Visual art
Subject Source: Sackner Database
Found in 219 Collections and/or Records:
The Metamorphoses Octet: The Heart of the Immortal, 1996
The title is reflected in the eight open-faced, pop-up, heart shaped pages. Andrew Binder found the metal lower half of the box container which suggested a half of a heart. The book pages are designed to be opened and viewed from the back forward, like a Hebrew book. Each collaged page is intricately engineered and lushly illustrated with drawings of men and women, various flora, hearts marked with Russian text, hands, rib cage, insects, a 3D spiral, sea creatures, and a fish. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Mystery of the Magic Box: An Open and Shut Case, 1996
This catalogue was designed by the first three authors and the exhibition was curated by the last two. Ron Glowin contributed an essay on the art of making art in boxes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Prayer, 2000
Inked drawing of a man smoking as men and eyes surround him. Signed by artist
The Sound of One Hand Clapping / Neaderland, Louise Odes., 1995
The Thing, No. 22: John Baldessari - 2 standard pillowcases, 2014
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. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Tin Can, 1988
William Jay Smith also contributed an afterward. The wood engravings are by John DePol and M.A. Gelfand is the printer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
the umbrellas of mr parapluie and other stories, 1985
The line drawings and cover were done by John Sweet. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Voluptuous Gardener: The Collected Art and Writing of Joe Rosenblatt - 1973-1996, 1996
A forward was written by Michael Bell traces the life and work of Rosenblatt. Bell writes, "The drawings range in style from the simplest, almost whimsical scratches on the paper, expecially some of the latest observations on the shoreline of Vancouver Island, to highly compendia of signs and symbols, richly worked in obsessive surface patterns." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The World below the Window, 1998
This poem was composed and printed in celebration of the 80th birthday of Bill Smith and the publication of his collected poems by the same title. The small engraving by George Wingate illustrates the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Three Ladies' Heads], 1959
travel over singed terrain, 2006
Tulip, 2002
The illustration is a reproduction of a water color by Gary Bukovnik and the poem about a tulip is by Smith. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
TVdocumentracings, 1973
Ockerse documents television programs by tracing lines directly from the TV screen. Words were selected from the programs by listening. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Two Novels: Andy / For Jesus Lunatick, 1969
The dust jacket is chipped and torn in several places. However the black cloth cover and the text and images are in fine condition. The prose and poems are printed in back to back reversed sections for each of the two novels. The novel "For Jesus Lunatick" is printed without punctuations in a highly experimental layout including several numbered blank pages. The latter are for numbered illustrations placed in the center section that the reader is requested to cut and paste to the respective page. "Andy "is punctuated and layed out experimentally with some pages concrete poetic in appearance. It, too, has several pages that are numbered and blank with exception of a single number placed at different locations to receive the illustrations from the cutttings in the center section. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Un Jardin Revolutionnaire, 1988
This proposal for a revolutionary garden in Versailles was never carried out owing to a political perception in France that Finlay espoused pro-Nazi, anti-semitic views (this opinion is not shared by the Sackners). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Un réve de baute magie, 1990
Herve Dupont, a master French glass artist, made the binding for this conventional poetry booklet. It consists of two, colored, heavy glass panels. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
