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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

How to Make Collages / Lynch, John ; Schwitters K ; Paolozzi E ; Ernst M ; Steinberg S ; Baader J ; Pannaggi I ; Cassandre AM ; Cornell J., 1961

 Item
Identifier: CC-06942-7065
Scope and Contents

Contains two reproductions from "Mise en Page," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1961

Interminable Gabberjabbs Number Seven: Travelling / Gabberjabp / Hamady, Walter ; Schwitters K., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27563-28637
Scope and Contents This tour de force of bookmaking, printing and neo-dada texts has different covers for each book in the run of 125 copies. Different old maps are collaged onto the covers and some books have a spine image printed on the book spine (not the Sackner copy). The media description of the pages is taken directly from Hamady's description that is printed on a leaflet of an accompanying advertisement for the book. The book includes a letter picture that incorporates varied ornaments and devices around the number '7' as well as several other pages depicting other typographic ornamaments and devices. This work was exhibited at the Agnes Scott College Gallery, Atlanta, January 2001.Reprints dada-like modifications of notes on typography and bookmaking from other sources in a wide variety of typefaces and sizes. For example, one page reprints "Outline Of Divisions: 174, 'Front Matter'...1. Just about all books start out from an idea. 2. Everything in the world is waiting to become a book. 3....
Dates: 1996

Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales / Schwitters, Kurt ; Jack Zipes, translator., 2009

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Identifier: CC-49794-70849
Scope and Contents

Many of Schwitters's fairy tales were discovered after his death in England in 1948. many were in draft form. "Despite their roughness and incompleteness, they are incisive if not disturbing reflections of his life and times, and the incorporate radical notions of the fairy tale as an art form... Schwitter's innovations were based on his theory of Merz." Jack Zipes contributes an introductory essay "Kurt Schwitters, Politics, and the Merz Fairy Tale" and Irvine Peacock is the book illustrator. These fairy tales also are published in Schwitters "Das literarische Werk," a series held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2009

Raoul Hausmann Archive / Reichardt, Jasia ; Schwitters K ; Themerson S ; Hausmann R ; Reichert J., 1985

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Identifier: CC-57123-59293
Scope and Contents

This is a listing of items for sale. Stored in the Hausmann box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

[Untitled] / Broodthaers, Marcel ; Schwitters K ; Mallarme S., 1980

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Identifier: CC-22250-22672
Scope and Contents

The cover design reproduces "Un Coup De Des Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard (Image)," a book held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

[Untitled] / Schwitters, Kurt., 1967

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Identifier: CC-01916-1952
Scope and Contents

Text by Werner Schmalenbach. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967