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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5481 Collections and/or Records:

[Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year], 2008

 Item — Box 334: [Barcode: 31858072491032]
Identifier: CC-50002-71061
Scope and Contents

The loose sheet is a letter to Belsey's family and friends noting that he has retired from Cardiff University in Philosophy, completed a Master's degree in Typography and Graphic Communication at Reading University and expects to be "busier than ever, reading and writing in both philosphy and typography." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Merry Christmas - Snow on Fences / Sloy; Nichols, Dave., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-49091-70129
Scope and Contents

The image on the card front is from a painting by Nic in 1989. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Merry Meetings / Phillips, Tom ; Rosenthal N., 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-44288-46418
Scope and Contents

Norman Rosenthal has contributed a preface and Tom Phillips an introduction to the book that consists of letter and semi-figurative drawings as well as doodles made by Phillips on pages of the agenda of meetings of the board of Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Academy of Art and the British Museum while he was a participant. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Meta Memphis / Weiner L ; Kosuth J ; Boetti A., 1991

 Item
Identifier: CC-06185-6299
Scope and Contents

Exhibition consisted of furniture designed by artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Meta / Tinguely, Jean ; Duchamp M ; Hains R ; Kluver B ; Klein Y ; Roth D ; Rotella M ; Schwitters K ; Spoerri D ; Tatlin V ; Uecker G ; Villegle J., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-29860-31243
Scope and Contents This profusely illustrated book includes a signed drawing executed by one of Tinguely's machines, entitled "meta-matic No.8." It appears to be an original rather then a print subsequently published by the New York Graphic Society in 1975 in an English translation. It is described by Artext on Internet, thusly, "Hulten, K. G. Pontus and Jean Tinguely. JEAN TINGUELY: META. Paris, copyright states 1973 but published in 1974. 363 pp., 519 illus., 34 pp. on transparent paper, 13 color plates. with 6 fold-outs, numerous photos and film frames, 33 1/3 rpm record attached with metal brad to rear pastedown entitled "Sounds belonging to Pontus Hulten's book on Jean Tinguely's work, 'Meta.'." Text by Pontus Hulten. One of a limited edition which includes an original drawing signed by Tinguely, dated on verso, bound in, "peinture executee en collaboration avec metamatic No.8." 4to, pictorial cloth covers, bound as suitcase with lock closure and handle. Original French ed. preceding NYGS ed....
Dates: 1973

Mevagissy Harbour / Furnival, John., 1959 - 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-13182-13483
Scope and Contents

The three prints to be mounted in sequence horizontally depict a wide angle view of the harbour from Furnival's vantage point in the cottage where Astrid and he lived after they were first married. The style of the line drawings of the ships in the harbour is similar to drawings of ships that Furnival made with Ian Hamilton Finlay in the early sixties. Stored in The Locative and Vocative Case. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1959 - 1995

Mezzuzah: Prayer for Jerusalem / Moshe Castel., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-20682-21084
Scope and Contents

A Mezzuzah, a decorative container, is affixed to the doorpost of Jewish homes and has within it a scrolled Hebrew prayer. The imagery by Castel is similar to that employed by the Parisian Lettrist artist, Jacques Spaqagna. Castel lived in Paris for a period of time in the sixties and may have been influenced by the Lettrists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Mezzuzah: Prayer for Jerusalem / Moshe Castel., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-20682-21084
Scope and Contents

A Mezzuzah, a decorative container, is affixed to the doorpost of Jewish homes and has within it a scrolled Hebrew prayer. The imagery by Castel is similar to that employed by the Parisian Lettrist artist, Jacques Spaqagna. Castel lived in Paris for a period of time in the sixties and may have been influenced by the Lettrists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Miami Art Museum. Jul-Sep / Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34600-36299
Scope and Contents

Includes photographic reproduction of Howard Wise's Time Column III 1968 that was donated to the museum by the Sackners. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Miami Beach / Sackner, Sara., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-45663-47862
Scope and Contents

Each collage (postcard) depicts an abstract impression of Miami Beach scenes made of cut, colored construction paper. They are labeled water, blimp, beach strip, pool and causeway on the verso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Miami Beach / Sackner, Sara., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-00009-8
Scope and Contents

Each card is a cut-out of colored construction paper of an abstract design of the water, the blimp, the beach, the strip, the pool, and the causeway. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Micropolitiques / Hubaut, Joel ; Beuys J ; Buren D ; Filliou R ; Hubaut J ; Matta-Clark G ; Villegle J., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-34734-36440
Scope and Contents

Subtitled "Art as Micropolitics, a Mirror of Contemporary History," Hubaut drew ideograms on its cover. The title "Big Flick/Flick/Show" is written in ink at the top and "Epidemic Error" at the bottom of the cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Microwave, three / Callan J., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-41500-43487
Scope and Contents

This exhibition is the third in an annual series curated by Josee Bienvenu in which selected international artists "set up and observe various proceses of fragmentation and erosion of information." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001