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Visual/verbal

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

[Arc Triomphe de L'Etoile] / Kolar, Jiri., 1987

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Identifier: CC-39897-41864
Scope and Contents

The message was written by Kolar's translator but the signature is his. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Exposition Itinerante des Dictions (Traveling Exhibition of Sayings) / Kolar, Jiri., 1983

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Identifier: CC-08138-8299
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The types of collages utilized by Kolar and found in this work were described in a glossary of his Albright-Knox exhibition catalogue "Transformations": banknotes, chiasmage, confrontage, crumplage, intercollage, prolage, rapportage, rollage, and sampl Each of collage may incorporate several forms. The verso of several collages incorporate fragments of other collages as if Kolar were sketching with collage rather than paint or pencil. The titles of the collages in Slavic are also written on the verso. Four few collages have been matted and are stored in a flat file drawer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

[Female Nude behind a Mirror] / Kolar, Jiri., 1992

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Identifier: CC-08148-8309
Scope and Contents

A collage sent by Kolar as a gift to the Sackners arrived wet and shredded. In his note with this replacement, Jiri Kolar writes, "Thanks for your letter. I was quite amused with the destroyed [sic] collage you sent me back." The loose sheets cut from periodicals can be placed into the frame of the simulated mirror image of the original collage to create new images as a "do-it yourself" art work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Transformations / Kolar, Jiri ; Charlotte Kotek, curator., 1978

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Identifier: CC-07830-7983
Scope and Contents

Curated by Charlotta Kotik who contributes a critical essay. A glossary by Kolar explains the different collage types utilized by him including analphabetogramme/crazygramme, appel art, banknotes, banners, chiasmage, confrontage, crumplage, depth poems, evident poems, intercollage, letters, metaformat, prollage, rapportage, rollage, sampler collage, stratification, transformation, veils, venetian blind, and ventillage. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1978

[Untitled] / Kolar, Jiri. ; Mesens, E.L.T. ; Schwitters, Kurt ; Hoffmeister, Adolf., 1994

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Identifier: CC-08145-8306
Scope and Contents

Mentions that Hoffmeister (1902-1973) fled from Czechoslovakia in 1939 to USA and after WWII became Ambassador to France from 1948-1951 and subsequently Professor of Art at the Prague Art Academy. His work overlaps the border of Art and spreads into cartoon, advertising and related fields. "He was the first artist to use typography as a total compositional medium regardless of the meaning of the actual words, concentrating on the purely visual image. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994