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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5486 Collections and/or Records:

Black Signs / Buchwalder, Ernst., 1996

 Item
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

blew trewz, 1971

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Bis-Bu: [Barcode: 31858072491271]
Identifier: CC-21935-22347

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

 Item
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

 Item
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

 Item
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

 Item
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

 Item
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

 Item
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

Boat Ride, 1975

 Item — Box 199: [Barcode: 31858072459690]
Identifier: CC-19999-20387
Scope and Contents

The object is a small toy boat made of plaster and painted black. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Boatyard 1 / Fencott, P.C.., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-13055-13350
Scope and Contents

Appears to be made from a collage of chart papers with different markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987