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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:

1902-1973 edited by Karel Srp / Hoffmeister, Adolf ; Apollinaire G ; Aragon L ; Barthes R ; Biebl K ; Breton A ; Burian EF ; Cendrars B ; Ehrenberg I ; Estorick E ; Havel V ; Hausmann R ; Joyce J ; Kafka F ; Kolar J ; Mayakovsky V ; Rauschenberg R ; Ribemont-Dessaignes G ; Seifert J ; Soupault P ; Sima J ; Styrsky J ; Teige K ; Tzara T ; Voskovec J ; Werich J ; Srp K ; Nezval V ; Capek K ; Cocteau J., 2004

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Identifier: CC-51484-72582
Scope and Contents This well illustrated book provides the definitive review of Hoffmeister's works and his life.According to John Vloemans (internet)" Adolf Hoffmeister was undoubtedly one of the most pittoresque figures of the intellectual and artistic scene in Prague during the interbellum. His was a restless and unconventional spirit, that could not be classified. He was born on August 15, 1902 in Prague into a well-to-do family. Adolf Hoffmeister was described as an elegant globetrotter and art connoisseur, a gourmand,who had a special bond with the magic power of his hometown Prague. He was at once a painter, caricaturist, illustrator, stage decorator, author, playwright,translator, journalist, radio reporter, professor of art, art critic, politician,diplomat, cultural ambassador and world traveller. No wonder he cannot be classified in any of the artistic schools of his country.What he carries his whole life, was his left-intellectual faith, as so many of his generation did. In October 1920 he...
Dates: 2004

Art at Auction 1997-1998 / Sotheby's ; Nauman B ; Basquiat JM ; Apollinaire G ; Apianus P., 1998

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Identifier: CC-31395-32882
Scope and Contents

Petrus Apianus' illustrated book, "Astronomicum Caesareum" (1540) is depicted and described. The Sackner Archive holds a facsimile edition of this work. The catalogue entry of this original masterpiece states: "This copy is a magnificent example of 16th-century bookmaking. The Astronomicum Caesareum contains a broad analysis of Ptolemaic astronomy and is notable for Apianus's pioneering observations on comets, particularly his discovery that comets always point their tails away from the sun. The elaborate folio includes more than 100 woodcut and typographic diagrams, vignettes and illustrations in the text, many with movable type." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Conjurer of Souls / de Zayas, Marius ; Apollinaire G ; Picabia F ; Steiglitz A ; Weber M., 1981

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Identifier: CC-30005-31397
Scope and Contents

This catalogue has a fairly detailed biography of de Zayas. The exhibition features caricatures of famous poets and artists, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Jean Cocteau, Before His Own Fabulousness Consumed Him / Riding, Alan; Apollinaire G; Tzara T., 2003

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Identifier: CC-42431-44441
Scope and Contents

This article reviews the Cocteau exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris; the Sackners attended that show. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

La Peinture Sous le Signe d'Apollinaire / Apollinaire, Guillaume., 1950

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Identifier: CC-03899-3972
Scope and Contents

This catalague includes teo facsimiles of Apollinaire's writing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1950