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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 562 Collections and/or Records:

Dunkler Fruhling, 1969

 Item
Identifier: CC-34651-36352
Scope and Contents

This book contains three illustrations by Hans Bellmer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Eating Through Living, 1981

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Identifier: CC-09170-9351
Scope and Contents

Jenny Holzer, a conceptual artist who represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 1990, is known for her utilization of language as art. The opening piece in this book reads "It's a safe game to play with your nose, shutting off the air and letting it flow again. Then you can escalate and see how long you can last until you pass out, your hand relaxes and you breathe normally again." This is her first book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Eating Through Living, 1981

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Identifier: CC-09171-9352
Scope and Contents

Jenny Holzer, a conceptual artist who represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 1990, is known for her utilization of language as art. The opening piece in this book reads "It's a safe game to play with your nose, shutting off the air and letting it flow again. Then you can escalate and see how long you can last until you pass out, your hand relaxes and you breathe normally again." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Edison Records / on a roll, 2012

 Item — Box 201: [Barcode: 31858072459716]
Identifier: CC-56123-9999567
Scope and Contents

Topel has printed images on a toilet paper roll and placed it into an antique paper tube from the Edison Laboratory. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2012

Editions Camomille, No. 3: Espece d'Image, 1989

 Item — Box 175: [Barcode: 31858072459278]
Identifier: CC-13467-13769
Scope and Contents Internet: Michel Francois, born in 1956 in Saint-Trond (Belgium) has participated in the Venice Biennial (1999), in Documenta 9, Kassel (1992) and has shown his work at many solo and group shows around the world. The Institut d'art contemporain presented Plans d'evasion, the first large monographic exhibition of Michel Francois' work produced jointly with the S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent. This collaboration between the S.M.A.K. and the IAC shows their common interest in monographic exhibitions, that is to say directly with the artist, providing him with the space, the time and the means to show work in all its complexity. It also allowed the publication of the first retrospective catalogue of the artist's work, an occasion to take full measure of what he has done since the 1980s. Symmetry is a fundamental element in the relation between Michel Francois and the two exhibition spaces. At the Institute, he uses this feature while readapting the presentation of...
Dates: 1989

Environment (Postcard), 2004

 Item — Box 320: [Barcode: 31858072490851]
Scope and Contents

Along with the postcard, there is a document from the Russian Federation's Ministry of Culture approving the card for exportation to the United States.

Dates: 2004

Ethics of the Fathers, 2002

 Item — Folder 21: [Barcode: 31858072459807]
Identifier: CC-39634-41593
Scope and Contents

The text from "Ethics of the Fathers/Pirkay Avot" is written into the landscape of Safed in Hebrew print letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

Evolution, 1983

 Item — Box 283: [Barcode: 31858073143418]
Identifier: CC-21097-21506

Ex Libris, 1991

 Item — Box 608: [Barcode: 31858073143558]
Identifier: CC-14640-14953
Scope and Contents

This book also served as documentation for an exhibition at Galerie Sophienstrasse 8, Berlin, Sep-Oct, 1991. It includes sketches for book object-sculptures. The cover was made by Deisler. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

Far Marvnius Sacknavius / Andryczuk, Hartmut; Scherstjanoi, Valeri., January 2003

 Item — Box 317: [Barcode: 31858072490844]
Identifier: CC-40451-42422
Scope and Contents

This drawing is a New Year gift to Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: January 2003

Fatrada, 1972

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: D: [Barcode: 31858072491370]
Identifier: CC-15065-15382

Felos, 2008

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Identifier: CC-59087-10002223
Scope and Contents

Note that Galician is spoken by some three million people, including most of the population of Galicia and the numerous Galician communities established elsewhere, in Spain (Madrid, Barcelona, Biscay), in other European cities (Andorra la Vella, Geneva, London, Paris), and in the Americas (New York, New Jersey, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Havana, Caracas, Mexico City, São Paulo, Managua, Guadalajara, Veracruz City, Panama City). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2008

Film-Objet (1989), 1991

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Identifier: CC-07161-7301
Scope and Contents

On the last page of this book, Lemaitre has written an unfinished letter to MOMA in New York. It concerned his disappointment in the non-recognition of his work by MOMA . He wanted Ruth Sackner to complete and send it to Kirk Varnedoe. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

First Class Portraits, 1973

 Item — Box 607: [Barcode: 31858073143541]
Identifier: CC-23921-24369
Scope and Contents

Edited by A.D. Coleman. Each page depicts an out-of-focus, age deteriorated, photographic portrait taken with a polaroid camera. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973