Box 272
Contains 23 Results:
The Ballerina, 1984
This book object has the shape of a headless ballerina. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Sea Fever, 2000
The work deals with ship wrecks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
La Brosse de Ben / Ben., 1998
The black toothbrush is printed "Keep smiling (Ben)" in the artist's characteristic, white calligraphy. The box also adds "embrasse moi (Ben)." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
L'Homme de Parole, 1997
The book represents a man's body with a white, plastic spiral spine, a face and hair made of cut, smaller spiral spine material, a heart shaped heart printed with "je t'aime," and appropriately shaped booklets for the arms, abdomen, legs and penis. Crombie wrote the Sackners that these book objects were too difficult to transport and make so that none of the editions were completed as stated in the colophon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
L.H.O.O.Q., 1995
This stamp is appropriated from the Marcel Duchamp ready-made of the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Livres d'Artistes, 1987
This unusual exhibition catalog, which itself can be classified as an artist book, consists of booklets with reproductions from limited editioned artist and illustrated books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Boites Ben / Ben., 1997
This small wooden box contains what appears to be a smaller, "black box." It has a sliding top inscribed with the handwritten name, Ben. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
A Life in, 1994
The text of the scroll reads, "A life in hate Haiti fear Rwanda death Bosnia anger America prejudice." The words are printed in varied size typefaces. The background images depict human figures walking within an African landscape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Ornamental Blessing, 1994
The poem is set in short phrases on the vertical axis of tightly, rolled scroll with occasional diagonally printed phrases of concrete poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Make a Concrete Balloon from a Concrete Booklist, 2004
An Opera, 1963
A note in Fluxus Codex indicates that this work was included in several Fluxus assemblage boxes and also sold separately. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
