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Visual art

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 562 Collections and/or Records:

Major Reference Works, 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-42916-44959
Scope and Contents

Ian Hamilton Finlay is featured in this general catalogue with 16 picture poems and photographs of fleets of model boats in his garden "Little Sparta" in Scotland. This book is stored in the Finlay materia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

[Man with Cat in Cafe], 1954

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55977-9999446

Manifeste d'Arte Total, 1997

 Item — Box 335: [Barcode: 31858072491040]
Identifier: CC-32005-33536
Scope and Contents

Ben Vautier contributes a line ink drawing which is white on the inside front cover and yellow on the facing page of a smiling man's face and the statements "moite blanc" and "je suis moitie jaune." The main section of the book is conventionally printed and list aphorisms of Ben's "Art Total" from 1965 -1997. The accompanying print was written in Ben's typical style. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

[Man's Head with Body & Hand - Saint Sebastian Sketch], 1954

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55371-333000
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

[Mask], 1980

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Baroni, Vittore: [Barcode: 31858072491123]
Identifier: CC-22219-22641

[Mask], 1980

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Baroni, Vittore: [Barcode: 31858072491123]
Identifier: CC-21755-22166

Memorie non gradite, 2015

 Item — Box 324: [Barcode: 31858072490901]
Identifier: CC-60879-10003739
Scope and Contents

The rubberstamped verso reads "E.O.N. Archives. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2015

Memory, 1991

 Item — Box 213: [Barcode: 31858072459310]
Identifier: CC-28651-29951
Scope and Contents

Forty-eight matching pairs of abstract design images on cards, with the words "memory" written on the verso, are to be matched in playing this game. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

[Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year], 2008

 Item — Box 334: [Barcode: 31858072491032]
Identifier: CC-50002-71061
Scope and Contents

The loose sheet is a letter to Belsey's family and friends noting that he has retired from Cardiff University in Philosophy, completed a Master's degree in Typography and Graphic Communication at Reading University and expects to be "busier than ever, reading and writing in both philosphy and typography." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Millennium Mallarme, 1999

 Item — Box 622: [Barcode: 31858072461092]
Identifier: CC-35894-37655
Scope and Contents

The poster deals with the exhibition and symposium commemorating the 100th anniversary of Stephan Mallarme's birth. The card is a photograph of the artists in Un Coup de Des performance clothing. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Mini Books, 2004

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-43115-45170
Scope and Contents

The books in this assembling were made by Dellafiora's students at HUB Gallery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

Mini Gallery, 1982

 Item — Box 156: [Barcode: 31858072458064]
Identifier: CC-38841-40756
Scope and Contents

Tom Phillips writes in his brochure dealing with this series of works that he painted small pictures when he had little time while working on the translating and illustrating of Dante's Inferno. It occurred to him that he could recapture the original impression of a larger space "not by making the works bigger but by making the context in which they were to be viewed smaller." He described the small paintings set into miniature gallery walls as "National Gallery of Lilliput." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

Miniature Obscure, No. 7: Culinary, 1997

 Item — Box 125: [Barcode: 31858072458239]
Identifier: CC-28812-30127
Scope and Contents

Cards and objects of the same dimensions are stacked into a pyramid shaped, brightly printed, colored box. The artists and poets contributed one or several pieces to this assembling. The ceramic object made by Axel Fabry is a replica of a sunny-side up egg. The booklet is made like a sandwich. All other sheets relate to the theme of food. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997