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Dada

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

A Collection of Dada Art / Sotheby's ; Arp H ; Baader J ; Baargeld J ; Albert-Birot P ; Blumenfeld E ; Bortynik S ; Brown B ; Citroen P ; Crotti J ; cummings ee ; VanDoesburg T ; Duchamp M ; Ernst M ; Fraenkel T ; Grosz G ; Hausmann R ; Heartfeld J ; Hoch H ; Itten J ; Janco M ; Kassak L ; Picabia F ; Prampolini E ; Ray M ; Ribemont-Dessaignes G ; Rozanova O ; Schwitters K ; Steiglitz A ; Tzara T ; Wood B ; DeZayas M ; Richter H ; Schwarz A ; Mehring W ; Berman M ; Duchamp S., 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-30264-31672
Scope and Contents

Auction catalogue. Arturo Schwarz contributed an introductory essay about the works being auctioned from a Swiss collector that were formerly in his collection. The Sackners purchased Bob Brown's drawing, "My Head in the Clouds-Calligram," at this auction. The complete set of the thirteen Duchamp Ready-mades that were produced by Arturo Schwarz in 1964 were offered at this auction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Raoul Hausmann, 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-29936-31327
Scope and Contents

This catalogue doocuments the first major retrospective of Hausmann's work for the exhibition that was shown in the three countries in which Hausmann lived, France, Germany and Spain (Ibiza). Several scholary essays are included in the catalogue tracing his early years as a Dadaist, collages and photomontages, the photographic works, sound poetry, abstract paintings and later Dada works. Chistopher Phillips essay, "In the Chaotic Cave of the Mouth," describes Hausmann's sound poems, which are considered "among the most difficult and perplexing" of this "recondite genre." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994