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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5481 Collections and/or Records:

Made in Florence: Contemporary Art / Miccini E ; Ori L ; Bartolini L., 1984

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Identifier: CC-37329-39180
Scope and Contents

This catalogue was issued for a two month celebration of Italian art and culture in John Wanamaker's department store in Philadelphia, the sister city of Florence. A series of exhibitions were also held in the Sala d'Arme of Palazzo Vecchio. The exhibition was divided into the following sections: classical abstractions, icons, visual poems, surrealism and figurative art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Magazine of the Fine Arts, A / Cross D., 1975

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Identifier: CC-06228-6343
Scope and Contents

Cross alters the 1913 edition of Webster's dictionary to leave cluster of words to form a new poetry; examples of these pages are illustrated in this magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Magic Squares / Depew, Wally., 1985

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Identifier: CC-53058-74203
Scope and Contents

The ten booklets show different combinations of nine colored rubberstamped images of an elephant, rhinozeros and a lion. The booklet is dedicated to "Sofia." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Magnified Section; from Madison to Cedar Rapids to Dreamtime Village / X-Communication ; Was E., 1992

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Identifier: CC-00186-194
Scope and Contents

X-Communication is a group that split from ABC No Rio. This book deals with artistic collaborations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Magpie Caliper / Gorny, Anthony-Petr., 1976 - 1980

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Identifier: CC-60328-60956
Scope and Contents Internet: "AP Gorny's work deals with the appearance of the same object in multiple forms, in the various stages of its metabolism, seemingly identical but always different. Shaped by the diverse contexts of their public presentation, instructed by the elements or works associated with them, his pieces remind observers of the way perceptions can shift and renew by the specific stakes of an exhibition. His work also deals with the memory of objects, their persistence in the physical world, and in our minds, as well as the mirror relationship they induce in viewers. While his pieces can imprint themselves lastingly in the memory of the public, they also bear the trace of their presentation in the spaces where they have been displayed. In his new program of practice, which combines varied, complementary, plurivocal artistic viewpoints through a spectrum of exhibition, bringing together historical works' themes, with works by artists living, whether confirmed or emergent. As a teaching...
Dates: 1976 - 1980

Mail Art Project: Living in the Mirror / Anonymous, editor., 1996

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Identifier: CC-40289-42260
Scope and Contents

Each postcard depicts an original design by a different student. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Major Reference Works, 2002

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Identifier: CC-42916-44959
Scope and Contents

Ian Hamilton Finlay is featured in this general catalogue with 16 picture poems and photographs of fleets of model boats in his garden "Little Sparta" in Scotland. This book is stored in the Finlay materia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Making Art from Bits and Pieces" John Evan's Collages Capture a Neighborhood / Strausbaugh, John; Johnson R; Evans J; Cornell J., 2005

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Identifier: CC-43320-45379
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The author of this article describes the work of Evans as he created notebooks of collages from discarded materials found on the streets of the East Village in New York. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Making History April May June 2006 , 2006

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Identifier: CC-46093-48803
Scope and Contents

These are calendar drawings with each day of the month a drawing directly or indirectly gleaned from articles in the NY Times Newspaper. The information leading to the drawing is written in graphite on the verso of the drawing. The April drawing consists of heads, the May drawing text from newspaper article headers, and map drawings from articles. The names of the places from the maps overlap from one day to another to produce a combination name that does not signify a true location, e.g., a foreign country city name meshed with a city name in the United States. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006