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Neo-Dada

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 145 Collections and/or Records:

fin-de-siècle, 2000

 Item — Box 287: [Barcode: 31858072460680]
Identifier: CC-35395-37130
Scope and Contents

The round images on the four pages are a backward clock face, Stonehenge, a labyrinth and the earth as seen from space. The pages are attached to the lock handle and the key is in the lock. This is Bart's greeting for the new millenium. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

Flotilla, 2000

 Item — Box 301: [Barcode: 31858072460912]
Identifier: CC-35183-36917
Scope and Contents

The images on the clear acetate sheets are great sailing ships. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

For Jean on Her Birthday - A Short-but-Waterproof Book About Swimming, 2000

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Co-Cu: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-35705-37456
Scope and Contents

The blue, plastic wrist strap contains a key. The collage consists of six strips of paper with texts and images that give techniques for swimming. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

For Ruth S., 2015

 Item — Box 271: [Barcode: 31858073143376]
Identifier: CC-61606-10004066

Framing the Narrative, 2000

 Item — Box 331: [Barcode: 31858072490976]
Identifier: CC-36500-38298
Scope and Contents

The image depicts a man hanging a framed picture of an English and made-up (or a dialect) text from a book. This work is also designated Content Vol.1 No.1. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

[Heart Sculpture], 1997

 Item — Box 205: [Barcode: 31858072460110]
Identifier: CC-28760-30067
Scope and Contents

Mike Dyar writes on his note that "this was a collaboration between Ray Johnson & myself. He sent me this as a drawing & asked me to sculpt & cast it in plaster." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Hystorian, 1992

 Item — Box 96: [Barcode: 31858072538113]
Identifier: CC-08288-8451
Scope and Contents

The title is a pun on "his;" feminine form; truth elusive. Clio, the muse of history, is the shadow-like figure in the collages. The book containing the collages is supported on the hanger structure. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Il Sistema Mi Ha Messo in Croce, 1986

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Ca-Cl: [Barcode: 31858072491289]
Identifier: CC-17208-17566
Scope and Contents

The prints, which are photographic reproductions, depict Cavellini being crucified. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

In the Studio, 1997

 Item — Box 209: [Barcode: 31858072460169]
Identifier: CC-30037-31431
Scope and Contents

This is an assortment of works that Collins used in her contributions to mail art periodicals and projects. A fair amount of the work deals with contradictions. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

IOU, 1995

 Item — Box 268: [Barcode: 31858072460599]
Identifier: CC-01683-1719
Scope and Contents

The letters IOU are engraved and colored with gold leaf on the polished surface of a jagged piece of granite. The edition size is unlimited. The IOU refers to art objects that were paid for and not delivered at the time to the Sackner Archive. These were subsequently delivered. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995