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Visual/verbal

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2127 Collections and/or Records:

Ayer's Sarsaparilla / Anonymous., 1940

 Item
Identifier: CC-26026-26488
Scope and Contents

This booklet is an advertising vehicle for quack remedies which attribute their virtues to Sarsaparilla root. The latter, according to the text, gave Rameses, a Pharaoh of Egypt, his great strength. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1940

[Baby Announcement] / Steinbaum, Sarah; Dubovy, Sander., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-42639-44656
Scope and Contents

Birth announcement for David Steinbaum Dubovy. This invitation was first used by Bernice and Harold Steinbaum for the birth of their son Jeremey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Bad Habits Kit, 1995

 Item — Folder 17: [Barcode: 31858072459765]
Identifier: CC-24124-24576
Scope and Contents

The collage consist of 9 images on a square grid. Except for the center image solely of a warning label on smoking, the other images consist of a label warning on the dangers of suffocation with plastic bags. Four of the latter have fragments of the face of a painted cartoon animal collaged to the labels, a metaphor for stupidity. The other four have a cellophane bag containing cigarettes that spell NOTI = Not I. The collage is one of a series of 8 Unrelated Pieces for the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Bar-Bar / Hubaut, Joel., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-09252-9433
Scope and Contents

This work consists of 40 separate drawings based on Hubaut's home town of Bar Fleur , France and Barcelona, Spain where he completed several art projects. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Barbara Kruger / Kruger, Barbara ; Heller S., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-33579-35232
Scope and Contents

The massive retrospective of Kruger's work was well documented with the catalogue and was organized by Ann Goldstein. Steven Heller contributed an essay "Barbara Kruger, Graphic Designer?" in which he traced the legacy of graphic design through Russian Avant Garde, Constructivism, Futurism, Dada, new typography and Fluxus. The Sackners saw this exhibition at the L.A. MoCA. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

[Barfleur - Barcelona - Ligne Bar-Bar], 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-09261-9443
Scope and Contents

This is a sketch book made during Hubaut's visit to Barcelona. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

BARNARD ED 912 Posters (On Cruelty, No. 1), 1968

 Item — Folder 27: [Barcode: 31858072459864]
Identifier: CC-14145-14450
Scope and Contents

Christian Barnard was the South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first successful heart transplant. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968