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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5469 Collections and/or Records:

The Natty Awning / curry, jw., 1983

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Identifier: CC-19691-20078
Scope and Contents

This is an unpublished manuscript. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

The New Sins / Byrne, David., 2001

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Identifier: CC-39161-41105
Scope and Contents

This book is a personal cult-like guide to life with new ways ot "react, behave and respond" to the new sins. These sins include Charity, Sense of Humor, Beauty, Thrift, Ambition, etc. The fold-out page depicts a rendition after Dante's "Divine Comedy." Each sin is illustrated with a colored photograph. On the signature page, Byrne added several abstract marks in ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

The Nixon Poems / Merriam, Eve., 1970

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Identifier: CC-34617-36317
Scope and Contents

The author writes penetrating, witty, descriptions of President Richard Nixon. The book is illustrated by John Gerbino. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

The North Georgia Gzzette and Winter Chronicle / Picard, Caroline, editor ; Robert-Foley L., 2009

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Identifier: CC-56325-981245
Scope and Contents Amazon.com: 'The New North Georgia Gazette is an annotated transcription of the 1821 newspaper, The North Georgia Gazette. The newspaper was written aboard an English ship trapped in the Arctic. The ship s captain had the sailors produce the newspaper in order to ward off scurvy. Caroline Picard, Director of the Green Lantern, describes The Gazette as an incredible existential metaphor, where, a group of people, stranded in the dark, are forced to make their own meaning in order to survive the harsh conditions. The Gazette comes at a time of enormous environmental change, and it seeks to point out the importance of the relationships between humans and their surrounding environment. In addition to the entire 1821 newspaper, the book includes excerpts from the Captain s journal, original annotations by transcriber/poet Lily Robert-Foley, an introduction by St. John s (MD) Professor Dr. Michael Comenetz, an essay about optimism and humilty by contemporary Arctic expeditionist John...
Dates: 2009

The Odd Shower / Furnival, John; Williams, Jonathan., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28538-29820
Scope and Contents

A beautifully rendered drawing of a rain storm seen through a double window. The view is probably from the Furnivals' English house. Part of a series of eight prints in collaboration with Jonathan Williams, "St Swithin's Swivet." This print is depicted on page 44 of Furnival's book "The Locative-Vocative Cases" (2012). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

The Pandemonium Spirit / Berry, Jake., 1986

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Identifier: CC-21381-21792
Scope and Contents

According to Kettner, "First (and only) edition. Average press run for Bomb Shelter: 300-500 copies. From brief author's introduction 'In these writings and collages some "other," the "rawspirit," does the speaking. For that reason any attempt to understand this in a linear or logical context will be difficult or impossible. I see pandemonium as a break from the strictures of codified behavior into a liberated existence.'" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

The Paper Snake / Johnson, Ray ; Higgins D ; Fine AM ; Knowles A ; Herms G ; DiPrima D ; Stein G., 1965

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Identifier: CC-27299-27862
Scope and Contents

In the text printed on the dust jacket by William Wilson, Ray Johnson is described as living "a life that is a continuous revelation of pure and radiant design, the image of that life is art. Since the life itself is designed of coincidences, like a walk taking a line, the aesthetic reciprocal of that life is a Ray Johnson collage. Ray Johnson is not neo-dada or abstract or extract: he is an artist representing the reality of his life; it happens that his life is a collage." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

The Pencil Monologues / Maggi, Marco., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35886-37647
Scope and Contents

The works are mainly dense, pencil drawings on aluminum foil that relate to micrography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

The Piccadillies / Roth, Dieter ; Ackerman M ; Mayer HJ ; Phillips T., 2006

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Identifier: CC-44499-46649
Scope and Contents

All the images in this book were based upon a postcard from the collection of Rita Donagh (Richard Hamilton's wife). A postcard that it similar but with slight differences was used by Tom Phillips in hia book "The Postcard Century" to open the 1974 section. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

The Poet Exposed / Felver, Christopher ; Bernstein C ; Burroughs WS ; Cage J ; Ginsberg A ; Giorno J ; Hirschman J ; Hollo A ; MacLow J ; McClure M ; Padgett R ; Rothenberg J ; Saroyan A ; Schwerner A ; Coolidge C ; Sanders E ; Creeley R ; Antin D ; Ashbery J., 1986

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Identifier: CC-11213-11428
Scope and Contents

Photographic portraits of 101 contemporary American poets are matched with their personal, handwritten signed prose, poetic statements, and/or drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

The Poor Fisherman / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Macmillan, Duncan., 1991

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Identifier: CC-11844-12065
Scope and Contents

This exhibition of Finlay's works is based upon the painting by Puvis de Chavannes entitled "The Poor Fisherman." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991