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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3358 Collections and/or Records:

Art & Antiques. No.1/Jan / Wolfli A., 1995

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Identifier: CC-26724-27194
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Edward M. Gomez contributed an illustrated essay "Poetry and Pathos: The Story of Adolf Wolfli's Vision Fuels the Debate over Outsider Art and the Nature of Creativity." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Art & Antiques. No.3/Mar / Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 2002

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Identifier: CC-38850-40766
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Ruth and Marvin Sackner are listed among "America's Top 100 Collectors" as collectors of art with text and artists' books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Art & Antiques. No.71/Sum / Sackner MA ; Sackner RK ; Austin T ; Laffoley P ; Kriwet F ; Furnival J ; Noel A ; Lewty S ; Grayson R ; Miller L ; Minsky R ; Tipping R ; Presser E ; Mabe J ; Vater R ; Mallarme S ; Berry J ; Crumb C ; Mutel D ; Sloy ; Helmes S., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32704-34292
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Tom Austin wrote an essay, "The Power of the Pen," in which he describes the Sackner Archive as the world's largest privately held collection of text art. The essay is illustrated with eight colored photographs by Chris Little. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Art As a Muscular Principle: 10 Artists and San Francisco 1950-1965, 1975

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Identifier: CC-24862-25315
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The cover photo is Wallace Berman's Portrait of Jay De Feo. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Art & Auction. No.10/May / Phillips T., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27189-27664
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Out of Africa, by Steven Vincent reviews the exhibition curated by Tom Phillips "Africa: Art of a Continent" opening at the Guggenheim Museum. The show which was principally curated for the Royal Academy in London presents the Africa continent's "objects...as works of art equal in aesthetic quality to Western artwork." The Sackner Archive holds the elegant, well illustrated catalog for this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Art & Auction. No.15/Apr / Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 1999

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Identifier: CC-32672-34258
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Kaelen Wilson-Goldie contributes an essay, "The Rematerialization of Artists' Books" in which she mentions the Sackner Archive as the largest collection of artworks that blend text and image in private hands. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Art Brut, L'. No.19 / Constance Schwartzlin-Berberat., 1985

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Identifier: CC-31078-32543
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Schwartzlin-Berberat wrote poetry in journals with obsessive, back-slanted handwriting. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

Art in America. No.1/Jan / Phillips T ; Bartlett J., 2007

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Identifier: CC-46166-48880
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This issue includes a reproduction of page 17 of "A Humument" by Tom Phillips from 2006. It is listed in the index as Pen and Ink without any further references. Vincent Katz contributes and indepth essay entitled "Bartlett Shows Her Colors" stating the Jennifer Bartlett is a Conceptualist by origin, a painter at heart, and increasingly a rollicking storyteller who has recently received wide attention for work both old and new. Katz describes the technique and ideas of the the early plate works one of which from 1970 is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Art in America. No.2/Feb / Wilde J., 2006

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Identifier: CC-44542-46692
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John Wilde painting is illustrated in an essay by Michael Duncan "Heretics of the Heartland." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Art in America. No.3/Mar / Herms G ; Berman W ; McClure M ; Dill L ; Hansen A ; Neshat S., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27077-27551
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Carter Ratcliff contributes an essay "And the Beats Go On." Al Hansen's exhibition at Gracie Mansion is reviewed as is Sherin Neshat at Annina Nosei. The photograph reproduced from Neshat's exhibition review is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Art in America. No.3/Mar / Wolfli A ; Watts R., 1989

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Identifier: CC-25018-25471
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This issue includes an essay by Ann Temkin, curator of 20th century art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, that is entitled "Wolfli's Asylum Art." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989