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Neo-Dada

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 145 Collections and/or Records:

PIPS, 1/93: Phantastische Fahrzeuge, 1993

 Item — Box 218: [Barcode: 31858072460177]
Identifier: CC-39014-40951
Scope and Contents

This project and the accompanying box object assembling are a spoof on a vehicle advertised in Frankfurter Allegmeine Sonntagszeitung, the "ResidenSea." The latter is a luxery liner and houseboat all in one with 110 holiday residences and 88 apartments for sale. The prices range from $680,000 t0 $3,900,000! The booklet gives the artist's take on this project and the box objects presents the artists' view of another kind of travelling. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts , 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-27654-28737
Scope and Contents This catalogue, edited by Robert A. Sobieszek, curator of photography at LACMA, was issued for an exhibition in 1996. It emphasizes the importance and influence of the painted and poetic works as well as the life of William Burroughs and his collaborator, Brion Gysin. In his preface Sobieszek writes that "Burroughs is far more than a writer of imaginative prose and speculative fiction. His revolutionary literary tactics have led him to margins of activity where genres cease to matter, where the distinctions between words and images blend together, where paragraphs become filmic montage, and where a shotgun blast is the same as a painting. At the core of Burroughs's art is the 'cut-up' technique that he and Brion Gysin developed following the appearance of Naked Lunch. While loosely related to the more traditional techniques of collage, photomontage, and text-image experiments used by modern artists, Burroughs's cut- up strategy inaugurated an essentially postmodern shift in the...
Dates: 1996

Practizz Megz Poyfuct , 1986

 Item — Folder 51: [Barcode: 31858072537842]
Identifier: CC-18803-19180
Scope and Contents

This piece was the cover image for his show at Janet Fleischer's galley in 1986. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

Psychic Landscape, 1983

 Item — Box 271: [Barcode: 31858073143376]
Identifier: CC-21821-22232
Scope and Contents

Object consists of a box collaged with maps. A toy baby, crumpled balloon and card with letraset text are contained within the box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Quabel: (...?) / Biro, Jozsef., 1990

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Be-Bir: [Barcode: 31858072491172]
Identifier: CC-42886-44928
Scope and Contents

This work was part of a portfolio entitled, "Quabel." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

R.O.T.W., 1982

 Item — Box 271: [Barcode: 31858073143376]
Identifier: CC-21852-22263
Scope and Contents

The two masks are identical and represent a frontal image of a male face with glasses. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Small Glass, 1982

 Item — Box 271: [Barcode: 31858073143376]
Identifier: CC-21826-22237
Scope and Contents

Box consists of Polaroid film case with photograph of Baroni. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Tacchino , 1998

 Item — Box 324: [Barcode: 31858072490901]
Identifier: CC-41429-43414
Scope and Contents

Each stamp depicts an identical turkey captioned by an Italian poet's name. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

the Book as a finished object, 2000

 Item
Identifier: CC-36080-37857
Scope and Contents

The cover of a soft cover novel is painted in red, black, and silver paint with an abstract red figure as the main image. Except for the title page, the pages are screwed into the painted black board. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

The Destruction of Mindfuck Diplomacy, 1990

 Item — Box 256: [Barcode: 31858072458254]
Identifier: CC-26089-26551
Scope and Contents

The soft cover book has a smaller book bound into the back cover. The book and tape are housed in an envelope which is attached to and folded into the poster. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Guardian Recto, 1979

 Item — Folder 2: [Barcode: 31858072459401]
Identifier: CC-13064-13359
Scope and Contents

This lengthy poem is illustrated by a surrealistic building. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979