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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5469 Collections and/or Records:

The Lady and the Bird Odyssey / Cutler-Shaw, Joyce., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-19492-19875
Scope and Contents

This is an original mock-up photograph. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

The Last Acts Of Saint Fuckyou 3rd Edition / Porter, Bern ; Perkins, Stephen., 1985

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Identifier: CC-48952-69990
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive contains a version of this poem on a white plastic window shade. The book includes reproductions of collages by Steve Perkins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

The Last Acts Of Saint Fuckyou / Porter, Bern ; Perkins, Stephen., 1985

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Identifier: CC-48889-69926
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive holds a version of this poem on a white plastic window shade. The book includes reproductions of collages by Steve Perkins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

the Letters Between Us: To Ruth on her birthday March 2006 / Helmes, Scott., 2006

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Identifier: CC-44622-46785
Scope and Contents

The abstract lithographed markings resemble partial letter forms. They are over painted in rose colored watercolor and outlined with a graphite border. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

The Library / Kopystiansky, Svetlana ; Carroll L., 1994

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Identifier: CC-08113-8273
Scope and Contents

This catalogue depicts several sculptural installations composed of stacked, opened, rolled, or inter-woven books. Their visual appearance is related to a theme from a page of these books that is reproduced in the catalog. One of the pages depicting the mouse's tail is taken from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

The Man from New York: John Quinn and His Friends / Reid, B.L. ; Quinn J ; Joyce J., 1968

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Identifier: CC-03640-3705
Scope and Contents

This is the biography of John Quinn, the greatest American collector of art and experimental literature of the early 20th century. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

The Map as Art / Harmon, Katharine ; Art & Language ; Baldessari J ; Bennett M ; Beube D ; Callan J ; Chagoya E ; Druks M ; Drury C ; Duman A ; Evans S ; Fisher V ; Hammond J ; Holt N ; Johns J ; Johnson E ; Jones K ; Katchadourian N ; Kenny C ; Kentridge W ; Kozloff J ; Kuitca G ; Lin M ; Long R ; Morellet F ; Muniz V ; Walter S ; Jones K ; Kenny C ; Ruscha E ; Cusick M ; Scher P ; Bradford M ; Webber MA., 2009

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Identifier: CC-51666-72766
Scope and Contents Ross: Amazon.com: The book is beautifully produced on excellent stock, binding and gorgeous reproductions; the artists use maps as a "medium for expressing their observations, passions and anxieties about the contemporary world." There are 360 maps made from all sorts of media, traditional painting, modified globes, tree branches, butterfly wings, spider webs and more. Unusual examples include: Kim Baranowski's map of alien-abduction sites, which is part of the "Mappa Mundi" series: "information that would give schoolchildren nightmares; areas of the world not yet hit by asteroids, potential U.S. nuclear targets ... or "show-and-tell for the paranoid." Vik Muniz created a world map using junk from garbage dumps, assembled with the help of youngsters from the shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro. Corriette Schoenaerts, 'Europe,' 2005, is a construction of countries and continents made out of clothing. In 2002, China's Long March Project embarked upon a `Walking Visual Display' along the...
Dates: 2009

The Master Pipes / Freeman, Jane., 1992

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Identifier: CC-12713-12960
Scope and Contents

Depicts a diorama. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

The Metamorphoses Octet: The Heart of the Immortal, 1996

 Item — Box 63: [Barcode: 31858072538527]
Identifier: CC-28025-29179
Scope and Contents

The title is reflected in the eight open-faced, pop-up, heart shaped pages. Andrew Binder found the metal lower half of the box container which suggested a half of a heart. The book pages are designed to be opened and viewed from the back forward, like a Hebrew book. Each collaged page is intricately engineered and lushly illustrated with drawings of men and women, various flora, hearts marked with Russian text, hands, rib cage, insects, a 3D spiral, sea creatures, and a fish. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

the micro wave / MacAdam, Barbara A.; ElHanani J; Ligon G; Teige K; Houshiary S; Gissler G; McClure S; Frost S., 2001

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Identifier: CC-36391-38183
Scope and Contents

Barbara A. MacAdam contributes an essay "The Micro Wave" that describes the work of artists inspired by textiles, computer chips, prayers and obsessions, creating works that are almost impossible to decipher. These works of micrography were done by Jacob El Hanani, Shirazeh Houshiary, Stefana McClure, Gary Gissler, and Simon Frost. Elisa Turner reviews "Dreams and Disillusion," the exhibition of Czech graphic designer Karel Teige at the Wolfsonian, Miami Beach. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The Multi-Dimensional Jew / Moss, David., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51706-72806
Scope and Contents

Moss describes his quest to create a model institution to learn about and experience Judaism. This print is a visual representation of six questions that envision the model for this project: What is behind me? What surrounds me? What is within me? What is above me? Whom do I face? What is ahead of me?"Moss has also created a three dimensional model as a structure for a future project. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

The Mystery of the Magic Box: An Open and Shut Case, 1996

 Item — Box 301: [Barcode: 31858072460912]
Identifier: CC-31048-32510
Scope and Contents

This catalogue was designed by the first three authors and the exhibition was curated by the last two. Ron Glowin contributed an essay on the art of making art in boxes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996