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Art as Life Life as Art / Danon, Betty., 2005

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Identifier: CC-44885-47057

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Scope and Contents

This book was edited by Marcella and Nicoletta Danon in homage to their late mother and grandmother, Betty Danon. In the introduction by Marcella Danon, mention is made that Betty Danon's work is held in the Sackner Archive. Conceptual artist and visual poet. Danon was born in Istanbul and lived in Milan, Italy, since 1956. She worked with Sound and Sign, starting from Jungian symbology, reducing circle and square in their primal elements - dot and line - that she will develop in her future works: abstract musical scores and interventions on Sound and Sign. She participated, in Italy and abroad, in many personal and collective exhibitions and twice in Special Exhibitions within the Venice Biennial, in 1978 and in 1980. Her work is well documented in many contemporary art magazines and international art archives. She voluntarily left, in the 1980's, the conventional art circuits in order to share her work with artists from all over the world trough Mail Art, and in order to spread her creative spirit trough precious creativity ateliers, for either the professional and also the non professional public. Using the computer, since 1989, she realized some of her best works in the field of Visual Poetry, creating, in the process, several books; some of them are published, some hand printed and others are "piece unique." Betty Danon's works are actually at the MART Museum of Trento and Rovereto (Italy) - where her archives are too. Her books are also at the Rare Books Department of the Ohio State University, in the Poetry Collection of the State University of New York, in the Sackner archives, and in museums and libraries of more then 25 nations in the world (Betty Danon web site). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 2005

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 soft cover book (66 pages)) ; 21 x 20.9 x .6 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

box shelf

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: Osnago, Italy : inventare il Mondo. Nationality of creator: Italian. General: About 500 total copies. About 74 number copy. General: Added by: MARVIN; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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