Visual/verbal
Found in 328 Collections and/or Records:
Target, 2006
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.
Tétraèdre, 1989
The Beauty in Breathing, 1992
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.
The Box Lunch Travel-og of Fremont Gulch, 1967
The Case for the Burial of Ancestors, 1991
The Consistency of Shadows: Exhibition Catalogs as Autonomous Works of Art, 2003
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.
The Dime Hustle, 1976
The Fifth Floor, 1980
The First Fragment: The Case for the Burial of Ancestors Book 1, 1985
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.
The Futurist, 1981
The Hiding Place, 1989
The Official Elvis Hair Button Card, 1990
The Old Morgan Pharmacy, 1991
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.
The Phenomenology of Revelation, 1989
2700 copies were bound in soft covers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Principles of Alchemy: A Conceptual Outline, 1972
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.
The Purloined Letter (1990), 1990
The Ruined Book, 1984
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.
The Search for Accidental Significance: for Brian Buczak, 1987
The proceeds from this book went to support people with AIDS. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Spheres, No. 1 & 2, 1993
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.
The Spheres, No. 3 & 4, 1993
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.
