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Constructivism

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 317 Collections and/or Records:

Best Wishes / Muller, Martin., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-38552-40460
Scope and Contents

The cover is a colored reproduction of a collage from Olga Rozanova's "Transrational Book" (1916), -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940's - 70's / Lynn Zelevansky, curator ; Sackner RK ; Andre C ; Antin E ; Asher M ; Baldessari J ; Barry R ; Belloli C ; Bochner M ; Burkhardt K ; Camnitzer L ; Darboven H ; DeCampos A ; DeVries H ; Dias A ; Drozdz S ; Fahlstrom O ; Goeritz M ; Gomringer E ; Gysin B ; Haacke H ; Havel V ; Hendricks B ; Horwitz C ; Huebler D ; Kawara O ; Kosuth J ; Kozlowski J ; Lamelas D ; LeWitt S ; Manzoni P ; Nauman B ; Novak L ; Oiticica H ; Opalka R ; Oppenheim D ; Paolini G ; Roehr P ; Roth D ; Ruscha E ; Schendel M ; Uecker G ; Walther F ; Weiner L ; Williams E ; Young L ; Frank P ; Nordman M ; Cage J ; Brown E ; Feldman M ; Stockhausen K ; Oliveros P ; Riley T ; Heidsieck B ; Castillejo JL ; Reich S ; Gibson J ; Anderson L ; Kubisch C ; Plessi F ; Bertoia H ; Munari B., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-43021-45066
Scope and Contents This exhibition was curated by Lynn Zelevansky and was shown at the Los Angeles County Art Museum in which books were lent by the Getty. The same books were lent by the Sackner Archive to the MIami Art Museum when it traveled there. Peter Frank contributed as essay entitled, "geometric literature: From Concrete Poetry to Artists' Books." Amazon Review: In the decades following World War II artists in Europe, North America, and South America began experimenting with geometric forms. Rebelling equally against the mathematical purity of earlier geometric modernism and what many saw as the emotional excesses of abstract expressionism and Art Informel, these artists emphasized three-dimensionality, the repetition of modular elements, the conceptual underpinnings of art, and the performative to engage the viewer in the creative process and achieve broader intellectual, sensual, and emotive range in their work. Beyond Geometry, which accompanies an exhibition at the Los Angeles County...
Dates: 2004

Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940's - 70's / VanDoesburg T ; Bill M ; Morellet F ; LeWitt S ; Weiner L ; Buren D ; Opalka R ; Drozdz S., 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-43318-45377
Scope and Contents

The text by Peter Boswell was adapted from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition catalogue. The books in the MAM exhibition were all lent by the Sackner Archive and by the Getty in the LACMA exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

bhagavad girty / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-55538-1115
Scope and Contents

This drawing is constructed in the two dimensional style Houedard used for "Guillaume Apollinaire" (197)) also held by the Sackner Archive. In addition, Houedard also made a three dimensional drawing of it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

[Birthday Greetings] / Bart, Harriet., 2012

 Item
Identifier: CC-55614-9999221
Scope and Contents

The small, black portfolio is embossed "Metropolitan Portfolio" and is most likely designed to hold postcard reproductions of MM of A artworks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

[bisecting planes] (200469) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-08679-8852
Scope and Contents

The diagonal line consists of typed slash marks. The piercing line is made of colons and the field is composed of periods. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Boatyard 1 / Fencott, P.C.., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-13055-13350
Scope and Contents

Appears to be made from a collage of chart papers with different markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Boatyard 2 / Fencott, P.C.., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-13056-13351
Scope and Contents

Appears to have been made from a collage of chart papers with different markings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Boogle Woogle / Trevor, Stan., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-45120-47300
Scope and Contents

The images that consists of the whole of this book are a riff on Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woggie painting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Book 1: 4 Square Series Variation 1 / Depew, Wally ; Depew L., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-51126-72211
Scope and Contents

The pages printed on only one side but comments from Wally Depew indicate that each are counted as two pages. The pages depict constructivistic line drawings; there is no text except for the colophon. The cover was designed by Linda Depew. The colophon does not indicate that the subtitle is the "4 Square Series." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Book 2: 4 Square Series Variation 2 / Depew, Wally., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-53089-74235
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts a minimalist constructivistic line drawing and a bleed through image from the facing page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Book 3: 4 Square Series Variation 4 / Depew, Wally ; Depew L., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-51120-72205
Scope and Contents

Linda Depew designed the covers of this book. Each page depicts a minimalist constructivistic line drawing. The blank facing page is counted as a page because of the bleed through of the image of the preceding page according to Depew's recommendation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Book 4: (Do it Yourself) / Depew, Wally ; Depew L., 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-53081-74227
Scope and Contents

Each page depicts the same four adjacent, joining squares in a grid but placed slightly differently on the page. The cover was designed by Linda Depew. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969