Skip to main content

Conceptual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcsh: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1033 Collections and/or Records:

Alnus Glutinosa (L.) Gaertner / Gette, Paul-Armand., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-50081-71142
Scope and Contents

This book deals with a tree species and insects that feed on it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Ample Food for Stupid Thought / Filliou, Robert; Brecht G; Spoerri D; Arman; Burroughs WS; DiPrima D; Christo; Gysin B; Higgins D; Kaprow A; Johnson R; Jones J; Knowles A; MacLow J; Paik NJ; Patterson B; Roth D., 1965

 Item
Identifier: CC-11310-11526
Scope and Contents The texts consist of questions put to the reader, e.g. " Did it all happen suddenly? / Where do we go from here ? / What are you afraid of ? / Is life wonderful ? Why should you pay less when you can pay more ? etc "The set comes w. the title and subtitle file card, plus a masthead card, and two cards w. introductions by Daniel Spoerri, Arman, Kichka Baticheff, George Brecht, William Burroughs, Christo, Diane di Prima, Brion Gysin, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, Ray Johnson, Joe Jones, Alison Knowles, John Herbert McDowell, Jackson Mac Low, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Diter Rot and James Waring. Each card contains a short, unanswerable question. The edition consisted of 500 postcard sets of which 104 were presented in a wooden box, 396 without a box, and 492 in book format. This copy is the card set without a box. This publication has the same theme and similar presentation to Jochin Gerz's "Berkeley Oracle" an exhibition catalogue held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of...
Dates: 1965

Amralab XI: Sculpture Buccale, 1984

 Item — Box 206: [Barcode: 31858072460128]
Identifier: CC-15685-16014
Scope and Contents

The object is a chewing gum cast of Descossey's tongue. In September 2000, over 3300 of Descossy's chewing gum sculptures were destroyed in a fire on a warehouse where they were stored. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

An Early Picasso / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Picasso P., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-12600-12832
Scope and Contents

The cover of the leaflet is printed on blue paper, the unbound page on rose colored paper. This references Picasso's Blue and Rose periods of painting around the turn of the century. The poem is taken from the French revolutionary J.L. David's Instructions for the Festival of the Supreme Being, 1794 in which he describes his vision, ...Mothers will hold bouquets of roses in their hands, and girls will carry baskets filled with flowers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

An Oil Painting By Hornel Dated / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Bailey, Keith., 1976

 Item
Identifier: CC-12109-12333
Scope and Contents

Deals with an oil painting by Hornel dated 1918 being shown in the Demarco Gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Angeli, 1989

 Item — Folder 42: [Barcode: 31858072460086]
Identifier: CC-21829-22240
Scope and Contents

Pages consist of an arrangement of pins with successive enlargements by xerox process and a drawing of the copy-art installation for this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Anonymous - Buchner / Helgason, Skuta., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-09628-9819
Scope and Contents

The theme of this work is marginalia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Anthology / Crozier, Robin., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-18854-19232
Scope and Contents

The colophon indicates that no two collections of these materials are exactly the same. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Anthology / Crozier, Robin., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-43687-45773
Scope and Contents

The colophon indicates that no two collections of these materials are exactly the same. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Antworten / Hainke W ; Olbrich JO ; Figueiredo C., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-26120-26582
Scope and Contents

The images from 32 artists in this exhibition were based upon their reaction to the Gulf war. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Apartment Number / Weiner H ; Buren D ; MacLennan T., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-29586-30956
Scope and Contents

Six artists transformed an apartment in a Toronto High rise building in a sequence of exhibitions. This catalogue documents the space. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

apostrophe / Kennedy, Bill ; Wershler-Henry, Darren., 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-62693-48835
Scope and Contents

This work was generated by using a search engine on the internet that began with the phrase "you are" and found sentences on succeeding web sites starting with this phrase. These were collected to form an internet found poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Approches. No.4 / Jean-Francois Bory, Julien Blaine, editors ; Blaine J ; Gerz J ; Bory JF ; Schifres A ; Frougney C ; Moineau JC., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-24810-25263
Scope and Contents

The inserted pamphlet, an artist book, by Julien Blaine is entitled, "Dernier Tentative De L'Individu." The division of this issue into large sections by the contributors is the layout used by Blaine in a successor magazine, Doc(k)s. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

April / Art Base ; Nauman B ; Johnson R ; Andre C ; Beuys J ; Duchamp M ; Barry R ; Warhol A ; Rauschenberg R ; Basquiat JM ; Manzoni P ; Darboven H., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-38953-40889
Scope and Contents

This catalogue lists individual and group exhibitions of conceptual art as well as artists books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002