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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5474 Collections and/or Records:

Inner Tent / Andi McGarry., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-30852-32300
Scope and Contents

The painted orange book is shaped like a tent. Six lines of handwritten poetry are pasted inside. The accordion booklet is painted with blue figures on a brown background and is attached to the inside center of the tent book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Inside The Visible: An Elliptical Traverse of 20th Century Art / M. Catherine de Zegher, curator ; Hoch H ; Cahun C ; Darboven H ; Hiller S ; Kobro K ; Salomon C ; Spero N ; Schendel M ; Sackner RK ; Sackner MA., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-08612-8784
Scope and Contents

This exhibition on art by women was curated and the catalogue edited by M. Catherine de Zegher. The contributing artists and critical texts are international in scope. The book was highly documented as evidenced by 56 essays. An essay by Laura Monahan on Claude Cahun depicts a photograph lent to the exhibition by the Sackner Archive. The art works are varied with only a small fraction being feminist art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Insomnia ou Le Diable en Liberte / Miller, Henry ; George Belmout, translator ; Hortense Chabrier, translator., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-37700-39574
Scope and Contents

This book was published in English by Doubleday in 1975 in a signed edition of 150 copies accompanied by a lithograph. This copy does not give the tirage nor does it have the acompanying lithograph. The Doubleday copy was estimated at $300/$500 at Pacific Book Auction Galleries in 1996. The book consists of the love story reproduced in Miller's handwriting about his infatuation at age 75 years with a 25 year old Japanese singer. It is illustrated with 12 drawings by Miller that are reproduced in color at the end of the book. Some drawings are solely visual, others are visual poetic in content. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

InstaBook: Brains & Spines. No.2 / Jessica Nebraska Gifford., 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-44912-47084
Scope and Contents

The images depict visually altered MRI's of Gifford's brain and spinal cord with the lesions of multiple sclerosis. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

[Installation View of Angel of Poets] / de Charmoy, Cozette., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-16331-16681
Scope and Contents

The book with the same title is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Instruction Drawings / Andre C ; Acconci V ; Bartlett J ; Chiari G ; Katz L ; Darboven H., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-08443-8610
Scope and Contents

The works in this exhibition were loaned from The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981