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Conceptual art

 Subject

Subject Source: LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 153 Collections and/or Records:

Mosaiken In Pankow 1978-1980, 1980

 Item — Folder 4: [Barcode: 31858072459427]
Identifier: CC-55722-55119
Scope and Contents This poster depicts photographic changes of the same site on the streets of Pankow from 1978 to 1980. Wikipedia: Manfred Butzman was born September, 1942 in Potsdam. After his father's death in 1945 Manfred Butzmann grew Eutzsch with relatives on a farm. 1955 his mother took him back to Potsdam, where he attended high school and then took off the 1961 high school. During this time he took drawing lessons already. After high school he attended from 1961 to 1964 trained as a Offsetretuscheur in Berlin and Potsdam. Besides, he worked in Malzirkel of Magnus Zeller in Caputh. From 1964 to 1969 Manfred Butzmann graphics studied at art school in Berlin-Weissensee at Arno Mohr, Werner Klemke and Klaus Wittkugel . 1988 to 1993 he was a guest lecturer. After getting married to the landscape architect Eva Butzmann 1966 the couple moved into an apartment on Park Road 36 in Berlin-Pankow . In 1966, the daughter Iris was born in 1972 and 1983 Charlotte Johanna. From 1970 he worked as a...
Dates: 1980

Museum of Modern Art, 1983

 Item — Box 301: [Barcode: 31858072460912]
Identifier: CC-55720-53512
Scope and Contents

The keys presumably unlock the door of the museum. The colophon reads, ...is a box of mauricio nannuccci (1971) published by adlers editions in 30 copies signed and numbered in malmo sweden autumn 1983 -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Museum of Penny Candy, 2000

 Item — Box 301: [Barcode: 31858072460912]
Identifier: CC-35181-36915
Scope and Contents

Each page consists of the candy object described by an ancient dictionary along with the candy itself. The presentation is reminiscent of early Joseph Kosuth works. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Museum Studies 3, 1995

 Item — Box 622: [Barcode: 31858072461092]
Identifier: CC-00665-681
Scope and Contents

This depicts an installation in the Brancusi room of the museum with Weiner's text "Nickel & Sweat & Copper Mixed Upon The Ground" written above each alcove displaying the art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Outside of a Dog: Paperbacks and Other Books by Artists, Second Enlarged Edition, 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-42389-44399
Scope and Contents Clive Phillpot asked 23 collectors of artist books in addition to himself to select mass produced, inexpensive artists' books from 1950 onward to the present for this exhibition. He also asked each to write an essay explaining his choices. Each of the collectors is listed under contributors. Books by Dieter Roth, Tom Phillips and Ulises Carrion were the most popular cited by the collectors. Sackner's essay follows. When I received the request from Clive Phillpot to provide a list of artists' books - inexpensive books authored by artists that utilize mass-production printing technology - with examples from 1950 to date, I thought that the task would be simple. I would search my database under the classification Artist Book and be finished in a few hours. Here I am one week later writing the essay on the artists' books that I selected from our collection. This is because our database has a single entry for artists' books that includes one of a kind to press runs of thousands. I had...
Dates: 2004

Paginations, 1984

 Item
Identifier: CC-36062-37836
Scope and Contents

This commissioned exhibition catalogue was sent to selected librairies and collectors to celebrate the ARLIS meetings in Williamstown in 1984. It itself is an artist book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Panorama 69, 1970

 Item
Identifier: CC-58002-51194
Scope and Contents

The brochure is an exhibition catalogue curated by Fernando Millan entitled 'poesia internacional de vanguardia' held at galeria de arte DANAE in Madrid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Pieces of Painting - Slices of Thought, 1996

 Item — Box 268: [Barcode: 31858072460599]
Identifier: CC-03710-3781
Scope and Contents

This depicts a single white "O' on a gray background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996