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Conceptual art

 Subject

Subject Source: LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 160 Collections and/or Records:

Editions Camomille, No. 12: Inventaire, 1991

 Item — Box 175: [Barcode: 31858072459278]
Identifier: CC-13471-13773
Scope and Contents

The pages of this book object are blank. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Editions Camomille, No. 26: 00 32.2, 2000

 Item — Box 169: [Barcode: 31858072458312]
Identifier: CC-35220-36954
Scope and Contents

This book is a white pages telephone book of Brussels. The artististic contribution was the writing of her name, address, and telephone number on the side margin of the alphabetical page for Janssens. Born in 1956 in the United Kingdom, Ann Veronica Janssens lives in Bruxelles. She now has an international reputation, in particular for installations that plunge visitors into coloured artificial fogs that challenge our habits regarding perception and sense of direction (MUKHA 1997, Venice Biennale 1999, Kunsthalle Berne 2003, MAC Marseille 2003, Neue Nationale Galerie Berlin 2001, 1301PE gallery LA 2003.), her bicycles with reflective wheels (Neue Nationale Galerie Berlin 2001, Middleheim Museum Antwerp 2002, MUKHA Antwerp 2003) and other works making play with the parameters of light. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Extinct, 1997

 Item — Box 145: [Barcode: 31858072457983]
Identifier: CC-27777-28906
Scope and Contents

Rifas indicates on the verso of the label, "This is an offshoot of a 1990's environmental piece called 'Fragile, Damaged, Extinct.' The word 'extinct,' in declining size letters, is etched into one of the open scissor blades. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Firecracker: All Books Are Meant to Be Read, 1994

 Item — Box 305: [Barcode: 31858072460953]
Identifier: CC-09784-9978
Scope and Contents

A small soft cover book is wrapped in papers which include the text above and "Non-Archival Book Instructions: Light Fuse and Get Away." With the exposed string on top, this book object resembles a fire cracker. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Flatland 25-35, 2007

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-47301-50044
Scope and Contents

Beaulieu made this book by tracing a line to each letter of Abbott's book "Flatland. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Flowers: Fill in the Flowers with Colours, 1977

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-10972-11184
Scope and Contents

This poem was composed after a work by Tom and Laurie Clark. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Homage to the Square, the Blacks, Ian Hamilton Finlay & Marshall McLuhan, 1968

 Item — Box 350: [Barcode: 31858072490869]
Identifier: CC-23495-23940
Scope and Contents

Printed on white paper. The image on the inside back cover is a small, hand drawn, black square. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Homage to the Square, the Blacks, Ian Hamilton Finley & Marshall McLuhan, 1968

 Item — Box 350: [Barcode: 31858072490869]
Identifier: CC-23427-23871
Scope and Contents

Printed on gray paper; the Sackner Archive also has a copy printed on white paper. The image on the inside back cover is a small, hand drawn, black square. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

I Am Your Stamp, 1984

 Item — Box 270: [Barcode: 31858072460573]
Identifier: CC-22236-22658
Scope and Contents

Object is a rubberstamp of the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. The rubber has mostly disintegrated.

Dates: 1984

Ian Hamilton Finlay in a Bottle, 1995

 Item — Box 301: [Barcode: 31858072460912]
Identifier: CC-00623-637
Scope and Contents

The poem by Ian Hamilton Finlay, printed on a small paper fragment, reads "warship worship." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Lego 50-15, 2010

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-51547-72645
Scope and Contents

Beaulieu invited 15 artists and poets to modify the original patent for Lego toys artistically or poetically and assembled the results into this piece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Levy Lives, 1967

 Item — Box 305: [Barcode: 31858072460953]
Identifier: CC-07652-7797
Scope and Contents

This badge might have been done by levy in his lifetime or posthumously by one of his followers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Note: this badge was created by levy, likely in 1967, as he referred to it in Kibbutz In the Sky Book 2, 1967.

Dates: 1967

L.H.O.O.Q., 2005

 Item — Box 196: [Barcode: 31858072459666]
Identifier: CC-50529-71601
Scope and Contents

The title of this piece is from Duchamps' version of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa who has been adorned with a comical moustache and goatee thus deserving its alternate title Joconde aux Moustaches. The title is essentially a phonetic game. As Duchamp himself noted in a 1966 interview, "I really like this kind of game, even in any language, some astonishing things happen." When read quickly in French, the title L.H.O.O.Q. sounds like a sentence translating to "She has a hot ass." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Logical Book, 1968

 Item — Box 284: [Barcode: 31858073143426]
Identifier: CC-60162-54096
Scope and Contents

This book is not listed in the Wikipedia bibliography of the press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. Date originally recorded as 1975.

Dates: 1968

L'ordine rovesciato delle cose, 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-37936-39816
Scope and Contents

This catalogue represents a retrospective exhibition of the work of Costa (1942-1995) whose theme is transformation, metamorphosis and cultural anthropology. It includes essays entitled, "The Theatre of Wreckage," A Journey, a Collection of Saints, a Charcoal-maker, Spring Water and the Magic of Artistic Expression,"In the Company of Human Brain and Prehistoric Man" and "The Reconstruction of the Human." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000