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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 328 Collections and/or Records:

Target, 2006

 Item — Box 291: [Barcode: 31858072460706]
Identifier: CC-46061-48769
Scope and Contents

The hand crafted tiles are crafted of plaster finished to a porcelian-like quality , cracked to create an aged look and feel. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006

The Beauty in Breathing, 1992

 Item — Box 305: [Barcode: 31858072460953]
Identifier: CC-23698-24145
Scope and Contents

This badge has a linear-optic reproduction of a photograph by Maurice Lemaitre commissioned in 1990 by Marvin Sackner for the exhibition of the same title held at the American Lung Association meeting in Miami Beach in 1992. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

The Consistency of Shadows: Exhibition Catalogs as Autonomous Works of Art, 2003

 Item — Box 194: [Barcode: 31858072459641]
Identifier: CC-40814-42791
Scope and Contents

The compact disc is held in place by means of bubbles on both sides of the case and by a slit through each one of the pamphlets. The compact disc depicts installation photographs of the catalogs and an interview between Boehme and Boltanski. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2003

The First Fragment: The Case for the Burial of Ancestors Book 1, 1985

 Item — Box 302: [Barcode: 31858073143590]
Identifier: CC-00117-121
Scope and Contents

Three wooden objects and a thimble are placed upright in a bed of beige colored gravel like a dessert landscape. The text is rubberstamped on paper inside the lid and reads "I am the grain of truth...I hold the vessels of history and shatter them at Inside the lid is a small coffin-like wooden box; a black box on the outside has a metal capital "F." This sculpture symbolizes the puppeteer, a founder of an imaginary civilization, the Hegamons, who is described on p. 17 of the book in the title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985

The Old Morgan Pharmacy, 1991

 Item — Folder 12: [Barcode: 31858069877862]
Identifier: CC-23439-23883
Scope and Contents

This print was commissioned by the Temple University School of Pharmacy, Marvin Sackner's undergraduate college. It depicts the counter of the old Morgan Pharmacy originally housed at 17th & Walnut St., Philadelphia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1991

The Phenomenology of Revelation, 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-46982-49720
Scope and Contents

2700 copies were bound in soft covers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

The Principles of Alchemy: A Conceptual Outline, 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-07220-7362
Scope and Contents

This a photocopied facsimile of a sketchbook. The original was in black and white rendered with ink. Laffoley notes that this facsimile is complete. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

The Ruined Book, 1984

 Item — Box 334: [Barcode: 31858072491032]
Identifier: CC-20887-21296
Scope and Contents

Includes clipping from the periodical "Performance" reviewing the exhibition. The catalogue features a reproduction of "The Crisis of Western Education," a wall sculpture held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

The Search for Accidental Significance: for Brian Buczak, 1987

 Item
Identifier: CC-08782-8957
Scope and Contents

The proceeds from this book went to support people with AIDS. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

The Spheres, No. 1 & 2, 1993

 Item — Box 609: [Barcode: 31858073143566]
Identifier: CC-06393-6510
Scope and Contents

These drawings were made on pages 12 & 5, and pages 28 & 21 of a book on astronomy by Joannis de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, Lyon France, 1564. The original pages were perforated by termite holes that were filled with gold leaf. The pages themselves have engravings and marginalia that Macia has incorporated into his new images. Macia related that he was inspired to make these drawings after visiting the Sackner Archive and viewing Tom Phillips' A Humument. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

The Spheres, No. 3 & 4, 1993

 Item — Box 609: [Barcode: 31858073143566]
Identifier: CC-06392-6509
Scope and Contents

These drawings were made on pages 68 & 89, and pages 112 & 15?] of a book on astronomy by Joannis de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera, Lyon France, 1564. The original pages were perforated by termite holes that were filled with gold leaf. The pages themselves have engravings and marginalia that Macia has incorporated into his new images. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993