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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5469 Collections and/or Records:

Work In Progress on Bridge Piers / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Stirling, Annet; Berman, Brenda., 1990

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Identifier: CC-12210-12434
Scope and Contents

This card depicts a color photograph on its verso of a calligraphically carved stone sculpture being sited near a bridge in Glasgow and a photographic reproduction of an abstract expressionist painting by Vladimit Kokolia on its recto. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Work of the 1990's / Marden, Brice., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33679-35339
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Marden's paintings, drawings and prints in the 1990's were influenced by Chinese calligraphy and the Greek muses. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Working Legs: A Play for People Without Them, 1997

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Identifier: CC-42819-44859
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This is a play for physically disabled actors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Works and Texts / Phillips, Tom ; Paschal H ; Hurrell B., 1992

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Identifier: CC-04436-4519
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This book served as the catalogue for the exhibition of Phillips' work in the Royal Academy Sackler Gallery, London. Huston Paschal writes in the introduction that "Phillips explores the timeless marks encoding meaning...and he is on a search for self." Several references are made to the Sackners in the text written by Phillips, and many works in the Archive are illustrated including "Oh Those Reds, Speaking in Tongues, The Dante Binding, Humument Globe, The Dante Diary, and A Humument Pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Works and Texts / Phillips, Tom ; Paschal H ; Hurrell B., 1992

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Identifier: CC-04437-4520
Scope and Contents

This book served as the catalogue for the exhibition of Phillips' work in the Royal Academy Sackler Gallery, London. Huston Paschal writes in the introduction that "Phillips explores the timeless marks encoding meaning...and he is on a search for self." Several references are made to the Sackners in the text written by Phillips, and many works in the Archive are illustrated including "Oh Those Reds, Speaking in Tongues, The Dante Binding, Humument Globe, The Dante Diary, and A Humument Pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Works / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Greenhalgh, Martyn ; Nash J ; Clark L ; Harvey M ; Fine J ; Campion P., 1989

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Identifier: CC-11848-12069
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This catalogue was designed by Finlay. The 10 photographs in this book from Finlay's garden are captioned with text from Finlay's "Detached Sentances on Gardening." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Works & Interviews 1999 - 2014 / Jacobson, Michael., 2014

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Identifier: CC-60500-10003411
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In an interview with Lynn Alexander, Michael Jacobson describes asemic writing and the influence of Tim Gaze on his work. Jacobson states that asemic writing is a nataural combination of texts and images and "sits between art & literature." He believes "asemic writing is descended from all forms of writing,...and also captures the techno-anxiety & information overload of a post-literate culture better than traditional forms of literary expression." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014

Works of Art from the Past Millennium / Horndeski, Gregory., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35543-37283
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Wade Wilson contributes an incisive essay on the technical, socio-political and artistic background of Horndeski's paintings. "The artist paints on a horizontal canvas, like Pollack, with a knife and uses fluid acrylic paints which permit him to "achieve some remarkable effects as the paints mix on the canvas." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Works on Paper / El Hanani, Jacob., 1995

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Identifier: CC-14390-14699
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The drawings were geometric and abstract markings done in af micrographic style. An accompanying review from Art in America indicates that a drawing takes two to three months to complete. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Works. Texts. to 1974 3rd edition / Phillips, Tom., 1983

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Identifier: CC-54505-989972
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This is the "third" edition of the book that presents a retrospective of Phillips' ouevre. The "second" edition and its year of publication are a mystery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Works. Texts. to 1974 / Phillips, Tom., 1975

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Identifier: CC-38836-40751
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This is the first edition of the book that presents a retrospective of Phillips' ouevre. In view of the importance of Tom Phillips in shaping the Sackner Archive, one copy is stored as a reference text, the other copy with Tom Phillips books in a box in the alcove off the second bedroom. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975