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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 29 Collections and/or Records:

Praktiken der modernen Kunst / Kirschenmann Johannes ; Schulz, Frank ; Arman ; Beuys J ; Breton A ; Ernst M ; Haacke H ; Horn R ; Kolar J ; Lucie-Smith E ; Oppermann A ; Olbrich JO ; Rose B ; Schwitters K ; Spoerri D ; Villegle J ; Klapcheck K ; Duchamp M ; Kawara O ; Darboven H ; Cornell J ; Williams E ; Weiner L ; Klee P ; Maciunas G ; Kaprow A ; Broodthaers M ; Ulrichs T., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27823-28956
Scope and Contents

This book is a mini-survey of modern and contemporary art. The authors designate "copy-art," aka xerox art, as a body of art work, which may be the first time that this movement has been placed alongside of major art movements of the 20th century, -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

The Writer's Brush; Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers / Friedman, Donald ; Gass W ; Updike J ; Acker K ; Apollinaire G ; Artaud A ; Breton A ; Bukowski C ; Corso G ; Ferlinghetti L ; Ford CH ; Ginsberg A ; Gorey E ; Jacob M ; Ionesco E ; Jones D ; Kerouac J ; Lear E ; Lethem J ; Lewis WP ; McClure M ; Michaux H ; Miller H ; Nabakov V ; Patchen K ; Plath S ; Prevert J ; Proust M ; Rexroth K ; Rimbaud A ; Simic C ; Steadman R ; Thomas D ; Verlaine P ; Vonnegut KJr ; Arp H ; Baraka A ; Blake W ; Burroughs WS ; Carroll L ; Cocteau J ; cummings ee ; Darger H ; Davenport G ; DosPassos J ; Dostoevsky F ; Duncan R ; Jarry A ; Kafka F ; Mayakovsky V ; McCullough C ; Smith Pa ; Spiegelman A ; Yeats WB ; Eggers D ; Marquez GG ; Joans T ; Katchor B ; Kesey K ; Lax R ; Merton T ; Perec G ; Queneau R ; Silverstein S ; Ware C ; Wakoski D., 2007

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Identifier: CC-47385-68382
Scope and Contents William H. Gass and John Updike contributed critical essays. Publishers Weekly 2007 "In this hefty volume, novelist Friedman takes a look at the artwork of more than 200 authors who found other avenues for expression in drawing, painting or sculpting. Aside from the familiar illustrations of Edward Gorey, Beatrix Potter and (to a lesser extent) Kurt Vonnegut, Friedman also unearths work from literary heavyweights past and present, including the Bronte sisters, Herman Hesse, Rudyard Kipling, Colleen McCullough, Vladamir Nabokov, John Updike and Jonathan Lethem. Each entry offers a short biography and passages from journals, letters or interviews illuminating the author's reasons for picking up pen or paint; according to Elizabeth Bishop, for instance, writers make a "frequent complaint that painting is more fun than writing." Examples of authors' art, one or two from each subject, are handsomely reproduced in vivid color alongside the text. Friedman also covers a long list of...
Dates: 2007