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Surrealism

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 71 Collections and/or Records:

Swelling, 1988

 Item — Box 338: [Barcode: 31858072491230]
Identifier: CC-22913-23349
Scope and Contents

Introduction by Al Ackerman consists of four drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

The Hell Passport Project, 2007

 Item — Box 278: [Barcode: 31858073143400]
Identifier: CC-50012-71071
Scope and Contents Each issue within the box covers varying engagements with surrealism through drawings and text. Some topics depicted are floral forms (#4), cartoons (#5), hell (#6), pessimism (#7), humor (#7), nightmares (#9), fragmentation (#10)This issue consists of surrealistic drawings and text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. This issue consists of surrealistic drawings that resemble paint by number drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. This issue consists of surrealistic drawings by Fiona Smyth. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. This issue consists of surrealistic drawings of floral forms by Julie Voyce. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. This issue consists of cartoon-like surrealistic drawings by Ben b. Jacques. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. This issue consists of a lively tale of things the author imagines he will have or not have in hell. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. This...
Dates: 2007

The House of Illnesses, 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-00110-113
Scope and Contents

Zurn was the companion of Hans Bellmer; she suffered from mental illness the last 13 years of her life. The book was written in 1958 after she developed a case of jaundice. Contains 18 surrealistic, calligraphic drawings related to the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

The Thing, No. 21: Ben Marcus - Thompson Cream, 2013

 Item
Identifier: CC-58014-10001270
Scope and Contents The Thing Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. It's like a magazine, except that each issue is conceived of by a different contributor and then published as a useful object. Internet (The Thing): Ben Marcus is the author of the novels THE FLAME ALPHABET and NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN and the story collection, THE AGE OF WIRE AND STRING. His new book, LEAVING THE SEA, will be published by Knopf in January of 2014. His writing has appeared in Harper's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, The Believer, The New York Times, McSweeney's, Time, Conjunctions, and Tin House. He is the editor of The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, and the fiction editor of The American Reader. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award, a Creative Capital Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction, a literature award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and three Pushcart Prizes. He is a 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, and 2013 Berlin Prize Fellow at the...
Dates: 2013