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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5474 Collections and/or Records:

Red on White; The Biography of Duke Redbird / Dunn, Marty., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-16325-16675
Scope and Contents

This book, based upon lengthy interviews of Duke Redbird, a Canadian Indian, intermingles biography with experimental writing, art, and typography. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

Reflections (of the ) Stone / Osowski, FnL., 1999

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Identifier: CC-36584-38389
Scope and Contents

The images illustrate the remnants of demolished buildings in Melbourne stored in an area near the exhibition buildings. The authors are Francis Osowski and Leonie aka Catherine Bourbon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Reflex / Muniz, Vik ; Andre C ; Blake W ; Calvino I ; Close C ; Cocteau J ; Dali S ; Desnos R ; Duchamp M ; Kelley M ; Klein Y ; Lichtenstein R ; Maciunas G ; McLuhan M ; Michals D ; Ray M ; Ruscha E ; Smithson R ; Warhol A ; Wittgenstein L ; Harvey E., 2006

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Identifier: CC-44328-46476
Scope and Contents From Publishers Weekly: "Muniz's cockeyed account of his life and art, when it doesn't sidetrack into irritating displays of the artist's egotism, shines with an inventive charm. Chronicling his rise from poor Brazilian immigrant to highly successful New York artist, the volume is beautifully designed, with the pleasing heft of a high school textbook, and packed with illustrations. Since the early 1990s, Muniz has created densely referential photographs of his own drawings and collages. These generally involve some kind of conceptual trickiness about representations of representations; a copy of a Cezanne still life, for example, composed of tiny circles punched out of magazines, or a recreation in chocolate syrup of a famous photograph of Jackson Pollack. The book is also a mini-museum of the wide-ranging obsessions that fuel Muniz's work, with images drawn from art and science and quirky sidebar quotations from the likes of Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau and, yes, Vik...
Dates: 2006

Reform: Sowjetische Agitation im Reprint / Rothe, M.; Rodchenko A., 1989

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Identifier: CC-54089-643021
Scope and Contents

The card by Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, "Esprit" is a typed concrete poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Reinder Cum Hammer / Matthew Higgs, curator., 2010

 Item
Identifier: CC-58873-10002078
Scope and Contents

The Sackners attended thisn exhibition of covers of avant garde magazines including Tractor, Elephant, Klacto and Stereo Headphones. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Reklame fur mich / Vennekamp, Johannes., 1979

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Identifier: CC-31860-33383
Scope and Contents

This catalogue depicts the prints made by Vennekamp during his seven years with Rixdorfer Drucke.The original colored etching is entitled NASA Spion and is a political cartoon with a main image depicting a toy bird wearing an American flag and the corners trigonometric figures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979