Conceptual art
Found in 1028 Collections and/or Records:
The Relativity of Language as the Enigma of Art / Frangione, Nicola., 1979
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.
The Royal Road to the Unconscious / Morris, Simon ; Goldsmith K ; Buchler P., 2004
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.
The Rubicon of Breath (Documentation) / Clausen, Ted., 1993
The Rubicon of Breath, held by the Sackner Archive is illustrated and described. This work was commissioned for "The Beauty in Breathing" exhibition in Miami Beach, 1992. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Rudimentary Pictures / Gilbert & George., 1999
The Samo Graffiti / Flynt, Henry ; Basquiat JM., 1991
This exhibition documented the photographs of Samo graffiti which appeared in lower Manhatten in 1977-1978. Subsequently it became known that they were the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Al Diaz. The premise of these slogans/poems was that Samo was a brand name drug which provided salvation to those who would take it. This catalogue also mentions that Flynt's work is in the collection of Ruth & Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Six Sides of a Cube / Depew, Wally., 1985
The Snake Scrap Book / Vater, Regina., 1988
Each page depicts photocopied ancient images of snakes with captions supplied by Vater; the book documents a museum installation. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Standard Corpus of Present Day English Language Usage arranged by word length and alphabetized within word length 2nd Ed / Ferguson, Gerald., 1978
This book was first published in 1970 and consists of the Brown University Million Word Corpus arranged by word length using selected subjects to give 50,000 words. These words, each page with the same word length, were typed onto stencils by Ferguson and constitute this book. The repetitive typing of a single letter of the alphabet is reminiscent of Nannucci's typings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Thing, No. 14: James Franco, 2011
The Thing, No. 16: Dave Eggers - I Am Your Shower Curtain, 2012
The text printed on the shower curtain reads in part, "I am your shower curtain and I am watching you. The fat that you can be here under this falling water! This as much as any other reason, is why you are here, why you visit, To enjoy this, To feel this. It is good enough. Iti is good enoughto justify every thing else. As told to Dave Eggers October 2011." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Thing, No. 17: Shannon Ebner, 2012
The maple syrup was produced by Mike Czok in Braintree Vermont from the trees that grow around his home.The image on the poster is such a tree.The Thing Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. It's like a magazine, except that each isssue is conceived of by a different contributor and then published on a useful object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Third Indulgence / Selenitsch, Alex., 1977
The Water's Breast and ripples / Finlay, Ian Hamilton; Gunn, Ronald., 1970
This depicts a stone sculpture engraved with the title. The calligraphy of the word "ripples" is formed such that it could also be read "nipples." The verso os rubberstamped indicating that Ronald Gunn holds the copyright - it is not depicted in the Finlay book of Prints 1963-1997. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Well-Shaped Phrase as Art / Smith, Roberta; Weiner L., 2007
This retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art consists mainly of phrases in large letters by Lawrence Weiner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
The Wild Hawthorn Art Test / Finlay, Ian Hamilton ; Fidler, Martin., 1977
There it is / Barry, Robert., 1982
Think/Leap/Re-Think/Fall / Acconci, Vito., 1976
This Is Not What It Appears To Be / Olson, Richard., 1984
Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispu, California. Exhibition was curated by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
This is What It Appears To Be / Olson, Richard., 1984
Exhibited in Visualog 2, San Luis Obispu, California. Exhibition was curated by Karl Kempton. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.