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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Bild Text/Text Bild (Sep.) / Michael Marthias Prechti, curator ; Blaudszun D ; Grieshaber H ; Kolar J ; Pfister D ; Rixdorfer Drucke ; Bremer U ; Eisendle H ; Schindehutte A ; Vennekamp J ; Waldschmidt A., 1976

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Identifier: CC-22734-23169
Scope and Contents

Blaudszun's etching "Der Blaue Herbst" is held by the Sackner Archive and is reproduced and described by the artist. This catalogue includes a section that features the work of Rixdorfer Group. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Dictionnaire des Methodes / Kolar, Jiri ; Erika Abrams, translator., 1991

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Identifier: CC-30036-31430
Scope and Contents

Consists of representative examples of the different types of Kolar's collages. Gilbert Lascault wrote a critical essay at the end of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Documenta 6 : Handzeichnungen, Utopisches Design, Bucher / Kolar J ; Michaux H ; Arakawa ; Baruchello GF ; Darboven H ; Fahlstrom O ; Ruhm G ; Zush ; Steinberg S ; Roth D ; Ruscha E ; Paolozzi E ; Badura M ; Blank I ; Broodthaers M ; Carrega U ; Knizak M ; Nannucci M ; Ulrichs T., 1977

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Identifier: CC-15478-15804
Scope and Contents

This was the first artist book exhibition that the Sackners attended. It made a major impact on them in terms of the their subsequent direction in collecting. The catalog includes reproductions of Kenneth Snelson's drawings for the sculpture, Forest Devil, the maquette of which is held by the Sackners. Marcel Broodthaers' Un Coup de Des and Jes Petersen's Piero Manzoni, books held by the Sackner Archive were exhibited. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

[Effiel Tower - Merz] / Kolar, Jiri., 1987

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Identifier: CC-39894-41861
Scope and Contents

The message was written by Kolar's translator but the signature is his. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

[Female Nude behind a Mirror] / Kolar, Jiri., 1992

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Identifier: CC-08148-8309
Scope and Contents

A collage sent by Kolar as a gift to the Sackners arrived wet and shredded. In his note with this replacement, Jiri Kolar writes, "Thanks for your letter. I was quite amused with the destroyed [sic] collage you sent me back." The loose sheets cut from periodicals can be placed into the frame of the simulated mirror image of the original collage to create new images as a "do-it yourself" art work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Froissages / Kolar, Jiri., 1981

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Identifier: CC-51087-72169
Scope and Contents

Gloria Picazo contributed a critical essay opening with a quote by Kolar "Someday it will be possible to make poetry out of anything." Foissage is described when "a mere piece of paper is wrinkled, then flattened down and finally set upon a support. The strange writing left in the piece of paper by the wrinkles is another of the means usedby Kolar to make a poem visible." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

No.2 / Lyrik Kabinett ; Bayer W ; Bremer U ; Claus CF ; Mon F ; Dorny B ; Gomringer E ; Kolar J ; Reichert J ; Wagner D ; Wolf A ; Gunther T ; Warnke U ; Phillips T ; Baudelaire C ; Grosz G ; Heartfeld J ; Masereel F ; d'Arbeloff N ; Cortot J ; Arrabal ; Artmann HC ; Artaud A ; Schwarz R ; Strugalla J ; Arp H ; Barry R ; Bartolini L ; Meckseper F ; Claus CF ; Mon F ; Dorny B ; Butor M ; Humair D ; Ernst M ; Fahrner B ; Cage J ; Filliou R ; Geerken H ; Gosewitz L ; Grieshaber H ; Ionesco E ; Jorn A ; Ketelhodt IV ; Malutzki P ; Kruchenykh A ; Lax R ; Masson A ; Mehring W ; Nitsch H ; Opalka R ; Penck A ; Preussner D ; Roth D ; Ruhm G ; Schneider U ; Stoltz U ; Stomps V ; Tapies A ; Trakl G ; Tuttle R ; Vinay A ; Delage D ; Voss J ; Gunther T ; Jahn S ; Bach C ; Allix S ; Ashbery J ; Attie D ; Bicknell L ; Berman W ; Herms G ; Charriere G ; Byars JL ; Christie J ; Logue C ; Satie E ; Turnbull G ; Burroughs WS ; Coolidge C ; Golden A ; Hutchins E ; Kaldewey G ; King R ; Fisher A ; Eigner L ; Kruger B ; Marden B ; McCarney S ; Morrison L ; Rower H ; Steinberg S ; Stein C ; Tetenbaum B ; Tuttle R ; Upjohn JF ; Warhol A ; Weil S ; White K ; Wittgenstein L ; Beuys J ; Hansen A ; Klug-Berninger I ; Lohr H ; Nannucci M ; Prigov D ; Scherstjanoi V ; Schindehutte A ; Waldschmidt A ; Schwitters K ; Hulten P ; Tinguely J ; Charms D ; Hoesselbarth K., 1993

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Identifier: CC-07499-7643

No.2: Photographies - Livres / Plantureux, Serge ; Rodchenko A ; Mayakovsky V ; Brik L ; Kolar J., 1999

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Identifier: CC-34061-35741
Scope and Contents

This catalogue mainly offers historic photographs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Oeuvres Croisees / Butor, Michel ; Qotbi M ; Kolar J ; Alechinsky P ; Parant JL ; Villers A ; Sicard M ; Baltazar J., 1984

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Identifier: CC-22383-22806
Scope and Contents

This book focuses on M. Butor's collaborations with other artists, including P. Alechinsky, M. Qotbi and J. Kolar. The book by Qotbi and Butor, "Espace Arabesque," held by the Sackner Archive, is reproduced in this catalogue. Also, there is a tipped-in color photograph on the title page depicting Qotbi and Butor in front of the wall upon which the book is hung. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984