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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5481 Collections and/or Records:

Graphic Eye / Cantor, Judy; Paresky L., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-40222-42193
Scope and Contents

This article describes Laura Paresky Gould's new photographic work in a magazine "Home & Design" published by the Miami Herald. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

graphic work & painting, 1985

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Identifier: CC-54526-62730
Scope and Contents

This book is a collection of essays by Wright's students as an homage to him, Wright's own essays and autobiography and examples of his artwork, typographical work, and concrete poetry. On page 17, a photographic of one of his concrete vowel poems is depicted; the original photograph is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Graphic Works: Catalogue Raisonne 1947-1998 / Roth, Dieter., 2003

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Identifier: CC-42405-44415
Scope and Contents

This book was edited by Dirk Dobke who contributed a introductory essay. It contains reproductions of the 524 prints made by Dieter Roth between 1947 and 1998 when he died. The works display his "inventive manuipulation of the various stages in the print making process, achieving remarkable editions in which not one print is identical." The print of this deluxe edition is "A Bunch of Flowers 3" which is also depicted on page 319. An exposition of the various printmaking techniques employed by Roth is described in the introduction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Graphpoemachines / Chopin, Henri ; Henson S., 2006

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Identifier: CC-62523-47677
Scope and Contents This catalogue features sculptures made from outdated tape recorders analogous to sculptures created by Nam Jong Paik from television seats. There are also reproductions of 12 typewriter poems placed in an inside flap on the back cover. This is the last catalogue held by the Sackners done during Chopin's lifetime. He died in January 2008 at age 85 years and Frederic Acquaviva wrote his obituary for the Guardian that was reproduced on the internet: Towards the end of the second world war, Henri Chopin, who has died aged 85, escaped from a forced labour camp in Olomouc, in what is now the Czech Republic, after it had been bombed. He then spent time with the advancing Red Army, until, recaptured by the Germans, he and inmates of concentration and extermination camps were sent west on a Nazi "death march." Thousands died on those journeys and it was then that he listened to the voices of his fellow marchers, sounds which would infuse his work for the rest of his life. In the 1950s...
Dates: 2006

Gravitaz / Anderson, PBJ., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27568-28645
Scope and Contents

This group of three artists, all former students of St Martins, have collaborated in presenting a combination of photography, typography, fashion, concrete poetry and technology. Anderson is represented in the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Great Blafigria IS, The. No.2-3 / John Boland, editor ; Brandi J ; Stettner I ; Lifshin L ; Trantino T ; Hirschman J ; Lipman J., 1976

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Identifier: CC-51243-72331
Scope and Contents

The handwritten marginalia in this magazine are printed within the texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

[Great Visit!], 2002

 Item — Box 338: [Barcode: 31858072491230]
Identifier: CC-38951-40887
Scope and Contents

This work includes several items. There is a letter from John Bennett reflecting his visit to the Archive with the Director of the Library and the Vice President of Development of Ohio State University. The bib was from Joe Stone Crabs' Restaurant on Miami Beach where the Sackners took the group for lunch. Bennett stamped and wrote his characteristic poetry on the bib that he titled "Stone Crab Variations." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

GREEN DRAGON SPRINGS / Depew, Wally., 1984

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Identifier: CC-15183-15504
Scope and Contents

The same rubberstamped dragon is depicted in this book as in the books, "coming and going," but here the arrangements of multiple dragons complex. Further, an APPENDIX depicts the DRAGONS IN COLORS other than green. The layouts vary from copy to copy. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Green Island: Rosebud. / Robert Lax., 1975

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Identifier: CC-31444-32934
Scope and Contents

The inside cover of the folder depicts a photograph of a woman in a flapper dress and the back cover contains a typical Lax poem. Edited by David Kilburn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Gronk: Force Movements. No.4 / Nelson Ball ; Caruso B., 1970

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Identifier: CC-36282-38072
Scope and Contents

Also designated Ganglia Press, 35cent Mimeo Series No.3 but this second copy is not held by the Sackner Archive. One copy has a photocopied line drawing portrait of Nelson Ball by his wife, Barbara Caruso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Gronk Intermediate Series: Doors: To Oz & Other Landscapes. No.23 / bp Nichol ; Caruso B., 1979

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Identifier: CC-36926-38759
Scope and Contents

This issue also served as an exhibition catalogue of Nichol's visual art at the Vivaxis Gallery, Toronto, in December 1979. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Gronk: RUSH: what fuckan theory: a study uv language. No.8 / bill bissett., 1972

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Identifier: CC-30401-31820
Scope and Contents

The edition size was probably between 300 - 400 copies. On this copy, the word "RUSH" is rubberstamped on the cover. A duplicate has the label "Rush" and a simple line drawing of a landscape. Derek Beaulieu in "seen of the crime" views this work as an early seminmal work of conceptual writing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Gronk Zap: After Winsor McCay. No.2 / bp Nichol., 1983

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Identifier: CC-36295-38085
Scope and Contents

As suggested by the instructions, the paper folded reveals the text, "I had puzzling feelings about your puzzled look." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983