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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5469 Collections and/or Records:

Vanderbilt Photography Review, The. No.3 / Huth G., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-46629-49359
Scope and Contents

Includes two b&w photographs by Geof Huth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Vegetal / Heidsieck, Bernard ; Janicot, Francoise ; Gette, Paul-Armand., 1966

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Identifier: CC-09492-9681
Scope and Contents

This book deals with vegetal plants. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1966

Vent D'Ouest Le Chant D'Un Monde, 1983

 Item — Folder 76: [Barcode: 31858072538352]
Identifier: CC-54978-52389
Scope and Contents

This is an announcement for a musical drama performance. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Venus Buddha Box / Al Hansen., 1992

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Identifier: CC-09885-10081
Scope and Contents

The box is covered with crumpled paper and painted or drawn ink of repeated images of Hansen's Venus of Willendorf which appears to be floating in a sea of foam. The box contains a photograph of Hansen at his front door with a falling mail box. The drawing of a nude Venus is covered with a shaped plywood cutout. The sculpture with gold foil breasts, thigh and stand is made from the plywood cutout. The tape contains Venus Rap broadcast and intermedia poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Vera Rohm / Rohm, Vera ; Gomringer E ; Bann S., 2006

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Identifier: CC-49740-70793
Scope and Contents Eugen Gomringer contributes an essay "Aspects of a Gesamtkunstwerk: Vera Rohm's oeuvre in Time and Space" Stephen Bann's essay is titled "Erganzung: Integration." He writes the following. Visiting Vera Rohm's studios in Darmstadt a few days prior to a lecturing engagement in Brighton set off a series of conjunctions and coincidences in my mind. It was in the centre of Brighton that I had organized a Concrete Poetry Exhibition to coincide with the first Brighton Festival in April 1967. Brighton Square, in the middle of the Lanes, had its perky modern architecture offset by two typographical installations involving Perspex screens and constructions, the first being a communal project on the 'five vowels' produced by the students of Bath Academy of Art under the direction of John Furnival, and the second a set of 'typographical columns' by the German Hansjorg Mayer. In the spaces around the Royal Pavilion, banners designed by the typographer Edward Wright displayed Concrete poems by...
Dates: 2006

Vera's Butterflies: First editions by Vladimir Nabokov inscribed to his wife / Nabokov, Vladimir ; Carroll L., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32896-34511
Scope and Contents

The edition consisted of 1500 soft cover copies and 500 hard cover copies. This catalogue includes several biographic essays of Nabokov. The listed books carry extensive annotations and were written as association copies with other authors, or translations by Nabokov. The colored illustrations depict Nabokov's drawing of butterflies on the dedication pages to his wife, Vera. The book also brings out his scientific reputation as an expert on butterflies and his talents as an artist. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

[Very Best Wishes for 2004] / Mutel, Didier., 2004

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Identifier: CC-45749-47958
Scope and Contents

The image of the print depicts a fish. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Vestiges ou Vertiges?, 2000

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Identifier: CC-46590-49320
Scope and Contents

This catalogue includes pages depicting and documenting the fire flies of Surinam. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

[Via Delorosa and Letter to John Bennett] / Furnival, John; Chopin H; Weaver M; Morgan E; Cameron C., 1964

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Identifier: CC-38225-40121
Scope and Contents

The letter on the verso of this photograph indicates that two of Chopin's items can be discounted. Also, Furnival mentions that Mike Weaver was upset with Edwin Morgan for not giving him more credit for his "image" article in a talk that he gave. The photograph depicts a constructivist drawing by Furnival. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964