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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5463 Collections and/or Records:

L'Homme - Oiseau / Corfou, Michel., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-19903-20291
Scope and Contents

This work is egg-shaped. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Libri da/Autore / Bertola C ; Vitacchio A., 1990

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Identifier: CC-07002-7139
Scope and Contents

Exhibition curated by Carla Bertola. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

Licence to Imagine, with No Endorsements / Lewis, Peter; Phillips T., 1992

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Identifier: CC-07395-7539
Scope and Contents

Lewis favorably reviews all five of Phillips' exhibitions and performances in London during the fall of 1992. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Licens/An Acon Of Magical Suffumigations / Walker, Reginald., 1984

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Identifier: CC-32138-33679
Scope and Contents According to Reginald Walker, his oeuvre is concerned with mythological books. Mythological or Spirit books are ritual talismanic books and book objects symbolic of astrological, numerological, Kabbalic and prophetic divination. These shamanistic objects d'art are also based on esoteric alchemical for-mularies, sacred and obscure high words, as well as magical encantations and amulets.Aesthetically, these works represent the ancient Egyptian and Ethiopian Coptic Codex functioning as a somewhat Iconic art object; created as metamorphosic ethnic fantasies, these mythic codices are fusions of Egyptian Ethiopian, Nubian, Byzantine, Islamic, and Celtic fetish-art.Developmental materials include papyrus, vellum, parchment, alum-tawed skins, native-dyed goatskins, iron, silver, gold, bronze, copper, brass, bone, feathers, acrylics, tempera, various indigenous woods/textiles, linen, and various handmade papers.Mythological books reflect ancient, contemporary, occult, and supernatural...
Dates: 1984

Life Begins With Love: [Come On]. No.1 / Charles Plymell., 1963

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Identifier: CC-28556-29841
Scope and Contents

This issue, perhaps the only one, appeared in two presentations, as a soft cover and a newspaper periodical. The latter also is printed with color highlights while the former is solely printed in black and white. The pages depict photomontages of sexual content with comic strip bubbles added by Plymell, who was the son-in-law of Claude Pelieu. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Life Begins With Love: [Come On]. No.1 / Charles Plymell., 1963

 Item
Identifier: CC-28557-29842
Scope and Contents

This issue, perhaps the only one, appeared in two presentations, as a soft cover and a newspaper periodical. The latter also is printed with color highlights while the former is solely printed in black and white. The pages depict photomontages of sexual content with comic strip bubbles added by Plymell, who was the son-in-law of Claude Pelieu. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1963

Life Has Meaning / Pawson, Mark., 1992

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Identifier: CC-04407-4489
Scope and Contents

This was printed on two types of stencil machines with 15 water-based ink colors. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1992

Life, Light & Language / La vie, la luviere & le langage / Kac, Eduardo., 2011

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Identifier: CC-59816-10002868
Scope and Contents

Since the early 1980's Kac has pioneered new art forms to create poetry and art that explore the limits of locality, light, language and life. From his anticipatory holopoetry to his current biopoetry, from his telepresence works to his ongoing bio art ...Kac has integrated many disciplines to present an imaginative view of art's relevance to the contemporary world. Widely recognized for his innovative work, he pioneered telecommunications art before the Web, particularly with his telepresence art. The text of this book is in the form of 15 questions presented to Eduardo Kac by Dominique Moulon. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2011