Scope and Contents

The rubberstamp reads as follows: According to Man Ray Lydie became so annoyed by Duchamps stayng up very late to study chess problems that one night after he had finally gone to sleep she got up and glued the chess pieces to the board.The card states that Duchamp married Lydia Levasso on June 7, 1927 and divorced on January 25,1928. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

The rubberstamp reads as follows: According to Man Ray Lydie became so annoyed by Duchamps stayng up very late to study chess problems that one night after he had finally gone to sleep she got up and glued the chess pieces to the board.The card states that Duchamp married Lydia Levasso on June 7, 1927 and divorced on January 25,1928. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

This catalogue lists individual and group exhibitions of conceptual art as well as artists books. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

The soft cover book is titled "Reflections on a New Work by Marcel Duchamp" and was written by Anne d'Harnoncourt and Walter Hopps. It is a reprint of essays from 1969 and 1973. The hard cover book is a facsimile notebook that Duchamp kept for this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

Obituary of Jean Brown, whose archive inspired the Sackners to focus their collection on concrete and visual poetry. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

Text by Antoine Coron. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

This exhibition was carried out as a homage to Georges Perec. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents The Sackners saw the inaugural exhibition at the Hammer Gallery in 2006. "This beautifully illustrated book highlights the unique history of The Societe Anonyme, Inc., an organization founded in 1920 by the artists Katherine S. Dreier (1877-–1952), Marcel Duchamp (1887-–1968), and Man Ray (1890-–1976). As America's first “experimental museum for modern art, the Societe Anonyme provided a means for artists, rather than historians, to chronicle the rise of modernism. Led by Dreier and Duchamp, the group eventually assembled a collection of more than one thousand artworks, which it presented to the public in a variety of innovative programs, publications, and exhibitions. The incredible collection of the Societe Anonyme now belongs to the Yale University Art Gallery, a gift from the Societe and Dreier. It features the work of more than one hundred artists, many of whom are among the century's most renowned —including Jean Arp, Duchamp, Max Ernst, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee,...

Scope and Contents

Director Glenn Lowry writes in the catalogue forward that "Dieter Roth was an endlessly inventive and thought-provoking artist whose substantial body of work, made over the course of nearly five decades, is both prodigious and idiosyncratic. In his experiments with forms, materials, and language, Roth challenged the boundaries not only between mediums but between art and everyday life." Curator Sarah Suzuki writes that "it is easier to describe what he is not than what he is : Above all, he is not a propagandist, and he is not a prophet. He is neither a moralist nor an immoralist. And he is no joiner...He is a member of no ism, group or movement, although many movements, groups, and isms would like to claim him as one of their own." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.