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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3293 Collections and/or Records:

Mimmo Rotella edited by Germano Celant / Rotella, Mimmo ; Celant G ; Malevich K ; Miro J ; Schwitters K ; Prampolini E ; Balla G ; Severini G ; Accardi C ; Duchamp M ; Twombly C ; Johnson R ; Rauschenberg R ; Fontana L ; Isou I ; Klein Y ; Kaprow A ; Hains R ; Villegle J ; Hausmann R ; Dine J ; Brecht G ; Warhol A ; Buren D ; Oldenburg C ; Indiana R ; Basquiat JM ; Haring K., 2007

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Identifier: CC-49799-70855
Scope and Contents

This book was edited by Germano Celant who contributed a definitive essay on the life, work and influences of Rotella. The second section of the book depicts reproductions of the works of Rotella from 1946 to 2005. A copy of a handwritten sound poem, 20,000a, J.C, 1960 that is depicted on page 178, is held by the Sackner Archive, having been acquired from Emmett Williams in 1980. Two other handwritten Rotella sound poems that are not depicted in this book are held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Mind in the Matter / Siff, Elena Mary., 2005

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Identifier: CC-59810-10002863
Scope and Contents

This publication contains illustrations and information on the artistic work and career of Elena Siff. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

[Mind in the Matter] / Siff, Elena Mary., 2005

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Identifier: CC-59809-10002862
Scope and Contents

This publication contains illustrations and information on the artistic work and career of Elena Siff. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2005

Minima Libraria / Sobrero, Ettore., 1998

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Identifier: CC-42833-44873
Scope and Contents

The Sackner Archive holds one of these book objects of a miniature library. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Mirella Bentivoglio, 1982

 Item — Box Artist Boxed Materials/Oversized: Be-Bir: [Barcode: 31858072491172]
Identifier: CC-21347-21758

Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation / Bellmer H ; Breton A ; Cahun C ; Cornell J ; Duchamp M ; Krauss R ; Ray M ; Mendieta A ; Messager A ; Michals D ; Paz O ; Picabia F ; Schneeman G ; Schor M., 1998

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Identifier: CC-30592-32030
Scope and Contents

The exhibition that accompanied this brochure was curated by Whitney Chadwick, Katy Kline and Helaine Posner. The Sackner Archive lent Cahun's photograph,"L'Humanite Poupee," two copies of the book "Aveux non avenus" by Claude Cahun, Francois Lepelier's "Claude Cahun: Un Monographie," and the catalogue "Claude Cahun Photographe" to the exhibition at its Miami Art Museum venue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998

Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation / Bellmer H ; Breton A ; Cahun C ; Cornell J ; Duchamp M ; Krauss R ; Ray M ; Mendieta A ; Messager A ; Michals D ; Paz O ; Picabia F ; Schneeman G ; Schor M ; Ades D ; Tashjian D ; Zurn U., 1998

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Identifier: CC-30585-32022
Scope and Contents The exhibition that accompanied this catalogue was curated by Whitney Chadwick, Katy Kline and Helaine Posner. The catalogue was edited by Whitney Chadwick. In her opening essay, "An Infinite Play of Empty Mirrors; Women, Surrealism, and Self-Realization," Chadwick writes that the rediscovery of Claude Cahun in the early 1980s is accompanied with a critical rereading of historical Surrealism. "The neatness with which Cahun's photographs have been annexed to post modern concerns with the decentered subject and with identity as contingent and mutable has obscured the complexity and contradictions of her writings and blinded many to the works' representations of conflicted identities." Katy Kline contributes an essay, "In or Out of the Picture: Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman." She analyses the differences between the two artists and how they each participated in the Surrealist belief system. Kline notes that Cahun was one of few women close to the original Surrealist group and...
Dates: 1998

Missing Forms: Concrete, Visual and Experimental Poems, 1981

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Identifier: CC-38274-40170
Scope and Contents

This is an anthology of Australian concrete and visual poetry from well known and lesser known lights. Most of the poems were previously published in Australian small mags and the collection was well edited. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1981

Mitologie Gutenberghiane Nella Fonderia Digitale / Pirella, Francesco ; Persico M., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33808-35474
Scope and Contents

Includes diagramatic interpretations of illustrations of torture. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Modern Art Museums: The Surprise Is Gone / Russell, John; Johns J; Andre C; Bartlett J., 1985

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Identifier: CC-31027-32488
Scope and Contents

John Russell contends that "the same few artists dominate all the major contemporary collections...[because] we feel comfortable with what we know, and for better and for worse that sensation is available in full measure in museums of modern art...It is, in fact, the buildings, and not what we see in them, that are full of surprises." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1985