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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 219 Collections and/or Records:

Claire Jeanine Satin: Sculpture, Bookworks & Related Objects, 1993

 Item — Box 133: [Barcode: 31858072457868]
Identifier: CC-02615-2658
Scope and Contents

The four books making up this exhibition catalog, which in itself can be classified as an artist book, comprise the topics, Sculpture, Artist and Process, Related Objects, and Bookworks. The latter includes Marvin Sackner's critical essay, "Who Says Thirteen Is Unlucky?" The theme of several of the pieces in the exhibition is Satin's adaptation of John Cage, Jasper Johns and Merce Cunningham's collaborative work, "Dancers on a Plane." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

[Collaged Paper Numbers Discs Rectangles], 2000

 Item — Box 306: [Barcode: 31858073143608]
Identifier: CC-54270-643159
Scope and Contents

The single color photograph of a woman's face with the eyes olbscured by yellow discs included in this work is reminiscent of the art of John Baldessari and the colored dots of varied colors of Jennifer Bartlett. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Comeundone, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-15924-16257

Cymbols, 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-49906-70964
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts an image in color or black & white that recapitulates Noel's visual ideas. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Details: closed to open, 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-44736-46902
Scope and Contents

This volume illustrates selections from the Swarthmore College Peace Collection exhibition in the List Art Gallery. It consists of 109 details of hands from 90 photographs in the collection arranged in sequence from the most tightly clenched fist to the most opened hand. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Details: closed to open, 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-48777-69811
Scope and Contents

This volume illustrates selections from the Swarthmore College Peace Collection exhibition in the List Art Gallery. It consists of 109 details of hands from 90 photographs in the collection arranged in sequence from the most tightly clenched fist to the most opened hand. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Edison Records / on a roll, 2012

 Item — Box 201: [Barcode: 31858072459716]
Identifier: CC-56123-9999567
Scope and Contents

Topel has printed images on a toilet paper roll and placed it into an antique paper tube from the Edison Laboratory. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

Environment (Postcard), 2004

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Scope and Contents

Along with the postcard, there is a document from the Russian Federation's Ministry of Culture approving the card for exportation to the United States.

Dates: 2004

Evolution, 1983

 Item — Box 283: [Barcode: 31858073143418]
Identifier: CC-21097-21506

Ex Libris, 1991

 Item — Box 608: [Barcode: 31858073143558]
Identifier: CC-14640-14953
Scope and Contents

This book also served as documentation for an exhibition at Galerie Sophienstrasse 8, Berlin, Sep-Oct, 1991. It includes sketches for book object-sculptures. The cover was made by Deisler. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991