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Visual/verbal

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 2127 Collections and/or Records:

The Chicken Soup Effect / Sackner, Marvin; Faust D., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-03032-3077
Scope and Contents

This artist card was designed by Dikko Faust and Marvin Sackner who is the doctor who did initial research on the benefits of taking chicken soup for "a new cure for the common cold from your grandmother." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The Chicken Soup Effect / Sackner, Marvin; Faust D., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-03033-3078
Scope and Contents

This artist card was designed by Dikko Faust and Marvin Sackner who is the doctor who did initial research on the benefits of taking chicken soup for "a new cure for the common cold from your grandmother." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The Conservation of Globes - Old and Relatively New / Sumira, Sylvia ; Phillips T., 1990

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Identifier: CC-02143-2181
Scope and Contents

Includes description of Tom Phillips' "Humument Globes". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Consistency of Shadows: Exhibition Catalogs as Autonomous Works of Art, 2003

 Item — Box 194: [Barcode: 31858072459641]
Identifier: CC-40814-42791
Scope and Contents

The compact disc is held in place by means of bubbles on both sides of the case and by a slit through each one of the pamphlets. The compact disc depicts installation photographs of the catalogs and an interview between Boehme and Boltanski. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

The Dante Binding / Phillips, Tom; Erskine-Tulloch P., 1982

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Identifier: CC-04813-4904
Scope and Contents This painting depicts a portrait of Pella Erskine-Tulloch in Phillips' studio holding a handbound edition of Phillips' "Dante's Inferno." Tom Phillips describes this painting in "The Portrait Works" as follows: "The title of the picture 'The Dante Binding' refers to the book on which the sitter rests her arms. It was the last thing in the picture to be painted since it did not exist until the final three or four sittings. During the months this portrait took to paint, Pella Erskine-Tulloch and I were involved in designing the three volume binding for the Talfourd Press edition of Dante's Inferno. This sample blank volume was the final prototype. It was a triumphant moment in which the silkscreen cloth and spine-titling I had designed came together in her superbly structured binding: the mere presence of the book (replacing substitute books in earlier sittings) was enough to resolve the picture and propel it towards completion. Dante appears elsewhere in the portrait in the...
Dates: 1982

The Day of the Rope / Kevin Hamilton., 1990

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Identifier: CC-09224-9405
Scope and Contents

Text deals with discrimination of civil rights. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Eyes Have / Craigie, Peter M.., 1982

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Identifier: CC-18099-18471
Scope and Contents

Each page consists of a visual/verbal vignette using images of eyes with text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

The Final (Anal) Statement of the Mad Diarheaist / Havens, Steve., 1984

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Identifier: CC-08922-9098
Scope and Contents

Submitted as entry to the Homage To The Mad Diarist exhibition. Steve Havens also uses the name, God McDevil. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The First Fragment: The Case for the Burial of Ancestors Book 1, 1985

 Item — Box 302: [Barcode: 31858073143590]
Identifier: CC-00117-121
Scope and Contents

Three wooden objects and a thimble are placed upright in a bed of beige colored gravel like a dessert landscape. The text is rubberstamped on paper inside the lid and reads "I am the grain of truth...I hold the vessels of history and shatter them at Inside the lid is a small coffin-like wooden box; a black box on the outside has a metal capital "F." This sculpture symbolizes the puppeteer, a founder of an imaginary civilization, the Hegamons, who is described on p. 17 of the book in the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

The First Twilight / Hirschman, Jack A.., 1991

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Identifier: CC-09034-9211
Scope and Contents

The words of Martin Luther King in this poem relate to the first bombing of the Gulf War on the same day as King's birthday. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Flat Chin / Was, Elizabeth (aka Was, Liz)., 1988

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Identifier: CC-00494-506
Scope and Contents

Using made-up words like nasolabialis and embouture, the artist has placed them on a wooden support that seems to resemble a tongue. The vertical text reads in part "All roads lead to the flat chin/all roads leave from the flat chin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

The Fourth Dimension / Hung, Berwyn., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27503-28555
Scope and Contents

The text reads, "We are the prisoners of our own creation" and the accompanying images are wrist watches. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996