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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5490 Collections and/or Records:

57 / Sackner, Sara., 1980

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Identifier: CC-33352-34990
Scope and Contents

The photograph depicts a close up view of Phillips's stencilled number "57." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

60 from 3 / Olbrich, Jurgen O.; Skuber, Berty; Summers, Rod., 2011

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Identifier: CC-53425-100093
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This project was begun in 2009 - the collages were circulated among the three artists by means of the postal service and the folder assembled in 2011 in Venice. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

61: Contemporary Book Arts / Juvelis, Priscilla ; Chen J ; Jackman S ; Hoyem A., 2013

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Identifier: CC-58597-10001826
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Sandra Jackman's book object "Witches' Sabbath" is described for sale at $6,500.. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2013

65: Book Arts / Juvelis, Priscilla ; Drescher H ; Hamady W ; Vollmann W., 2014

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Identifier: CC-60179-10003196
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Several publications from Walter Hamady's Perishable Press are listed in this catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2014

100 Years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis - Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies / Redniss, Lauren., 2006

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Identifier: CC-46244-48965
Scope and Contents Author and illustrator Maira Kalman on a cover blurb writes, "I wish Lauren Redniss would write and illustrate my biography in the dreamy, luminous way she did Doris Eaton Travis's." From Publishers Weekly "Similar in approach to a graphic novel, this biography-in-collage tackles the life of Ziegfeld Follies star Doris Eaton. Each page offers a wild mix of illustrations, doodles, photos and memorabilia from Eaton's archives, accompanied by handwritten text outlining her fascinating life, which comes across like something out of the musical Gypsy. Born in 1904 to a theatre-crazed Virginia family, Eaton was cast in New York's famous Follies at age 14, appeared in numerous silent films, worked for years as a dance instructor and earned her college degree at age 88. New York Times contributor Redniss's surrealist scrapbook approach is striking and unique, captivating readers by twining simple, evocative text with a stunning array of images, splaying words at all angles across the page;...
Dates: 2006

176 hieroglyphes dechiffres sur les voutes etoilees du ciel / Parant, Jean-Luc., 2008

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Identifier: CC-60103-10003124
Scope and Contents

Each page contains a poetic interpretation of the eyes and vision and each facing page is a a unique drawing of the eyes in a visionary interpretation -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

691. No.1 / Marcel Duchamp ; Tristan Tzara ; Jean Arp ; Tzara T ; Pansaers C ; Picabia F ; Duchamp M ; Tzara T., 1959

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Identifier: CC-43533-45606
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This sole issue of the magazine printed by Pierre Andre Benoit (PAB) includes a reproduction of notes on Possible by Marcel Duchamp from 1913, a blue, cut-out paper anthropomorphic shape by Arp and a visual poem from 1916 by Tzara. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1959

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

1951-1994 / Macia, Carlos., 1996

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Identifier: CC-36567-38369
Scope and Contents

The exhibition was curated by Bernadine-Heller Greenman and included several pieces lent by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996