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Assembling

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 84 Collections and/or Records:

PIPS, 1/93: Phantastische Fahrzeuge, 1993

 Item — Box 218: [Barcode: 31858072460177]
Identifier: CC-39014-40951
Scope and Contents

This project and the accompanying box object assembling are a spoof on a vehicle advertised in Frankfurter Allegmeine Sonntagszeitung, the "ResidenSea." The latter is a luxery liner and houseboat all in one with 110 holiday residences and 88 apartments for sale. The prices range from $680,000 t0 $3,900,000! The booklet gives the artist's take on this project and the box objects presents the artists' view of another kind of travelling. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Portrait of ....., 1976

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Crozier, Robin: [Barcode: 31858072491362]
Identifier: CC-19204-19587
Scope and Contents

This project is composed of self-portraits of the 130 artists themselves, who participated in the first part of this portrait project (also a book) by sending a portrait of Robin Crozier to Crozier. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Quintessenze Cagliostro: bicentario della morte, 1995

 Item — Box 252: [Barcode: 31858072460458]
Identifier: CC-43815-45911
Scope and Contents

This assembling was collected with a FAX machine to remember the 200th anniversity of the death of Caglostro, an important Italian alchemist, magician, healer, astrologer, and philanthopist of the 18th century (1743-1795). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Sea Fever, 2000

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CC-35104-36832

Simplex 17, 2006

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-47312-50055
Scope and Contents

These prints by the 17 contributors were photocopied from the collages made from the same letraset fonts distributed to them by Bealieu. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Stempelkunst Stamp Art 1st Edition , 1975

 Item — Box 325: [Barcode: 31858072490919]
Identifier: CC-34005-35681
Scope and Contents

This assembling was made by photocopying rubberstamped pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

The Search for Accidental Significance: for Brian Buczak, 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-08782-8957
Scope and Contents

The proceeds from this book went to support people with AIDS. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Trax 0482: Selfportrait, 1983

 Item — Box 213: [Barcode: 31858072459310]
Identifier: CC-17857-18227
Scope and Contents

Each contributor submitted a self-portrait to this assembling. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Une Ribambelle por l'an 2000, 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-35810-37569
Scope and Contents

Albert Dupont organized this book project for his son Ben's class. Each student, the teachers and Dupont contributed a line drawing portrait of themselves, designed so that each individual held the hand of the preceeding and following person. The title means "A Lot of Children." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Visual Writing, 2004

 Item — Box 307: [Barcode: 31858073143616]
Identifier: CC-43594-45672
Scope and Contents

Each participant in this mail art project was given a photograph of the same young woman with the lower half of her face concealed by a mask. They were free to modify it but could not remove the mask. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Warum Adolf Hitler kein Kunstler geworden ist, 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27406-28449
Scope and Contents

The title of this book in English is "Why Adolf Hitler has not become an Artist." Each of the contributing artists/poets answers this question with one or more drawings or poems. For example, Olbrich writes a sentence,"? -- It's a true story." Garnier provides three ink drawings of caricatures of Hitler that focus on his prominent facial features, his moustache and hair swept to one side. They are captioned, espressionismus, Hil Heitler, and entartete Kunst. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Words and Pictures, No. 0: Pilot Issue, 1994

 Item — Box 242: [Barcode: 31858072460383]
Identifier: CC-00657-673
Scope and Contents

Contributors to this periodical are British art students or recent graduates mainly of Goldsmith's College. This was also designated the Pilot issue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Words and Pictures, No. 1, 1994

 Item — Box 247: [Barcode: 31858072460391]
Identifier: CC-00656-672
Scope and Contents

Contributions mainly from British art students or recent graduates. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Words and Pictures, No. 4, 1995

 Item — Box 247: [Barcode: 31858072460391]
Identifier: CC-00675-691
Scope and Contents

The preface was written in her own handwriting by Tracey Emin and consisted of a brief autobiography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Words and Pictures, No. 5, 1996

 Item — Box 247: [Barcode: 31858072460391]
Identifier: CC-27253-27759
Scope and Contents

Jake Chapman contributed the preface. For this issue, Ken Cockburn printed a book about the Scottish poet, Robert Burns and his favorable feelings toward the French Revolution. In an introduction to two poems, Cockburn mentioned that Burns died on 3rd Thermidor. He further suggested that the French Revolutionary Calendar attempted to wean peasantry away from the use of Saints' days by designating each day with a rural name. Carrie Reichardt made a yellow, latex mold from a woman (Alison O'Dell) that reproduced part of jeans and umbilicus. Most of the other contributions have visual or conceptual artistic themes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996