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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5471 Collections and/or Records:

Archive for Panzer Leader / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Grasby, Richard., 1976

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Identifier: CC-12112-12336
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The drawings were preparatory for a garden sculpture in Stonypath as documented in the photograph. One drawing depicts the Panzer Leader, a turtle with the title inscribed on its shell, head on, and the other, two drawings with top and side projections -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Archive of da levy Correspondence / Swanberg, Ingrid Markhardt; Wagner Dr., 1968

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Identifier: CC-51729-72829
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Ingrid Swanberg comments on a photocopy of an envelope depicted in one of the folded sheets: Marvin - all the following were enclosed in this envelope, which I received a week or so after levy's death. Note: no return address [however, it is postmarked San Francisco]. See my essay "No Last Words." The Archive includes a letter to Dr Wagner in 1968, raw material clipped from magazines for potential collages, Buddhist art images and a letter to an unidentified recipient. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Archivos de Texto e Imagen / Suarez, Mario ; Banana A., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35107-36835
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The Sackner Archive holds a painting by Suarez, "Brasil: Mentida la Verdad (Layed the Truth)." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Argentines in Our Midst / Presser E., 1989

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Identifier: CC-26722-27192
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Mention is made that the works of Elena Presser are in the Sackner Archive. "Beautiful Dreamer" a sculptural work held by the Sackner Archive was shown in this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Art and Life / Rauschenberg, Robert ; Cage J ; Johns J., 1990

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Identifier: CC-27583-28660
Scope and Contents This is a biography of Robert Rauschenberg based upon personal interviews by the biographer of almost every one important to the artist over his entire life span. It begins with a quotation from Rauschenberg, "Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in the gap between the two)"Mary Lynn Kotz provides a critical discussion of several artistic works reproduced in this book. One of them is "Opal Gospel, "a multiple artist book produced in 1971. The word 'opal' was suggested to Rauschenberg by the iridescent inks used in the work. It is an unbound book containing poems from the Nootka, Chippewa, Nanajo, Iglulik, Pawnee and Apache tribes, printed with Rauschenberg's illustrations from nature in iridescent ink on clear plexiglas. The panels or pages, are interchangeable in their stands. With this hauntingly iridescent work, Rauschenberg celebrated his own American Indian heritage. This biography is the only fully illustrated account of Rauschenberg's...
Dates: 1990

Art & Antiques. No.3/Mar / Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 2002

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Identifier: CC-38850-40766
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Ruth and Marvin Sackner are listed among "America's Top 100 Collectors" as collectors of art with text and artists' books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Art & Antiques. No.71/Sum / Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Austin T ; Laffoley P ; Kriwet F ; Furnival J ; Noel A ; Lewty S ; Grayson R ; Miller L ; Minsky R ; Tipping R ; Presser E ; Mabe J ; Vater R ; Mallarme S ; Berry J ; Crumb C ; Mutel D ; Sloy ; Helmes S., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32704-34292
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Tom Austin wrote an essay, "The Power of the Pen," in which he describes the Sackner Archive as the world's largest privately held collection of text art. The essay is illustrated with eight colored photographs by Chris Little. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Art at Auction 1997-1998 / Sotheby's ; Nauman B ; Basquiat JM ; Apollinaire G ; Apianus P., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31395-32882
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Petrus Apianus' illustrated book, "Astronomicum Caesareum" (1540) is depicted and described. The Sackner Archive holds a facsimile edition of this work. The catalogue entry of this original masterpiece states: "This copy is a magnificent example of 16th-century bookmaking. The Astronomicum Caesareum contains a broad analysis of Ptolemaic astronomy and is notable for Apianus's pioneering observations on comets, particularly his discovery that comets always point their tails away from the sun. The elaborate folio includes more than 100 woodcut and typographic diagrams, vignettes and illustrations in the text, many with movable type." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Art at the Edge of the Law / Benes BL ; Friedman T ; Lombardi M ; Prince R ; Sachs T ; Tomaselli F., 2001

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Identifier: CC-51859-72959
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Each page needs to be opened along the vertical perforation to see the images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Art Basel / Miami Beach / Acconci V ; Anderson L ; Andre C ; Arman ; Art & Language ; Banner F ; Bartlett J ; Basquiat JM ; Ben ; Bing I ; Bloom B ; Boetti A ; Boltanski C ; Broodthaers M ; Bruly-Bouabre F ; Brus G ; Carra C ; Chashnik IG ; Conner B ; Crotti J ; Darboven H ; Delaunay S ; Duchamp M ; Ernst M ; Erro ; Finlay IH ; Friedman T ; Goldsmith K ; Goncharova N ; Grosz G ; Hains R ; Hansen A ; Holzer J ; Horn R ; Jorn A ; Jensen A ; Janco M ; Johns J ; Kabakov I ; Kawara O ; Kippenberger M ; Klee P ; Klucis G ; Kolar J ; Kosuth J ; Kruger B ; Kuitca G ; Larionov M ; Lebel JJ ; Leger F ; Leirner J ; Lipski D ; Lissitzky E ; Malevich K ; Ray M ; Manzoni P ; Martin K ; Michaux H ; Neshat S ; Oldenburg C ; Ono Y ; Picabia F ; Popova L ; Rauschenberg R ; Reinhardt A ; Rodchenko A ; Roth D ; Rozanova O ; Ruscha E ; Schendel M ; Schwitters K ; Severini G ; Spoerri D ; Sprinkle A ; Steinberg S ; Stepanova V ; Suetin N ; Survage L ; Tapies A ; Telingater S ; Tobey M ; Tomaselli F ; Tunga ; Tuttle R ; Twombly C ; Udaltsova N ; Warhol A ; Weiner L ; Wiley WT ; Solar X ; Young P ; Zush., 2001

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Identifier: CC-42703-44722
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The paper strip on the cover notes that the annual art event was postponed until 2002 because of the events of September 11, 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

Art Book Catalogue 2: Twentieth Century Art / Lake, D & E ; Acker K ; Agam Y ; Alechinsky P ; Arman ; Arp H ; Baldessari J ; Balla G ; Bartlett J ; Barry R ; Beuys J ; Hansen A ; Spoerri D ; Boltanski C ; Brecht G ; Ponge F ; Broodthaers M ; Brossa J ; Brouwn S ; Byars JL ; Cage J ; Kostelanetz R ; Perloff M ; Carrion U ; Cavellini GA ; Corner P ; Cornell J ; Darboven H ; Cohen A ; Delaunay S ; Butor M ; Apollinaire G ; Dine J ; Dubuffet J ; Duchamp M ; Hulten P ; Lebel R ; Ernst M ; Filliou R ; Finlay IH ; Fulton H ; General Idea ; Glier M ; Grisi L ; Grosz G ; Haacke H ; Hartmann W ; Henderikse J ; Heartfeld J ; Higgins D ; Holzer J ; Hompson DD ; Jaar A ; Johns J ; Jorn A ; Kaprow A ; Kassak L ; Kawara O ; Kelly M ; Knowles C ; Koepcke A ; Kruger B ; Kubisch C ; Lax R ; Levine L ; Lichtenstein R ; LeWitt S ; Long R ; Manzoni P ; Maciunas G ; MacLow J ; Magritte R ; Moholy-Nagy L ; Nannucci M ; Baxter I ; Nitsch H ; Oldenburg C ; Ono Y ; Penck A ; Phillips T ; Picasso P ; Popova L ; Rauschenberg R ; Reinhardt A ; Rodchenko A ; Roehr P ; Roth D ; Ruscha E ; Samaras L ; Snow M ; Spero N ; Staeck K ; Sellem J ; Strid H ; Tapies A ; Tilson J ; Ben ; Villers B ; Warhol A ; Weiner L ; Lucie-Smith E ; Williams E ; Porter B ; Knowles A ; Schmit T ; Patterson B ; Johnson R ; MacLennan T ; Stein G ; Vostell W., 1996

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Identifier: CC-30261-31668