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Conceptual art

 Subject

Subject Source: LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 160 Collections and/or Records:

B [Brooklyn or Book], 2000

 Item — Box 265: [Barcode: 31858072460540]
Identifier: CC-35558-37299
Scope and Contents

This project was organized by Werner Pfeiffer, Professor of Art at Pratt Institute with input from Deirdre Lawrence, Principle Librarian, Brooklyn Museum of Art and was produced by students of Pratt Institute Art of the Book curriculum. The theme of this work is Brooklyn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Be Joyful, 1999

 Item — Box 288: [Barcode: 31858073143434]
Identifier: CC-33660-35320
Scope and Contents

This gift to the Sackners for the millennium is a small wooden box stamped "Fragile 2000." It contains a golden egg nested in fine, spicey straw, with a red patch of silk. The loose sheet is printed with a poem " Be joyful - though you - have considered - all the facts." This work by Bart is a metaphor for the fragility of the future and its bright hope. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Boundless, 1983

 Item — Box 301: [Barcode: 31858072460912]
Identifier: CC-03044-3089
Scope and Contents

This a circular book object has a spiral spine completely encircling its cover so that it cannot be opened. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Buffet Car News, 1969

 Item — Folder 20: [Barcode: 31858072459799]
Identifier: CC-22279-22702
Scope and Contents

The eight prints fit together to form a wall poster. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

building blocks with artist, 1980

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: D: [Barcode: 31858072491370]
Identifier: CC-60372-10003347

C LOOPSEEND, 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-46990-49728
Scope and Contents Signs Ltd. of Bellenden Road have, after some adjustments I made to the prototype, produced, in laminated plastic with perspex slide, a handsome multiple of my favourite device. This comment about the work originates from Phillips' Works/Texts to 1974 (1974), p. 266. "A shop that I pass regularly on the way to the studio had a small red and white plastic sign saying C LOOPSEEND. Since the shop sold yams and sweet potatoes I assumed that this was the name of the proprietor; the double vowels suggested Dutch however and I was puzzled each time I passed it. Having seen this name for about a year and having thought it odd but probably liable to rational explanation, I suddenly came across its double in a second-hand shop in Ipswich in 1965. I was about to ask the shopkeeper whether he was any relative of his namesake in Camberwell when I noticed, in the back of the shop, many piles of similar nameplates, each bearing the inscription C LOOPSEEND. For some reason I made no enquiry in the...
Dates: 2007

Card to Ruth & Marvin Sackner: Poetry Trypoe [Passport] (31Jan87), 1987

 Item — Box 316: [Barcode: 31858072490810]
Identifier: CC-25620-26078
Scope and Contents

The verso depicts a reproduction of a Camel cigarette pack. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Carl Andre, 1970

 Item — Box 316: [Barcode: 31858072490810]
Identifier: CC-27158-27633
Scope and Contents

The typed carbon of "Conquest Display" illustrated on page 58 was held by the Sackner Archive and subsequently sold. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970