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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 249 Collections and/or Records:

3L3 [2] / Depew, Wally., 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-58120-10001372
Scope and Contents

Three booklets have the same title but different imagery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

3L3 [3] / Depew, Wally., 1984

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Identifier: CC-58121-10001373
Scope and Contents

Three booklets have the same title but different imagery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

A One-Word Poem for the Ladies of Art Press / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12142-12366
Scope and Contents

The one word is "knitters!" and is a slur at Finlay's critics in Paris who were disturbed by his proposed commission for the city of Paris that compared Nazism to the French revolution. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Abomination (Abominacja) / Dluzniewski, Andrzej., 1982

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Identifier: CC-15874-16207
Scope and Contents

This is the English translation of the drawing of the same title that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Abomination (Abominacja) / Dluzniewski, Andrzej., 1982

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Identifier: CC-60472-10003382
Scope and Contents

Ths Sackner Archive also holds and English translation of the Polish words. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Absolute Possesive Pronouns / Tot, Endre., 1972

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Identifier: CC-49470-70516
Scope and Contents

A single pronoun is printed on each card, e,g., mine, his, hers, etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

All Art Has Been Contemporary: 24 Hours of Celebration / Nannucci, Massimo; Marclay, Christian., 2011

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Identifier: CC-53096-74243
Scope and Contents

The cards were an invitation to the opening of the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art. Nannucci's card listed the 24 hour museum schedule that included Christian Marclay's video "The Clock" to be shown for 24 hours "starring watches, clock towers, sundials and countdowns - that sequences a century of past cinematic highlights to mark the passage of present time, minute by minute, in sync with the local time zone. The Sackners were invited to the opening by Daphne Farago, some of whose gifts of ceramics, jewelry and fabrics will be on exhibition. These cards are stored in the Nannucci box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

Almanach Chernovic (Rough Copy). No.21 / Alex Ocheretyansky, editor ; Lurie B ; Segay S ; Baroni V ; Kulemin E ; Borodin M ; Bogatyrev M., 2006

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Identifier: CC-46767-49499
Scope and Contents

This issue is replete with color images of concrete and visual poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Amazing / Bochner, Mel., 2012

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Identifier: CC-55565-754213
Scope and Contents

This ia a reduced in size reproduction of a 2011 painting displayed at Mel Bochner's exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London that the Sackners attended. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

America / Ligon, Glenn ; Basquiat JM ; Barthes R ; Bochner M ; Golden T ; Kruger B ; Kosuth J ; Ruscha E ; Johns J ; Prince R., 2011

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Identifier: CC-52475-73601
Scope and Contents

The Sackners attended Ligon's exhibition at the Whitney museum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

Any Surplus Is Immoral, 1991

 Item — Box 132: [Barcode: 31858072457827]
Identifier: CC-09364-9550
Scope and Contents

Each rubberstamp has one aphorism, e.g., "Words Tend To Be Inadequate." Stephen Bury in "Artist's Multiples," list the title as "Untitled," 1991. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Art Line Do Not Cross / Ricciardi, Angelo ; Gordon C ; Kahn R ; Fierens L ; Morgan R ; Hamilton R ; Ball H ; Mondrian P ; Duchamp M., 2004

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Identifier: CC-42738-44757
Scope and Contents

Ricciardi appropriated images by earlier artists and received images from contemporary artists that he affixed the label, "Art Line Do Not Cross." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004