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Body art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:

P.T. Exercises / Wheatley, Steve., 1981

 Item
Identifier: CC-47783-68802
Scope and Contents

This book depicts a pose by a female model to illustrate a word with its definition, e.g. pat, post, pert. etc. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Rubber And Flesh 1, 2 & 3 / Szombathy, Balint., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-62479-47629
Scope and Contents

Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispu, California. Exhibition was curated by Karl Kempton. The photographs document Szombathy's rubberstamping process on paper and skin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

Selected Paintings: 1990-2000 / Olivieri, Irene Hardwicke., 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-44917-47089
Scope and Contents

The paintings mostly depict nude woman with dense text written onto the bodies. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Selected Works 1960-1992[CR]Selected Work 1960-1992 / Wilke, Hannah., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-58968-10002159
Scope and Contents

This exhibition focused upon Wilke's body of work and her biography written by her sister Marsie Scharlatt, her gallerist Michael Solway and the curator Arlene Raven. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Stickerman's Secret Congress: An Hommage to GAC , 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-23493-23938
Scope and Contents

In the photograph, Baroni is shown as he covers his wife with labels which read Networker Congress. The verso contains remnants and the flag-like ornament from the top of the helmut. This work is an homage to G.A. Cavellini. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Stickerman's Secret Congress: An Hommage to GAC / Vittore Baroni; GA Cavellini., 1992

 Item
Identifier: CC-23493-23938
Scope and Contents

In the photograph, Baroni is shown as he covers his wife with labels which read Networker Congress. The verso contains remnants and the flag-like ornament from the top of the helmut. This work is an homage to G.A. Cavellini. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

The Writer's Brush; Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers / Friedman, Donald ; Gass W ; Updike J ; Acker K ; Apollinaire G ; Artaud A ; Breton A ; Bukowski C ; Corso G ; Ferlinghetti L ; Ford CH ; Ginsberg A ; Gorey E ; Jacob M ; Ionesco E ; Jones D ; Kerouac J ; Lear E ; Lethem J ; Lewis WP ; McClure M ; Michaux H ; Miller H ; Nabakov V ; Patchen K ; Plath S ; Prevert J ; Proust M ; Rexroth K ; Rimbaud A ; Simic C ; Steadman R ; Thomas D ; Verlaine P ; Vonnegut KJr ; Arp H ; Baraka A ; Blake W ; Burroughs WS ; Carroll L ; Cocteau J ; cummings ee ; Darger H ; Davenport G ; DosPassos J ; Dostoevsky F ; Duncan R ; Jarry A ; Kafka F ; Mayakovsky V ; McCullough C ; Smith Pa ; Spiegelman A ; Yeats WB ; Eggers D ; Marquez GG ; Joans T ; Katchor B ; Kesey K ; Lax R ; Merton T ; Perec G ; Queneau R ; Silverstein S ; Ware C ; Wakoski D., 2007

 Item
Identifier: CC-47385-68382
Scope and Contents William H. Gass and John Updike contributed critical essays. Publishers Weekly 2007 "In this hefty volume, novelist Friedman takes a look at the artwork of more than 200 authors who found other avenues for expression in drawing, painting or sculpting. Aside from the familiar illustrations of Edward Gorey, Beatrix Potter and (to a lesser extent) Kurt Vonnegut, Friedman also unearths work from literary heavyweights past and present, including the Bronte sisters, Herman Hesse, Rudyard Kipling, Colleen McCullough, Vladamir Nabokov, John Updike and Jonathan Lethem. Each entry offers a short biography and passages from journals, letters or interviews illuminating the author's reasons for picking up pen or paint; according to Elizabeth Bishop, for instance, writers make a "frequent complaint that painting is more fun than writing." Examples of authors' art, one or two from each subject, are handsomely reproduced in vivid color alongside the text. Friedman also covers a long list of...
Dates: 2007

Three Love Stories / Lacy, Suzanne., 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-07103-7243
Scope and Contents

This book deals with the interaction of Lacy with three organs, the heart, lungs, and guts as documented with photographs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

[Un Abecedaire B, E, F, I, N, P, S, U, V, Y] / Blaine, Julien., 1973

 Item
Identifier: CC-22264-22686
Scope and Contents

Photographs of breasts and extremities forming letters exhibited by J. Blaine at Brazilia '73. Acquired from David UU who organized exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

[Untitled] / Neshat, Shirin; Patkin, Izhar; Fuchs, Rafael., 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-44476-46626
Scope and Contents

The image of this print consists to two arms, one wrapped in a Jewish religious ornament known as tfellin, the other with a Farsi text. Fuchs printed this work. The image was was reproduced in the November 2009 issue of Art in America page 121. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005