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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5481 Collections and/or Records:

James Joyce: A Passionate Exile / McCourt, John., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-42945-44989
Scope and Contents

This book is a brief illustrated biography of James Joyce. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

James Lee Byars und der Drachen / Byars, James Lee., 1984

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Identifier: CC-52822-73960
Scope and Contents

The card depicts a colored photograph of Byars in a gold suit and black top standing in a mountain crevice. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

JC / Crombie, John ; Bourne, Sheila., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-20116-20511
Scope and Contents

This book is designed as an aid to meditation or concentration. Pages depict prayer beads which serve as a guiding thread or an alternative devotional aid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Jean Cocteau, Before His Own Fabulousness Consumed Him / Riding, Alan; Apollinaire G; Tzara T., 2003

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Identifier: CC-42431-44441
Scope and Contents

This article reviews the Cocteau exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris; the Sackners attended that show. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

JHK/ Paper Re Making Book No.013 JHL/ Ruth and Marvin Sackner: Archive of concrete and visual poetry / Kocman, J.H.., 1981

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Identifier: CC-59410-10002476
Scope and Contents

The first Sackner catalogue photocopied from typed paper sheets (1980), according to Kocman as typed on the colophon "was torn in to small fragments and threse were crushed by grinding in water on mixer. From this pulp handmade paper sheets were made and from these sheets a new book was bound. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

[Jigsaw Puzzle] / Olbrich, Jurgen O.., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-35478-37214
Scope and Contents

The image reproduces several pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Joan Miro in Miami / Miro, Joan ; Brossa J ; Duchamp M., 1984

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Identifier: CC-06036-6150
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive lent two books that consisted of poems by Joan Brossa and images by Joan Miro. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

John Picking: Paintings from Spain / Ian Hamilton Finlay, editor., 1963 - 1964

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Identifier: CC-11687-11905
Scope and Contents

This catalogue, with a printing technique similar to P.O.T.H., provides a price list for works of the artist, John Picking. One of the paintings on the list was lent by Finlay. A page of this catalogue has a concrete poem by Finlay. It also contains a unbound reprint of a semiotic poem by Finlay that appeared in P.O.T.H. This publication is not mentioned in the Finlay bibliographies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963 - 1964

Jonah / Sackner, Sara., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-59876-10002920
Scope and Contents

Found pages of text are interwoven on a visual background and stitched around the borders. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979