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Visual/verbal

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 297 Collections and/or Records:

Lapin Semiotique, 1990

 Item
Identifier: CC-09346-9532
Scope and Contents

Hubaut altered a book advertising antibiotics for the presentation. This book served as a maquette for a book to be published in trade edition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

L'Art en Transit, no. 1: Depanne Machine recontre Joel Hubaut, 1988

 Item — Box 123: [Barcode: 31858072458098]
Identifier: CC-14531-14842
Scope and Contents

This black box is one "encounter" between an artist and Dépanne Machine, out of a series of six.

Dates: 1988

L'Artista, 1980

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Baroni, Vittore: [Barcode: 31858072491123]
Identifier: CC-22225-22647

LIAO ED 912 Posters (On Cruelty, No. 3): The Tching & the Hsueh (L'Agopuntura Cinese), 1968

 Item — Folder 27: [Barcode: 31858072459864]
Identifier: CC-14140-14445
Scope and Contents

Image depicts acupuncture points on the body. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Lil'Frank's Tree, 1984

 Item — Box 608: [Barcode: 31858073143558]
Identifier: CC-10062-10261
Scope and Contents

. Exhibitied at Gaard's retrospective at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN in 2012. The frame was made by the museum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Little Salty Arman, 1996

 Item — Box 147: [Barcode: 31858072458007]
Identifier: CC-27435-28483
Scope and Contents

This object is a parody of Arman's assemblages of crushed paint tubes within a plexiglas tube container. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

Lung Cancer Ashtray, 1984

 Item — Box 293: [Barcode: 31858072460730]
Identifier: CC-09172-9353
Scope and Contents

This object has a shape of hallowed out lungs (like an ashtray) with a simulated appearance of a large carcinoma in the region of the right upper lobe. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

L'Urlo/2, 1980

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Baroni, Vittore: [Barcode: 31858072491123]
Identifier: CC-21698-22109

L'Urlo/3, 1980

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Baroni, Vittore: [Barcode: 31858072491123]
Identifier: CC-21699-22110

[M17], 1986

 Item — Box 341: [Barcode: 31858072491263]
Identifier: CC-23865-24313
Scope and Contents

Consists of neologisms and calligraphic equivalents in a made-up language. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1986

[Match Covers], 1984

 Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CC-43214-45272
Scope and Contents

Barbara Kruger's sets of matches are printed in black & white with messages as follows: "you are an experiment in TERROR, Your comfort is my silence, Surveillance is your busywork, We have received orders not to move, Your manias become science, Charisma is the perfume of your gods, and You construct intricate rictuals which allow you to touch the skin of other men." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1984

Measure by Holding Pencil Always at Arm's Length / Bee, Susan., 1988

 Item
Identifier: CC-23368-23810
Scope and Contents

In this surrealistic drawing, the lungs are depicted as an image projector, with the external upper half of the torso as that image. A caption and a schematic of the eye imply that the artist is drawing or painting that image. The overall effect of Bee's drawing appears to relate to Hans Arp's ideas of the importance of breathing rhythms to the creation of art. This drawing appears in the periodical, Generator No.3. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988