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Visual/verbal

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2127 Collections and/or Records:

Paar / Schmidt SJ., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-04353-4434
Scope and Contents

Includes reproduction of Schmidt's sculpture, "Dialog der Steine der Weisen" (1986) that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Page 221 from Amerika / Rollins, Tim + K.O.S., 1987 - 1990

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Identifier: CC-03379-3433
Scope and Contents

This print depicts a leaf-like, gold image with an narrow orifice superimposed on a page of text (p.221) from the novel, Amerika. The text reads in part ..."she rushed up the stairs, gasping for air, her mouth wide opened... The leaf- like image might be construed as a metaphor for respiration in the plant world and the narrow orifice as restriction to breathing causing "gasping for air." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987 - 1990

[Page from Sketchbook] / Furnival, John., 1962

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Identifier: CC-13244-13545
Scope and Contents

Depicts a simplified drawing of a landscape along with a weather forcast. Stored in Odds & Sods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1962

[Page From Sketchbook] / Peterson, Robert; Basquiat JM., 1990

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Identifier: CC-04373-4455
Scope and Contents

According to Peter Kruty who published this print labeled A.P. but the only image printed, the work was commissioned by the Bjorn Olsson Gallery for an opening of Peterson's work. Twenty-five copies were returned to Kruty and Peterson for their own use - presumably the Sackner print was one of the 25 copies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

[Paintings] / Letoublin, Martine., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44709-46875
Scope and Contents

The artist is a friend of Laurent Berman. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Paintings / Lewty, Simon., 1991

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Identifier: CC-07233-7375
Scope and Contents

Exhibition was curated by Anne Berthoud. Mention is made of a painting entitled "Of Ancient Breathing," a work commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Paris Big Bang, 2001 - 2002

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Identifier: CC-44933-47105
Scope and Contents Nadau wrote the Sackners that this work was made between Winter 2001 and Summer 2002 - about 8 months. He planned the work on several pieces of paper taped together. The word Adiabatique in one of the sentences of the drawing is a thermodynamic term. It was used for the title of a painting done with a donkey's tail prompted by Picasso and friends. The original title of the painting was "Coucher de Soliel sur L'Adiabatique; Nadau modified this to "Coucher de Lunettes sur Une Ame Adiabetique." Nadau adds that he never signs or dates his work. The following review is translated from a French newspaper: They are Eighteen draftsmen of today, very different one from the other, but all marked by Surrealism and Art Brut. The exhibition is called "Pointed (Sharp?) Drawings." It was put in place in one week, at the end of the month of August, to replace another exhibition that was scheduled and defaulted at the last moment. [The review opens with a discussion of Nadau's drawing "Paris Big...
Dates: 2001 - 2002

Participation Telephonique / Hubaut, Joel., 1995

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Identifier: CC-27540-28608
Scope and Contents

Image consists of an imagined telephone-like machine covered with made-up words to simulate a cyberspace conversion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Paste Book Number One: [Difficult ?] / Depew, Wally., 1985

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Identifier: CC-55017-221100
Scope and Contents

The suite of 26 collages with the first title [Paste Book Number One] are stored in a single folder. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985