Visual/verbal
Subject Source: Sackner Database
Found in 132 Collections and/or Records:
Separated at Birth, 1993
Smashed Potatoes Soup, 1983
Still Falling, 1983
Still Life, 1980
Still Life, 1981
Surgery Its Principles and Practice, 1989
The title of the book Nicasti used is "Surgery: Its Principles & Practice." The front cover is opened with rows of nails on the outside front cover. The back cover has an attached wooden box containing a shattered plexiglas cylinder and gauge. An abstract plexiglas form is built into the fastened pages of the book. A small sculptural element, composed of a collaged wooden fragment with rows of nails, contains a partial index of the medical text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Ta-A-Ti (Original and 4 Performance Sheets) / Cobbing, Bob., 1989
Consists of original collage made from colored papers and four black & white prints made from the collage by a photocopier technique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Target, 2006
The hand crafted tiles are crafted of plaster finished to a porcelian-like quality , cracked to create an aged look and feel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Telling Stories: Compelling Events / Avadenka, Lynne; Constantinides, Kathy., 1989
Tétraèdre, 1989
The Beauty in Breathing, 1992
This badge has a linear-optic reproduction of a photograph by Maurice Lemaitre commissioned in 1990 by Marvin Sackner for the exhibition of the same title held at the American Lung Association meeting in Miami Beach in 1992. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Box Lunch Travel-og of Fremont Gulch, 1967
The Consistency of Shadows: Exhibition Catalogs as Autonomous Works of Art, 2003
The compact disc is held in place by means of bubbles on both sides of the case and by a slit through each one of the pamphlets. The compact disc depicts installation photographs of the catalogs and an interview between Boehme and Boltanski. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Dime Hustle, 1976
The First Fragment: The Case for the Burial of Ancestors Book 1, 1985
Three wooden objects and a thimble are placed upright in a bed of beige colored gravel like a dessert landscape. The text is rubberstamped on paper inside the lid and reads "I am the grain of truth...I hold the vessels of history and shatter them at Inside the lid is a small coffin-like wooden box; a black box on the outside has a metal capital "F." This sculpture symbolizes the puppeteer, a founder of an imaginary civilization, the Hegamons, who is described on p. 17 of the book in the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Official Elvis Hair Button Card, 1990
This Is Not Art, 1990
The collage on the recto was made by John Held, Jr. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
[Tile Collage], 1996
Barbera was a student in the New World School of the Arts in Miami and was inspired to make this collage when she saw the exhibition "Visual Hothouse" in the Centre Gallery MDCC, that was on loan from the Sackner collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
