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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 249 Collections and/or Records:

Archive of Correspondence: [Letter from Houedard to Cinicolo (230870)] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Cinicolo 3, Donato., 1970

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Identifier: CC-09478-9666
Scope and Contents

Houedard writes of his with unexpected visit to London and invites Cinicolo to join him there and return together to Prinknash Abbey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Archive of Correspondence: [Letter from Houedard to Cinicolo (230870)] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Cinicolo 3, Donato., 1970

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Identifier: CC-56934-10000298
Scope and Contents

Houedard writes of his with unexpected visit to London and invites Cinicolo to join him there and return together to Prinknash Abbey. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

Art / Rehfeldt, Robert., 1982

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Identifier: CC-60008-51013
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Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispu, California. Exhibition was curated by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Asso Di Quadri / Miglietta, Enzo., 1978

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Identifier: CC-06501-6620
Scope and Contents

This drawing on white paper depicts simplified geometric forms. The dimensions of the written letterformed text are just above the micrographic designation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Barf / Farmanfarmian, Monir (aka Farmanfarmaian, Monir Shahroudy)., 1981

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Identifier: CC-13053-13348
Scope and Contents The drawing is a free-form design with Farsi letters rendered in different colored inks. She had her first comprehensive exhibition in the United States at the Guggenheim Museum from May to Jume 2015. Wikipedia: She is a contemporary Iranian artist who lives in Tehran and was a ollector of traditional folk art. Her artistic practice weds the geometric patterns and cut-glass mosaic techniques of her Iranian heritage with the rhythms of modern Western geometric abstraction. Born to educated parents in the religious town of Qazvin in north-western Iran, Farmanfarmaian studied at the University of Tehran at the Faculty of Fine Art (1944-1946), before traveling to the United States on a steamer boat when World War II derailed plans to study art in Paris, France. In New York she studied at Parsons The New School for Design (1946"“1949) and Cornell University (1948"“1951), worked as a fashion illustrator, and was absorbed into the city's avant garde art scene, becoming friends with...
Dates: 1981

Basho 1965 / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1995

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Identifier: CC-09874-10070
Scope and Contents

This is a reprinting in colored rubberstamped letters of a Houedard version of Basho's frog pond plop. The verso contains a quotation from DMF (?), "One day I will have to acknowledge that the only story is the world, and action the only language in which to tell it." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

bedepequ, 1967

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Identifier: CC-14661-14974
Scope and Contents

Each page is a print depicting geometric arrangements of the letters listed in the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Book 4: What You Doin/Kid / Depew, Wally ; Depew L., 1969

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Identifier: CC-15161-15482
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This book documents a suicide of a young man by a shot from a rifle in his mouth. It might be alluding to the suicide of d.a. levy who was well known to Wally Depew. Most of the words were formed from stencils. The cover was designed by Linda Bandt Depew, the wife of Wally Depew. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

breathing / Hill, Crag., 1989

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Identifier: CC-60805-10003659
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Taken from pete spence's Archive 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Breathing / Saunders, Robert., 1990

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Identifier: CC-02222-2262
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Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. The drawings are arranged as a grid, 4 across and 5 down. Each drawing contains the same repetitive, printed text without spacing between words as a background, viz. "breathing just one more lung of air next to the bone he squeezed me so hard I thought my ribs would break breathe OK OK." The collage elements include letters, lines, abstract images, text from the background, and reproductions of animals and plants. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Breathing / Saunders, Robert., 1990

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Identifier: CC-02223-2263
Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition. The drawings are arranged as a grid, 4 across and 5 down. Each drawing contains the same repetitive, printed text without spacing between words as a background, viz. "breathing just one more lung of air next to the bone he squeezed me so hard I thought my ribs would break breathe OK OK." The collage elements include letters, lines, abstract images, text from the background, and reproductions of animals and plants. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Burnt Book / Katz, Leandro., 1992

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Identifier: CC-07948-8102
Scope and Contents

Reproductions of representative pages of an artist book by Katz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992