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Aphorism

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 343 Collections and/or Records:

Eating Through Living / Holzer, Jenny ; Nadin, Peter., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-09170-9351
Scope and Contents

Jenny Holzer, a conceptual artist who represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 1990, is known for her utilization of language as art. The opening piece in this book reads "It's a safe game to play with your nose, shutting off the air and letting it flow again. Then you can escalate and see how long you can last until you pass out, your hand relaxes and you breathe normally again." This is her first book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Eating Through Living / Holzer, Jenny ; Nadin, Peter., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-09171-9352
Scope and Contents

Jenny Holzer, a conceptual artist who represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 1990, is known for her utilization of language as art. The opening piece in this book reads "It's a safe game to play with your nose, shutting off the air and letting it flow again. Then you can escalate and see how long you can last until you pass out, your hand relaxes and you breathe normally again." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Eight Degrees of Charity by Maimonides / Golden, Alisa., 1996

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Identifier: CC-10647-10856
Scope and Contents

Golden provides documentation on how her binding and printing provides a rough simulation for the 12th century binding and illuminations that might have been used for such a work. The eight linocuts have been inserted into the sleeve pages. Golden printed the text from a book edited by Isadore Twersky, "A Maimonides Reader." The booklet is closed by a clasp incorporating a copper hand and a bone. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

El Lissitzky - Art and Pangeometry, 1973

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Identifier: CC-14756-15069
Scope and Contents

The theme is based upon the teachngs of El Lissitzky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Epictetus Discourses / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Jones, Grahame., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-12474-12701
Scope and Contents

The image of the watercolor tipped into the back cover of the folder appears to be an abstract landscape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Estrella's Prophecies / Baratier, David., 2002

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Identifier: CC-43332-45391
Scope and Contents

The book prints prophecies from a fortune telling vending machine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Even Transcendentalists Get The Blues / Risseeuw, John; Thoreau H., 1986

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Identifier: CC-58335-50760
Scope and Contents

The aphorism by Thoreau (1854) printed on this work reads "Our life is frittered away by details." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Every effect remains in its cause / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1998

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Identifier: CC-35416-37151
Scope and Contents

The cover image is a line drawing of sail boats. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Every Goal Negates. Ludwig Feuerbach / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1985

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Identifier: CC-11911-12133
Scope and Contents The poem is printed in red with folded paper shaped like an arrow. It was printed on the Second Anniversary of the First Battle of Little Sparta and its slogan relates to Finlay's dispute with the local tax collectors. Wikipedia: Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach (July 28, 1804 "“ September 13, 1872) was a German philosopher and anthropologist best known for his book The Essence of Christianity, which provided a critique of Christianity which strongly influenced generations of later thinkers, including both Karl Marx and Frederich Engels. Feuerbach was the fourth son of the eminent jurist Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, brother of mathematician Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach and uncle of painter Anselm Feuerbach. An associate of Left Hegelian circles, Feuerbach advocated for liberalism, atheism and materialism. Many of his philosophical writings offered a critical analysis of religion. His thought was influential in the development of dialectical materialism, where he is often...
Dates: 1985

Exp/press: A poem a day keeps the psychiatrist away. No.2 / Gerrit Jan De Rook., 1972

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Identifier: CC-13496-13799
Scope and Contents

Edited by G. de Rook. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Exp/press: Even God Breathes. No.9 / Hans Werner Kalkmann., 1972

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Identifier: CC-13503-13806
Scope and Contents

Edited by G. de Rook. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Exp/press: This Is a Sentence. No.10 / Robin Crozier., 1972

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Identifier: CC-14267-14574
Scope and Contents

Edited by G. de Rook. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Exp/press: This Is a Sentence. No.10 / Robin Crozier ; Cobbing B., 1972

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Identifier: CC-29077-30418
Scope and Contents

Edited by G. de Rook. Crozier has written a unique, 15 line poem on the verso that is inscribed to Bob Cobbing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

Fact Card 1 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1998

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Identifier: CC-35440-37176
Scope and Contents

The poem reads, "Over 200 Flowers served as convoy escorts in WW2." Flowers refers to the Flower class corvette of the British navy in WW2. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Fishing from the Pavement / Libeskind, Daniel., 1997

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Identifier: CC-30296-31705
Scope and Contents

The cover design uses text over text in this book that provides brief, poetic, aphoristic statements about Libeskind's philosophy of life. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

[Five Calendars] / Lederman, Stephanie Brody., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33920-35592
Scope and Contents

Each print, that is also numbered, includes a small, collaged calendar for the years, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Follies-A Little Sparta Guide To The National Trust / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987

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Identifier: CC-12299-12524
Scope and Contents

This is an attack on The National Trust book, "Follies" which was adversely critical of Finlay's Garden Temple by painting a picture of the Trust with quotes lifted from the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987