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Artist book (limited edition)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1537 Collections and/or Records:

1a Paca / De Holanda, Gastao ; Juca, Cecilia., 1970

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Identifier: CC-15972-16307
Scope and Contents

De Holanda was born in Recife, 11 of February of 1919. Bachelor in Legal and Social Sciences for the Law school of Recife, dedicated literature to it, to the journalism and the publishing production. He participated of the Theater of the Student of Pernambuco (TEP) and in 1936 started to write stories. He taught the History of the Brazilian Theater and Graphical Arts, in the School of Beautiful-Art of Recife. In 1954, together with Aloísio Magalhães, Jose Laurenio de Melo and others, he established the Amateur Graph, a group of artistic vanguard that had as its objective to create books as art objects. The group dissolved at the beginning of the military regimen, produced a small amount of books of drawing and printed material of good quality. In 1972, Gastão of Holland settled Rio De Janeiro. He wrote fiction and poems. He died in 1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

2 / Wood, Reid., 2012

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Identifier: CC-55132-99982
Scope and Contents

The enclosed card lists Wood's website as "havent-gardeart." It lists the Sackner Archive as holding his work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

5 & 10 Cents: After the Match. No.23 / Allan Uglow., 1998

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Identifier: CC-49368-70412
Scope and Contents

This book depicts photographs of an empty soccer stadium after a match. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

5 & 10 Cents: Blind Paintings Left Paintings. No.2 / Claramunt., 1999

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Identifier: CC-49335-70378
Scope and Contents

These naive drawings were done with the left hand and with the eyes closed. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

5 & 10 Cents: Cyberliths. No.12 / Robert LaVigne., 1999

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Identifier: CC-49345-70388
Scope and Contents Robert LaVigne, a painter, illustrator and theatrical designer closely connected to the Beat poets, was present at the legendary Six Gallery poetry reading in 1955, and reportedly was responsible for introducing Allen Ginsberg to his life companion Peter Orlovsky, who had modeled for several LaVigne paintings; this large still life dates from that period. LaVigne's exhibition career spans 50 years, during which time his work was exhibited at the Whitney Museum during their Beat retrospective, the National Portrait Gallery, the Oakland Museum, Walker Art Center and other institutions. He exhibited at the legendary underground Batman Gallery in San Francisco 1963, Paula Johnson Gallery (now Paula Cooper) and others. He won an Obie award for his designs for a 1963 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in New York; designed sets and costumes for productions of plays by Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Edward Albee, and Jean Genet; and has illustrated books and broadsides by Jack...
Dates: 1999

5 & 10 Cents: Forming. No.7 / Steve Doughton., 1999

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Identifier: CC-49340-70383
Scope and Contents

This book consists of stills from a film called Slimeface. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

5 & 10 Cents: Gertrude Stein on Punctuation. No.9 / Kenneth Goldsmith., 2000

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Identifier: CC-49342-70385
Scope and Contents

Stein's text was originally published in 1935. Goldsmith used the 1985 Beacon Press text to contribute two pages of punctuation marks alone from the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

5 & 10 Cents: Memory. No.19 / Thomas A. Schmidt., 1999

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Identifier: CC-49367-70411
Scope and Contents

This book depicts b&w photographs of large machinery being moved on on a railway flat bed car. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

5 & 10 Cents: self portraits. No.6 / Jiri Georg Dokoupil., 1999

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Identifier: CC-49339-70382
Scope and Contents This book consists of color photographs of the artist in different situations. Jiri Georg Dokoupil was born in 1954 in Krnov, then Czechoslovakia, and in the seventies he studied fine art in Cologne, Frankfurt and New York. In 1982 he had one-man exhibitions in Cologne, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Paris. At the beginning of the eighties Dokoupil was a prominent member of the German neo-expressionist group Mulheimer Freiheit (together with Walter Dahn and four other artists). The artistic propositions of this group which coincided with similar ideas in the USA and in Italy, were greeted by excitement from art critics and, in retrospect, belong to one of the most influential movements of the international art scene of the eighties. Since 1983 Dokoupil has taught as a guest professor at the art academies of Dusseldorf, Madrid and Kassel. Dokoupil's work is difficult to describe using common classifications. There is no consistent style in his work. This is why Dokoupil can be described...
Dates: 1999