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Conceptual art

 Subject

Subject Source: LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 160 Collections and/or Records:

Pieces of Painting - Slices of Thought, 1996

 Item — Box 268: [Barcode: 31858072460599]
Identifier: CC-03710-3781
Scope and Contents

This depicts a single white "O' on a gray background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Probable Latitude 76'15' Longitude 113': A Minimal Monument, 1970

 Item — Box 301: [Barcode: 31858072460912]
Identifier: CC-28100-29259
Scope and Contents

The work consists of two white cardboard cubes, each with the word, "silence" printed on their sides; in one the print is black, in the other white. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Proposal: A Shaded Path (2) , 1989

 Item — Folder 62: [Barcode: 31858072537966]
Identifier: CC-12484-12711
Scope and Contents

This is a proposal for a garden path of bricks stamped with names of trees taken from Sir William Temple's book "Gardens in Virgil's Time," viz., 'The trees were the elm, the pine, the lime-tree, and the Platanus, or plame-tree, whose leaf and shade, of all others, was the most in request...' -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Sea Threw (That Which We Call Arose), 1979

 Item — Box 160: [Barcode: 31858072458130]
Identifier: CC-01681-1717
Scope and Contents

The identical words "sea threw" are carved on two granite stones. This sculpture is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Six of Hearts [final proof], 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-30084-31482
Scope and Contents

This print was constructed according to rules of the golden section but most of the lines have been erased even though this version is designated as the final proof. The print was not editioned but a musical piece with the same title was cokmposed in 1991. This was recorded on a compact disc in 1997, a work also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Six of Hearts [trial proof], 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-30089-31487
Scope and Contents

This print was constructed according to rules of the golden section with these lines retained in gold ink. The print was not editioned but a musical piece with the same title was composed in 1991 and recorded on a compact disc in 1997. The disc is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Spitfire Segments/Messerschmitt Mottle / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1975

 Item — Folder 35: [Barcode: 31858072459948]
Identifier: CC-12336-12562
Scope and Contents

This print is not listed in Finlay's book, Prints 1963-1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975