Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive lent unique pages from the first revised edition of "A Humument" by Tom Phillips to this exhibition at UC San Diego's Mandeville Gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

This drawing was commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. The poet drew circular shapes with symmetrical and irregular borders encapsulating the words, "breath, breathing, and respiro," as an attempt to portray the physical qualities of a breath as a visual image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. Consists of a grid of 7 x 6 packets of normal and abnormal collaged chest roentgenograms fixed to a canvas stretcher support. Each row has one letter in each column which in the horizontal spells "breath." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

This sweater was commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. The text on the sweater, is knitted in shades of indigo blue to indicate the rise and fall of light on the stage during the performance of the minimalist play by Samuel Beckett entitled "Breath." The performance consists of slowly inhaling and exhaling a single breath. The text of the play provides stage and lighting directions as the visual associations for this breath. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

This is a photographic copy of a work commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. It depicts a young, well-endowed nude female model with a stylized image of the lungs with a cloud scene collaged over her chest and the admonishment "Breathe!" over her umbilicus. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

Depicts a reproduction of a colored photograph of "Breathe" by the Gerlovins that is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

These works were commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. They depict a young, well-endowed nude model with a stylized figure of the lungs collaged over her chest. In a comic strip like bubble, the word, "Breathe" eminates from her mouth. One of these photographs was selected for an announcement card. The drawing that is not included with the mounted four photographs depicts another image of the lungs that can be collaged onto a photograph to create a different appearance as an option. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. The background of this work is rubberstamped multiple times, "In Out," and found printed texts and images are collaged onto the rubberstamping. The collage is enclosed by a plastic laminate. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

Theme deals with meditative properties of breathing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. The drawings are arranged as a grid, 4 across and 5 down. Each drawing contains the same repetitive, printed text without spacing between words as a background, viz. "breathing just one more lung of air next to the bone he squeezed me so hard I thought my ribs would break breathe OK OK." The collage elements include letters, lines, abstract images, text from the background, and reproductions of animals and plants. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. The drawings are arranged as a grid, 4 across and 5 down. Each drawing contains the same repetitive, printed text without spacing between words as a background, viz. "breathing just one more lung of air next to the bone he squeezed me so hard I thought my ribs would break breathe OK OK." The collage elements include letters, lines, abstract images, text from the background, and reproductions of animals and plants. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents These two drawings are Gaard's riff on the Kabbalist "Tree of Life." The first drawing has the title written in the upper left hand corner and the second drawing Frank Gaard's signiture in the lower right hand corner. Exhibitied at Gaard's retrospective at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN in 2012. The frames were made by the museum. Wikepedia: The ten Sephirot are a step-by-step process illuminating the Divine plan as it unfolds itself in Creation. They are fully found in the Medieval Kabbalah texts, such as the central work in Kabbalah, the Zohar. The Hebrew etymology of their names in Kabbalah is understood to refer to the nuanced aspects of meaning of each Sephirah. This direct connection between spiritual and physical creations and their Hebrew names, reflects the theology in Kabbalah that Creation is formed from the metaphorical speech of God, as in the first chapter of Genesis. Kabbalah expounds on the terms of the Sephirot. In the first complete systemisation of...

Scope and Contents

The top half of this print is a photograph of a bridge over a body of water. The bottom half is the same scene rendered in the repeated words brisa (breeze), abatido (downcast), abismo (abyss), abajo (under), barato (cheap), alejar (move away) - themes related to suicide. The calligraphic text is rendered by computer typeface. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

Lists authors whose books have been burned or banned from Confusius to the present. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

The print depicts a stylized broken arm with a fractured Swatstika arm band with the hand aflame. The smoke from the fire consists of a political address in 1993 set in bold type by Helmut Kohl, the leader of Germany dealing with solving the world's problems with money. This overlays a text with fainter type dealing with protection of the environment. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

Edited by Barbara Caruso. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.