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Conceptual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcsh: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1024 Collections and/or Records:

[The Individual Artist's Arrogation..., on white], 1980

 Item — Folder 33: [Barcode: 31858072459922]
Identifier: CC-19946-20334
Scope and Contents

The background color of the print is white; the text is either black or blue. The text is the same on all prints with this title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

[The Individual Artist's Arrogation..., on yellow], 1980

 Item — Folder 33: [Barcode: 31858072459922]
Identifier: CC-19943-20331
Scope and Contents

The print is stamped ARTEXT. The color of the text is green, the background yellow and the border white. presumably, the color schema is unique. The text is the same on all prints with this title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

[The Individual Artist's Arrogation..., photo negative], 1980

 Item — Folder 33: [Barcode: 31858072459922]
Identifier: CC-19945-20333
Scope and Contents

This negative was used to print a suite of prints that are also held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

[The Individual Artist's Arrogation..., transparent], 1980

 Item — Folder 33: [Barcode: 31858072459922]
Identifier: CC-19935-20323
Scope and Contents

This print with a graphite border on translucent material has the same text as the other prints with this title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

The Infinite Book / Ulrichs, Timm., 1982

 Item
Identifier: CC-52477-73603
Scope and Contents

This book object consists of facing mirrors that give an infinite number of images of an object place in front of it. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

The Magnificent Seven, 2000

 Item — Box 129: [Barcode: 31858072457892]
Identifier: CC-36011-37781
Scope and Contents

The ping pong balls are arranged in a row and are printed with the words Theories, Models, Methods, Approaches, Assumptions, Results, and Findings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

The Miracle Mile / Hilder, Jamie., 2006 - 2008

 Item
Identifier: CC-52897-74035
Scope and Contents

This documents Hilder's attempt to run a 4 minute mile by committing to an intensive training schedule for one year. Each page of this book records every day of the year 2006 that consists of a colored photograph of Hilder in the same standing pose dressed in red underwear along with his weight, training schedule, notes, sound track and, hourly food and drink intake. In a personal communication to Marvin Sackner, Hilder told him that he ran a mile in about 5 1/2 minutes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2006 - 2008

The New Yokoo Times: Photo-Collages 1960/2001 / Yokoo, Tadanori., 2001

 Item
Identifier: CC-37985-39869
Scope and Contents

The exhibition consisted of 10 vintage photo-collages from the 1960's and 20 contemporary works. The newspaper reproduces these photo-collages based on images from Life magazine and texts from the New York Times. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2001

[the of an yet] (030268) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56318-9999742
Scope and Contents

This page consists of five drawn squares, four of which contain the words 'the, of an, yet.' The fifth square is blank. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

The Punctuated Colon / Soll, Ivan; Gomez, Marta., 1996

 Item
Identifier: CC-38679-40589
Scope and Contents

A punctuation colon is printed below a drawing of the human colon, half of which is seen though a cut out section. The text on the final page refers to a mathematical axiom e.g. the whole is equal to the sum of its parts. However, the poets question whether one can ever do anything by halves. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

The Relativity of Language as the Enigma of Art / Frangione, Nicola., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-10832-11042
Scope and Contents

All pages are blank and alternate with black and white stock. The rubberstamped message in English and Italian is as follows: "The other side of the medal does not change the specific weight of the award." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

The Royal Road to the Unconscious / Morris, Simon ; Goldsmith K ; Buchler P., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-49587-70636
Scope and Contents

Morris states "On Tuesday January 2003, 78 art and design students from York College cut out every word from Sigmund Freud's 736 page book The Interpretation of Dreams (including the index - 339,960 words). As each word was cut from its respective sentence, it was spoken. When cutting from right to left, Sigmund Freud's words were read backwards." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004