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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5469 Collections and/or Records:

Volumes I & II / Beard, Peter ; Warhol A., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-48956-69994
Scope and Contents

Volumes I & II were edited by Nejma Beard and David Fahrey. Volume I depicts Beards' work along with critical texts. Volume II provides Beard's biography, a long interview, and an index to Volume I. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Volumes / Taylor S ; Wilcox J ; Wirth K ; Bart H ; Lawrence R., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-00690-707
Scope and Contents

Exhibition featured mixed-media installation by five Minnesota artists who use the book as a means for creative investigation, viz. book as container, a mirror for contemporary values, historical signifier, discrete object and evidence of the human experience. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Voor'werk, 1990

 Item — Box 275: [Barcode: 31858073143384]
Identifier: CC-28573-29861
Scope and Contents

The inside of the box for this exhibition has four compartments, one for representation of each of the participating artists. Kay Rosen's are concrete poetic-like prints on stiff cardboard. Fiona Rae provides a thick, impasto, acrylic, abstract expressionist painting that is numbered 227/500. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Votes For Women; Exercises For The Growing Girl, 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-32260-33821
Scope and Contents

Jackson modified pages from two 19th century books with a photocopier that touch upon feminist issues. Although the book is designated unique, an unknown number of modified copies were printed with the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Vox populi, Vox dei / Die endlose orgie / Wagner, Dieter ; Traston, Simon ; Ben ; Pezold F ; Fahlstrom O ; Fontana L ; Williams E., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-51266-72355
Scope and Contents

The larger book with the cover has 228 pages. The smaller book that consists of a cut section of an appropriated West Berlin telephone directory without a cover has 300 pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

voyous voyants voyeurs / Trouille, Clovis ; diRosa H ; Nadau JP ; Erro ; Molinier P., 2009

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Identifier: CC-50526-71597
Scope and Contents Camille Clovis Trouille, was born on 24 October 1889, in La Fère, France. He worked as a restorer and decorator of department store mannequins, but is remembered as a Sunday painter who trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Amiens from 1905 to 1910. He died on 24 September 1975 in Paris. His service in World War I gave him a lifelong hatred of the military, expressed in his first major painting Remembrance (1931). The painting depicts a pair of wraith-like soldiers clutching white rabbits, an airborne female contortionist throwing a handful of medals, and the whole scene being blessed by a cross-dressing cardinal. This contempt for the Church as a corrupt institution provided Trouille with the inspiration for decades of pictorial blasphemies: Dialogue at the Carmel (1944) shows a skull wearing a crown of thorns being used as an ornament. The Mummy shows a mummified woman coming to life as a result of a shaft of light falling on a large bust of Andre Breton. The Magician (1944) has...
Dates: 2009

Vyhlidka s pyramid / Hoffmeister, Adolf., 1957

 Item
Identifier: CC-51726-72826
Scope and Contents

This book deals with Hoffmeister's travel to Egypt. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957