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Visual art

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 588 Collections and/or Records:

L., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-15127-15447
Scope and Contents

Each page has a frontal line drawing portrait of a woman's face with short cropped haie presumably Linda Bandt Depew, Wally's wife. The drawings are altered with various shadowy effects and are printed in black or red. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

La Fee Chocolat, 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-50095-71156
Scope and Contents

This book was illustrated by Berman and written by Frain. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

La Femme Électrique, 1988

 Item — Box 304: [Barcode: 31858072460946]
Identifier: CC-27420-28465
Scope and Contents The text and two drawings of this book were done by Pagiras, the book binding by Knoderer. The title of the book is The Electric Woman: A Little Erotic Tale. Tac. Tic. Tac...Electric woman, With a magnetic smile, Positively your Sssshhhhhhtttttt. Her third resonant eye, Luminous energy, Of electrodes, Fffffhhhhhtttttt. Caustic envelope, At the primary source, Of electronic bosoms, Phphphhhhhtttttt. Electric woman, Your negatively, Sssshhhhhhttttt. At the sundial disc, Stubborn, At the luminous oblivion, Of a dazzling logic, Ffffhhhhhhtttttt. Endothermic nudity, Chemically prisoner, Of a cathode tube, Phphphhhhhtttttt. Put me in gear, With the luminous needles, Of your electroacoustic awakening.Tic. Tac. Tic. Tac...This poem suggests that the woman in this poem has a great deal of inner electric energy which wants to be fleshed into the open. It compliments the sculpture of Miller Levy's "L'homme La femme" in which man is represented by a single on-off switch and woman by a plethora...
Dates: 1988

La Geode: Ode et methode , 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-50225-71291
Scope and Contents

The subject of this book is the sphere, the geode, including its architectural and mathematical possibilities. It deals with the geodesic dome. Laurent Berman illustrated the text of Daniele Levy and photographs of Felicio Rodriguez were integrated into the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

La Piedra Colectiva: Canciones con Movimiento, 1978

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-23440-23884
Scope and Contents

Includes reproduction of print by Claudio Parmiggiani. Also designated Exit 2. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

La Piedra Colectiva: Canciones con Movimiento , 1978

 Item — Box 321: [Barcode: 31858072490877]
Identifier: CC-23441-23885
Scope and Contents

Also designated Exit 2. The print was made by Claudio Parmiggiani. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

La Tour Des Tours - La Tour Monumentale, 1972

 Item — Folder 32: [Barcode: 31858072459914]
Identifier: CC-15697-16026
Scope and Contents

Depicts an Eiffel Tower like image collaged from other famous buildings in history. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.


The second copy is signed to Sara.

Dates: 1972

[Lady with scarf], 1954

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-57491-10000784
Scope and Contents

According to a personal communication from Charles Verey to the Sackners, Houedard was alternating his time in Prinknash Abbey and Rome, Italy from October 1951 to July 1954. He believed that most of the visual art was done in Rome. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1954

Lanark: A Life in 4 Books, 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-31798-33316
Scope and Contents This is the first American edition of the novel originally published by Canongate Publishing in England in 1981. The visionary drawings reproduced in this book were made by Gray. Andrew Crumey WEB 1999 wrote the following. "Alasdair Gray was born on 28 December 1934 in Glasgow, and trained as a painter at the Glasgow School Of Art. He worked as an art teacher, muralist and theatrical scene painter (experiences which are reflected in novels such as "Lanark" and "1982, Janine"), and his illustrations for his own books (as well as his bold use of typography) form a crucial part of their unique appeal. In the early seventies, Gray attended an informal writers' group run by Philip Hobsbaum, along with James Kelman, Tom Leonard, Liz Lochhead, Agnes Owens and others. Work would be photocopied and distributed in advance for the group to discuss and criticise. Gray had already been working on "Lanark" since the fifties, and found Kelman's advice particularly helpful. The novel was finished...
Dates: 1985

[Large Printed Abstractions], 1990

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Depew, Wally: [Barcode: 31858072491388]
Identifier: CC-55139-9998942
Scope and Contents

The original purchase price of each print was $5. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

L'Art en Transit, no. 4: Depanne Machine recontre Gilardi, Inverosimile, 1993

 Item — Box 122: [Barcode: 31858072458080]
Identifier: CC-16416-16766
Scope and Contents

The object in the box is a bunch of plastic grapes mounted on plastic grass. The cover print on the box depicts colored leaves. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This black box is one "encounter" between an artist and Dépanne Machine, out of a series of six.

Dates: 1993

Leningrad; August 9th-24th 1991, 1992

 Item — Box 610: [Barcode: 31858072460862]
Identifier: CC-05617-5724
Scope and Contents

Book depicts photographs of some scenes of Saint Petersburg, Russia in 1991 compared to postcard scenes from 1903. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Les livres et las publications: catalogue raisonne, 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-44152-46278
Scope and Contents

This book lists and depicts among other works all covers of issues of the eschenau summer press through 2005. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Leviticus, 2002

 Item — Folder 29: [Barcode: 31858072459880]
Identifier: CC-39609-41568
Scope and Contents

The colored image of Jerusalem is outlined with hand printed Hebrew text of the entire book of Leviticus from the Testament. The main chapters of the book are written slightly larger format. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

L'Hiver Qui Vient, 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-04317-4397
Scope and Contents

This deluxe edition contains an original collage and a duplicate suite of prints on rag paper that was made in Barcelona. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Little Sparta: The Garden of Ian Hamilton Finlay, 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-42907-44950
Scope and Contents

This book provides an illustrated tour of Little Sparta. The photographs of the garden were taken by Andrew Lawson. The Sackners purchased this book from Finlay during a visit to the garden in 2004. This is the third impression. Sir Roy Strong calls Little Sparta 'the only really original garden made in this country since 1945'. Ian Hamilton Finlay's unique creation in the Pentland Hills south of Edinburgh is a garden composed as an artwork in itself. It incorporates concrete poetry, moral polemic, philosophical reflection and a sparkling sense of humour. While Finlay's works and installations throughout Europe and North America are well documented and justly famous, this is the first book devoted solely to the garden at Little Sparta, which has been at the heart of his life's work. It offers the reader a sense of the diversity and originality of the garden along with a text that unfolds the layers of meaning it contains. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Log Rhythms, 1999

 Item — Box 340: [Barcode: 31858072491255]
Identifier: CC-31961-33489
Scope and Contents

The poem is by Bernstein and the illustrations and by Susan Bee. The covers were designed by Susan Bee and Philip Gallo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999