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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5481 Collections and/or Records:

Encyclopedia of Self Portraits / Crane, Michael., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-20386-20783
Scope and Contents

This book reproduces head shots made on a photocopier. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Energy Crisis Poems / sigmund, r.j., aka rjs ; Kryss TL ; Dominique., 1974

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Identifier: CC-02986-3031
Scope and Contents

The cover was designed by Tom L. Kryss. The three photocopied drawings within the book were done by Dominique. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1974

Enough of the Hills and Woods / Dezso, Andrea., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47510-68508
Scope and Contents

Andrea Dezso has illustrated this article about family holiday communcations with reproductions of stitching of families, airplanes, Christmas trees, computers and cars. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Entrapped: The Book As Container / Phillpot C ; Colby S ; Polansky L ; Luchman L ; Horwitz C., 1981

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Identifier: CC-14130-14435
Scope and Contents

Exhibition was curated by Norman Colp and sponsored by the Center For Book Arts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Environment (Postcard), 2004

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Scope and Contents

Along with the postcard, there is a document from the Russian Federation's Ministry of Culture approving the card for exportation to the United States.

Dates: 2004

Epat: Texts by Artist / Boshoff, Willem Hendrik., 2007

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Identifier: CC-51006-72085
Scope and Contents

Boshoff's artist statement in 2001 on his Blind Alphabet project is reproduced in this catalogue. Extension of this project to wooden sculptures of additional shapes in this exhibition are depicted along with captions of their definitions. The title of this exhibition, Epat is coloquial French and backwards in French, it is tape, a 'slap' or 'blow'; 'tapee' is a smart answer. In the exhibition, Epat is an installation of old music casettes in an asembly of plastic boxes. The final work described in the exhibition, Kykaafrikaans - Poetry Recitals, consist of a compact disc recording of the concrete poetry work held by the Sackner Archive. The compact disc is also held by the Sackner Archive courtesy of the Michael Stevenson gallery. This catalogue depicts five typings from Kykaafrikaans. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Ephemerides II / Phillips, Tom; Cage J., 1967

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Identifier: CC-44520-46670
Scope and Contents

Includes the text of a poem dealing with mushrooms that also was printed in Opening No.9. This painting plays with ideas that will be subsequently used by Phillips, e.g., A Humument, the concept of an image changing over time, the grid, permutations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Ephemerides / Phillips, Tom., 1978

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Identifier: CC-61163-52409
Scope and Contents

The cards consist of Phillips' lecture notes on artist books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Epidemia for Jean Jaques Lelid / Hubaut, Joel., 1989

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Identifier: CC-08716-8889
Scope and Contents

Photograph depicts Hubaut holding a drawing in front of a store with the name "Le Bel". -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Epigramititis: 118 Living American Poets / Johnson, Kent, editor ; Kunitz S ; Simic C ; Antin D ; Graham J ; Andrews B ; Bernstein C ; Lehman D ; Ashbery J ; Koch K ; MacLow J ; Howe S ; Beer J ; Davis J ; Lauterbach A ; Whalen P ; Lin T ; Sondheim A ; Daniels C ; Eshleman C ; Palmer M ; Bly R ; Lifshin L ; Stefans BK ; Merwin W ; Joris P ; Creeley R ; Padgett R ; Evans S ; McCord H ; Davies A ; Silliman R ; Elmslie K ; Yau J ; Alexander W ; Grenier R ; Debrot J ; Codrescu A ; Baraka A ; Watten B ; Damon M ; Smith R ; Bromige D ; Hejinian L ; Alexander C ; Robinson A ; Napora J ; Wieners J ; Dworkin C ; Howe F ; Featherstone D ; Luoma B ; Wakoski D ; Snyder G ; DiPalma R ; Lazer H ; Edson R ; Young D ; Scalapino L., 2004

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Identifier: CC-50164-71228
Scope and Contents An Epigram is a brief, clever, and usually memorable statement. Derived from the Greek: "to write on - inscribe"[1], the literary device has been employed for over two millennia. The Greek tradition of epigrams began as poems inscribed on votive offerings at sanctuaries "” including statues of athletes "” and on funerary monuments, for example "Go tell it to the Spartans, passer-by"¦". These original epigrams did the same job as a short prose text might have done, but in verse. Epigram became a literary genre in the Hellenistic period, probably developing out of scholarly collections of inscriptional epigrams. Though modern epigrams are usually thought of as very short, Greek literary epigram was not always as short as later examples, and the divide between 'epigram' and 'elegy' is sometimes indistinct (they share a characteristic metre, elegiac couplets); all the same, the origin of the genre in inscription exerted a residual pressure to keep things concise. Many of the...
Dates: 2004

Episodes / Lewty, Simon ; Hills P., 2000

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Identifier: CC-34954-36669
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This exhibition consisted of Lewty's textural works, some overlaid with abstract markings rather than surreal creatures as in his earlier works, others purely textural with more formal lettering. In his introductory essay, Paul Hills writes that in these textural paintings, Simon Lewty "has banished the lure of the figurative...to forestall and inclination to read the painting in terms of illustration, thereby bringing us forcibly back to the work as an object, to the look of the whole, to the matter of the text and its material presence." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Episodes of the City: New York as a Source Book / Cutler-Shaw, Joyce ; Hoffberg J ; Lovejoy M., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47273-50016
Scope and Contents

Judith Hoffberg contributes a preface titled "Birds, Bones and Books." In "Joyce's New York: A conversation" Margot Lovejoy interviews Cutler-Shaw. She states that you can enjoy and read calligraphy without knowing the language and that she is "drawn to the more contemporary form of concrete poetry, in which meaning is tied to its visual representation." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Epistolary Stud Farm/Dramatika / Anonymous., 1983

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Identifier: CC-27130-27605
Scope and Contents

The name of the artist with initials K.S. is not identified. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983