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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5469 Collections and/or Records:

Black and White The Horses / West, David S. ; Pratt A., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-30661-32102
Scope and Contents

Andrew Pratt provided the title page and back cover drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Black Rain, 1954

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Identifier: CC-38849-40765
Scope and Contents

The conventional poems in this book were translated from the Japanese to English by the author. The illustrations are constructivist designs and line drawings made by Katue Kitasono. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1954

Black Signs / Buchwalder, Ernst., 1996

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Identifier: CC-33091-34716
Scope and Contents

Buchwalder's work consists of abstract free-form, ideographic, black signs, that are presented as drawings, wood sculptures and ceramic forms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Blind Date / Hull, Stephen, editor ; McCaffery S ; Altschuler B ; Shaw J., 1998

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Identifier: CC-41774-43769
Scope and Contents

Blind date refers to a projenct in which an artwork is provided to a writer who provides an impression not a criticism. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Blitz/Mad Virgin!. No.2 / Bobbie Watson, Mel Buffington, editors ; Richmond S ; Bukowski C ; Crews J ; grapes m ; levy da ; Potts C ; Blazek D ; Buffington M., 1964

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Identifier: CC-51164-72252
Scope and Contents

This issue was addressed to Marcus Grapes who was also a contributor. d.a. levy contributed a surealistic story. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1964

Bloknoot: Proefonderzoek. No.3 / Gerrit Jan De Rook., 1971

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Identifier: CC-24043-24493
Scope and Contents

Edited by Ruud van Aarssen, Robert Joseph, and Gerrit Jan de Rook. On one page, words are formed diagramatically in a style similar to that of Winkler but using a rectilinear rather than a circular grid. The number of copies hors is unspecified. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Blood, Grit & Glitter / Pazos, Carlos ; Canas D., 1989

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Identifier: CC-03848-3921
Scope and Contents

Dionisio Canas contributed the introductory essay on the assemblages depicted in this catalogue which were largely made from material collected from the streets of New York. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Blue: A Novel / Zucker, Benjamin., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34667-36368
Scope and Contents In the New York Times Book Review, William Ferguson writes, "Benjamin Zucker's first novel, Blue, is at once a spiritual challenge and a gorgeous typographic object. Echoing the style of the Talmud, the book presents a continuing narrative in the center of each right-hand page, where a passage from the Mishna - ancient commentary on the Torah - would ordinarily be placed...The central story is wreathed with commentaries, including those of Abe's mother and father, the impatient Rachel and a host of others both living and dead: Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, Chief Crazy Horse, Modigliani, Isaac Luria, Bob Dylan, and dozens more. Their remarks all begin with a word or phrase taken from the main text; the words attributed to them are a mixture of direct quotation, in italics, and the author's expertly constructed inventions of what they might have said. The left-hand pages all bear illustrations - dazzling reproductions of Vermeers and Van Goghs, photographs of Kafka, Talmudic texts - that...
Dates: 2000

Blue / Depew, Wally., 1985

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Identifier: CC-15169-15490
Scope and Contents

The text of this book interspersed with rubberstamped images of a husk of corn reads "blue corn grows in the sand for the Hopi." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985