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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5481 Collections and/or Records:

cahiers de la 5th feuille, les. No.3/Apr / Julien Blaine., 2003

 Item
Identifier: CC-44620-46783
Scope and Contents

A major section deals with photographic views of vulvae that have been hand colored. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

cahiers de la 5th feuille, les. No.4/Apr / Julien Blaine., 2004

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Identifier: CC-44627-46790
Scope and Contents

In this issue, vulvae are a visual topic; Blaine likens the vulva to differing typographic parentheses. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Cahiers Loques: Complot de Famille. / Jean-Francois Bory., 1982

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Identifier: CC-16674-17029
Scope and Contents

This book consists of photographs of Bory juxtaposed with collaged photographs of his parents and grandparents. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Calendar 2005-2006 / Hoffmeister, Adolf ; Kafka F ; Styrsky J ; Aragon L., 2005

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Identifier: CC-51498-72596
Scope and Contents

Several of the illustrations that consist of collages and drawings are also reproduced in the major Hoffmeister catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Calendar / Arc Publications ; Benveniste A ; Lijn L ; Nuttall J ; Griffiths B ; Fisher A ; Ward T., 1979

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Identifier: CC-26963-27437
Scope and Contents

The September page designed by Asa Benveniste depicts a grid of 15 Hebrew 'hey's and two 'yod's' as a metaphor for the 17 syllable Japanese Haiku poetic structure. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Calling Card Maquette / Hubaut, Joel., 1999

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Identifier: CC-36670-38484
Scope and Contents

The mat frames out the rest of the larger photographic image (1994) of an assemblage of Hubaut's objects to provide the final image for the calling card, also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Calypso / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Gerahy, Laura., 1996

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Identifier: CC-35259-36993
Scope and Contents

The narrative of the recto side of the cards deals with Homer's Ulysses and his encounter with the fairy, Calypso. The narrative of the verso side of the cards deals with a contemporary naval incident involving the boarding of a French fishing boat, La Calypso, by the British navy. The illustrations on each page and the folder are line drawings of sea creatures. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography / Barthes, Roland ; Richard Howard, translator., 1981

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Identifier: CC-51064-72145
Scope and Contents Barthes distinguishes erotica from pornographic photographs as follows. "The Photograph is unary when it emphatically transforms "reality" without doubling it, without making it vacillate (emphasis is a power of cohesion) : no duality, no indirection, no disturbance. The unary Photograph has every reason to be banal, "unity" of composition being the first rule of vulgar (and notably, of academic) rhetoric: "The subject," says one handbook for amateur photographers, "must be simple, free of useless accessories; this is called the Search for Unity." News photographs are very often unary (the unary photograph is not necessarily tranquil). In these images, no punctum: a certain shock-the literal can traumatize -but no disturbance; the photograph can "shout," not wound. These journalistic photographs are received (all at once) , perceived. I glance through them, I don't recall them; no detail (in some corner) ever interrupts my reading: I am interested in them (as I am interested in the...
Dates: 1981