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Language art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Any Surplus Is Immoral, 1991

 Item — Box 132: [Barcode: 31858072457827]
Identifier: CC-09364-9550
Scope and Contents

Each rubberstamp has one aphorism, e.g., "Words Tend To Be Inadequate." Stephen Bury in "Artist's Multiples," list the title as "Untitled," 1991. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Essay Packs / Holzer, Jenny., 1980

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Identifier: CC-49660-70713
Scope and Contents

The typographic appearance of the broadsides shows poorly printed typesetting of the texts. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

Living , 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-49667-70720
Scope and Contents

This book was first published in 1998. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Selection from the series Truisms / Holzer, Jenny., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-52768-73905
Scope and Contents

The aphorism reads "Raise Boys and Girls the Same Way." Truisms was in the exhibition in MoMA titled "Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980 - 95." The Sackner Archive holds a multiple LED edition of Truisms. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Signs / Holzer, Jenny ; Simon J., 1986

 Item
Identifier: CC-36646-38457
Scope and Contents

This catalogue includes a critical essay by Joan Simon and an interview with Bruce Ferguson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Survival Series / Jenny Holzer., 1983 - 1985

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Identifier: CC-50907-71985
Scope and Contents

Two of each of the pencils are stamped on the side panels with the following: YOU ARE TRAPPED ON THE EARTH SO YOU WILL EXPLODE; WHAT URGE WILL SAVE US NOW THAT SEX WON'T?; PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT; MEN DON'T PROTECT YOU ANYMORE; THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR WILL BE SECRET; THE FUTURE IS STUPID. This series predates the edition published by the Albright-Knox Gallery Buffalo in 1991 in which the stampings were done in black ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983 - 1985

Survival Series / Jenny Holzer., 1983 - 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-50907-71985
Scope and Contents

Two of each of the pencils are stamped on the side panels with the following: YOU ARE TRAPPED ON THE EARTH SO YOU WILL EXPLODE; WHAT URGE WILL SAVE US NOW THAT SEX WON'T?; PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT; MEN DON'T PROTECT YOU ANYMORE; THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR WILL BE SECRET; THE FUTURE IS STUPID. This series predates the edition published by the Albright-Knox Gallery Buffalo in 1991 in which the stampings were done in black ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983 - 1985