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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5472 Collections and/or Records:

WORDS 3 / Depew, Wally., 1985

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Identifier: CC-15167-15488
Scope and Contents

Each page has a single different rubberstamped word in large bold type with capital letters. There does not seem to be a theme connecting these words. The colored woodblock prints on the fold-out depict abstract imagery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

WORDS 4 / Depew, Wally., 1985

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Identifier: CC-15244-15566
Scope and Contents

Each page has a single different rubberstamped word in large bold type with capital letters. There does not seem to be a theme connecting these words. The colored woodblock prints on the fold-out depict abstract imagery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Words and Images: A Persistent Paradox / Bowman, Russell; Johns J; Ruscha E; Wiley WT; Nauman B., 1985

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Identifier: CC-22436-22860
Scope and Contents

Bowman reviews contemporary use of words in conjunction with visual art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Work In Progress on Bridge Piers / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Stirling, Annet; Berman, Brenda., 1990

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Identifier: CC-12210-12434
Scope and Contents

This card depicts a color photograph on its verso of a calligraphically carved stone sculpture being sited near a bridge in Glasgow and a photographic reproduction of an abstract expressionist painting by Vladimit Kokolia on its recto. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Work of the 1990's / Marden, Brice., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33679-35339
Scope and Contents

Marden's paintings, drawings and prints in the 1990's were influenced by Chinese calligraphy and the Greek muses. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Working Legs: A Play for People Without Them, 1997

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Identifier: CC-42819-44859
Scope and Contents

This is a play for physically disabled actors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Works and Texts / Phillips, Tom ; Paschal H ; Hurrell B., 1992

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Identifier: CC-04436-4519
Scope and Contents

This book served as the catalogue for the exhibition of Phillips' work in the Royal Academy Sackler Gallery, London. Huston Paschal writes in the introduction that "Phillips explores the timeless marks encoding meaning...and he is on a search for self." Several references are made to the Sackners in the text written by Phillips, and many works in the Archive are illustrated including "Oh Those Reds, Speaking in Tongues, The Dante Binding, Humument Globe, The Dante Diary, and A Humument Pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Works and Texts / Phillips, Tom ; Paschal H ; Hurrell B., 1992

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Identifier: CC-04437-4520
Scope and Contents

This book served as the catalogue for the exhibition of Phillips' work in the Royal Academy Sackler Gallery, London. Huston Paschal writes in the introduction that "Phillips explores the timeless marks encoding meaning...and he is on a search for self." Several references are made to the Sackners in the text written by Phillips, and many works in the Archive are illustrated including "Oh Those Reds, Speaking in Tongues, The Dante Binding, Humument Globe, The Dante Diary, and A Humument Pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Works / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Greenhalgh, Martyn ; Nash J ; Clark L ; Harvey M ; Fine J ; Campion P., 1989

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Identifier: CC-11848-12069
Scope and Contents

This catalogue was designed by Finlay. The 10 photographs in this book from Finlay's garden are captioned with text from Finlay's "Detached Sentances on Gardening." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Works & Interviews 1999 - 2014 / Jacobson, Michael., 2014

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Identifier: CC-60500-10003411
Scope and Contents

In an interview with Lynn Alexander, Michael Jacobson describes asemic writing and the influence of Tim Gaze on his work. Jacobson states that asemic writing is a nataural combination of texts and images and "sits between art & literature." He believes "asemic writing is descended from all forms of writing,...and also captures the techno-anxiety & information overload of a post-literate culture better than traditional forms of literary expression." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014

Works of Art from the Past Millennium / Horndeski, Gregory., 2000

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Identifier: CC-35543-37283
Scope and Contents

Wade Wilson contributes an incisive essay on the technical, socio-political and artistic background of Horndeski's paintings. "The artist paints on a horizontal canvas, like Pollack, with a knife and uses fluid acrylic paints which permit him to "achieve some remarkable effects as the paints mix on the canvas." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000