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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5468 Collections and/or Records:

Des Valois a Henri IV / Beres, Pierre ; Grisel J ; Henry J., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-28881-30203
Scope and Contents

This profusely illustrated catalogue includes two books that contain examples of shaped poetry: 1) Jean Grisel. Les premiers oeuvres poetiques de Jehen Grisel rouennois. Rouen, France. 1599. and 2) Jean Henry. Le Jardin de contemlation. Paris. 1516. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

desea todos sus amigos un ano especial de meditacion / Hidalgo, Juan., 1969

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Identifier: CC-43327-45386
Scope and Contents

Stored with Zaj material. The card depicts a photograph of Hidalgo taken in Aachen in 1968. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Desire and the Importance of Failure / Esch, Deborah., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27567-28642
Scope and Contents The large format pages combine abstract organic drawings, constructivistic architectural details and mysterious phrases all set in lowercase typography. Subtitled "Lo Spirito della Storia Naturale," this book was printed for the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games. Nancy Princenthal reviewed this book in the periodical On Paper V.1,No.4 and stateid that "on faithful expression and artifice, memory and its loss, and - to return to the spirit of the season - the rhythms of personal attraction and its loss, not many recent books compare to Shelagh Keeley's finely wrought Desire and the Importance of Failure...A second title, lo spirito della storia naturale, appears on the back cover of this big, shiny-white hardbound volume, indicating that it can be read in two directions. A third possibility is to start at midpoint, where a centerfold combines a photograph of an architectural detail with a grisly, blood-red abstract drawing by Keeley...Sometimes the images are doubled and...
Dates: 1996

Dessins Lettristes / Isou I ; Sabatier R ; Satie A ; Poyet F ; Devaux F ; Broutin GP ; Amarger M., 1991

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Identifier: CC-16320-16670
Scope and Contents

The duplicate copy does not have folds. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Dessins/Notes - Realisation / Clareboudt, Jean., 2001

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Identifier: CC-60222-10003233
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive holds an artist book by Jean Clareboudt (1944-1997). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Detricato a Pasiphae / Mennitti-Paraito, Emanuele., 1989

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Identifier: CC-06174-6288
Scope and Contents

The overall image depicts the artist's interpretation of a character cited in Dante's Purgatory. Pasiphae was the queen of Crete and Minosse's wife. She had a son who was the monster Minotaur, half man and half bull. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Devil's Artisan (DA): A Special Issue on Women & Printing. No.43/Fall / Monica Biagioli, editor., 1998

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Identifier: CC-34006-35682
Scope and Contents

This issue featured an etching on a feminist theme by Rebecca Cowan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Devil's Artisan (DA): Featuring the Work of Claire Pratt. No.46/Spr-Sum / Robert Brandeis., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34026-35704
Scope and Contents

This issue deals with the work of Claire Pratt, a Canadian printmaker. The loose print by Pratt was printed by Margaret Lock. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Devil's Artisan (DA): Frank Newfield and the Visual Awakening of the Canadian Book. No.45/Fall-Win / Randall Speller., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33691-35352
Scope and Contents

This issue deals with the work of Frank Newfield, a Canadian Book designer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Devil's Artisan (DA). No.36/Spr., 1995

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Identifier: CC-14631-14944
Scope and Contents

Includes an annotated listing of prior covers of this periodical, which changed its name to DA. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Devil's Artisan (DA). No.36/Spr., 1995

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Identifier: CC-16285-16631
Scope and Contents

Includes an annotated listing of prior covers of this periodical, which changed its name to DA. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995