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Visual art

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 219 Collections and/or Records:

Post-Modern Pin-Ups: Pleasure Activist Playing Cards, 1995

 Item — Box 276: [Barcode: 31858073143392]
Identifier: CC-29056-30396
Scope and Contents

This work features pictures of nude women who had appeared in pin-up magazines. These are captioned by Sprinkle. In the booklet, Sprinkle also provides documentation on each person and contributes an essay, "The Forty Reasons Why Whores are My Heroes." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Principles of Movement / Cobbing, Bob., 1978

 Item — Box 387: [Barcode: 31858072461522]
Identifier: CC-19619-20005
Scope and Contents

Designated Card Series No.28. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Protiv Abstrakwionisma B Iskoosstby (Against Abstraction in Art) / Lebedev, A.K.., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-62650-48578
Scope and Contents

Reproductions of paintings by Mark Rothko and Mark Toby are included in this book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Puzzle Making, 2001

 Item — Box 609: [Barcode: 31858073143566]
Identifier: CC-38706-40616
Scope and Contents

Mimi Shapiro created this collage and an accompanying artist book as a poetic and artistic response to the September 11th terrorist destruction of the World Trade Center skyscrapers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Recent Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-38872-40798
Scope and Contents

John Russell contributed an introductory essay that analyzed Phillips' painting "Benches" as well as "A Humument." "Oh, those reds," a painting from 1969 to 1973, that is depicted in black & white in the catalogue is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Ruth and Marvin's Medicine Cabinet, 2006

 Item — Box 90: [Barcode: 31858072538162]
Identifier: CC-62390-47521
Scope and Contents

The artists are visual poets who gifted this work to the Sackner Archive after a visit to the collection. The cabinet is painted in primary colors and the hand printed texts are paint and ink. the six balls are printed with the names Duchamp, Ball, Marinetti, appolinaire (sic) Campos (sic) and Mallarme. The typed stories relate to Denise's youth and problems with asthma. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

[Saint Benedict], 1953

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55325-9999074
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: 1953

[Saint Benedict 2], 1953

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55322-9999071

[Saint Benedict 3], 1953

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55324-9999073

[Saint Sebastian Shot With Arrows], 1954

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55321-9999070
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

Scratching Face, 2010

 Item — Box 341: [Barcode: 31858072491263]
Identifier: CC-51408-72503
Scope and Contents

Jake Berry desscribes this book as prose poems. The colored cover drawing of a scratched face is by Rich Curtis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Secret Anatomy page N.7 (postcard), 2007

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

Attached to the postcard is a document from the Russian Federation's Ministry of Culture approving the card for exportation

Dates: 2007

Seizure (postcard), 2004

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

Along with postcard is a document from the Russian Federation's Ministry of Culture approving the card to be exported to the United States.

Dates: 2004