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Conceptual art

 Subject

Subject Source: LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 153 Collections and/or Records:

Flowers: Fill in the Flowers with Colours, 1977

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-10972-11184
Scope and Contents

This poem was composed after a work by Tom and Laurie Clark. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Homage to the Square, the Blacks, Ian Hamilton Finlay & Marshall McLuhan, 1968

 Item — Box 350: [Barcode: 31858072490869]
Identifier: CC-23495-23940
Scope and Contents

Printed on white paper. The image on the inside back cover is a small, hand drawn, black square. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Homage to the Square, the Blacks, Ian Hamilton Finley & Marshall McLuhan, 1968

 Item — Box 350: [Barcode: 31858072490869]
Identifier: CC-23427-23871
Scope and Contents

Printed on gray paper; the Sackner Archive also has a copy printed on white paper. The image on the inside back cover is a small, hand drawn, black square. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

I Am Your Stamp, 1984

 Item — Box 270: [Barcode: 31858072460573]
Identifier: CC-22236-22658
Scope and Contents

Object is a rubberstamp of the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. The rubber has mostly disintegrated.

Dates: 1984

Ian Hamilton Finlay in a Bottle, 1995

 Item — Box 301: [Barcode: 31858072460912]
Identifier: CC-00623-637
Scope and Contents

The poem by Ian Hamilton Finlay, printed on a small paper fragment, reads "warship worship." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Lego 50-15, 2010

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-51547-72645
Scope and Contents

Beaulieu invited 15 artists and poets to modify the original patent for Lego toys artistically or poetically and assembled the results into this piece. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2010

Levy Lives, 1967

 Item — Box 305: [Barcode: 31858072460953]
Identifier: CC-07652-7797
Scope and Contents

This badge might have been done by levy in his lifetime or posthumously by one of his followers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Note: this badge was created by levy, likely in 1967, as he referred to it in Kibbutz In the Sky Book 2, 1967.

Dates: 1967

L.H.O.O.Q., 2005

 Item — Box 196: [Barcode: 31858072459666]
Identifier: CC-50529-71601
Scope and Contents

The title of this piece is from Duchamps' version of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa who has been adorned with a comical moustache and goatee thus deserving its alternate title Joconde aux Moustaches. The title is essentially a phonetic game. As Duchamp himself noted in a 1966 interview, "I really like this kind of game, even in any language, some astonishing things happen." When read quickly in French, the title L.H.O.O.Q. sounds like a sentence translating to "She has a hot ass." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Logical Book, 1968

 Item — Box 284: [Barcode: 31858073143426]
Identifier: CC-60162-54096
Scope and Contents

This book is not listed in the Wikipedia bibliography of the press. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. Date originally recorded as 1975.

Dates: 1968

L'ordine rovesciato delle cose, 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-37936-39816
Scope and Contents

This catalogue represents a retrospective exhibition of the work of Costa (1942-1995) whose theme is transformation, metamorphosis and cultural anthropology. It includes essays entitled, "The Theatre of Wreckage," A Journey, a Collection of Saints, a Charcoal-maker, Spring Water and the Magic of Artistic Expression,"In the Company of Human Brain and Prehistoric Man" and "The Reconstruction of the Human." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Manifesto!, 1978

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-23101-23538
Scope and Contents NYT Exhibition Review: Whatever the aesthetic merit of Gene Beery's Pop-Conceptual paintings, on view in this delightful miniretrospective, they are certainly funny. Since the early 60's, Mr. Beery has been making word paintings that look and read like signs you see in shop windows. What the words offer, however, are not commodities but mischievous, self-referential messages, like John Baldessari's but goofier. ''Invent your own art kit!'' blares the exuberant text of a 1968 spoof of Conceptualism called ''Be an Artist Tomorrow.'' ''No brains, technique, skill, imagination, etc. needed. Clever system makes everyone an old master in seconds.''In ''Essences Only,'' made this year, Mr. Beery used a thin brush to write in black with apparently casual haste on a white canvas, ''My life is now too short to spend much time on formal painting art concerns. I am simply recording essences.'' Just so.It is tempting to go on quoting other paintings, but it is worth noting, too, the paradoxical...
Dates: 1978

Marcel Broodthaers, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-22245-22667
Scope and Contents

The book by Broodthaers, "Un Coup De Des Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard: Image" that is held by the Sackner Archive is reproduced . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Marcel Broodthaers, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-62057-123456789
Scope and Contents

The book by Broodthaers, "Un Coup De Des Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard: Image" that is held by the Sackner Archive is reproduced . -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Memories, 1976

 Item — Box 298: [Barcode: 31858072460870]
Identifier: CC-02627-2670
Scope and Contents

This work is signed "Franklin Spector" - Buzz's given name. The multi-colored pencils are each stamped in white with a single line of poetry. The sheet states that the poem may be constructed according to Spector's arrangement "or in any way which appeals to your own sensibilities." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976