Skip to main content

Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5482 Collections and/or Records:

Office Coffee / Horvath, Alan., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-62635-47887
Scope and Contents

An abstract painting by Alan Horvath is reproduced as a photocopied colored page. The theme of the poems in this book is stories of "desperate" workers in an office bureaucracy. The poems are reminiscent of those appearing in the Australian magazine "924." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

Oh Those Reds... / Phillips, Tom., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-04815-4906
Scope and Contents

The two paintings are mounted within a single frame. The top painting consists of colored stripes. The stenciled text of the bottom painting mentions chance and "fine and ingenious concordant terminal greys." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints / Christie's ; Arp J ; Baj E ; Delaunay S ; Ernst M ; Johns J ; Lissitzky E ; Ray M ; Severini G., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-36193-37978
Scope and Contents

Auction catalogue. The Sackners sold "Proun 2C" by El Lissitzky in this auction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Old Master, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Prints / Christie's ; Duchamp M ; Ernst M ; Lissitzky E ; Ray M., 1999

 Item
Identifier: CC-34778-36484
Scope and Contents

Auction catalogue. The Sackners sold "Proun 2C" by El Lissitzky in this auction. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Old Men in Love, 2010

 Item
Identifier: CC-59474-10002550
Scope and Contents This is the first American edition.The Guardian Ocober 5, 2007 Christopher Tayler: Not so long ago, it sometimes seemed as though the age's master plot revolved around a sexual encounter that caused at least one of its participants to be hauled up before a tribunal. Bill Clinton was this scenario's Exhibit A, of course, but his troubles only strengthened a fascination that started to grip writers at around the time of David Mamet's Oleanna (1992). By 2001, JM Coetzee, Philip Roth, Francine Prose, Jonathan Franzen and many other novelists had inadvertently made the shamed professor a stock figure in heavyweight fiction.Post Bin Laden, post Bush, different characters have proliferated. Terrorists and traumatised New Yorkers have flourished, but the prevailing figure is almost certainly the horrified western intellectual trying, and usually failing, to sort out his or her responses to the carnage on the world stage. These characters have come in a range of varieties, from glassily...
Dates: 2010

Ombres & Llunes / Calleja, J.M., editor ; Brossa J ; Iglesias del Marquet J ; Valles J ; Viladot G ; Calleja JM ; Canals X ; Ferrando B ; Sou J ; Vega G ; Rafols-Casamada A ; Albalat A ; Badiella J ; Escoffet E., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-43024-45069
Scope and Contents

This book provides a brief biography and an example of their work by several older as well as younger Spanish poet/artists. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

On a Different Perspective, 1987

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Baroni, Vittore: [Barcode: 31858072491123]
Identifier: CC-21164-21573
Scope and Contents

Collages are made mostly from printed texts written by or about Baroni, which are cut-up in the manner of Gysin or folded-in in the manner of Burroughs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987