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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 548 Collections and/or Records:

Vinyl Junkies, 1992

 Item — Box 324: [Barcode: 31858072490901]
Identifier: CC-23434-23878
Scope and Contents

Also designated collective stamps for Arte Postale! No.63 (1992 issue). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

violini , 1998

 Item — Box 316: [Barcode: 31858072490810]
Identifier: CC-36065-37840
Scope and Contents

The images deal with violins. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Virgil in his Study [from Dante's Inferno], 1979 - 1980

 Item — Folder 88: [Barcode: 31858072538451]
Identifier: CC-46287-49009
Scope and Contents

This is an imagined portrait of Virgil for Phillips' translation of Dante's Inferno. He is poised over the sixth book of the Aeneid, the principal source for Dante's Comedy. A detailed analysis of this work written by Phillips is printed on page 236 of Works and Texts (1992). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979 - 1980

Virgins & Vampires, 1975

 Item
Identifier: CC-42144-44146
Scope and Contents

The line drawing is located near the title page. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

Visual Poetry Collaboration. No.18, 2002

 Item — Box 314: [Barcode: 31858072490802]
Identifier: CC-39791-41754
Scope and Contents

Stored in Reed Altemus portfolio box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Vita Communi, 1952

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55320-9999069
Scope and Contents

In the image it appears like people are sharing bread. According to a personal communication from Charles Verey to the Sackners, Houedard was alternating his time in Prinknash Abbey and Rome, Italy from October 1951 to July 1954. He believed that most of the visual art was done in Rome. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1952

Voor'werk, 1990

 Item — Box 275: [Barcode: 31858073143384]
Identifier: CC-28573-29861
Scope and Contents

The inside of the box for this exhibition has four compartments, one for representation of each of the participating artists. Kay Rosen's are concrete poetic-like prints on stiff cardboard. Fiona Rae provides a thick, impasto, acrylic, abstract expressionist painting that is numbered 227/500. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

War and Peace in the Global Village, 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-33564-35216
Scope and Contents

This is the first edition of this text by the authors of "The Medium is the Massage." It brings together all forms of conflict, political, racial, and religious, into meaningful perspective. It offers ideas and an understanding essential to the "electric age." The ideas presented in this book seem to forecast the information age and even the advent of the Internet. The text is combined with multiple black and white images and includes many relevant quotations in the margins from James Joyce's "Finnagan's Wake." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Water Works, 1978

 Item
Identifier: CC-17725-18094
Scope and Contents

Designated Chapbooks No.15. The author is also known as Jennifer Pike. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

Wer lieferte was?, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-08763-8938
Scope and Contents

This book consists of misprints of the exhibition catalogue "Ressource Kunst" that is held by the Sackner archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Werkstatt Breitenbrunn: Druck Materialen 1970-1978, 1978

 Item — Box 262: [Barcode: 31858072460516]
Identifier: CC-27858-28996
Scope and Contents Consists of printed documentation of the activities of the Breitenbrunn group of artist/poets. Includes issues No.2 and 4 of this periodical. The large folded posters are listed as a series entitled Blatt (1-15); these deal with exhibition announcements and printed discussions and/or reproductions of their works. For example, the poster, entitled Blatt 4 has a discussion and examples of the typewriter works by Klaus Basset and a header that it was edited by Wil Frenken & Fria Elfin. Another copy of this poster is also held by the Sackner Archive. Typewriter works by Basset were an early acquisition by the Sackner Archive (1978). Issue No.2, 1968 consists of unbound pages of documentation and four signed prints by Will Frenken, Josef Hermann Steigler, H Hendrich. and Marc Adrian enclosed within a paper envelope. Issue No.4, 1974 consists of a paper envelope. It has four folded photographic posters documenting activities of the group including Timm Ulrichs. A photographic...
Dates: 1978

Who Is This Balding Man, 1995

 Item — Folder 83: [Barcode: 31858072538402]
Identifier: CC-46249-48970
Scope and Contents

This print depicts a portrait of a banker. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Winter Poem No.2 , 1975

 Item — Folder 64: [Barcode: 31858072537982]
Identifier: CC-19992-20380
Scope and Contents

Performed for the first time at 8th international sound-poetry festival in London, May 1975. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

[Woman Baby Hand], 1954

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55372-444222
Scope and Contents

According to a personal communication from Charles Verey to the Sackners, Houedard was alternating his time in Prinknash Abbey and Rome, Italy from October 1951 to July 1954. He believed that most of the visual art was done in Rome. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1954