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Visual art

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 5469 Collections and/or Records:

Peking China (5 III 68) / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56837-10000205
Scope and Contents

The found text that is collaged onto elongated horns of a strange animal reads, "Carrying on the great proletarian revolution / Building the new, socialist China." The cut out postmark rubberstamp resembles a full moon on the black background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Peking China (5 III 68) / Dom Sylvester Houedard., 1968

 Item
Identifier: CC-56837-10000205
Scope and Contents

The found text that is collaged onto elongated horns of a strange animal reads, "Carrying on the great proletarian revolution / Building the new, socialist China." The cut out postmark rubberstamp resembles a full moon on the black background. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1968

Pella Erskine-Tulloch Making Bookbinding for Tom Phillips' Dante's Inferno / Sackner, Sara., 1980

 Item
Identifier: CC-33354-34992
Scope and Contents

The photograph depicts Pella Erskine-Tulloch working on a bookbinding for Phillips's Dante's Inferno. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1980

pelos contornos da luz, 2007

 Item — Box 313: [Barcode: 31858072490794]
Identifier: CC-47597-68606
Scope and Contents

This catalogue consists of five sections, e.g., color photographs of shops with interesting signage, light sculptures, language art, photographs of concrete poetry performances, and an interview of Aguiar. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2007

Penis of Willendorf, 1997

 Item — Box 199: [Barcode: 31858072459690]
Identifier: CC-28797-30108
Scope and Contents

This sculpture was a collaborative project between Hitchcock and Dyar.The former found an eggplant in the shape of the sculpture that was cast by Dyar to make the multiple. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Per Il Centroarte Arauco / Costa, Corrado; Olivi, Bruno., 1983

 Item
Identifier: CC-05146-5245
Scope and Contents

Stored on top of Copy-Left boxes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1983

Per la Scoperta di una Zona di Immagini / Corvi-Mora, Camillo; Manzoni, Piero; Sordini, Ettore; Zecca, Guiseppe., 1956

 Item
Identifier: CC-19995-20383
Scope and Contents

Corvi toured the Archive during a business trip to Miami in 1984 and was shown a poem written about him in Cervo Volante as well as Futurist works. He was amazed by the poem which was unknown to him and invited the Sackners to stay in Piacenza. There Corvi mentioned his friendship with Manzoni with whom he performed club dates. He retrieved this Manifesto which he had not seen in 30 years and recalled the intensity of writing it. He reread it stating, "now I don't understand a word it says!" This is Manzoni's first manifsto (Manzoni, Derbylius 2005). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1956

Periples maches / Descossy, Gilbert., 2004

 Item
Identifier: CC-46714-49444
Scope and Contents

This catalogue depicts Descossy's new work, Arabic texts written on ceramic plaques. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2004

[Persecution] / Phillips, Tom., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-04469-4554
Scope and Contents

This collage is formed from torn papers of the front covers of the magazine, Picture Post, 1938-1943. The gray-black background symbolizes the dark period of the Holocaust and the large, light-gray Jewish star that emerges an emblem of survival. The red border surrounding the star lists dates from the magazine coinciding with the period of the Holocaust. The red border English letters as cut through by Phillips have the appearance of pseudo-Hebrew letters. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Personal Choice: Selections from 4 Penn Alumni Collections / Sackner RK ; Sackner MA ; Finlay IH ; Phillips T ; Seille G., 1993

 Item
Identifier: CC-04521-4608
Scope and Contents

The exhibition, curated by Patrick Murphy, consisted of works loaned by the Sackner Archive, Carlos & Rosa de la Cruz, Martin Margulies, and William & Phyliss Mack. The artists from the Sackner Archive consisted of Tom Phillips, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Genevieve Seille. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1993

Perspectives / Stetser, Carol., 1997

 Item
Identifier: CC-29749-31126
Scope and Contents

The artist copied perspective drawings from a Dover (press) publication and added language texts, letters and images to the reprinted pages. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Pet Project / Dellafiora, David, editor ; A1 Waste Paper ; Burroughs WS ; Collins P ; Dellafiora D ; Jensen KF ; Smith G., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-39103-41042
Scope and Contents

Pet project evolved as an artwork by young gallery artists at HUB Gallery and also includes selections from the archive of Field Study International. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002