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Correspondence art

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 149 Collections and/or Records:

Operation Round-Trip N.2417 (33 x 50), 1982

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Ca-Cl: [Barcode: 31858072491289]
Identifier: CC-18594-18966
Scope and Contents

Cavellini appropriated a manila envelope mailed to him by the Sackners as the support for a collage with typical Cavellini correspondence art imagery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

[Painting Frame Corner], 1998

 Item — Box 308: [Barcode: 31858073143624]
Identifier: CC-31462-32952
Scope and Contents

The sample of a frame molding was stamped, addressed, and mailed to the Archive unwrapped without a return address. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Par Son Ecriture, 1988

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Co-Cu: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-18825-19203

Participacion, No. 6, December, 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-38580-40488
Scope and Contents

This periodical features announcements of mail art activities and political poems dealing with democratic oppression in Latin America. It is stored in the box with Padin's publications. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Participacion, No.1, June, 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-38381-40285
Scope and Contents

This periodical features announcements of mail art activities and political poems dealing with democratic oppression in Latin America. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Penis of Willendorf, 1997

 Item — Box 199: [Barcode: 31858072459690]
Identifier: CC-28797-30108
Scope and Contents

This sculpture was a collaborative project between Hitchcock and Dyar.The former found an eggplant in the shape of the sculpture that was cast by Dyar to make the multiple. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Poesia: Outras Escritas Novos Suportes, 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-03804-3876
Scope and Contents

Curated by Fernando Aguiar. Works reproduced in catalog by Cesar Figueiredo held by Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Probably Another Visual Poem by Vittore, 1989

 Item — Box 327: [Barcode: 31858072490943]
Identifier: CC-21566-21977
Scope and Contents

Collage incorporates mailing receipts to Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

pulate a rupture, 2010

 Item — Box 337: [Barcode: 31858072491198]
Identifier: CC-51998-73100
Scope and Contents

McMurtagh resides in San Diego, California; presumably this collaboration took place through the mail. Each page depicts three elements, e.g., a written word in Bennett's unique style at the top, a brief sentence by McMurtagh in the middle, and an electocardiographic tracing consistent with an acute myocardial infarction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Pushing the Envelope, 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-35700-37451
Scope and Contents

Air mail envelopes, mailed to Kim Lieberman by herself, were returned from around the world from places she travelled. A chart documents the places and timing of the mailings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Random Sightings (With No One Around); letters from d.a. levy, 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-47224-49967
Scope and Contents

This book consists of letters in reproduction from d.a. levy to his friends. The originals were handwritten, typed, and mimeographed. In addition, several of levy's abstract expressionistic paintings are reproduced in color. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

rmrmrmrm, 1980

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Chopin, Henri: [Barcode: 31858072491297]
Identifier: CC-18713-19086

Rolled Poem, 2002

 Item — Box 268: [Barcode: 31858072460599]
Identifier: CC-43693-45779
Scope and Contents

This edition consisted of 50 tubes covered with recycled sticker material from different networkers in the 1980s and 1990s. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Sangrarte, 1980

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: D: [Barcode: 31858072491370]
Identifier: CC-15860-16192