning having beautifully proportioned buttocks, 'orotund' meaning pompous and bombastic. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

The Dore Illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy / Dante Alighieri., 1976

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Identifier: CC-15958-16293
Scope and Contents

The book consists of 136 plates by Gustave Dore. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

The Double / Boyd, Greg., 2002

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Identifier: CC-42328-44338
Scope and Contents Review from the Library Journal: A rich, intriguing maze of a "novel," this work packs more literary punch than most books twice the heft. The central text is about Jeff, a factory worker, whose life unravels when the "other" Jeff sabotages his job, relationships, and even dreams. Boyd (Sacred Hearts) opens with a life-or-death struggle between them in a graveyard and circles back in the "end." This battle might seem like a metaphor for an id-superego conflict or even multiple-personality disorder, but it's actually more complicated than that-the "real" Jeff ends up fighting back, complicating the double's more exciting life and leading readers to question who the "real" Jeff is. Over half of the book consists of brilliant short stories, allegories, and fairy tales contained in 14 appendixes and 22 annotations. Each could stand alone, but all enhance both the main story and one another. Boyd's writing is by turns gritty, darkly humorous, ironic, and elegant. -- Source of...
Dates: 2002

The Double / Boyd, Greg., 2002

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Identifier: CC-42329-44339
Scope and Contents Review from the Library Journal: A rich, intriguing maze of a "novel," this work packs more literary punch than most books twice the heft. The central text is about Jeff, a factory worker, whose life unravels when the "other" Jeff sabotages his job, relationships, and even dreams. Boyd (Sacred Hearts) opens with a life-or-death struggle between them in a graveyard and circles back in the "end." This battle might seem like a metaphor for an id-superego conflict or even multiple-personality disorder, but it's actually more complicated than that-the "real" Jeff ends up fighting back, complicating the double's more exciting life and leading readers to question who the "real" Jeff is. Over half of the book consists of brilliant short stories, allegories, and fairy tales contained in 14 appendixes and 22 annotations. Each could stand alone, but all enhance both the main story and one another. Boyd's writing is by turns gritty, darkly humorous, ironic, and elegant. -- Source of...
Dates: 2002

The Doyle Diary: The Last Great Conan Doyle Mystery / Baker, Michael., 1978

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Identifier: CC-33820-35488
Scope and Contents

Charles Altomont Doyle was the father of Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes. This notebook was created while Charles was a patient in an mental institution. It is a facsimile of sketches, watercolors, diary, nature drawings, handwritten notes and cartoon-like figures. The book's subtitle is "With a Holmsian Investigation into the Strange and Curious Case of Charles Altamont Doyle." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

The Edition / Olbrich, Jurgen O., editor; Muhleck G; Nieslony B; Tilson Ja; Olbrich JO; Hainke W; Noel A; Williams E., 1988

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Identifier: CC-41642-43632
Scope and Contents

The prints might be photographs of colored photocopied prints. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

The Electric Goddess / Shores, Michael., 1996

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Identifier: CC-29793-31171
Scope and Contents

There is a reproduction of a black and white collage featuring a female figure on each page of this book with a style reminiscent of the paste-ups of Jess. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

The End of the Art World / Morgan, Robert C.., 1996

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Identifier: CC-30367-31782
Scope and Contents

This essay attempts to define and clarify the role of the artist in the Postmodern and electronic art world. The author writes that " the dialogue between artists will become essential to the task of identifying the evolving possibilities for art in the future...Quality in art can no longer be dismissed, and it can no longer be confused with privilege. It is a matter of a heightened sensory cognition...Being an artist today is to offer a purposeful and deeply intuitive resistance to the enormous influx of cultural programming that has become an assumed liability on the information superhighway." The translations are printed with two front covers and the texts are upside down, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

The Erring Sister ( One of a Cruel Tales by Villiers De L'Isle-Adam) / Crombie, John ; Bourne, Sheila ; John Crombie, translator., 1980

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Identifier: CC-46391-49116
Scope and Contents

Villiers De L'Isle-Adam (1838-1885) was a author ivolved in the French symbolist movement who wrote a number of Cruel Tales. This story translated by Crombie has to do with one of a hard working spinster sister who errs by falling in love. It is illustrated with drawings by Sheila Bourne. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

the eschenau summer press & temporary travelling press publi: Amanita Muscaria. No.32 / Chris Drury., 1992

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Identifier: CC-01707-1743
Scope and Contents

Print depicts photograph of a head of a white poisonous mushroom on a black background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

the eschenau summer press & temporary travelling press publi: Circle. No.38 / Robert Lax., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27434-28482
Scope and Contents

Pages depict a black circle with overleaf captions, black hole, full stop, dark circle, all with the same circular image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

the eschenau summer press & temporary travelling press publi: le chene de trevans; statement. No.57 / Herman de Vries., 2008

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Identifier: CC-49446-70492
Scope and Contents

The photographs depict a nude de Vries standing next to a large tree in a field. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008