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 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 3453 Collections and/or Records:

New Observations: Ripple Effects: Painting and Language. No.113/Win / Susan Bee, Mira Schor, editors ; Bee S ; Schor M ; Rosen K ; Goldsmith K ; Pozzi L ; Tuttle R., 1996

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Identifier: CC-27886-29025
Scope and Contents

This issue is devoted to artists who use language, text or writing in their work. In each essay, the artist describes his/her background with text and modes of creativity. Kenneth Goldsmith describes his sculpture "Steal This Book" based on Abbie Hoffman's book.This work is held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1996

New Publications: Autumn 1971 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1971

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Identifier: CC-12323-12549
Scope and Contents

One copy has ink additions presumably written by Finlay. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

New Publications: Autumn 1971 / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1971

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Identifier: CC-52554-73686
Scope and Contents

The ink additions on the pages consisting of checks and the phrase "sold out" were presumably written by Ian Hamilton Finlay or his wife at the time, Sue Finlay. The numerical marks on the back cover were written by Marvin Sackner. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1971

New Times. No.22/Sep / Austin T ; Sackner MA ; Sackner RK., 1992

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Identifier: CC-05625-5732
Scope and Contents

Tom Austin titles his article "Home Is Where the Art Is" and states in an interview that the "Sackner Archive renders the esoteric accessible." The essay traces the collection's origins and themes, defines concrete and visual poetry and documents the mentality of a collector. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

New Visual Culture of Iran / Abedini Reza, editor ; Wolbers, Hans, editor ; Javanbakht B ; Shiva G ; Abedini R ; Delvarai H ; Shahidi Z., 2006

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Identifier: CC-46045-48753
Scope and Contents Grady Harp, April 06 Review Amazon.com. Reza Abedini, a graphic designer and professor at Tehran University, has collected an impressive number of works of contemporary photography, graphic design, and illustration to share in this very well designed book. Large in scale and size, this book contains over 150 pages of the finest in the illustrative arts, examples of which may be new to most readers. Though all of us know and respect ancient Persian art and decor, surely some of the most complexly beautiful art ever created, the current trends absorbing the minds and talents of Iranian artists is a fascinating mixture of poetry, humanistic statements and reactions to the nearly constant states of upheaval in this seminal land. In a tightly written but informative introduction Abedini shares a succinct history of the movements in art in Iran as the country passed through three generations of artists influenced by the 1979 revolution: those artists at the peak of their creative powers...
Dates: 2006

New York Magazine. No.35/Sep / Holzer J., 1988

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Identifier: CC-05532-5639
Scope and Contents

Critical essay on Jennie Holzer by Kay Larson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

[Newsletter Fall 1968] / Merton, Thomas., 1968

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Identifier: CC-30783-32229
Scope and Contents

In a mass mailing to friends, Merton announces that he is cutting down on writing and receiving letters and new writings as he leaves for Asia. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

[Newspaper Articles About] / Finlay, Ian Hamilton., 1988

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Identifier: CC-12316-12541
Scope and Contents

Includes discussions of the National Trust's book Guide to Follies regarding Finlay's sculptural garden and the rejection of Finlay's commission for the city of Paris involving a monument to League of the Rights of Man. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988