Aphorism
Found in 343 Collections and/or Records:
Eating Through Living / Holzer, Jenny ; Nadin, Peter., 1981
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.
Eating Through Living / Holzer, Jenny ; Nadin, Peter., 1981
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.
Eight Degrees of Charity by Maimonides / Golden, Alisa., 1996
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.
El Lissitzky - Art and Pangeometry, 1973
The theme is based upon the teachngs of El Lissitzky. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Epictetus Discourses / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Jones, Grahame., 1982
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.
Estrella's Prophecies / Baratier, David., 2002
The book prints prophecies from a fortune telling vending machine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Even Transcendentalists Get The Blues / Risseeuw, John; Thoreau H., 1986
The aphorism by Thoreau (1854) printed on this work reads "Our life is frittered away by details." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Every effect remains in its cause / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Hincks, Gary., 1998
The cover image is a line drawing of sail boats. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Every Goal Negates. Ludwig Feuerbach / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1985
Every Instant Of Life / Oliveros, Pauline., 1980
Experimentelle Texte: Georgs Sorgum um die Zukunft. No.18 / Jan Faktor., 1988
Exp/press: A poem a day keeps the psychiatrist away. No.2 / Gerrit Jan De Rook., 1972
Edited by G. de Rook. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Exp/press: Even God Breathes. No.9 / Hans Werner Kalkmann., 1972
Edited by G. de Rook. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Exp/press: This Is a Sentence. No.10 / Robin Crozier., 1972
Edited by G. de Rook. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Exp/press: This Is a Sentence. No.10 / Robin Crozier ; Cobbing B., 1972
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.
Fact Card 1 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1998
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.
Feel The Edges / Keeley, Amanda., 2016
Fishing from the Pavement / Libeskind, Daniel., 1997
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.
[Five Calendars] / Lederman, Stephanie Brody., 1999
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.
Follies-A Little Sparta Guide To The National Trust / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1987
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.