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Outsider art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 99 Collections and/or Records:

Civilisations Imaginaires / Pessin M., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-28683-29985
Scope and Contents This exhibition was subtitled, "Five Contemporary Outsiders." The colored illustrations of each of the five artists featured in this exhibition are printed on heavy stock paper. The commentaries in French and English of their work are printed on lighter stock paper. The print included in this catalogue was an add-on to the purchase. This exhibition, which was seen by the Sackners is well summarized by Lauren Danchin's essay in the catalogue. He writes, "Nothing at first could bring together the cave painting style of Christine Sefolosha, the exaggerated fetishes of Joseph Kurhakec and the pseudo tibetan manuscripts or the ritual shields of Lidia Syroka. Nor the little vegetable people living in Jephan de Villiers' legendary land, the Arbony, or Marc Pessin's fictitious archeology with its proliferous writing. Nothing except a common affinity with what could be named the archaic perception of the world, a common feeling for the materials, the techniques and the sensitivity of...
Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Collectors of Skies / Valerie Rousseau, curator ; Barbara Safarova, curator ; Darger H ; Hugo V ; Kosek Z ; Muniz V., 2012

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Identifier: CC-55240-9999000
Scope and Contents

From the curators' forward essay. "The works assembled for this exhibition confront an elementary complexity behind this pastime, driving artists froamdiverse paths to explore often obsessively, a unique relationship with the sky and the vertical axis it draws." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Currents / Finster H ; Souza A., 1982

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Identifier: CC-16579-16932
Dates: 1982
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Different Drummers / Berman W ; Fahlstrom O ; Jess ; Jensen A ; Connell C., 1988

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Identifier: CC-15365-15689
Dates: 1988
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Draftsman, Writer, Poet, Composer (Edited by Elka Spoerri) / Wolfli, Adolf ; Spoerri E ; Szeemann H ; Artaud A ; Breton A ; Cage J ; Cocteau J ; Dubuffet J ; Duchamp M ; Eluard P ; Ernst M ; Magritte R ; Messager A ; Ossorio A ; Michaux H ; Paz O ; Ranier A ; Riley T ; Spoerri D ; Tapie M ; Thomkins A ; Schwarz D ; Tinguely J ; Tzara T ; Warhol A ; Ratz M., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28523-29803
Scope and Contents

This well illustrated book clearly presents Wolfli's life, art, and pyschiatric disturbances. The editor indicates that Wolfli sold his art from the mental institution where he was confined until his death in 1930 of intestinal cancer. His work was rediscovered by Dubuffet after WW II. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

Drawings, 1985

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Identifier: CC-08117-8277
Scope and Contents

Published on the occasion of an exhibition by Knowles at Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

Du 24 Mars Au 20 Mai 1991, 1991

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Identifier: CC-44702-46868
Dates: 1991
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / BOOKS / BOOKS (moved to alphabetical shelves)

Dwight Mackintosh: The Boy Who Time Forgot / MacGregor, John., 1992

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Identifier: CC-32969-34589
Scope and Contents

MacGregor provides a biography and psychological analysis of Mackintosh and his Outsider artworks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

ecriture en delire / Michel Thevoz, curator ; Genevieve Roulin, curator ; Carlo ; Walla A ; Aloise ; Wolfli A ; Palanc F ; Mackintosh D ; Jeannot ; Matsumoto K ; Schwarzlin-Berberat C ; Hodinos EJ ; Finster H., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-62734-68921
Scope and Contents

This book is an anthology of outsider artists whose work utilizes writing as a major form of expression. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Els llibres de Zush / Zush ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 1989

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Identifier: CC-35035-36756
Scope and Contents

The pages of all of Zush's unique books beginning in 1968 are photographically reproduced in color and black & white. The Sackner Archive's copy of Zush's book, Buxida Vospina, was loaned to this exhibition and is depicted on pages 153-155. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Emancipations / Nadau, Jean-Pierre ; Nadau JP., 2012

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Identifier: CC-55245-9999006
Scope and Contents

The cover drawings were composed by Jean-Pierre Nadau and four ink on paper drawings are illustrated in the catalogue. The descriptive text states that Nadau also draws in ink on large rolls of paper. His compositions, saturated with fantastic architectures, of inscriptions and of people, may reach six metesr in length. The Sackner Archive holds one such drawing titled "Paris Big Bang.' This work is stored in a box with other Nadau material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Eros, 1990

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Identifier: CC-55066-548291
Dates: 1990
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND BROADSIDES

Esopus: Women of Marwencol: Recent Photographs. / Mark Hogancamp., 2014

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Identifier: CC-61011-10003795
Dates: 2014
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Periodicals

European Outsiders / Wolfli A ; Wilson S., 1986

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Identifier: CC-13824-14129
Dates: 1986
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

ExpLosition 1 / Nadau JP., 2008

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Identifier: CC-48222-69246
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive is mentioned on the Jean-Pierre Nadau page in this catalogue as having his work "Paris Big Bang." NadaU states that this piece is the masterpiece of this celebrated collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Finger Art / Finster, Howard., 1980

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Identifier: CC-12655-12896
Dates: 1980
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Booklets

Fragments de memoire / de Villiers, Jephan., 1996

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Identifier: CC-39068-41006
Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Books

From Bertrandville to Brooklyn / Birch, Willie., 1996

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Identifier: CC-28416-29659
Scope and Contents

This exhibition by an African American artist is part of the Artist and the Community series at SECCA which aims to establish bonds between the artist and the community. Birch worked on projects with students in an elementary and a middle school. The exhibition at SECCA presents Birch's recent scultpture and drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Exhibit Catalogs

Giganto-Saurus / Wolfli, Adolf., 1994

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Identifier: CC-31224-32693
Dates: 1994
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Various Formats

Gracias San Juditas / Anonymous., 2015

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Identifier: CC-60539-10003449
Scope and Contents

This art work was a gift from Zach Behar and Jacquy Argote purchased on their travels in Mexico. The text reads "Gracias San Juditas por abrirme los ojos para darme cuenta que mi marido me enganaba con la comadre Choni. ...Cuca Castro." [Thank you Saint Judith for opening my eyes for giving me account that my husband deceived me with my woman friend Choni.] -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2015
Found in: The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry / The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry: Poem and Book Objects

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