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Visual art

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 588 Collections and/or Records:

Quincy Book, 1973

 Item — Box 316: [Barcode: 31858072490810]
Identifier: CC-24627-25080
Scope and Contents

This catalogue consists solely of photographs of Carl Andre's home town of Quincy, e.g., monuments, stone quarries, discarded railway tracks, etc. There is no text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Quincy Book, 2013

 Item — Box 316: [Barcode: 31858072490810]
Identifier: CC-58628-10001859
Scope and Contents

This catalogue was published as reprint of the original 1973 book and consists solely of photographs of Carl Andre's home town of Quincy, e.g., monuments, stone quarries, discarded railway tracks, etc. There is no text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2013

Recent Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, 1973

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Identifier: CC-38872-40798
Scope and Contents

John Russell contributed an introductory essay that analyzed Phillips' painting "Benches" as well as "A Humument." "Oh, those reds," a painting from 1969 to 1973, that is depicted in black & white in the catalogue is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

Rough Passages , 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-17965-18335
Scope and Contents

The cover depicts colored, tautologic text of the title. The images in the book depict a side view of a face over the passage of time. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Rubber Condom vol. II, 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-28111-29270
Scope and Contents

Pages consist of rubberstamped images of screws, nuts, bolts being fastened together and into a wall signifying a metaphor for sexual orgasm. The fold-out page is rubberstamped ying-yang sanitary napkin bag. It is likely that few copies were produced. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

RUSH: What Fuckan Theory; A Study Uv Language, 2012

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Identifier: CC-55936-9999403
Scope and Contents The first edition of this work (also held by the Sackner Archive) was published as Gronk Vol.8, No.8 in 1972. This present edition has been edited with notes and comments by Derek Beauleau and Gregory Betts.Amazon.com: The publication of bill bissett's RUSH: WHAT FUCKAN THEORY; A STUDY UV LANGUAGE in 1972 firmly ushered Canadian poetics into the postmodern era. Out of print for 40 years"”and reissued here complete with an interview with bissett about the book's creation and a critical afterword by derek beaulieu and Gregory Betts"”RUSH embodies a collagist, multi-conscious approach to art that recognizes no division between the work and the world, the author and his sexuality, his breath, his influences; the theory and the practice. Arguing that "a new line has started," RUSH captures the urgency of a new model of production that resists the closure and mastery of any one mind. It is an elegant rejection of aesthetic ego and all presumptions of authority. RUSH: WHAT FUCKAN THEORY;...
Dates: 2012

Ruth and Marvin's Medicine Cabinet, 2006

 Item — Box 90: [Barcode: 31858072538162]
Identifier: CC-62390-47521
Scope and Contents

The artists are visual poets who gifted this work to the Sackner Archive after a visit to the collection. The cabinet is painted in primary colors and the hand printed texts are paint and ink. the six balls are printed with the names Duchamp, Ball, Marinetti, appolinaire (sic) Campos (sic) and Mallarme. The typed stories relate to Denise's youth and problems with asthma. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

[Saint Benedict], 1953

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55325-9999074
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: 1953

[Saint Benedict 2], 1953

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55322-9999071

[Saint Benedict 3], 1953

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Houédard, Dom Sylvester (1949-1966): [Barcode: 31858072491487]
Identifier: CC-55324-9999073