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Body art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:

A Work in Progress / Rose, Matthew; Orlan., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-03562-3626
Scope and Contents

Describes the body art of Orlan and her cosmetic surgery escapades. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Auf den Leib geschrieben; Merlin Leporello 1 / Schindehutte, Ali ; Waldschmidt, Arno ; Dorpal, Draginja ; Jung, Reinhold., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-34590-36289
Scope and Contents

The image is a nude woman with text handwritten on her entire body. She is wearing boots and carrying a copy of the Spiegel magazine. This book was one of four held by the Sackner Archive utilized to illustrate the authors' novel, "Ich frass die weiss Chinesin." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Auf den Leib geschrieben; Merlin Leporello 2 / Schindehutte, Ali ; Waldschmidt, Arno ; Kein, Ernst ; Niederstrasser, Katinka., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-34592-36291
Scope and Contents

The image is a semi-nude woman with handwritten text covering her upper body. She is wearing jeans and standing with a cat at her feet. This book was one of four held by the Sackner Archive utilized to illustrate the authors' novel, "Ich frass die weiss Chinesin." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Auf den Leib geschrieben; Merlin Leporello 3 / Schindehutte, Ali ; Waldschmidt, Arno ; Artmann, H.C. ; Jung, Reinhold., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-34593-36292
Scope and Contents

The image is the back of a nude woman with text handwritten on her entire body. She is standing in a cooking pot with vegetables scattered on the ground. This book is one of four held by the Sackner Archive utilized to illustrate the authors' novel, "Ich frass die weiss Chinesin." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Auf den Leib geschrieben; Merlin Leporello 4; Merlins Beitrag zum schwarzen Humor; Leporello 5 / Schindehutte, Ali ; Waldschmidt, Arno ; Neuss, Wolfgang ; Niederstrasser, Katinka ; Krolow, Karl., 1967

 Item
Identifier: CC-34594-36293
Scope and Contents

The image is two nude women with text handwritten on their entire bodies. They are wearing boots and have a calligraphic cartoon bubble printed in red above their heads. This book is one of four held by the Sackner Archive utilized to illustrate the authors' novel, "Ich frass die weiss Chinesin." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Autorretrats / Cerda, Jordi., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-17244-17602
Scope and Contents

Cards consist of photographs of Cerda's face with different expressions surrounded by photographs of himself, friends or family in varied activities. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Body of Text / Ellingsen, David ; Smith, Michael V. ; Bok C., 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-49159-70199
Scope and Contents

This is a collection of concrete poems by photographing Michael Smith dressed in a full black body suit in various poses that resemble Greco-Roman letters, Asian characters, hieroglyphs and Rorschach inkblots. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Brache di Gutenberg, Le: Cronaca: Uomo/Pagina. No.38 / Franco Magro ; Luciano Caruso., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-22131-22548
Scope and Contents

Edited by Luciano Caruso and Sonia Puccetti. The photograph image depicts a masked person wrapped in newspaper. Caruso wrote the accompanying poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Brache di Gutenberg, Le: Cronaca: Uomo/Pagina. No.38 / Franco Magro ; Luciano Caruso., 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-22133-22550
Scope and Contents

Edited by Luciano Caruso and Sonia Puccetti. The photograph image depicts a masked person wrapped in newspaper. Caruso wrote the accompanying poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Breathe / Gerlovina, Rimma; Gerlovin, Valeriy., 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-10217-10420
Scope and Contents

The photograph depicts Rimma Gerlovin with a green leaf at her lips and the phrase "breathe-eat," to indicate the anagraphic significance of the two words along with the leaf which serves as a edible object as well as a respiratory organ for the plant itself. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Contemporary Art Appreciation 101 / Brownsteen, Earl ; Iannone D ; Roth D ; Bing X ; Antin E ; Prince R ; Wool C ; Kawara O ; Nauman B ; Mcewen A ; Holzer J ; Muniz V ; Hirst D ; Friedman T ; Klein Y ; Graham R ; Andre C ; Acconci V ; Abramovic M ; Christo ; Cole W ; Tansey M., 2006

 Item
Identifier: CC-62711-49312
Scope and Contents

This well illustrated, scrapbook-like publication presents an irreverent, outlandish, humerous and true to life view of the contemporary art world dealing with the soaring prices of artworks, artists, gallerists and critics. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Editions Camomille: Cons de Fees. No.1 / Roland Topor ; Freddy De Vree., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-14354-14663
Scope and Contents The title translates to "Cunt of Fairies." Topor painted faces onto color photographs of women with their legs spread apart to expose their genitalia. These were then rephotographed for the edition. Wilkipedia: Roland Topor (January 7, 1938 -- April 16, 1997), was a French illustrator, painter, writer and filmmaker, known for the surreal nature of his work. He was of Polish Jewish origin and spent the early years of his life in Savoy where his family hid him from the Nazi peril. Topor published several books of drawings, including Dessins panique (1965) Quatre roses pour Lucienne (1967) and Toporland (1975). Selections from Quatre roses pour Lucienne were reprinted in the English language collection Stories and Drawings (1967). His carefully detailed, realistic style, with elaborate crosshatching, emphasises the fantastic and macabre subject matter of the images. Roland Topor wrote the novel The Tenant (Le Locataire chimerique, 1964), which was adapted to film by Roman Polanski...
Dates: 1988