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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5481 Collections and/or Records:

Musique: 7 voyelles 7 arbres / de Charmoy, Cozette; Penard, Remy., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-40493-42465
Scope and Contents

The poetry by de Charmoy concerns music played by Apollo and Marsyas. The colored additions to the poetry are the vowels and the pochoir by Penard incorporates a design using seven Y's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

musique acataleptique / Frederic Acquaviva; Jean-Luc Parant., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-57422-10000710
Scope and Contents

This consists of a brief recording of a sound poem. The ink drawing of packed 'boules' (ovals) on the surface of the case is the typical imagery of Parant. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Musterkoffer, 1990

 Item — Box unknown: [Barcode: 31858073143665]
Identifier: CC-08214-8375
Scope and Contents

The photogaphs are profiles in solid black and white of political figures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

My Dolly and Me / Lotz, Renate., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-33116-34742
Scope and Contents

The drawings, that are bound into this book, consist of stylized, line drawings of upright, cylindrical figures with different animal heads. In some drawings, areas are highlighted with red watercolor or red colored pencil marks; others have cartoon bubbles with text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

My Trip to N.Y.C. / Sackner, Sara., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-29931-31322
Scope and Contents

This humorous photographic diary was made by Sara on April 23rd, 1977, on a day she met her parents and visited art galleries in Manhattan with them. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

My Very First Painting/Sculpture/Performance / Olbrich, Jurgen O.., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-36375-38166
Scope and Contents

The nine photographs on the recto of the card depict two boys working on an art project. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Nailsworth 1-5 / Furnival, John., 1996

 Item — Folder 39: [Barcode: 31858072459997]
Identifier: CC-13189-13490
Scope and Contents

This is a panoramic view of a Nailsworth street scene reminiscent of the panoramic photographs taken by Kenneth Snelson. It constitutes five sections that butt against each other. It is stored in the Locative Vocative box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Narrowgauge to Riobamba / Brandi, John., 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-21533-21944
Scope and Contents

The drawings in this book were done by John Brandi. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Nature Over Again: The Garden Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay, 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-49194-70235
Scope and Contents In this book, with many beautiful pictures of Finlay's international gardens and picture and concrete poetic works, Professor Hunt "isolates Finlay's garden art, in all of its different manifestations, and bring to it my own longstanding concerns with the history and theory of garden-making or landscape architecture. This meant, certainly, tracking the garden imagination and inventions back to some of Finlay's early non-garden art, but it also required that the essay begin with the gardens and landscapes themselves , n their own right, and only then invoke Finlay's rich and prolific writing and book production as aids to understanding hos he envisaged the making of gardens in the contemporary world." Dr. Hunt visited the Sackner Archive for parts of his research and acknowledged that "this book could not have been published without recourse to the superb Finlay collections of Marvin and Ruth Sackner, and I thank them for their kind agreement to let me reproduce materials [12...
Dates: 2008