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Constructivism

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 313 Collections and/or Records:

the sainte-larme of vendome (100171) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-56384-9999800
Scope and Contents

The title refers to a book "Les Voyages de Sainte Larme de Vendome." A large blue typed cube appears filled with a red constructive form created by slashes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

To the Center / Siegal, Barbara., 1977

 Item
Identifier: CC-33953-35625
Scope and Contents

The work consists of 4 x 4 grid of plexiglas covered, painted and inked, printed scientific texts. The work is mounted within a plexiglas box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Towards Design in Poetry? For and By? / Mottram, Eric., 1998

 Item
Identifier: CC-29606-30978
Scope and Contents

The pages are contructivistic drawings formed by lines between the blocks of text in the first printing of Mottram's "Pollack Record" in PS magazine, 1979. Cobbing rescued these lines and their arrangement was edited by Jennifer Pike. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Trisegno, Il: Scultura Urbana. No.11/Apr / Mauro Staccioli., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-01325-1356
Scope and Contents

Edited by william Xerra. Issues No.9-12 are packed within same box. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

[two staggered columns on base] (720122) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1972

 Item
Identifier: CC-56442-9999852
Scope and Contents

The columns are blue with red tops and the base is red. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1972

[typed letters with constructivistic forms] / Nikonova, Rea., 1995

 Item
Identifier: CC-60288-10003289
Scope and Contents

This work was included in pete spence's archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1995

Unfolding / Libeskind, Daniel; Balmond, Cecil., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-29938-31329
Scope and Contents This box "Unfolding" was produced for the exhibition "Beyond the Wall 26.36" held in the Netherlands Architecture Institute. It is a dense, visual demonstration of the architectural plans for the new major extension of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. True to Libeskind's innovative constructivistic style, the building twists and folds upon itself on each floor. the plans and drawings are presented in this catalogue in several avant garde modes: a flip book, poster, folder containing architectural renderings of each floor on translucent paper, 2 books simply bound with a single large gromet, large loose sheets of architectural elements folded in book form, a reproduction of the architect's sketchbook and a print that can be cut out and folded to create a model of the building. Libeskind and Balmond won the competition to design this building in 1996, by unanimous approval of the selecting panels. It is stated that Daniel Libeskind's building "combines a revolutionary...
Dates: 1997

[Untitled] / Kassak, Lajos., 1971

 Item
Identifier: CC-31843-33361
Scope and Contents

This catalogue reproduces seven of Kassak's "picture portraits" that have the appearance of concrete poems. The silkscreened pages depict reproductions of Kassak's constructivistic artworks, in color and black & white. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

[Untitled] / Rodchenko, Aleksander ; Mayakovsky V ; Malevich K., 1979

 Item
Identifier: CC-03212-3261
Scope and Contents

German Karginov wrote the text. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1979

vajra thunder bolt (270368) / Houedard, Dom Sylvester., 1968

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Identifier: CC-56303-9999731
Scope and Contents

The image is of a 3D triangular construction of slashes and dashes with a narrowed middle portion. Vajra is a Sanskrit word meaning both thunderbolt and diamond. it is also a common male name in Tibet and Bhutan. Additionally it is a symbolic ritual object that symbolizes both the properties of a diamond (indestructibility) and a thunderbolt (irresistible force). The vajra is used symbolically by the Dharma traditions of Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism, often to represent firmness of spirit and spiritual power. The use of the vajra as a symbolic and ritual tool spread from India along with Indian religion and culture to other parts of East and Southeast Asia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968