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Conceptual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcsh: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1043 Collections and/or Records:

1 Cent Life in NY, 1995

 Item — Box 252: [Barcode: 31858072460458]
Identifier: CC-01682-1718
Scope and Contents

Tipping used the annoucement box from Ubu Gallery, New York [The Box: From Duchamp to Horn], to hold an enlarged replicate of an American penny. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

2x2=5, 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-32498-34074
Scope and Contents

The cover of this catalogue and two of the pages depict photographic reproductions of crumpled pages of telephone books; the Sackner Archive holds a unique artist book by Sit of torn telephone pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

3 Columns / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Lovegrove, Catherine., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-12512-12739
Scope and Contents

Depicts three columns with camouflage markings. The caption deals with contemporary Architectural critical beliefs in constructing columns, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

4 Artexts / Coutts-Smith, Kenneth., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-19880-20268
Scope and Contents

One print is denoted "original" and the remainder "copy." The prints are further labeled No.13, 14, 16, and 17. The rubberstamped image on the lower portion of the title page depicts Karl Marx,Friedrich Engels, Valdimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Mao. These prints as well as others were puchased from Coutts-Smith's widow, Helen Wright, a friend of Emmett Williams. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

5 Installationen 1975-1979 Venedig - Manuskript & Catalog / Gerz, Jochen., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-53680-60217
Scope and Contents

The horse appears to be the theme of this installation. Mirror writing is often present in Gerz's work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

6 instructions / Selenitsch, Alex., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-47857-68879
Scope and Contents

Five prints have a single word centered on the print, e.g., smell, see, taste, touch, and hear. The last sheet is blank. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

10 titles for a scrawl + infinite others you could add / Danon, Betty., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-60824-10003679
Scope and Contents

Taken frompete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

13 / Brewton, Johnny., 2013

 Item
Identifier: CC-58011-10001268
Scope and Contents

Stored in box with x-ray magazines. The '13' refers to Brewton's street address, 13305 anvil rd, Grass Valley, CA. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2013

15 Unedited Poems / Diacono, Mario., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-15311-15635
Scope and Contents

A red blank grid printed on each page progressively decreases in number of its elements from the beginning to end. Each poem is imagined by the caption to its right, e.g., 15 x 30 words, 14 x 28 words, 13 x 26 words, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

26 chinesische Zeichen / Kaufmann, Angelika., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-32554-34135
Scope and Contents

Titled "26 Chinese Signs," the print consists of 26 small embossed squares in four irregular columns on the left side of the paper and a list of 19 typed numbers in a vertical list on the right side of the paper. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

100 Coordinates of Violence / Maher, Miranda., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-34625-36326
Scope and Contents

The book is punctured in its center with a hole to simulate that is a round circle that toward the end of the book becomes raged as a simulation of a bullet hole. Each page contains an identical landscape with the bullet hole placed above the horizon. At the bottom of each page are the different coordinates, e.g. 51o 21'N x 12o 25'E, that symbolize the location where violence took place. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

1000 Coordinates of Violence / Maher, Miranda., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-48748-69782
Scope and Contents

The book is the editioned version of Maher's original bookwork "100 Coordinates of Violence" which is held by in the Sackner Archive. It was published to coincide with an installation at Kunstbuncker in Nurnberg, Germany. The original book consisted of pages shot through by bullets. Now the 1000 coordinates that symbolize the location where violence took place are listed on each page. An afterward lists several pages of "better informed, better organized and more selflessly dedicated curmudgeons... to fuel your own investigations." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001