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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5469 Collections and/or Records:

The Ultimate Alphabet: New Edition / Wilks, Mike., 1982

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Identifier: CC-00464-476
Scope and Contents

This consists of a set of pictures, one for each letter of the alphabet, with an attempt to include as many images as possible in the picture denoted by the first letter of its corresponding word. The book contains over 8000 items in its 26 pictures. The author also describes his working process in making the pictures, He includes an image of himself in all the pictures. The soft cover book accompanying the book lists all the images used for the puzzle book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

The Watts Memorial Chapel-Compton-Surrey first Published in The Architectural Review, 1961 / Furnival, John., 1998

 Item — Folder 38: [Barcode: 31858072459989]
Identifier: CC-30121-31519
Scope and Contents

This is a reprinting of the first commercial print that Furnival made after his graduation from the Royal Academy of Art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

The World below the Window / Smith, William Jay., 1998

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Identifier: CC-29960-31351
Scope and Contents

This poem was composed and printed in celebration of the 80th birthday of Bill Smith and the publication of his collected poems by the same title. The small engraving by George Wingate illustrates the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

The World / Fierens, Luc; Altemus R., 2007

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Identifier: CC-46368-49093
Scope and Contents

Each print consists of a visual and visual/verbal based poem printed from a collage. Each contains a previously published photograph of holacaust subjects. Reed Altemus is the publisher of Live Matter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

The Writer's Brush; Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers / Friedman, Donald ; Gass W ; Updike J ; Acker K ; Apollinaire G ; Artaud A ; Breton A ; Bukowski C ; Corso G ; Ferlinghetti L ; Ford CH ; Ginsberg A ; Gorey E ; Jacob M ; Ionesco E ; Jones D ; Kerouac J ; Lear E ; Lethem J ; Lewis WP ; McClure M ; Michaux H ; Miller H ; Nabakov V ; Patchen K ; Plath S ; Prevert J ; Proust M ; Rexroth K ; Rimbaud A ; Simic C ; Steadman R ; Thomas D ; Verlaine P ; Vonnegut KJr ; Arp H ; Baraka A ; Blake W ; Burroughs WS ; Carroll L ; Cocteau J ; cummings ee ; Darger H ; Davenport G ; DosPassos J ; Dostoevsky F ; Duncan R ; Jarry A ; Kafka F ; Mayakovsky V ; McCullough C ; Smith Pa ; Spiegelman A ; Yeats WB ; Eggers D ; Marquez GG ; Joans T ; Katchor B ; Kesey K ; Lax R ; Merton T ; Perec G ; Queneau R ; Silverstein S ; Ware C ; Wakoski D., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47385-68382
Scope and Contents William H. Gass and John Updike contributed critical essays. Publishers Weekly 2007 "In this hefty volume, novelist Friedman takes a look at the artwork of more than 200 authors who found other avenues for expression in drawing, painting or sculpting. Aside from the familiar illustrations of Edward Gorey, Beatrix Potter and (to a lesser extent) Kurt Vonnegut, Friedman also unearths work from literary heavyweights past and present, including the Bronte sisters, Herman Hesse, Rudyard Kipling, Colleen McCullough, Vladamir Nabokov, John Updike and Jonathan Lethem. Each entry offers a short biography and passages from journals, letters or interviews illuminating the author's reasons for picking up pen or paint; according to Elizabeth Bishop, for instance, writers make a "frequent complaint that painting is more fun than writing." Examples of authors' art, one or two from each subject, are handsomely reproduced in vivid color alongside the text. Friedman also covers a long list of...
Dates: 2007

The Written and the Diagrammatic: Paintings and Drawings 1965 - 77, 1978

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Identifier: CC-48512-69541
Scope and Contents

Smith states in an interview with Alan Bowness that his paintings "can be thought of as visual poetry, but they are not to be confused with concrete poetry. It is essential that my paintings are only visually understood. They are sound scores concerned with harmonies, discords and pauses...I seem now to be able to build up a visual written language that can deal with any experience of sensation. A written page can be remade in the same way that an artist remakes an object. WORDS BECOME OBJECTS." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

The Yewdales / Furnival, John., 1993

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Identifier: CC-13171-13472
Scope and Contents

This print from the Nailsworth series depicts a cottage in the town where the author W.H. Davies lived. The latter glowers from the doorway. In The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Then and Now: Fifty Years of Assemblage, 2003

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Identifier: CC-47234-49977
Scope and Contents

George Herms was an important artist is the California assemblage movement of the 1960's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Theorizing Modernism, 1994

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Identifier: CC-16401-16751
Scope and Contents

Part of the series Interpretations in Art, this book is subtitled "Visual Art and the Critical Tradition." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

There Will Be Floods / Dezso, Andrea., 2008

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Identifier: CC-47796-68815
Scope and Contents

Dezso illustrated this essay with a black and white scene of a tidal wave breaking over a city. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Things in their Elements by Alistair Rider / Andre, Carl ; Stella F ; Frampton H ; Smithson R., 2011

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Identifier: CC-52926-74066
Scope and Contents Amazon.com: Carl Andre (born 1935), the American minimalist artist, is perhaps best known for his grid-based floor sculptures but also for large, outdoor public artworks and small sculptures, poetry and installations. Alistair Rider here shows that it is the materials that he uses to make his works that inspire him - from his controversial bricks to all sorts of metals, found wood, even hay bales, Andre is fascinated by what materials make up the world and presents them for contemplation. Andre's early wood sculptures show the influence of Brancusi, who he had met through their mutual friend Hollis Frampton when a student in the early 1950s. Then towards the end of that decade he shared a studio with Frank Stella and their conversations led to rapid development in his work, when he began using a radial saw to shape his sculptures. Between 1960-4 Andre worked as freight brakeman and conductor in New Jersey for the Pennsylvania Railroad, and focused mainly on writing, including his...
Dates: 2011

Things / Martin, Stephen-Paul., 1991

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Identifier: CC-06709-6828
Scope and Contents

Illustrations that accompany poems are photographs of structures made from paper clips and rubber bands. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Think Twice / Art Guys., 1995

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Identifier: CC-36048-37822
Scope and Contents

Michael Galbreth and Jack Massing are the Art Guys. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Thinks We Believe When We Believe We Know / Dezso, Andrea ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 2010

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Identifier: CC-51598-72697
Scope and Contents

Andrea Dezso takes the leitmotif of her life - an artist caught between civilizations - and gives it to us in crafted form. The entire body of her work, from the drawings and fragments of her journal, to the cut-out silhouettes, to the ceramic figures, to the needlepoint and kitchenware, is the material for a gigantic story: part fairytale, part diary, part chapter of world history. The total picture is so sad, magical, melancholy and hilarious that it couldn't possibly be true. but it is. Morgan Meis contributes a descriptive essay of Dezso's life and work. The Sackner Archive is listed as holding her pieces. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010