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Visual art

 Subject

Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 588 Collections and/or Records:

Stencil Study, 1999

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Co-Cu: [Barcode: 31858072491354]
Identifier: CC-34399-36096

Still Life in 2007, 2006

 Item — Box 293: [Barcode: 31858072460730]
Identifier: CC-46144-48856
Scope and Contents

This Christmas gift from Bart consists of instructions on how to mount the given objects that are stored in a red silk bag onto a printed paper base creating a constructivistic minataure landscape. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

Sulla Strada, 2011

 Item
Identifier: CC-54705-990140
Scope and Contents

The Emily Harvey Foundation also supported this publication. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011

Swarms of Fugue, 1997

 Item — Box 341: [Barcode: 31858072491263]
Identifier: CC-29378-30743
Scope and Contents

The line drawings, one each to the page of poems has surrealistic imagery. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Swedish Box, 1996

 Item — Box 201: [Barcode: 31858072459716]
Identifier: CC-28563-29848
Scope and Contents

The book is a diaristic account of Tavenner's trip to Sweden. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Sweet Dreams; contemporary art and complicity, 2005

 Item
Identifier: CC-48338-69363
Scope and Contents From the inside flap of the book: Johanna Drucker's "sweet dream" is for a new and more positive approach to contemporary art. Drucker argues that contemporary art is fully engaged with material culture"”yet still struggling to escape the oppositional legacy of the early-twentieth-century avant-garde. She calls for a revamping of the critical vocabulary used to discuss art into one more befitting current creative practices.Drucker shows that artists today are aware of working within the ideologies of mainstream culture and have replaced avant-garde resistance with acknowledged complicity. Finding their materials at malls and superstores or exploring celebrity culture, contemporary artists have created a vibrantly playful attitude towards mass culture"”all while critics continue to cling to an outmoded vocabulary of opposition and radical negativity that defined modernism's avant-garde. At the cutting edge of new media research, Drucker surveys a wide range of exciting contemporary...
Dates: 2005

Swelling, 1988

 Item — Box 338: [Barcode: 31858072491230]
Identifier: CC-22913-23349
Scope and Contents

Introduction by Al Ackerman consists of four drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

Taschenbuch der Panzer, 1981

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Finlay, Ian Hamilton: [Barcode: 31858072491461]
Identifier: CC-11758-11976
Scope and Contents

The eight colored prints play off the image of the Pansey, the flower as a camouflaged image of Panzer, the German armored tank. A section of this book is entitled, "Detached Sentances on Camouflage: In the Manner of Shenstone. William Snenstone (1714-1763) was a poet and gardner. This list aphorisms about floral and military tank camouflage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Ten Tales Tall & True, 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-31801-33319
Scope and Contents

This volume actually contains 14 short stories, or as Gray writes, "This book contains more tales than ten so the title is a tall tale too, I would spoil my book if I shortened it, spoil the title if I made it true." Each page that is numbered in its upper outside corner is accompanied by a brief caption of the title of the story on the left sided page and the subject on the right sided page, e.g., 22 Houses And Small Labour Parties, 23 A Willing Young Worker, 24 Houses And Small Labour Parties, and 25 The Appearance of Authority, etc. A section at the end of the book provides notes on the background of each story. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Texte-Malerei, 1985

 Item
Identifier: CC-10304-10507
Scope and Contents

Gappmayr is the poet and Wittner the painter. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

[the 1st of January] / Melnikov-Starquist, Willi., 1997

 Item — Box 396: [Barcode: 31858072461605]
Identifier: CC-55947-9999415
Scope and Contents

This is a letter addressed to Mr. Marvin Sackner! " Great thanks for your wonderful catalog!" -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner. Attached to "Hieroglypoetry especially for Mr. Marvin Sackner"

Dates: 1997

The Apocalypse Window After H.W.K. Collam , 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-04484-4569
Scope and Contents

The collage was made from fragments of 19th century engravings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983